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The National Geographic Society and Microsoft’s AI for Earth program are partnering to support the exploration of how AI can help people discover, identify, and classify new species. The Artificial Intelligence for Species Discovery RFP will provide support to projects that accelerate discovery, monitoring, and modeling, and ultimately improve the management of Earth’s biodiversity for a more sustainable future.
The grants will support the creation and deployment of open source trained models, algorithms, and datasets to support species discovery. To strengthen his application, the applicant must consider aligning with a research group to address a biodiversity question. For example, pair an expert capable of creating and deploying an open-source trained model or algorithm with a research specialist using this model or algorithm to address a pressing biodiversity question. National Geographic Society encourages proposals for work in any biome.
Proposed work should create generalizable, scalable tools that use AI to support species discovery. Priority will be given to projects that do one or more of the following:
Proposals may request $5,000 to $100,000. The budgets of successful proposals will include reasonable, well-justified costs directly required to complete the project. Applicant should refer to the Preparing Your Proposal page regarding budget guidance, including stipend eligibility, and justify all budget requests in detail. Successful applicants may use awarded funds over one year.
In addition to financial support, successful proposals will receive free access to Microsoft’s AI for Earth API’s, applications, tools, and tutorials, and support for their computational work on Microsoft Azure.
All models supported through this grant must be open source, and grant recipients must be willing to (1) publicly share their models for use by other environmental researchers, and (2) share the underlying data with the National Geographic Society. More specifically, grant recipients must:
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