Mark Roth

Masters student in Computational Sustainability at Oregon State; studying in Dr. Hutchinson’s lab

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

This term I’m in an Oregon State reading group called ETRE (Engineers That Read with ETRE). We are reading @ruha9’s Race After Technology and I will be reflecting on the book, our group’s conversations, my attempt at understanding, and applications to my life/research here!

[Climate Change AI @ClimateChangeAI]

Last but not least, completing the expansion of our Programs Committee, we have Marius Wiggert, @ojakintande, Samuel King, Shiva Madadkhani, @UtkarshaAgwan & @varchanaiyer_. Welcome to the team @ClimateChangeAI core team!

[Negin Katal @KatalNegin]

Sign up for reading groups @ClimateChangeAI
☑️#Agroforestry: Let's talk about trees
☑️#Phenology & #AI
☑️#Drones & #Satellites for Sustainable #Agriculture and #Forestry

I will moderate the phenology & AI group, so if you are interested, sign up via the link below: 👇👇👇

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

I present my masters research: On the Role of Spatial Clustering in Building Species Distribution Models with Community Science Data

Tomorrow! 4-5pm CST. Come learn why my title is so long and about methods to help birds (+more). Details & zoom link here: https://t.co/ZBIKnuCPMn

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

never seems far from thought. That’s not to say that the ecology domain always transfers its learnings on diversity to domains outside of ecosystems (i.e., human ecosystems). As always, excited to read on!

6/6

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

In Chapter 1 of #RAT, @ruha9 brings into focus the concern of singularity in developing an artificial intelligence system, “…is there only one theory of mind, and whose mind is it modeled on?” I hadn’t considered this before, but I am starting to see examples everywhere —

1/n

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

Bc of this, I reflected on and appreciated the fact that I do research in an environmental space bc of how central the value of (bio)diversity is to many ecosystems. There are many examples of the negative consequences of singularity to environments and this fact

5/6

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

their technology & its biases.

Excited to read more and talk with group members about Chapter 1!
[7/7]

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

1 thing that stood out in #RAT’s Introduction was the choice to highlight ‘thin description’, an approach that counters the better known methodology, thick description. A thick description attempts to understand an action by injecting an abundance of context and factual [1/N]

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

surpass the way they understand themselves, is spot on. I am curious if Benjamin chooses thin description to also analyze the construction of these algorithms bc it seems like thin description may benefit the developer by providing them some distance from

[6/7]

[Rebecca Hutchinson @Hut_chin_son]

@rothm_osu @TylerAHallman @birddoug This work won best paper in the proposals track!

[Mark Roth @rothm_osu]

Check out my research on improving Species Distribution Models with spatial clustering!

I am lucky to share my work as a part of this super cool workshop @ icml

https://t.co/7shEILwBs1

(alongside @Hut_chin_son, @TylerAHallman, @birddoug)

[Climate Change AI @ClimateChangeAI]

Save the date! Our workshop, Tackling Climate Change with ML, is happening at #ICML2021 (virtual) on July 23rd! 🌏🔥👩‍💻
Keynote speakers work at the intersection of #ML and #ClimateChange:
@solo_assefa @DrKateMarvel @shakir_za and Draguna Vrabie @PNNLab