Nathan Fox
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
I am an Environmental Scientist, interested in how we can harness big data to innovate solving the pressing environmental challenges we face today. I obtained my PhD in Ocean and Earth Sciences form the University of Southampton, UK, with a thesis entitled ‘Social media, geodiversity and the provision of cultural ecosystem services’.
My research utilizes crowdsourced data such as social media websites and mobile phone applications to understand human-nature interactions. I am interested in how machine learning algorithms can be implemented to informing nature conservation efforts. I have been a strong advocate for the inclusion of geodiversity in conservation sciences.
One of my favourite projects that I worked on was facilitating a hackathon for tackling challenges that could couple socio-demographic and environmental data. I lead a group that produced an AI validated plant observations from social media: Flickr images from central London 2011-2019. Click here to view the he dataset created during the hackathon.
