7 papers
A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Models for Geological Carbon Sequestration
Giovanni Zingaro, Robert Gracie, Yuri Leonenko
Numerical reservoir simulations are extremely computationally expensive, as they require the repeated solution of large nonlinear algebraic systems derived from the discretized gov…
Structuring Collective Action with LLM-Guided Evolution: From Ill-Structured Problems to Executable Heuristics
Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Graham Alexander Watt, Yuri Leonenko +1
Collective action problems, which require aligning individual incentives with collective goals, are classic examples of Ill-Structured Problems (ISPs). For an individual agent, the…
BoreaRL: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Environment for Climate-Adaptive Boreal Forest Management
Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Enoch Ofosu, Daniel Chukwuemeka Amaogu +5
Boreal forests store 30-40\% of terrestrial carbon, much in climate-vulnerable permafrost soils, making their management critical for climate mitigation. However, optimizing forest…
Boreal Afforestation's Underestimated Cloud Influence on Earth's Energy Imbalance
Enoch Ofosu, Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Daniel Chukwuemeka Amaogu +5
Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI) is accelerating, partly due to declining planetary albedo from reduced cloud cover. Boreal afforestation can either mitigate or exacerbate this trend…
Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability through Hierarchical and Bayesian Optimization
Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Graham Alexander Watt, Yuri Leonenko +1
Agricultural landscapes face the dual challenge of sustaining food production while reversing biodiversity loss. Agri-environmental policies often fall short of delivering ecologic…
Climate benefits of afforestation and reforestation with varying species mixtures and densities in the north-western boreal lands
Enoch Ofosu, Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Daniel Chukwuemeka Amaogu +5
The boreal forest plays a crucial role as a global carbon sink. This study uses two 250-year simulations of Canada's Taiga Plains, an area targeted by the 2 Billion Trees Program t…