Andrea Scott, a professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering, will receive $214,000 in federal funding for a project to forecast the presence of medium-range sea ice using artificial intelligence.Funded projects aim to generate game-changing discoveries and technological breakthroughs in a wide range of social and technology challenges facing Canadians.
Scott's research focuses on data to improve model predictions. Specifically, she conducts research on the assimilation of sea ice thickness and/or sea ice temperatures from visual/infrared sensors and uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to estimate sea ice concentration. Other projects of Professor Scott’s include the use of data assimilation to estimate parameters in turbulence models and the development of scale aware/scale adaptive parameterizations.
Learn more about her research here.