Next-Gen Earth Systems Modeling
Physics-based reliability meets the speed of AI to build accurate virtual replicas of the Earth system.
The NYU Earth Systems Institute
Mission
Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and landscapes are changing fast, with cascading global impacts. NYU’s Earth Systems Institute meets this challenge by pioneering, data-driven, AI and computational tools to predict environmental change and strengthen assessment, response, and resilience.
Earth Systems is part of NYU Global Science and Technology
Advancing research and impact across disciplines and campuses.
Director, Laure Zanna
Director, NYU Earth Systems Institute
Joseph B. Keller and Herbert B. Keller Professor of Applied Mathematics
Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science
Vice Dean, Research Administration
Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science
Affiliated FacultyPartnerships
Decisive Moment for AI and Earth Systems at NYU
The rapid pace of planetary change presents distinct and complex challenges to scientists, engineers and decision makers. The advent of AI and computational technologies opens new opportunities, enabling researchers to actively improve Earth system projections along with food, water and energy systems resilience. With mathematical and computational research at the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science; engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering; and policy-connected food and environmental science in Arts & Science, NYU researchers incorporate the full range of expertise required to address this challenge. Through multidisciplinary collaboration, Institute researchers are exploring the cascading impacts of an evolving climate. This work empowers critical decision-making that shapes the lives of people around the world.
Research Focus Areas
Land, Food, and Environment Systems
New AI tools at the intersection of food, land, and the environment — securing food supplies and safeguarding the planet’s future.
Infrastructure Systems Resilience
Hybrid physics-and-AI models that keep power, water, transportation, and supply networks resilient in a shifting climate.
Open-Source Climate Data
Open-source data and predictive models that put real-time climate intelligence in decision-makers’ hands worldwide.
