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Alexander Brenning

@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social
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Professor of Geographic Information Science, University of Jena, Germany GENAI-X Kickoff: www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/68904/genai… geographic data science | Earth surface processes | geospatial analysis | machine learning | geostatistics

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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Physics-AI Integration for Land Surface Modeling" is the 4th keynote at our GENAI-X public kick-off event in #Jena - delivered by Dr. Shijie Jiang (MPI for Biogeochemistry). Info: www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/68904/genai-... #HybridModeling #EarthSystemScience #Generalizability
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"When #AI Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know: #Uncertainty Quantification in Non-Stationary #Environmental Regimes" is the third #keynote lecture at our GENAI-X public kick-off on June 22 - delivered by Dr. Venkataramanan. Register to join us in #Jena: www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/68904/genai-...
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 17/06/2026
#ECR, PhDs and postdocs, take note! Are you aiming for a professorship and would like to lead an independent junior research group? Then come to our info session about the DFG's Emmy Noether Programme, its eligibility requirements and your funding opportunities. Full Details▶️ sohub.io/gnb1
Logo und Titel "Emmy Noether Programme", danebem die Daten:
in English
Thursday
25 June 2026
2:00 - 3:30 o. m. CEST
Hinweis auf Kurzlink: www.dfg.de/prospects
Außerdem das kleine Logo zur Prospects DFG Research Career Series
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Keynote no. 2 at GENAI-X public kick-off, June 22: Prof. Alexander Binder "Attribution-guided Pruning for Insight and Control: Circuit Discovery and Targeted Correction in Small-scale LLMs" Register: www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/68904/genai-... #AI #XAI #LLMs #GeoAI #EnvironmentalAI #Generalizability
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📢 Join us at the GENAI-X Kickoff event on June 22 in #Jena: AI for environmental extremes! ⏩1st in a series of inpiring keynotes is given by Monique Kuglitsch: "International #AI Standards for #Disaster Risk Management" Register: www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/68904/genai-... @ellisunitjena.bsky.social
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗜-𝗫 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 — AI Generalizability in Non-stationary Environmental Regimes: The Case of Hydro-climatic Extremes 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆!🚀 🔗 Stay updated! : www.genai-x.uni-jena.de @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social @uni-jena.de, @bgc-jena.mpg.de, Universitätsklinikum Jena, @sgn.one
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
💥How can we ensure AI generalizability to reliably predict and understand environmental processes? This question is at the center of our GENAI-X project, starting today!🎉 www.genai-x.uni-jena.de Built around @ellisunitjena.bsky.social, funding: Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
genai-x.uni-jena.de
GENAI-X project
Funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Enjoyed contributing to this fantastic winter school. Presented #uncertainty methods + application to decision-oriented spatial prediction of environmental #pollution: our ReGeNi project on groundwater nitrate, funded by @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social 📢 Stay tuned for upcoming publications! 🤩
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
New State of Science paper: “Desert pavements: A hidden key to Earth surface processes” doi.org/10.1002/esp.... #Desertpavements regulate the interplay of runoff, weathering, dust, microbes & landscape evolution in #drylands—yet remain surprisingly understudied. #Geomorphology #EarthSystemScience
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
6th talk of 4th session AI for Good Webinar series AI for Earth & Sustainability Science 📅8 Dec 2025 ⏰5-6 pm CET 📚 Risks and solutions when using non-stationary training data in earth system science 🧑‍🏫 Speaker: Joachim Denzler (@uni-jena.de) 👨🏻‍💻 Moderator: Ribana Roscher 🔗 loom.ly/jyU-P78
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Department of Geography Bonn @giubresearch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
📢 Hot off the press! "Mapping forest-covered #landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany" by @ikram-zangana.bsky.social, Rainer Bell, Lucian Drăguţ, Flavius Sîrbu & Lothar Schrott in NHESS @egu.eu #geosky #geomorphology doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
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Mapping forest-covered landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany
Abstract. Landslide inventories are crucial for the assessment of landslide susceptibility and hazard. An analysis of old landslides can reveal periods of intensified landslide activity, but the featu...
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
First Chilean mountain #permafrost model & map is out! Preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... 🌎We used the most complete compilation of permafrost evidences - mainly rock glaciers & boreholes - along with climatic+topographic data to inform a nonlinear statistical model. 📈 (1/2)
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
💥Kicking off my geographic information science advent calendar in my blog geods.netlify.app + Instagram in English+German. 🌍Core concepts that every #geographer... & everyone else... should know. Concepts that are also introduced in my #GIScience intro course in our #BScGeography @uni-jena.de
Humanoid robot studying a digital world map on a holographic globe
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
ELLIS Unit Jena Vernissage-Nov 6 “When Machines Learn for Nature: AI Research on Climate & Biodiversity” Speaker: Dr. Thomas Nitzsche (Mayor of Jena) Prof. Andreas Marx (President, @uni-jena.de) Prof. Markus Reichstein, Prof. Joachim Denzler & Prof. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
GIS Day’25 – GeoAI for the Environment by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social +GIScience Group (@uni-jena.de) on 17 Nov Highlights: Disaster-image AI, SAR ship detection, landslide mapping, environmental insights and poster presentations 🌍🤖 Thanks to all speakers @ellis.eu 🔗 www.gisday.com/en-us/overview
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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · 04/11/2025
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning coordinates the GENAI-X project at the @ellisunitjena.bsky.social at #UniJena together with partner institutions. The @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social is funding GENAI-X with around six million euros over five years. ➡️ www.uni-jena.de/369974/zuver...
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning wird von der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung im Rahmen ihres Förderprogramms „CZS Durchbrüche“ für fünf Jahre mit insgesamt rund sechs Millionen Euro unterstützt. Foto: Nicole Nerger / Uni Jena
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
GENAI-X 🌍, 👨🏻‍🏫Coordinated by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social (@uni-jena.de) develops AI🤖 for robust prediction in non-stationary environmental systems — tackling floods 🌊, droughts 🌵 & landslides ⛰️ 💡Funded by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social 🤝 @ellis.eu @bgc-jena.mpg.de 🔗 www.genai-x.uni-jena.de
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dr. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social + the GIScience Group (@uni-jena.de) invite you to GIS Day 2025 — focus: GeoAI for Environment. 📅 17 Nov 2025 🕐 13:00–17:30 CET 📍 Rosensäle Jena + Zoom (hybrid) 🖼️ Poster registration until 10 Nov 🔗 www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/48059/gis-da...
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🚀 Yesterday at Zero-to-Hero sessions at #SummerSchool2025 @ellis.eu A) Beyond Accuracy: Understanding & Quantifying Uncertainty in Deep Learning — Aishwarya Venkataramanan 🎯
B) Scalable AI for Earth & Climate Sciences — Ioannis Papoutsis 🌍 🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo...
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Project Spotlight #2: ELLIS Unit Jena 🌊 @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social & the GIScience Group, funded by the @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social ‬, are using geostat+#ML to: 📍Identify nitrate-affected areas 📊Support regulatory decisions 🧠Improve monitoring accuracy 🔗 geods.netlify.app/post/nitrate/
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
How will #climatechange impact #rivers across Europe? 🌍 #DRYvER H2020's model projects increases in frequency & duration of drying periods. ➡️New paper in #HESS! 🚨 hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/... Shoutout to Annika Künne in my group @uni-jena.de for leading key parts of modeling & analysis! 👏
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Projections of streamflow intermittence under climate change in European drying river networks
Abstract. Climate and land use changes, as well as human water use and flow alteration, are causing worldwide shifts in river flow dynamics. During the last decades, low flows, flow intermittence, and...
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🚀Kickstart your academic career in #GIScience as a #Postdoc in my group! Looking for geospatial #machinelearning / #GeoAI for Earth surface processes & #naturalhazards. Join our team at University of #Jena & ELLIS Unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social. 🔍 See job ad for details: bit.ly/giscience
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Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
📢RSAGA 1.4.2 is out! 🎉 💡My R package integrates SAGA GIS with R, facilitating #geocomputation & environmental #modeling. 🚀Fun fact: It's among the 10% most downloaded packages! Blog: geods.netlify.app/post/rsaga-u... #Rstats #GIS #opensource #GIScience #Geoinformatik @ellisunitjena.bsky.social
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Announcing the New RSAGA Release | GeoDS
A new version of RSAGA is available, the R package that provides an interface to SAGA GIS for geospatial analysis, digital terrain analysis, and geocomputing...
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
7th Data Science Day Jena on May 13 at @uni-jena.de 📊 📢 Submit your abstracts by April 13: 🔗 www.fmi.uni-jena.de/12727/data-s... Lead by our ELLIS member Joachim Giesen and the Interactive Inference group (inference.uni-jena.de?events/dsd2025). Supported by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
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