{"id":104084,"date":"2025-10-25T22:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104084\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:53:13","slug":"plymouth-scientists-win-2m-to-use-ai-in-deep-sea-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104084\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth scientists win \u00a32m to use AI in deep-sea mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Vulnerable deep-sea habitats will be mapped with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) in a study made possible by a \u00a32m investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Deep Vision project &#8211; run by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of Plymouth &#8211; will study ecosystems such as cold-water coral reefs and sponge fields in the Atlantic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The aim is to build the largest-ever dataset of these habitats and help shape legal protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Leader of the project, Kerry Howell, said: &#8220;As the deep-sea becomes more accessible for exploitation, there is an urgent need to map its ecosystems to enable the conservation of biodiversity in this, the last wild frontier on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said AI could quickly and accurately tag thousands of deep-sea images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The project will be funded by the Bezos Earth Fund as part of its AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulnerable deep-sea habitats will be mapped with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) in a study made possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-104084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}