Environmental Intelligence

Head of Group

Professor Matthew Palmer

Head of Environmental Intelligence Group

• The Environmental Intelligence Group leads in strategic delivery of transformative solutions to understand, predict, and respond to marine environmental change.
• We have a whole systems, interdisciplinary approach, integrating physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, data science and AI to consider all dimensions of the impacts and values of marine systems, from weather and climate, at all depths including sediments and from coast to deep ocean, poles and freshwater systems.
• We deliver trusted, evidence-based solutions that enable decision-making across marine policy, management, and industries, underpinning national and international environmental and sustainability goals, and enhancing PML’s leadership in delivering impactful science for ocean action.

Our expertise includes:

• State-of-the-art computational models to simulate and predict how marine systems function and respond to local and global pressures across broad time and space scales
• Integration of observations, model outputs and advanced analysis to empower researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to make more informed decisions.
• Designing, developing, and deploying autonomous and uncrewed marine robotic vehicles and sensors that enable agile, adaptable and efficient data collection in challenging marine environments
• Cutting-edge data analysis, artificial intelligence (AI) and visualisation tools
• Environmental Digital Twins, providing optimised simulations of real-world systems to deliver timely, actionable evidence and support intelligent solutions
• Decision Support Tools that translate complex datasets, information and knowledge into actionable insights.