Lineage first computing: towards a frugal userspace for Linux / Apr 2025 A talk by Michael Dales at the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing. This was a hybrid event hosted in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 3 December 2024. See Lineage first computing: towards a frugal userspace for Linux for more information.

Cooperative Sensor Networks for Long-Term Biodiversity Monitoring / Apr 2025 This was a talk given by Josh Millar at the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing. This was a hybrid event hosted in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 3 December 2024. See Cooperative Sensor Networks for Long-Term Biodiversity Monitoring for more information.

Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims / Apr 2025 This was a talk given by Jessica Man at the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing. This was a hybrid event hosted in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 3 December 2024. Due to a blip in the recording, there is no sound in the first two minutes. See Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims for more information.

Carbon-Aware Name Resolution / Apr 2025 A talk by Ryan Gibb at the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing. This was a hybrid event hosted in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 3 December 2024. See Carbon-aware Name Resolution for more information.

I was gobsmacked to get a note from the SIGARCH ASPLOS steering committee that our 2013 paper "Unikernels: library operating systems for the cloud" won the most influential paper award at the conference last week! I couldn't make it to Rotterdam myself due to the travel time, but Richard Mortier was already there and so accepted the award on the whole team's behalf!

Over in my EEG group, we have a lot of primary and secondary datasets lying around: 100s of terabytes of satellite imagery, biodiversity data, academic literature, and the intermediate computations that go along with them. Our trusty central shared storage server running TrueNAS stores data in ZFS and serves it over NFSv4 to a bunch of hosts.

Dominic Orchard and I had a blast running the first PROPL workshop a couple of years ago, with a full room and engaged audience in POPL in London. Last year, our sister conference LOCO took over, and it's our turn again this year! PROPL will return for a second outing in October, co-located with ICFP/SPLASH in Singapore in October.

Autoscaling geospatial computation with Python and Yirgacheffe This is an idea proposed in 2025 as a good starter project, and is available for being worked on. It may be co-supervised with Michael Dales. Python is a popular tool for geospatial data-science, but it, along with the GDAL library, handle resource management poorly. Python does not deal with parallelism well and GDAL can be a memory hog when parallelised.

3D printing the planet (or bits of it) This is an idea proposed in 2025 as a good starter project, and is currently being worked on by Finley Stirk. It is co-supervised with Michael Dales. Thanks to a combination of satellite information, remote sensors and data-science, we now are able to reason about places all over the globe from the comfort of our desks and offices.

Using graph theory to define data-driven ecoregion and bioregion maps This is an idea proposed in 2025 as a good starter project, and is available for being worked on. It may be co-supervised with Daniele Baisero and Michael Dales.

This is a response to a [letter](http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.003) by Murray K. et al to our paper on "[:2024-ai-conhorizon]". See [:ai-should-unite-conservation] for further thoughts.