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SAIL is open to anyone interested in Arctic, ocean, climate, ecosystem research. We welcome participation, exchange, and collaboration in different forms.

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SAIL welcomes long-term collaboration around open modeling, AI for Science, and Earth-system simulation. The following project is open to students and researchers interested in model development and scientific applications.
We recently developed Neural POM, a hybrid ocean model that couples a differentiable dynamical framework with neural-network correction and supports closed-loop training and inference. The current version is still deliberately idealized. Our next goal is to improve its numerical stability, modularity, and extensibility toward the maturity of systems such as Oceananigans, before moving into practical ocean applications and other components of the Earth system. In the long run, we hope to develop this direction into an Earth-system simulation framework in the spirit of CliMA, with a stronger emphasis on machine-learning integration and real-world applications. Students and researchers interested in ocean modeling, differentiable simulation, AI for Science, and Earth-system modeling are warmly welcome to join the project and build it with us.
Selected Postdoc / PhD opportunities are available with AWI and Prof. Gerrit Lohmann, in collaboration with SAIL. Interested applicants may contact ruijian.gou@awi.de and gerrit.lohmann@awi.de with a brief introduction of their background and research interests.