Scoping Our Planet

Document type: Opportunity space

Authors: Gemma Bale, Sarah Bohndiek + Rico Chandra

Date published: 16 June 2025

Version: 2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.67475/sop2555-gn44

Abstract

Our understanding of the Earth system is limited by serious measurement and modelling gaps that lead to unacceptable uncertainties in weather and climate predictions. By cultivating frontier technologies, from measurement platforms to artificial intelligence models, we can fill these gaps and generate actionable knowledge to serve society in diverse and so far impossible ways.

Scoping Our Planet was one of ARIA's original opportunity spaces. Following an evolution of our research portfolio in August 2026, it now sits within the Resilient Climate and Ecosystems opportunity space. The beliefs and observations that defined Scoping Our Planet still hold, and its remit continues in full within Resilient Climate and Ecosystems with respect to both future programmes and seed funding. No active funding was affected by this change.