Earth
What does a landscape reveal about its history?
The beginning
It started
with a stone.
with a stone.
01 · Wonder
A simple question.
Looking at stone led to questions about where it came from, how it formed, what it contains, why one stone differs from another, and what happens after we use it.
02 · Connect
The questions kept connecting.
Stone led to minerals. Minerals led to water and soil. Then came geology, materials, human use, transformation, waste and possible recovery.
03 · Realise
I could not investigate them alone.
The questions crossed many fields. They needed different knowledge, laboratories, measurements, data and ways of thinking.
04 · AI
AI helped me navigate.
AI made it possible to explore connections across fields. It also made one boundary clear: information is not the same as evidence.
05 · Begin
That became SNI.
A developing way of bringing questions, people, scientific knowledge, laboratories, data, technology and AI together to investigate what we do not yet understand.