RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa water quality workshop
SERVIR E&SA gave a workshop to teach basic skills to work with satellite remote sensing data for water quality assessments in Lake Victoria.
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SERVIR E&SA gave a workshop to teach basic skills to work with satellite remote sensing data for water quality assessments in Lake Victoria.
Some new international guests were seen around the SERVIR coordination office in Huntsville, Alabama, in early June 2015.
|Rachel Gaal, technical writing intern for SERVIR
RCMRD hosted a training event called “Satellite Based Frost Mapping and Monitoring using MODIS Data" on 23-24 July 2015.
|James Wanjohi, Eastern & Southern Africa/RCMRD
Kenya ranks third in the world in yearly tea production. Susan Malaso Kotikot, a native of Kenya who came to the U.S. a year and a half ago to accept a graduate research assistantship and work with SERVIR, wants to help mitigate crop damage by frost – and protect the livelihoods of many Kenyans.
SERVIR Applied Sciences Team members Pietro Ceccato and Erika Podest are proving that space is a good vantage point for fighting deadly diseases.
With floods and droughts as two of the most catastrophic natural disasters in the regions it serves, SERVIR strives to be on the cutting edge in addressing challenges related to water.
With a growing population, increased demand for agricultural land and fuel wood are depleting Africa's forests.
Charity Beeman, a senior at Troy University majoring in Computer Science, has been working on a unique project this summer as an intern with SERVIR.
Accurate weather research and forecasting (WRF) models are key to weather-related disaster preparedness. The NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center, through SERVIR, has been working with regional forecasters to help enhance weather forecast accuracy in East Africa.
Deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the tropics represent major threats to biodiversity and contribute to carbon emissions.