SERVIR Team Member wins award
Eric Anderson, SERVIR Technical Point of Contact for the Himalaya region, has been chosen to receive the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) 2015 Master's Thesis Award in the category of Digital Scholarship.
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Eric Anderson, SERVIR Technical Point of Contact for the Himalaya region, has been chosen to receive the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) 2015 Master's Thesis Award in the category of Digital Scholarship.
The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration engaging developers, Geographic Information System (GIS)-savvy students, engineering students, and entrepreneurs to work together on solving challenges relevant to improving life on Earth and in space.
Agriculture is critically important in Africa, where about 70 percent of the people depend on farming and other rural activities for their livelihoods. Unfortunately, increasing population pressures are degrading and reducing land and water resources, and hindering agricultural productivity.
Susan Malaso Kotikot, an Earth System Science graduate student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a graduate research assistant at SERVIR, has claimed first prize for her submission to the inaugural College of Science Research Horizons Day poster contest.
Agriculture is the backbone of economies in East African countries such as Tanzania. To succeed they need more information about droughts and dry spells, yet getting that information to farmers remains a challenge.
Working in developing countries around the world, SERVIR seeks to incorporate regional knowledge and perspectives to best meet end user needs in addressing issues such as flood forecasting, forest fire management, landslide hazard, agricultural monitoring, and biomass estimation.
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.
Remote districts of Western Nepal are experiencing what some claim is their worst drought in 40 years. Analyses prepared by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development are helping the Government of Nepal evaluate the situation and make critical decisions about how to respond.
The International Space Apps Challenge hackathon was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, 23 to 24 April 2016. The event was hosted and co-organized by the SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya program.