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.
Forested areas are important to our planet's health because they take in large amounts of carbon and release oxygen. When forests are removed or degraded, less carbon is taken from the atmosphere, and the result is increased carbon emissions, which may hasten climate change and increase its impact.
SERVIR-Himalaya hosted the first 2015 SERVIR Hub Exchange, 10-13 March 2015, in Kathmandu, Nepal, bringing together SERVIR team members from around the globe.
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.
Through the Supporting Flood Emergency Preparedness for Myanmar Service, SERVIR Mekong co-developed and supported the use of a systematic decision-support tool for the Myanmar Department of Disaster Management to identify areas with high flood risk.
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.
SERVIR E&SA gave a workshop to teach basic skills to work with satellite remote sensing data for water quality assessments in Lake Victoria.
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