Tracking the Perfect Storm in West Africa: COVID-19 and Desert Locusts
The West Africa region has hard-won experience in managing both desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria, Forskål) outbreaks and outbreaks of serious viral epidemics like Ebola.
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The West Africa region has hard-won experience in managing both desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria, Forskål) outbreaks and outbreaks of serious viral epidemics like Ebola.
SERVIR AST member Doug Morton discusses the upcoming fire season in Amazonia in a new NASA article.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has been implementing the SERVIR-HKH Initiative — one of five regional hubs of the SERVIR network — in its Regional Member Countries, prioritizing capacity building and science activities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
During this year's monsoon, a teacher was able to use a SERVIR-HKH science application to predict flooding in a river stretch and relay this information to concerned authorities — saving property and possibly lives.
Members of the NASA Earth Applied Sciences Disasters Program recently participated in the SERVIR-GEOGloWS Hackathon, a virtual app development event for participants to create geospatial and scientific web applications related to water sustainability.
SERVIR AST PI Jim Nelson of BYU was featured in a recent news article posted online by the university, focused on his AST streamflow forecasting project in the HKH region.
The new Hydrologic Remote Sensing Analysis for Floods (HYDRAFloods) service, co-developed by SERVIR-Mekong consortium members and the SERVIR Science Coordination Office, improves the frequency and resolution of map updates.
A recent NASA article highlighted Applied Sciences Team Principal Investigator Dr. Evan Thomas and the Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP).
Disconnects between forecasters and decision-makers worldwide can often result in less efficient or effective flood response.
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya partnered with the University of Alaska Fairbanks to organize a training titled HydroSAR: Extracting flood information from SAR to advance the use of SAR at ICIMOD and across the HKH region.