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.
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.
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.
The objective of the Supporting Near Real-Time Flood Monitoring in Myanmar Service was to develop a multi-sensor based near real-time flood monitoring tool to support the Myanmar Department of Disaster Management (DDM) in monitoring flood events.
After the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Gorkha area of Nepal and the ensuing aftershocks, a secondary hazard is looming throughout the surrounding area: landslides.
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
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.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the SERVIR-Himalaya host organization, earned the Esri Humanitarian GIS Award on 20 July 2015 for their contribution to the Nepalese government's disaster response efforts following the recent earthquakes in the country.
On 28 June 2015, around 7 pm local time, a yak herder in Bhutan witnessed an alarming spectacle: a glacial lake outburst flood, or GLOF. He looked on as water from Lemthang Tsho (Memari) Lake, which had filled beyond capacity, burst over its embankment.
A research article published in Science Magazine's online edition describes survey, mapping and analysis of Nepal's Gorkha earthquake.