Celebrating International Women's Day
The SERVIR regional hubs around the world celebrated International Women's Day on March 8, 2023. In case you missed the events, tweets, and other posts, here is a round up of highlights.
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The SERVIR regional hubs around the world celebrated International Women's Day on March 8, 2023. In case you missed the events, tweets, and other posts, here is a round up of highlights.
The Geospatial Applications for Protected Area Alerts and Crop Maps service aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve the livelihoods of local communities. To do this, SERVIR SEA develops user-friendly decision support tools for monitoring forest clearance activities.
Land Cover Monitoring for Forest Protection and Healthy Ecosystems aims to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while supporting biodiversity conservation and augmenting water conservation.
In this miniseries, we explore why gender matters in applied Earth science, and how we can integrate gender more intentionally into geospatial work.
|Lena Pransky, Diana Kurkovsky West, and Emily Adams | NASA Science Coordination Office
The end of one year and the start of the next provides an opportunity to reflect on past achievements and future goals. In 2023, the SERVIR network worked with local partners in the design and implementation of numerous geospatial services to address complex challenges related to climate change.
SERVIR Southeast Asia convened nearly 100 participants from five countries, for an Inclusive Climate Action Workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand this February that included representatives of Indigenous communities, women’s groups, and even kids. Here are just a few takeaways from that week.
|Jacob Ramthun, NASA Science Coordination Office
This Gender Analysis Tool provides clear guidance on a foundational step for service design and programming, to contribute to SERVIR’s goals of ensuring that women, along with men, are realizing equal benefits from SERVIR’s geospatial services.
The service, Building a Dashboard to Monitor, Evaluate and Report Landscape Improvements in Cambodia, addresses the demand from USAID/Cambodia to monitor and evaluate projects that target biophysical improvement and enhance biodiversity conservation on the ground.
Developing the Cambodia Protected Area Alerts System is a service that monitors near real-time forest changes and external threats including deforestation, forest fires, and floods within the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected area in Cambodia.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 2 billion people rely on forests for shelter, livelihoods, water, food, and fuel security. Forests even help renew our air supply, as they take in large amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.