Celebrating International Women's Day
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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.
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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.
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 Mitigating Impacts and Increasing Benefits from Changing River Courses in Myanmar service supported national agencies in monitoring changing river courses and planning riverbank protection measures to mitigate localized impacts to infrastructure.
The Supporting Water Resources Management in Vietnam Service supported national agencies in assessing the impacts of climate change and basin development on water availability through a web-based integrated water resources model for basin management.
The Mekong River is a trans-boundary river system originating in Tibet and spanning China and five countries in Southeast Asia. It is important to monitor the amount of suspended sediment -- a key indicator of water quality -- in the river at various locations via in situ collections and visible satellite imagery.
Recently, the SERVIR-Mekong team added three new tools to aid in the environmental monitoring of the Mekong River Basin.
VAWR, which operates under Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), is the leading institute for water resources, research and development within Vietnam.