| Meetings & Travel Displayed news items less than 12 months old · View older items in this category | Dr. Geoff Henebry active in the USA National Phenology Network [2009-10-16] | | Geoff Henebry co-organized the NSF Research Coordination Network on Phenology meeting in Milwaukee October 5-8. The meeting’s theme was “Toward a National Phenological Assessment” and gather researchers from diverse fields to outlining how to prepare for a National Phenological Assessment. Henebry also serves on the USA-NPN (usanpn.org) Board of Directors. Henebry convened, together with RCN PIs Mark D. Schwartz (UW-Milwaukee) and Julio Betancourt (USGS-Tucson) as well as Kirsten de Beurs (Virginia Tech) and John Gross (National Park Service), a special session at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union entitled “Toward Phenological Assessments: Regional, National, Global”. This is the sixth year that Henebry has organized a phenology session at the Fall Meeting. |
| Center Scholars present at ASPRS conference [2009-10-09] | | Two undergraduates in the Center Scholars Program at GIScCE presented their research at the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Upper Midwest Chapter conference at the USGS Center for EROS October 5-7. Ben Helder presented a poster entitled “Assessing changes at the Grassland Destabilization Experiment (GDEX) in the Nebraska Sandhills from 2006-2009 using imaging spectroscopy”. Dr. Geoff Henebry is Ben’s advisor. Brad Stricherz presented a poster entitled “Assessing catastrophic wildfire risk in California”. Dr. Mark Cochrane is Brad’s advisor. |
| Dr. Matt Hansen and Mark Broich provide training in Indonesia [2009-10-07] | | Matt Hansen and Mark Broich provided training on Landsat forest cover characterization to analysts from the Indonesian Space Agency and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry in Jakarta from August 18 to 21. Following this exercise, both worked with analysts from a number of Indonesian NGO’s at a workshop in Denpasar, Bali from August 24 to 27. This workshop was hosted by Sekala, an NGO focused on environmental monitoring. |
| Dr. Matt Hansen builds capacity in DR Congo [2009-10-07] | | Matt Hansen travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo from October 13 to 23 to install image processing hardware and software, and to provide introductory image processing training to the NGO OSFAC (Observatoire Satellital des Forêts d'Afrique Centrale). OSFAC is a partner of SDSU’s on the USAID-funded CARPE (Central African Regional Program for the Environment) project, which aims to improve the understanding of environmental dynamics in the Congo Basin. |
| Dr. Mark A. Cochrane chairs meeting in Belem, Brazil [2009-08-24] | | August 18-21, 2009: Belém, Brazil. Chair of the “Biodiversity Implications of Forest Disturbance and Related Landscape Dynamics on the Brazilian Amazon” Project Meeting funded by the Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Dr. David Roy, Chris Barber, Izaya Numata and Sanath Kumar also participated in the meeting. |
| Dr. David Roy undertook field work, Western Arnhem Land, Australia [June 29-July 10th 2009] [2009-07-24] | | Dr. Roy undertook field work with an international group of scientists and the Kabulwarnamyo aboriginal community in Western Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. The field work was in support of the Western Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (WALFA) project developed to address fire management issues in the Aboriginal-owned, high biodiversity savanna landscapes of western Arnhem Land. |
| GIScCE scientists present at IGARSS 09 conference, South Africa [13-17 July 2009] [2009-07-24] | | Dr. David Roy and Dr. Mark Cochrane attended IGARSS 09, Cape Town, South Africa and gave 4 presentations, and Dr. Roy chaired two sessions. |
| Dr. Mark A. Cochrane and Christopher P. Barber present at the NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting (May 5-8) in New York, NY. [2009-05-15] | | Cochrane, M.A., D.P Roy, C.M. Souza Jr., E. Arima, J. Barlow, I. Numata, C.P. Barber, J. Silveira, L. Mestre, R. Andrade and S.K. Sathyachandran, “Biodiversity Implications of Forest Disturbance and Related Landscape Dynamics on the Brazilian Amazon (Year 2)”. (oral presentation) C.P. Barber, M.A. Cochrane, C. Souza Jr. M.C. Wimberly, T.R. Loveland, "Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazon: Performance, Pressure, & Efficacy". (Oral Presentation with accompanying poster). |
| Dr. Mike Wimberly and colleagues travel to Ethiopia to initiate malaria early-warning project [2009-04-06] | | In March 2009, Mike Wimberly, Gabriel Senay, and Geoff Henebry travelled to Ethiopia to meet with research partners and tour the highland regions that we will be studying as part of an NIH-funded research project. While in Addis Ababa, we met with representatives of the Anti-Malaria Organization (AMA) and GeoSAS International, a private consulting firm that provides geospatial analytical services. We also held meetings with faculty members from Gondar University and Bahir Dar University, and with public health officials from the Amhara Regional State Bureau of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health. Based on these meetings, we have developed formal partnerships with the AMA and GeoSAS to create a malaria case database and a GIS database that will be used in the development of an malaria early-warning system. |
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