This week's departmental seminar will feature a talk by our department's own Abigail Barenblitt, who conducts research at NASA GSFC and is also a first-year GEOG PhD student.
As always, please join us on Thursday, 2/10, at 3:45 pm via Zoom to hear Abigail speak about her work!
See below or the attached flyer for more information.
Abstract:
From
Landsat to GEDI, NASA has been using remote sensing data to monitor
land cover and water quality changes across the globe. In 2015, the
United Nations established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with
the overall objective of improving health, education, and poverty, all
while addressing climate change and the conservation of oceans and
forests. Each participating UN country aims to meet these goals, such as
Clean Water and Sanitation for All, by the year 2030. To monitor these
goals, NASA's Biospheric Sciences Lab has been creating tools to not
only detect changes to ecosystems like mangroves, but also allow
in-country partners to acquire the information they need to report on
progress. Focusing on mangroves and forests as metrics for addressing
SDG efforts, I will review our progress towards monitoring these goals
with publicly available remote sensing data.
Zoom info:
URL: https://zoom.us/j/99193968299?Meeting ID: 991 9396 8299
Meeting Password: 6QnC6d
