by Carmen Calle | Sep 4, 2023 | Colombia, Ecosystem Management, English, Events, Mangroves Monitoring, Stakeholder engagement, User engagement, Water Resources and Extreme Events
During a warm ceremony held in August, which was attended by Luis Ernesto Rodríguez, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the National University of Colombia (UNAL), 22 students were certified in geospatial tools and technologies to enhance their skills in...
by Carmen Calle | Sep 4, 2023 | Barbados, Brazil, Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Gender, Guyana, Mangroves Monitoring, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago
Empowering women in scientific and technological areas is one of the SERVIR-Amazonia Program’s cross-cutting themes. To this end, a new workshop was held last August on the “Empowerment Women in Mangrove Forest Monitoring and Leadership”, hosted by the Alliance...
by Carmen Calle | Aug 16, 2023 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Peru, Services, User engagement, Water Resources and Extreme Events
Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator and former U.S. Senator, visited the campus of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Palmira, Colombia in early August. Accompanied by a delegation from the space agency, representatives from the United States Agency for...
by Carmen Calle | Jul 24, 2023 | Ecuador, English, Events, Services
Author: Anais Offley with support from Andréa Puzzi and Rodrigo Torres. In the years prior to 2022, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition (MAATE) realized it needed to update its forest-monitoring data collection system. It was...
by Carmen Calle | Jun 21, 2023 | Brazil, Capacity Development, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Peru, Services, User engagement, Water Resources and Extreme Events
A series of workshops on the use of the GEOGloWS portals (jointly developed as part of the Applied Science Team or AST led by investigator Jim Nelson to provide scientific data to decision-makers) held between June 12 and 15 was given to government institutions that...