by Carmen Calle | Jun 19, 2023 | Brazil, English, Events
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched four new Applied Science Teams (AST) projects that the SERVIR-Amazonia Program will support over the course of 2023 to complement its conservation and climate change mitigation work in the Amazon...
by Carmen Calle | Jun 14, 2023 | Brazil, Capacity Development, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Gender, Peru, Spanish, Uncategorized
Continuing their efforts to promote the inclusion of more women in science and to strengthen their network of female professionals, the Arizona State University (ASU) Knowledge Exchange for Resilience Program and SERVIR-Amazonia, held a “Train the Trainers:...
by Carmen Calle | May 22, 2023 | Capacity Development, Caribbean, Climate Change, English, Events, Mangroves Monitoring, Trinidad and Tobago
The Caribbean nation finishes its first training program delivered by SERVIR-Amazonia. In 2022, SERVIR-Amazonia began a training program on the use of geospatial tools in five Caribbean countries: Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, and...
by Carmen Calle | May 16, 2023 | Brazil, English, Gender
Between April 11th and 13th, 2023, Júlia Niero and Heidi Buzato, from Imaflora, in partnership with Queren Luna from SIGMA/SEMAPI, conducted an online training event called “Empowering women through Geotechnology”, which was designed by women and offered...
by Carmen Calle | May 4, 2023 | Drought and Fire, English, Indigeneous People
A new study, published in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Health, reveals that Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are twice as likely to die prematurely from smoke exposure due to wildfires than the broader South American population. Regions in...
by Carmen Calle | Apr 13, 2023 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Peru
In March, a four-day collaborative meeting took place at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Palmira, Colombia, that brought together in one place, the geographic information systems, and technology (GIS/GIT) specialists from the SERVIR-Amazonia...
