Read More about grants from NASA, DoE, NSF and EPA! Topic: ROSES 2023: A.60 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Science Team Funding Agency: NASA Topic: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (HEGS-DDRI) Funding Agency: NSF Topic: Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Funding Agency: DOE Office of Environmental Management Topic: Southeast New England Program…
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CUNY CREST Institute Faculty Lead CUNY Delegation’s Visit to Qatar During March and April, the CUNY/US team comprising of faculty and administrators from Bronx Community College (BCC), York College, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) and Medgar Evers College visited Qatar as guests of Discover Qatar, Qatar Airways and Qatar Foundation. The purpose of the trip was to explore opportunities for CUNY students and faculty…
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Fatemeh Yavari is a Ph.D. student in the Civil Engineering department (GSoE), started from spring 2023. She graduated from a Master’s degree in Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, with having experience in research areas of Urban Flood Modeling, Hydrology, Hydraulic, and Hydrodynamic Modeling of Flow. She works as a graduate…
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Meet Elsuida Hoxha! Elsuida Hoxha is in her 1st year of the Ph.D. program in the Civil Engineering Department (GSoE). Hoxha’s dissertation advisor is Associate Professor Naresh Devineni. She works focused on water risk, particularly drought risk management in reservoirs. Her research interests include developing integrated methodologies for estimate, prediction, and decision assistance at various…
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United Nations University Visited the City College of New York Professor Tshilidzi Darwala, the new Rector of the United Nation University from South Africa, and now Under-Secretary General of UN, and Dr. Kaveh Madani the Director of the UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and Research Professor at CUNY-CREST Institute, visited the City…
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Eighth International Conference on the Historical Links between Spain and the Americas, May 3-5, 2023 Climate change poses the gravest threat to humanity and the multitude of other species that inhabit planet Earth. Record temperatures and extreme weather events -from hurricanes and flooding to droughts and raging wildfires- and their associated ecological destruction including loss…
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Dr. Shakila Merchant named as American Meteorological Society (AMS) Education Symposium Committee Co-Chair for the 2023-2025 term Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), is the largest professional organization in the world, with over 13,000 members, that promotes the advancement of atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences, technologies, applications, and services The AMS also…
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United Nation 2023 Water Conference Side Event Symposium at CUNY The UN 2023 Water Conference was held during March 20-24 in New York City. This Conference which was co-hosted by the Governments of Tajikistan and the Netherlands was designed to mobilize Member States, the UN system and stakeholders to take action and bring successful solutions…
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Meet Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister is a Professor of Geography and Environmental Science at Hunter College of The City University of New York, specializing in remote sensing and fusion of remote sensing with terrestrial ecosystem and land surface process models. Prior to joining Hunter, she worked as a research scientist at NASA Goddard…
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