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CUNY CREST Institute welcomes Harry Cikanek, as its Director of Business Development and Entrepreneurship The CUNY CREST Institute is pleased to welcome Harry Cikanek, former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Program Manager and Executive, as its new Director of Business Development and Entrepreneurship. He is an innovative…
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Dr. Kaveh Madani makes appearances on CNN, Al Jazeera, and The World on Water Bankruptcy and Climate Impacts Dr. Kaveh Madani was recently interviewed on a number of networks including Connect the World with Becky Anderson. Connect the World is a TV program hosted by Becky Anderson which discusses international news and affairs on CNN.…
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Coastal Cities and Ecosystems, the Main Focus of 2021 MIT Water Summit by Dr. Indrani Pal Annually, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) holds the MIT Water Summit which is hosted by the MIT Water Club. The MIT Water Summit is an annual two-day event in which different leaders from industry, government, and the scientific…
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Dr. Maria Tzortziou received more than $1M from NASA to study climate change impacts in the coastal Arctic Recently, Dr. Maria Tzortziou has received more than $1M in funding for her newest project “Artic Deltas and Coastal Margins as Buffers and Transformers of Carbon along a Rapidly Changing Land-Ocean Continuum”, by NASA’s Carbon Cycle Science…
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Dr. Neal Phillip awarded the 2021 Social and Behavioral Research Award funded by Con Edison This month, Dr. Neal Phillip’s proposal titled, “Sensitizing NYC to Reporting Methane Gas Leaks using Monitoring, Collective Social Learning and Thematic Communication” received $35,000 in funding through the 2021 Con Edison Social and Behavioral Research Award. Five other faculty members…
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CCNY Faculty, Dr. Indrani Pal recently awarded the “Moonshot Award” by California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the West Big Data Innovation Hub CCNY Faculty, Dr. Indrani Pal recently awarded the “Moonshot Award” by California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the West Big Data Innovation Hub Honored CCNY Research Scientist at…
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CUNY CREST Institute welcomes Professor Kaveh Madani, former Vice President of UN Environment Assembly Buerau as a new member CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Kaveh Madani has joined this institute as a Research Professor. He brings to CUNY CREST, a unique combination of experience in high-level policymaking, prominent practice-relevant research, and high-impact…
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CCNY’s Jorge E. González, Presidential Professor in the Grove School of Engineering,and a CUNY-CREST affiliated faculty will lead the Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) project in New York. The City College of New York is partnering with the University of Colorado Boulder in an innovative National Science Foundation-funded research center for sustainable building technology. A $1.5 million NSF…
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Dr. Indrani Pal, honored with NSF-I-Corps award, Fall 2021. Dr. Indrani Pal, Research Scientist at the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System Institute, is the one of recipient of Horn Entrepreneurship Award or NSF-ICorps site award, administered by University of Delaware. This program empowers aspiring innovators as they pursue new ideas for a better world by providing specialized training and mini…
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Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi, featured on WNYC Radio talk show, September 15, 2021 Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi, Executive Director of the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System Institute was invited to speak at the WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” ( https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-prevent-more-deaths-nycs-basement-apartments/ ), on Wednesday September 15, 2021. The other invited panelist is an urban planner and senior program…
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