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CUNY CREST researchers participated in a regional meeting held at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) campus in St. Thomas, where they presented innovative research focused on flood modeling, extreme weather impacts, and community-based resilience solutions for Puerto Rico and the
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Dr. Aliasghar Arab, Research Associate at the CUNY CREST Institute participated in the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), held in Vienna, Austria in June 2026, where he hosted a technical workshop and delivered a presentation at the conference’s
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Dr. Aliasghar Arab, Research Associate at the CUNY CREST Institute, actively engaged with the international research community during May 2026, presenting his work on autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and system reliability at two major conferences. From May 11-14, Dr. Arab participated in
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The application period for the 2027 Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship is now open. Sea Grant is a federal-university partnership program that brings science together with communities to collaborate on finding solutions. As part of Sea Grant’s mission to enhance the practical use and
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Dr. Shakila Merchant, CREST Deputy Director and CREST HIRES Director, joined partners from across New York State in supporting key climate resilience legislation during the Rise to Resilience Coalition’s Lobby Day in Albany, organized by the Waterfront Alliance. The advocacy effort brought
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Dr. Shakila Merchant, CUNY CREST Deputy Director and CUNY CREST HIRES Director, served as a panelist in the Earth Day 2026: Climate and Environmental Justice in New York City event hosted by the Columbia Climate School in partnership with the Greater Harlem
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Drs. Naresh Devineni and Seon-Ho Kim co-authored the research paper Water Stress and Its Sensitivity to Demands Across the Contiguous United States, published in Communications Sustainability. The study examines how variations in water demand influence water stress across the United States, offering
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Dhrijesh M. Chauhan (Environmental & Water Resources Engineering) and Niloufar Soheili (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering), doctoral researchers at the City University of New York Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CUNY CREST) Institute and United Nations University (UNU) Hub-Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations
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Professor Maria Tzortziou’s innovative project, Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems (FORTE), has been endorsed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO as an official United Nations Decade Project. This designation places FORTE among a new wave of initiatives advancing the UN Decade
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Bronx Community College (BCC) has been awarded a U.S. State Department IDEAS Grant (Dec 1, 2025-May 31, 2027) to expand study abroad opportunities through the Project for Sustainable Ecology and Education Development (Project SEED). Joint Principal Investigators and CUNY CREST International Pillar
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