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The CUNY CREST Institute was honored to participate in Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s 2025 Harlem River Watershed Revitalization Boat Tour on October 2, 2025. The tour provided a valuable opportunity to engage with community members and partners while learning more about impactful initiatives
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CREST hosted its 4th Annual Retreat on October 20, 2025, at the City College of New York’s (CCNY) Center for Workers Education (CWE), located at 25 Broadway in Manhattan. The retreat convened 35 participants, including 8 students and 27 CREST members, representing
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We’re proud to announce that CUNY CREST HIRES, the Summer Bridge Program, and the Earth System Science and Environmental Engineering Program at the City College of New York have entered into a new university partnership with MobilizeGreen. Through this partnership, students can access
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The CUNY CREST Institute participated in the Geospatial Technologies for the Earth: Commemoration & Showcase Day hosted by the CUNY Bronx Community College in partnership with Hunter College on August 21, 2025. CREST’s Executive Director, Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi, Deputy Director, Dr. Shakila
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Karin Sjöstrand, Deputy Executive Director of Operations of the United Nations University Hub at CCNY- Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS) attended important meetings at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from July 8 to 10, 2025. These
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Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi represented the CUNY CREST Institute at The 45th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), flagship conference of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), in Brisbane, Australia, from August 3 to 8, 2025. The overarching theme of
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The CUNY CREST Institute welcomes Dr. Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The City College of New York (CCNY) and The Graduate Center, CUNY, as a new faculty affiliate. Dr. Bandyopadhyay joined CCNY on August 26, 2025, bringing expertise in
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Said A. Mejia-Manrique, CREST & R-SIRUS Post-Doctoral Fellow, published a research paper in Natural Hazards titled Dynamic landslide susceptibility for extreme rainfall events using an optimized convolutional neural network approach on June 7, 2025. The project was a collaborative effort that brought
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Ana M. Mejia-Manrique and Eromosele Emmanuel Osuide, CREST doctoral students and R-SIRUS fellows, recently completed a research field trip to Puerto Rico to advance their studies on flood risk and resilience. Ana’s research, Inland Flooding in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
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Dr. Shakila Merchant delivered a professional development seminar on Nonprofit Capacity Building and Career Readiness with The VirtualIntern powered by Mobilizegreen on July 25, 2025. The VirtualIntern platform connects college students with nonprofits through paid, project-based virtual internships focused on sustainability and
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