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The CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System Institute and the NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies II (NOAA CESSRST II) co-hosted a collaborative mini-workshop at The City College of New York (CCNY), welcoming teams from the National Weather Service (NWS) Upton and the New York City
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We are proud to congratulate Dr. Kaveh Madani, CUNY CREST Research Professor and Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), on being named to The Independent’s 2026 Climate 100. This international recognition honors leading voices and
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Marc Crampe, Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), completed a summer research internship at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma, from June 15 through August 15,
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CUNY CREST congratulates Ali Haider, Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), and Niloufar Soheili, Ph.D. Candidate in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at CCNY, on their participation in the 2026 Water Prediction Innovators Summer Institute
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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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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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