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Dr. Naresh Devineni Receives Two Grants
CREST Faculty affiliate and Professor of Civil Engineering at CCNY, Naresh Devineni received two grants this fall. The first grant is entitled ‘Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet)’ and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For this project, researchers from North Carolina State University, City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University, Texas A&M University (TAMU) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) collaborate to build international network of networks to bolster sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecasts (NSF AccelNet), which will help protect infrastructure and natural resources in a changing world.
The second grant is titled ‘A Global Synthesis of Flood Impacts: Understanding the Country- Level Vulnerability and Causes’ and is sponsored by the United States Geological Survey.
Publication by Dr. Arthur Paul Pedersen
Dr. Arthur Paul Pedersen, faculty research scientist with the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CREST Institute) and faculty doctoral lecturer of computer science at City College, is the lead author of a paper appearing in the January 2025 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper is a critical essay on measurement literacy in scientific discourse.
When asked about his accomplishment, Pedersen replied, “That the case for measurement literacy has prevailed through peer review to be published in the pages of PNAS is an important achievement for science.”