Professor and Founding Director of BCC Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute and Doctoral Faculty in the Earth and Environmental Science Program at Graduate Center & Bronx Community College (BCC), City University of New York (CUNY), Sunil Bhaskaran leads the effort to provide Geospatial Science Training to students in the Bronx.
This initiative is carried out through research at the Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute at BCC. Students develop community vulnerability indexes using satellite images to map urban centers at risk for flash flooding. In this press-release by the CUNY’s Graduate Center, learn more about how this project helps cities become resilient to climate change related events such as floods as well as train students to become skilled geospatial technicians.
A student Conducting Research at the Geospatial Center of the CUNY Crest Institute at BCC
(Photo Credit: Sunil Bhaskaran)
