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NASA Sistema de Coordinación de Respuesta a Desastres Folleto Impreso

Topic
Disasters
Resource Type
Print Materials
DRCS 1-PAGER SPANISH June_6_2024.pdf
Disaster coordinators from CEPREDENAC using NASA data to analyze impacts from Hurricane Iota in Nov. 2021. Credit: CEPREDENAC
Disasters

NASA Announces New Disaster Response Coordination System

By
Jacob Reed, NASA Disasters
Map of SEMCOG study area showing regions identified by SEMCOG as areas of persistent poverty, overlaid on a map of percent impervious surface for the seven county region.

Addressing Inequitable Flood Risks in Southeast Michigan through Green Infrastructure

Topic
Urban Development
Climate
Equity and Environmental Justice
Disasters
Ecological Conservation
Water Resources
Team: Mary Miller (Michigan Technological University), Michael Battaglia (Michigan Technological University), Laura Bourgeau-Chavez (Michigan Technological University), David Watkins (Michigan Technological University), Jessica Alger (Michigan Technological...
On April 20, 2023, Gasmine Myers, Julie Silva, and Sergii Skakun participated in the Fort Belknap Indian Community’s Annual Earth Day Fair in Harlem, Montana. The event was organized by the Fort Belknap Environmental Protection Department and over 200 students in Grades 4-6 attended the event. Gasmine, Julie, and Sergii ran an educational activity —adapted from an issue of NASA’s EOKids—titled ‘Watching Wildfires from Space’ that demonstrated how wildfires are monitored using satellites and Earth observatio

Environmental Injustice and Deaths of Despair: Lessons from Montanas Tribal Lands

Topic
Risk & Resilience
Equity and Environmental Justice
Team: PI Dr. Sergii Skakun, University of Maryland; Dante Chinni, Michigan State University; Kristal Jones, JG Research & Evaluation & University of Maryland; Gasmine Myers...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for the New York City Metropolitan Area for 06/08/2023 due to very elevated levels of fine particulate matter related to wildfire smoke originated in Canada.

Pairing earth observations and socioeconomic data to enable student-led hazard monitoring for environmental justice in New York

Topic
Climate
Equity and Environmental Justice
Health & Air Quality
Team: Susana B. Adamo (Columbia University); Carolynne Hultquist (Columbia University); Cascade Tuholske (Montana State University); Greg Yetman (Columbia University); John Squires (Columbia University) Summary: We...
Fast-flowing river with muddy waters surges through Melamchi, Nepal, flanked by colorful houses and lush green hills under a cloudy sky.
Applied Sciences
Capacity Building
Disasters

Helping Nepal Prepare for Monsoons with NASA and USAID’s SERVIR Program

By
Meryl Kruskopf
,
Biplov Bhandari
,
Chinmay Deval
,
Manish Shrestha
Environmental hazards that affect prisons. A) Federal Correctional Institution in Beaumont, TX, inundated during Hurricane Harvey, B) Rikers jail in 95th percentile (indicated by red) of national proximity to hazardous waste site, image credit: EJSCREEN, C) coal slurry located approximately 1 mile from proposed prison facility in Letcher county, KY

Applying the EVDT Integrated Modeling Framework for Environmental Justice Applications

Topic
Risk & Resilience
Equity and Environmental Justice
Team Members: Ufuoma Ovienmhada (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Pellow (University of California, Santa Barbara) Executive Summary: In recent years, researchers and journalists have elevated...
2023_EEJwebpages -Saved  SNSN Editing Editing Share Share: this file is shared Comments Catch up Undo There is nothing to redo. Paste Calibri (Body) 11 General Conditional Formatting Conditional Formatting Format As Table Cell Styles Cell Styles Insert Delete Format Sensitivity Add-ins P30 Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of the southwest side of Chicago from 2011 NAIP imagery. High levels of vegetation are dark green while low level

Designing for Just Green Enough: A Data Integration Tool for Informing Community Green Space Planning

Topic
Urban Development
Climate
Equity and Environmental Justice
Ecological Conservation
Health & Air Quality
Team Members: Dr. Michelle Stuhlmacher (DePaul University), Dr. Winifred Curran (DePaul University), Dr. Marynia Kolak (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign), Dajoin Williams (DePaul University), Christopher...
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Capacity Building
Disasters
Group on Earth Observations

Ask NASA ARSET: Radar Remote Sensing for Flood Monitoring

Training Type
Online Instructor-Led
Level
Introductory
Date
September 05, 2024
A web application where users can generate scenarios (e.g. select parcels on a map and assign new land use patterns to those areas) and visualize scenarios’ impacts on ecosystem services and patterns of environmental inequity(e.g. the changes in temperature and carbon storage, and demographics of the impacted area)

Investing In Equity and Environmental Justice: An Urban Decision-Support Tool Integrating Earth Observations, Socioeconomic Data, And Ecosystem Service Models

Topic
Urban Development
Climate
Equity and Environmental Justice
Ecological Conservation
Team Members: Lingling Liu (University of Minnesota), Joseph F. Knight (University of Minnesota), Chris W Nootenboom (Natural Capital Insights), Gretchen C. Daily (Stanford University), David...

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