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Hello World! Round Two for Johanna


Hello World! Round Two with the Education Committee

My name is Johanna Bozuwa, and I am a second year ESIP Fellow. I’m very excited to be on board again this year with the Education Committee! Last year we taught teachers how to use drones in their places of education, and this year we are taking on ten minute talks that can act as learning lunches for teachers.

In addition, I will continue to work with the newest ESIP cluster, the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN). This new cluster is committed to creating a community for educators to...

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​Report from the EnviroSensing Student Fellow: A Year of X-DOMES!


This year I had the pleasure of serving as the Student Fellow in the EnviroSensing Collaboration Area. Although my Master’s thesis work was in remote sensing and applications of remotely-sensed products to landscape ecology, I was in well over my head when I joined the team. There are many kinds of “sensing” of the environment; this team’s focus is pretty different from the kinds I am familiar with.
 
The bulk of the EnviroSensing group’s work this year was on a project called X-DOMES. The acronym stands for Cross Domain Observational Metadata Environmental Sensing Network—...

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Humanitarian Mapping: Eradicating Malaria with Data Sharing


We are sitting in a brightly-lit computer lab with 19 other University of Vermont (UVM) students. Everyone is scrolling through satellite imagery of landscapes in Zambia, looking for small grey clusters of pixels with regular shadows that indicate buildings. When we find buildings, we draw outlines around them, creating a digital map that humanitarian aid workers can use to determine how many people live in an area; this allows them to direct funds efficiently and deploy targeted malaria relief equipment.

This project is part of a larger global effort called Humanitarian...

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​The UN Must Take Climate Change Education and Empowerment Seriously


I recently attended the UN climate change talks, COP 22, in Marrakech as a part of Climate Generation's delegation to work on the importance of education, training and capacity building. 
But why does it matter? In this highly technical negotiation space, why should Education be on the agenda of an international climate change conference?

Moving towards decarbonization presents a paradigmatic shift in our economy, society, and way of life. We need to ensure that we have the capacity for that change and that we do so in a just, equitable...

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