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Navteq announced it will hire about 200 people at its production facility in Mumbai over the next two years. That brings the staff there to about 600, who will support local and global production projects.
- PTI News
A grant awarded to the Michigan State University Extension will allow researchers to look into the feasibility of planting crops that could be used for biofuels on nontraditional croplands such as Michigan roadways, vacant lots and state-owned pieces of land. The Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth grant of $24,950 grant will fund the development of a GIS that shows the potential growth sites for bioenergy crops.
Colorado State University’s Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC) and the Warner College of Natural Resources awarded 16 fellowships to form the second annual cohort of Center for Collaborative Conservation fellows. The purpose of the CCC Fellows Program is to strengthen engagement among students, faculty, conservation practitioners and other stakeholders by promoting collaborative research, education and action on critical issues concerning conservation and livelihoods on landscapes around the globe. One of the graduate fellows is working geospatial: Gabriela Bucini
is a doctoral student in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State, working with Niall Hanan. She works on savanna woody vegetation dynamics across regional to continental scales in Africa using remote sensing to map woody cover and statistical models to explore relationships with biotic and abiotic factors. During her CCC fellowship, Bucini will transfer her knowledge in remote-sensing and GIS to local communities in Guinea Bissau, acquire the collaborative conservation skills necessary to support the use of spatial data in the dialogue on conservation and livelihood issues, and build links with Portuguese research scientists and conservation practitioners in Guinea Bissau that will develop into actions to conserve a national park in harmony with the livelihood needs of local inhabitants. This project will provide IBAP and the Park Guard and Guides with a climate station and a complete set of field equipment tested and ready-to-use in the field, and will produce an article on merging field and remote-sensing measurements to create geo-spatial information that merges geographical and indigenous knowledge about the ecosystem.
Boston College’s Institute for Scientific Research Director Patricia Doherty first thought about supporting African science back in 2007.
Since that time, Doherty established an international partnership between Boston College and the ICTP for Satellite Navigation Education and Research for Africa using GPS. Under this partnership, Doherty and her team have led an international effort to develop a series of workshops for African professors and graduate students on the applications and research capabilities of GPS. The result have been the development of a first-of-its-kind GPS network across Africa for space weather research and training for GPS technology.
