Closing the STEM gender gap
Between 2018 and 2021, SERVIR HKH trained 410 women in “Empowering women in GIT” to bridge the technology and gender gap in the region. Some of the key outcomes of these trainings are summarized in this report.
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Between 2018 and 2021, SERVIR HKH trained 410 women in “Empowering women in GIT” to bridge the technology and gender gap in the region. Some of the key outcomes of these trainings are summarized in this report.
Working in developing countries around the world, SERVIR seeks to incorporate regional knowledge and perspectives to best meet end user needs in addressing issues such as flood forecasting, forest fire management, landslide hazard, agricultural monitoring, and biomass estimation.
Air quality is a public health concern in Mesoamerica. SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) principal investigators Amy Huff from Pennsylvania State University and Amy Thomas from Battelle Memorial Institute, along with their team, also from Battelle, have been working since 2012 to provide decision-makers in Mesoamerica access to the data and tools they need to monitor air pollution and forecast air quality.
During the 26th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2021, the White House announced several international environmental initiatives f
Meet Trilochana Basnett, intern for ICIMOD/SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya.
Meet four participants from the GeoFem Women in Geospatial Technologies workshop was hosted and organized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Central America Aerospace Network (RAC) in San José in November 2023.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
The GeoFem: Women in Geospatial Technologies workshop was hosted and organized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Central America Aerospace Network (RAC) in San José.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
Since 2018, SERVIR has conducted 12 training programs for young and early-career women in geospatial information technology (GIT), reaching 1,490 women across the region. The training focuses on using technologies to collect, store, analyze, and visualize spatial or geographic data about observing the Earth’s surface and human activity. Participants learn about key concepts and how to use applications that depend on EO data and GIT.
|Jaber Hassan and Poonam Tripathi, SERVIR HKH
Because climate change disproportionately impacts women and girls, Earth science cannot be fully effective in addressing climate issues without including the realities and unique knowledge of women. Unfortunately, many women are excluded from participating in both the field of Earth science and in community decision-making.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
In Costa Rica, the GeoFem workshops create a supportive environment for women to combine their unique knowledge and experiences with Earth science technology. The following stories demonstrate how everyone benefits when women are empowered to use Earth science in community decision-making.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office