The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) declared 2023 as the Year of Open Science. NASA, along with 10 other Research and Development federal agencies and 88 Academic institutions under the HELIOS umbrella, celebrate this opportunity to advance the adoption of open, equitable, and secure science through open science policies and practices.
NASA's Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program requires that all software developed through research and technology awards (i.e., Research Opportunities in Earth and Space Science [ROSES] or unsolicited proposals) or other government-funded development is to be made available to the public as Open Source Software (OSS). This includes all software developed with ESDS funding used in the production of data products, as well as software developed to discover, access, analyze, visualize, and transform NASA data. This policy does not apply to commercial off-the-shelf software.
GOFC-GOLD CARIN Webinar Series
Webinar # 30 Friday 10 April 202
Gavkahr Mamadjanova, University of Reading, UK Rainfall Forecasts for Early Warnings of Precipitation-Induced Hazards in Central Asia & Stefan Rahimi, University of Wyoming, US Finding the Right Cadence: Pairing Compute, Ambition, and Realities to Create Decision-Relevant Climate Data across Central Asia
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Friday 13 March 2026 Charlie Becker, Duke University & Kaichao Chang, University of Maryland-College Park, US ZATO: the Lives of Post-Soviet Closed Cities & Arnaud Caiserman, University of Central Asia, KG Long-Term Snow Avalanche Trends in High Mountain Asia: Climatic Drivers and Impacts
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar # 28 13 February 2026: 9:00 AM EST Bunyod Holmatov, International Water Management Institute, UZ Bridging Borders: How Water-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus Interventions Foster Cooperation in Central Asia - A Case Study from Hydro4U & Marat Beksultanov, Geobox, Inc., US When Maps Evolve: How Remote Sensing is Becoming the New Decision Layer in Central Asia’s Water Management
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar # 27 05 December 2025: 8:00 AM EST Vitalii Zaginaev, University of Central Asia, KG, Monitoring and GLOF Forecasting in Kyrgyzstan & Alan Fryar, University of Kentucky, US Assessment of Springs as Rural Water Resources in the Fergana Valley of Southwest Kyrgyzstan
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar # 26 Friday, 07 November 2025: 8:00 AM EST Husniddin Sharofiddinov Kochi University of Technology (JP) Economic Analyses on Land Use and Water Allocations in Tajikistan Agriculture for Adaptations and Sustainability & Bota Sharipova, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (NL) Trust and Transboundary Water Cooperation in Central Asia: Findings of PhD Research and Reflections on Research
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar # 25 Friday, 03 October 2025: 9:00 AM EST Dr. Naga Manohar Velpuri International Water Management Institute (IWMI) From Data to Decisions: A Scale Invariant Water Accounting Plus Framework for Integrated Water Resources Management
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Webinar # 22 Friday, 07 March 2025: 8:30 AM EST Zarina Saidaliyeva, University of Reading, UK Precipitation in the mountains of Central Asia: Isotopic composition and source regions. & Eldiiar Duulatov, Institute of Geology, KG Academy of Science & current Fulbright Scholar at Michigan State University Machine learning-based landslide susceptibility assessment for disaster risk reduction in Kyrgyzstan.
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Webinar # 21 Friday, 07 February, 2025 8:30AM EST Brett Hankerson Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, DE Pasture utilization and livestock development in Kazakhstan & Tungaa Ulambayar Zoological Society Luujin, MN Preliminary results of herders migration study in the Central Mongolia
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Webinar # 20 Thursday, 05 December 2024: 9:00AM EST Arnaud Caiserman University of Central Asia, TJ "Natural Hazards Monitoring in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan: Review of the Current Understanding of the Dynamics and Research Perspectives" & Mariam Tsitsagi Tbilisi State University “Monitoring Interannual and Seasonal Dynamics of Urban Lakes in Tbilisi, Georgia using PlanetScope Time Series"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar # 19 Thursday, 14 November 2024: 9:00AM EST Fahim Zaheer, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA "The Role of Remotely Sensed Climate Monitoring in Food Security Analysis" & Elton Mammadov Azerbaijan Ministry of Agriculture, AZ “Study of Coastal Dynamics using Remote Sensing in the Gizilagaj National Park, the Caspian Sea"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar # 18 Thursday, 10 October 2024: 9:00AM EST Dr. Fazlullah Akhtar Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, DE "Analysis of Long-term Actual Evapotranspiration and Water Availability under a Changing Climate in the Kabul River Basin of Afghanistan" & Dr. Vadim Yapiyev School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University, KZ “Hydrochemistry and Water Quality of Glacierized Catchments of Central Asia"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar # 17 Thursday, 12 September 2024: 9:00AM EST Michael Brody, American University "The Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Project: The Case for a Regional Hydroclimate Project in Central Asia" & Geoff Henebry Michigan State University “Snow Cover Trends in Kyrgyzstan 2001-2021: Earlier Onset of Snow Cover at Lower Elevations"
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Webinar # 16 Friday, 5 April 2024: starting 0800 (EDT); 1400 (Warsaw); 1700 (Astana, Dushanbe, Tashkent); 1900 (Bishkek); 2000 (Ulaanbaatar) Dr. Monika Mętrak Department of Ecology and Nature Protection, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw "The role of biologically active soil cover in the formation of C, N and P soil pools in the foreland of the Uisu Glacier in the Eastern Pamir, Tajikistan" & Prof. Jiquan Chen Dept of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, USA “Sustainability challenges for social-environmental systems across the Asian drylands belt" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Webinar # 15 Friday, March 1, 2024: starting 0800 (EST); 1400 (CET); 1800 (Tashkent/Dushanbe/Astana); 1900 (Bishkek); 2100 (Ulaanbaatar) Prof. Volker Radeloff Dept of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA & Prof. Maira Kussainova Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Michigan State University, USA & Kazakhstan National Agrarian Research University, KZ “Development of an Information System for Monitoring and Assessing Degraded Pastures in Kazakhstan to Facilitate the Effective Management of Restoration Processes” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Webinar # 14 Friday, Feb 2, 2024: Starting at 0800 (EST) / 1900 (Bishkek) Dr. Sanzhar Imashev Laboratory of Complex Research of Driving Processes in Geophysical Fields, Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek, KYR "Atmospheric Temperature Anomalies in the Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere Region Connected with Seismic Activity in the Tien-Shan Mountains" & Prof. Wei Fang Biology Department, Pace University, USA “Multi-decadal Assessment of Land Cover and Productivity Shifts under Climate Change and Urbanization in Central Asia” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
Webinar # 13 1st December, 2023 starting 0800 (EST); 1900 (Bishkek) Dr. Eldiiar Duulatov Institute of Geology, National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, KG "Assessing the Soil Erosion in Kyrgyzstan based on RUSLE, Integrated with RS & GIS" & Prof. Xin Xi Faculty of Natural Sciences Michigan Technological University, USA “What Caused the Unseasonal Extreme Dust Storm in Uzbekistan during November 2021”
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Webinar # 12 3rd November, 2023 08:00 AM EST Dr. Asel Murzakulova Mountain Societies Research Institute University of Central Asia, KYR "The Power of Apricot: Land Scarcity and Mobility in Contested Isfara River Borderlands" & Prof. Ranjeet John Faculty of Natural Sciences University of South Dakota, USA “Differentiating Anthropogenic Modification from Climate-Driven Change in Kazakhstan: A High-Resolution Multi-Stage Multi-Model Approach to Explain Vegetation Trends by Socioenvironmental System Drivers”
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Webinar # 11 7th April, 2023 08:00 AM EST Dr. Steve Pueppke Center for Global Change & Earth Observations & Asia Hub Michigan State University, USA "Coupled Water-Energy-Food Relationships in the IIi River Basin" & Prof. Oimahmad Rahmonov Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences University of Silesia, Poland “Links between a high-Mountain Community and the Ecosystem Services of Juniper Forests in the Fann Mountains of Western Tajikistan”
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Webinar # 10 3rd March, 2023 08:00 AM EST Prof. Monika Mętrak Department of Ecology and Nature Protection, Faculty of Biology University of Warsaw, Poland "Functioning of high mountain wetlands under arid climate: an overview of the 5-year study in the Eastern Pamir, Tajikistan" & Dr. Erkin Isaev FAO Regional Office for Asia Pacific University of Central Asia “Bias correction of Sentinel-2 with unmanned aerial vehicle multispectral data for use in monitoring walnut fruit forest in western Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan”
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Webinar # 9 3rd February, 2023 08:00 AM EST Prof Alexander Prishchepov Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen, Denmark "Analyzing changing land use and hydrological regimes in cross-border Mongolia and Russia's Selenga River Basin" & Dr. Ainura Nazarkulova Department of Geoinformatics-Z_GIS University of Salzburg, Austria “Landcover analysis of Kyrgyzstan using global services”
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This webinar series focuses agriculture hotspots of land cover and land use change.
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| Dr. Saurav Kumar Arizona State University
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| Elizabeth A. Hunter (Virginia Tech) 8th March 2024 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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| Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr (Clark University) Best Practices for Classification Accuracy Metrics 22nd March 2024 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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 | Dr. Qiongyu Huang (Smithsonian Institution) & Dr. Ginger Allington (Cornell University) 5th April 2024 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST |
 | Dr. Jamon Van Den Hoek (Oregon State University) Multi-sensor Mapping of Refugee Agricultural LCLUC Hotspots in Uganda
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Christopher Neigh (NASA Goddard) 17th February 2023 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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Nicholas Cuba (Auburn University) 3rd March 2023 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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Robert Heilmayr (University of California, Santa Barbara) Mapping property values to understand land-use change in South America 17th March 2023 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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Xiao-Peng Song (University of Maryland) 31st March 2023 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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Zhenong Jin (University of Minnesota) 14th April 2023 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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Meha Jain (University of Michigan) Policy, Market, and Climate Change Impacts on Maize Production in Mexico 28th April 2023 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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 | Moderator: Melanie Anne Reynolds LCLUC Program Support |
NASA LCLUC Program Scientist Dr. Chris Justice interviewed by AGU Third pod from the Sun. Third Pod from the Sun is the American Geophysical Union’s podcast where we hear stories from scientists, for everyone. Chris Justice is a geographer and professor at the University of Maryland whose research on land use changes and global agriculture has taken him around the world. His research has had a hand in a variety of NASA programs, including the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Mission to Planet Earth, and the creation of the Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring group.
Son V. Nghiem
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
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Seminar Title: Cloud-gap-filled global maps of essential biophysical variables processed from the TOA Sentinel-3 catalogue in Google Earth Engine