WEBINAR to INSPIRE and CELEBRATE:
Stories told by the GEO Youth community
August 12th 2024 – 5 pm UTC | 10 am PDT | 1 pm EDT
Need help with registration? Contact bente@blb.as
Please, join the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Subgroup of the GEO Programme Board in our 2024 webinar series and be inspired by engaging stories from around the world that celebrate gender, indigenous people and youth perspectives in the Earth observation community. These webinars will be held as the world is recognizing women, indigenous people, and youth on their United Nations designated International Days.
The theme of the 2024 UN International Youth Day is From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable In this webinar GEO EDI invite representatives from the GEO Youth community to share their perspectives and tell stories about working on the use of Earth observations. We will discuss how Youth communities sees the potential in Earth observations to support sustainable development.
Celebrating the UN International Youth Day is a welcomed way to create awareness about GEO and how the Youth sees the potential in Earth observation data and knowledge sharing. It is exciting to learn about the perspectives of the younger generations. This webinar is one of many ways GEO follow-up the GEO Youth statement and make their voices heard and inspire a wider younger community.
This webinar aims to reach the youth, and all individuals within Global Earth observation community, scientists, data experts, innovation community, trainers, educators, researchers, applied scientists and policy makers.
PROGRAM
1. Welcome, Bente Lilja Bye, BLB, Norway
2. Introduction to GEO EDI & The 2024 Theme: From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development,
Natalia Bermudez, NASA, USA
3. Charting the Digital Ocean: Harnessing Earth Observations for Habitat Suitability Models,
Rutendo Musimwa, VLIZ, Belgium/Zimbabwe
4. Geography and Earth Observation Education in Natural Resource Conservation
Pablo Viramontes, New Mexico State University, USA
5. Empowering Paraguayan Youth through Earth Observation at the GEOLab of the Paraguayan Space Agency,
Thanya Idoyaga, Paraguay Space Agency
6. AquaWatch and the GEO Youth Declaration,
Igor Ogashawara Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany/Brazil
NASA Servir
USA
Flemish Marine Institute
Belgium/Zimbabwe
New Mexico State University
USA
Paraguay Space Agency
Paraguay
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Germany/Brasil
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