15 June 2015
Guest lecturers from UNU-EHS teach ecosystems and disaster risk reduction
UNU-LRT welcomed two guest lecturers from UNU-EHS in Bonn last week, Dr Julia Kloos and Dr Zita Sebesvari. They gave lectures on ecosystems and disaster risk reduction, emphasising the link between social and ecological systems and how disaster risks can be reduced by sustainable management, conservation and ecosystem restoration. Throughout those sessions the UNU-LRT fellows worked in groups on several case studies to identify the different components of disaster risk, such as exposure and vulnerability, and to identify ecosystem services and beneficiaries.
15 June 2015
Congratulations Dr. Warsha Singh
Wishing warm congratulations to UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient Warsha Singh, who defended her doctoral dissertation on Friday, June 12, 2015.
9 June 2015
Introduction to mobile apps that help define land potential
Last week, Dr Jeffrey Herrick, a renowned soil scientist from the Jornada Research Unit, USDA-ARS, New Mexico (USA), gave lectures and hands-on training to the fellows in the six-month training programme. In his teaching, he focused on the Global Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS), which is being developed and will allow the potential of land to be defined.
9 June 2015
UNU-FTP fellow Warsha Singh to defend PhD this week
Former UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient Warsha Singh will defend her PhD at the University of Iceland this Friday, June 12 at 10:00 in the Main Building. Her doctoral dissertation, "Towards efficient benthic survey design with the use of autonomous underwater vehicles" was funded through the United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme.
3 June 2015
UNU Fellows at WGC2015
The World Geothermal Congress (WGC) has been organized every five years by the International Geothermal Association (IGA) since 1995. This time, it was held in Melbourne, Australia 19-25 April.
1 June 2015
Short Course on Geothermal Project Management in Kenya
During May 18-28, the UNU-GTP conducted a Short Course on Geothermal Project Management in Kenya for 26 employees of Geothermal Development Company (GDC).