Two Upcoming Webinars
Permafrost Discovery Gateway Webinar Series
14 November 2024, 9:00 a.m. AKT and
5 December 2024, 9:00 a.m. AKT
For more information, go to:
https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Stay-Connected
The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) announces the next two webinars in their monthly series. Geospatial Data to Support Hazard Mitigation and Response in Alaska will take place 14 November 2024 at 9:00 a.m. AKT and Alaska Tribal Landfills: Permafrost Data Needs will take place 5 December 2024 at 9:00 a.m. AKT.
Geospatial Data to Support Hazard Mitigation and Response in Alaska
14 November 2024 at 9:00 a.m. AKT
Speaker: Gary Greenberg, Alaska Map Company
Abstract:
Communities of Alaska are prone to natural hazards but often lack access to current and accurate geospatial data to plan for, mitigate and respond to these hazards efficiently. Regional or federal organizations may have available hazard data but local infrastructure data is often absent, creating an incomplete picture of the risk. Completing the picture will require collaboration across the various stakeholders to elevate the capacity though standards and processes making accessible tools and data otherwise missing. In this presentation, Gary will be going over examples of Alaskan communities using geospatial tools and common datasets required, and often absent, to respond to natural hazards from mitigation to recovery to help inform the development of a critical piece of the permafrost framework.
Alaska Tribal Landfills: Permafrost Data Needs
5 December 2024 at 9:00 a.m. AKT
Speaker: Sela Tahiry, Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract coming soon.
The Permafrost Discovery Gateway is a National Science Foundation- and Google.org-funded intelligent data management platform created to support knowledge-generation in the Arctic permafrost region. The project is aimed to enable community-preparedness by creating big geospatial data products of permafrost thaw features from remote sensing imagery, developing AI tools to identify and track information within the big geospatial data, and building user-friendly online tools to enable scientific discovery, policy, and to empower Arctic communities facing permafrost thaw.
For more information, go to:
https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Stay-Connected