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Geography Colloquium: Mapping for nomads: using GIS for herders in the West African Sahel

Speaker: Alex Orenstein

Data Scientist, ORENSTEIN GIS

Thursday, January 21, 2021

2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)

Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube

University of Florida

All are welcome to attend.

Alex is a GIS specialist based in Senegal. His focus is on using satellite data to track drought and its impact on pastoralist communities, particularly in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Alex is currently working with a call center to provide herders with information to help them plan the seasonal movements of their herds. More information on these projects can be found at https://orensteingis.com/projects/ .

For more information, email Dr. Tim Fik at fik@ufl.edu