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eHealth + GISc Activities by CGIS-NUR/Africa & Misc. Partners. AfricaGIS October 27, 2009 Kampala/Uganda by Robert E. Ford, PhD, MPH Research Professor, CGIS-NUR and FINAL REPORT with IDRC/Canada- AfricaGIS--Health_GIS_AfricaGIS_Oct_09_short.ppt. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI): it’s Role in Building the Knowledge Economy in Rwanda. SpecialInvited Plenary Lecture – Series on Building the Knowledge Economy in Rwanda, Kigali Institute of management, September 1-2, 2009 Kigali, Rwanda Scholarly Writing for Journal Publication. Robert E. Ford, by Research Professor and Adviser. CGIS-NUR. Kigali, Rwanda June 4, 2009. Kigali Institute of Management Lecture Series. Sustainability vs. Development: Oxymoron or Ideal for Today? Contemporary Definitions, Issues, Trends, and Challenges for SDA Christians. Pine Springs Ranch SDA Forum Keynote Speech. May 2-4, 2008: keynote speaker at the 10th annual retreat of the San Diego Chapter of the Adventist Forum with Spectrum Magazine. Presentations on Global Sustainability and Creation Care. Using GIS/RS/GPS for SDI Capacity-building, PA and CZ Management in Northern Mesoamerica: The Loma Linda University’s (LLU) and University of Redlands (UR) Experience. (Powerpoint). GSDI_10 St. Augustine, Trinidad. February 2008. SDI for CZM, Biodiversity, and Protected Area Management: Cases from Belize and Honduras. GSDI-9 (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure) special ETA Workshop, USAID, , Santiago Chile, November 6, 2006 SCGIS (Society Conservation
GIS) Presentation - June 25, 2006, San Jose, CA - in
association with the SCB (Society for Conservation
Biology): PDF
Report (10MB) - Powerpoint
ESSE21 Poster - Fairbanks, Alaska Aug. 3-7, 2005 (PPT 7.9 MB) and ESSE21 Annual Meeting PI-Report - Fairbanks, Alaska Aug. 3-7, 2005 (PPT 35.9 MB). Overview Report on Plans to
FUCSA Presentation/Proceedings: Global Left
vs. Right Brain GIS: Food
Security: Contemporary - Ethnobotany
and Land Degradation Population-Environment
Interactions |
*ESSE21 - LULC Module - Cases of Coastal Zone Change from Mesoamerica. Mesoamerica Projects page: Manatees, herpetofauna, conservation GIS/NRM, water resources, landscape ecology, etc. *Honduras' Mosquito Coast and Hurricane Mitch (before and after impacts and selected trip pictures). *BIOL 549 Biodiversity Conservation. *SPOL554
Environment, Resources & Development Policy (Sustainability Science) *SPOL 665 Information Technology and Decision Science *ESSC 575 Field Practicum: Applied Earth System Science *ESSC 401-402 I, II - Earth Systems & Global Change *ESSC 541-542 I, II Remote Sensing and Systems Modeling in the Earth, Health, and Social Sciences *WWW Publishing & Image Editing *Fluvial Geormorphology - Drainage Systems *East African Rift System - Resources *Wiley - GeoSystems Today:
an Interactive Casebook (with James
Hipple) Earthquake Hazards along the Wasatch Fault 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers Petroleum Geology: Persian Gulf vs. Overthrust Belt Environmental Hazards on the US-Mexico Border Saline Lakes and Global Climate Change Landscape and Life along the East African Rift: the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda Land and Life on the North American Prairie
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Projects / Professional Links
*CGIS-NUR (Rwanda) Projects and activities (2008-2009). Adviser and Research Professor for the CGIS-NUR (Centre for GIS and Remote Sensing Training and Research), National University of Rwanda MacArthur Foundation grant with the Geography Department of Trinity College Dublin and their Master's in Environment and Development as well as the new MDP (Master's in Development Practice) coordinated by the Columbia University Earth Institute (awarded in 2009 and program starts in 2010) working with NUR (National University of Rwanda) CGIS-NUR. Senior Development Consultant with GPCI (Geographic Planning Collaborative, Inc.) based in Running springs, CA. The GPCI team is currently helping over the next year to implement the AGEDI project in Abu Dhabi, and assist in reorganizaing the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Geobrain - GeoBrain will mobilize NASA EOS data and information through Web service and knowledge management technologies for higher-education teaching and research. *ESSE21 - online earth science community (USRA). Earth System Science Education in the 21st Century. *MyCOE (My Community, Our Earth - Geographic Learning for Sustainable Development).*Geo-IT CoP (Geographic Information Technologies, Community of Practice) within USAID - EGAT - LRMT. Partners include: UNEP, FAO, GSDI, ESRI, OpenGIS, CIESIN, NASA..... See also Links under GISD.
*DLESE
(Digital Library for Earth System Education) and NSDL National
Science Digital Libraries). *JESSE - Journal of Earth System Science Education. *VGD (Virtual Geography Department) and the EES (Earth's Environment and Society) working group *Woodrow Wilson
Environmental Science Summer
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Robert E. Ford, MPH, PhD (semi-retired) |
Interim Program Director, Grauer’s Gorilla Landscape Conservation and Development Program, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (DFGFI) Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)--January-May 2010. Research Professor, Center for Training in Geographical Information Sciences and Remote Sensing (CGIS-NUR), National University of Rwanda, Africa (2008-2009) Senior Development Consultant with GPCI (Geographic Planning Collaborative, Inc.) based in Running springs, CA with the AGEDI project in Abu Dhabi assisted the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (Feb-October 2008). Loma Linda University, School of Science and Technology (2003-2008): USAID (1999-2003) - U.S. Agency for International
Development, |
| SELECTED INTERNATIONAL FIELD RESEARCH AND TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY: |
| CLICK HERE For more photography on KENYA and other USA - see also Flickr-Photos HERE |
 Banana plantations and bean fields and intensive farms along
Lake Ruhondo. Mt. Muhabura volcano in background--note
line between agricultural front and park preserve forest on the slopes
near Ruhengeri, Rwanda.
See Presentation: Population-Environment
Interactions and Sustainability in Africa: Rwanda Case (PDF) |
 Contoured Bunds near Rwerere, Ruhengeri, Rwanda. Read
more about landscape ecology in this region from Wiley Publishers - see Wiley - GeoSystems
Today: an Interactive
Casebook -
Landscape
and Life along the East African Rift: the Virunga Mountains,
Rwanda |
 Fieldwork among agropastoralists of Yatenga, Northern
Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Acacia albida tree in background--note lack of leaves during wet
season and healthy field of sorghum underneath due to auto-fertilizing
capacity of the tree. See presentation:
Ethnobotany
and Land Degradation in Yatenga, Burkina Faso (Ford) - ( PDF
) - Drylands management case |
 Ojojona, Honduras in the Central Highlands south of
Tegucigalpa--the capital. A
center of native indian pottery making and other crafts
industries. |
 Honduras,
travel, geology,
Bay Islands/Roatan--sunset.
May
Term Trip '99 - Honduras w/ focus on Hurricane
Mitch (see Before
and After PHOTOS) and Selected
Trip Pictures. |
 See map and other tourism information on Roatan in the Bay Islands, Honduras where I grew up.
Note the fishing boats at dock in French
Harbour. |
 Banana plantation owned by Dole Pineaple on the North Coast of Honduras (Atlantida Department)
east of La Ceiba. Note
plastic cover on bunch in preparation for export. |
 Children from French
Harbour (Roatan,
Bay Islands, Honduras) bringing
household water needs by boat. In canal connecting two harbours of
town. |
 On the Great Wall of China/Jiayuguan Fortress, Hosi
Corridor, China (Gobi Desert) in August 1979 on an expedition with the National Geographic Society to the
deserts of China. |
 Doing a health survey for DOE (Department of Enery) in the
Marshall Islands, Central Pacific
with a team from Loma Linda University, School of Public Health circa
1981. |
 On the Inca Trail / Macchu Picchu, Peru, South
America circa 1992. |
 On the slopes of Mt.
Karisimbi near the summit--Virunga
Mountains, above Mudende, Gisenyi
Prefecture, Rwanda. Note rich carpet of sedges, mosses and
other high altitude (Afro-montane) vegetation common to high African
volcanic peaks. |
| Spanish map - Protected areas of the north coast of Honduras with hotspots linking to information about protected areas shown - click on names. | English map - Protected areas of the north coast of Honduras with hotspots linking to information about protected areas shown - click on names. |
Carl May, Photo Agent
TERRAPHOTOGRAPHICS, Biological Photo Service,
P.O. Box 490,
Moss Beach, CA 94038.
Tel. (650) 359-6219
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