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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 (64MB) = Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for National Development and Biodiversity Conservation: Presented by: Dr. Robert Ford, Loma Linda University; Paul Burgess, The Redlands Institute; Serene Ong, University of Redlands, MS GIS Program

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
(La Ceiba, Honduras) - June 2005 =
(PPT - 60 MB) (PDF - 13.7 MB)

Presentation/Proceedings: Global Spatial Data and Information User Workshop, SEDAC/CIESIN, Columbia University , Who Needs SDI? ( PPT - 59MB).

Left vs. Right Brain GIS: Reflections on the GISD Initiative (PDF)

Food Security: Contemporary Definitions, Trends and Challenges (PDF)

- Ethnobotany and Land Degradation in Yatenga, Burkina Faso (Ford) - ( PDF ) - Drylands management case

Population-Environment Interactions and Sustainability in Africa: Rwanda Case (PDF)

Course/Research Materials

*Redland Univ. - Latin American Studies course materials: a) Intro to LAS, b) Cultural Geog. of LA

*ESSE21 - LULC Module - Cases of Coastal Zone Change from Mesoamerica.

*Mesoamerica Projects: 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 624 Nature/Society Thought & Social Policy

*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)

*VGD (Virtual Geography Department) HDGC Projec Modules:

Introduction to the Human Dimensions of Global Change (Turner et al)
Human Impacts on LULC (Land Use / Land Cover Change)
Living in the Biosphere
Notes on Active Pedagogy
Web Warmup Activites
Population Growth, Energy Use, and Pollution
Human Health in the Balance
Global Change and Environmental Hazards
Technological Change and Industrial Ecology
Geography of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Virtual Field Trips

• Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
• 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

*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.

*CGIS-NUR (Rwanda) Projects and activities (2008-2009)--see AFRICA page. Activities:

• Adviser and Research Professor for the CGIS-NUR (Centre for GIS and Remote Sensing Training and Research), National University of Rwanda
  
  
• Assisted in planning 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 started in 2010).

*Senior Development Consultant with GPCI (Geographic Planning Collaborative, Inc.)--Feb-Oct 2008. The GPCI team is implementing the AGEDI project in Abu Dhabi, and is assisting in the reorganization of the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi(EAD) in the United Arab Emirates.

*Geobrain - the GeoBrain grant helped 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.

*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.

• GASSIA  (Geospatial Applications in Support of Sustainable International Agriculture) USGS-EDC
• MACGA (Meso-American and Caribbean Geospatial Alliance)
• GSDI (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure)
• GISD (Geographic Information for Sustainable Development) Projects for the WSSD - World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002

DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) and NSDL National Science Digital Libraries) and related...

• AAG/HDGC-SG: Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) Specialty Group and the Commission on College Geography Hands-On Active Learning Modules Project.
• JESSE - Journal of Earth System Science Education.
• VGD (Virtual Geography Department) and the EES (Earth's Environment and Society) group

*Woodrow Wilson Environmental Science Summer Institutes - 1997 / 1998 / 1999 (Costa Rica) (Rutgers) - Projects - 1998:

• El Nino/ENSO & Global Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases - and LINKS!
• Global Climate Change Influencing Freshwater resources
• Ultraviolet Light & Plankton & Fisheries & Marine Science & Environmental Policy Issues
• Remote Sensing - bringing new technologies into the classroom (by Dave Williams)
• Effect of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Dynamics