Jennifer draper

Devex has a great content series on Turning the Tide which is about how satellite technology can help with climate change resilience efforts and preparing small island nations for challenges such as rising sea levels and natural disasters @devex. pages.devex.com/turningtheti…

Thank you to those that watched the "Turning the Tide: Financing our future" webinar last week. The event focused on funding climate resilience in small island developing states. Click the link below to view the webinar recording (Devex @devex): devex.com/news/devex-live-fu…

The convergence of the climate and coronavirus crisis is majorly impacting the world. Now is the time to deploy a green stimulus to help strengthen the economic, social, and environmental needs of the South Pacific. (Article by The Guardian @guardian) ow.ly/kVtg50znLeB

Additional members of the @EOCommonSensing team are arriving in Fiji to work on data centre infrastructure installations to help improve satellite technology that will allow Fiji to develop its resilience to hazardous environmental conditions.

@EOCommonSensing are attending the STAR (Science, Technology and Resources Network) conference this week. The theme is ‘water, water everywhere - nor any a drop to drink’. For more information, take a look at the conferences website star.gsd.spc.int

The @EOCommonSensing team had a great meeting this morning with the @UniSouthPacific. They met with Dr. Nick Rollins to discuss the CommonSensing project, provide an update on the projects progress and understand which areas the team can work on together in the future.

The @EOCommonSensing team assembled in the community hall with the village elders of the Fijian Prime Minister’s village called Kiuva. They were given a very warm welcome and shown the sea wall that protects the village from high tide and tropical cyclones.

The @EOCommonSensing project is assisting in fighting climate change by providing Fiji with access to satellite remote sensing technology and improved access to climate finance. For more information, check out the article linked below written by @FBC_News. fbcnews.com.fj/news/commonse…

@EOCommonSensing, @spacegovuk and @UNOSAT were welcomed by the communities in each Fijian village. They were shown the protection each village has in place to combat sea water flooding and discussed current challenges as well as future strategies to help protect residents.

@EOCommonSensing, @spacegovuk and @UNOSAT teams have just been on a field trip to Kiuva and Daku village. They were warmly welcomed by the Fijian villagers and valuable talks centred around protecting the environment as well as reducing the effects of flooding have taken place.

The @EOCommonSensing team met with director Vasiti Soko at the @FijiNDMO this morning. Attendees were shown the new National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) which was fitted with state-of-the-art equipment dedicated to monitoring and predicting disasters in real time.

Members of the @SatAppsCatapult and @EOCommonSensing team had a great meeting with Dr Krishna Kotra at the USP (University of South Pacific) today. They discussed UNOSAT training, the projects progress and working closely with USP students to further develop the project.