Emil Cherrington will be our guest speaker in April. Emil is the West Africa Regional Science Coordination Lead with the NASA Earth Applied Sciences ProgramCapacity Building program area's SERVIR Science Coordination Office. SERVIR is a joint development initiative between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

This talk will showcase how SERVIR – a partnership between NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a number of regional centers of excellence – are leveraging Google Earth Engine (GEE) in the geospatial services the network is implementing. In addition to those examples, Emil will also demo specific examples of the use of GEE for monitoring of terrestrial and marine ecosystems in Belize, towards supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).