Tags: algal blooms

Chintan Maniyar, doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of geography and a NASA FINESST Fellow, has been selected to receive the Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). The award amount of $10K is to designed encourage and commend graduate students at the Ph.D. level who display exceptional interest, desire, ability, and aptitude in the field…
The CyanoTRACKER project, a collaboration between University of Georgia researchers, collects and integrates community reports, remote sensing data and digital image analytics to detect and differentiate between regular algal blooms and Cyanobacyerial Harmful Algal Blooms (CyanoHABs). As the frequency and magnitude of CyanoHABs have grown, particularly in the summer months, CyanoTRACKER offers accurate, cost-effective, and targeted…