Innovation Anthology #168: Professor and Alberta Innovates Translational Health Chair on Water
What do tropical forests have in common with Facebook?
The link is Dr. Arturo Sanchez, professor and director of the Centre for Earth Observation Science at the University of Alberta.
An expert in remote sensing, Dr. Sanchez collaborates with scientists in Central and South American to study cloud cover.
Called Tropi-Dry, his project is getting a communications boost through a new initiative called GeoChronos.
GeoChronos is funded by Cybera and CANARIE’s Network Enhancing Platform program. And Dr. Sanchez explains, it will introduce an older generation of scientists to new online tools like Facebook.
DR. ARTURO SANCHEZ: In many cases, profs like myself or researchers don’t communicate. We just have very traditional ways to talk to each other, like scientific conferences or papers or magazines. But we have the possibility to interact via Facebook or something like that. I’m looking online at my data, someone in China is looking at it and I can communicate with them.
Dr. Sanchez says GeoChronos is already attracting international attention. Brazil, for example, would apply it to monitoring deforestion of the Amazon.
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I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
Guest
Nicholas Ashbolt, PhD,
School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
Sponsor
Program Date: 2008-09-18