[Geospatial] Geospatial/GIS meetup

[Janet Reyes]

Hello everyone,

I hope you've had a good summer so far!

Having taken a break in July, our next Geospatial/GIS meetup will be held on Thursday, August 11, from 12:00 - 12:50 pm PDT.

This will be a hybrid meeting, with an in-person element! We had a pretty successful hybrid meetup experience in June, so hopefully that will continue to be the case.

If you're willing and able, please join us in Rivera Library, Room 140. It's a large room with tables and chairs and plenty of space to spread out. To find it, turn to the right after entering the library. You'll see Room 140 on the corner of the hallway to your left just after you pass the elevators.
Or, feel free to join by Zoom if that works better for you.
Our presenter will be Dr. Gopal Ramdas Mahajan, a visiting scientist at the USDA Salinity Lab at UCR. His topic will be Using GIS for salinity mapping and development of GIS-Geoserver based information system.

Soil salinization is a vital land degradation process that diminishes crop productivity throughout the world and is a severe constraint and threat to sustainable agricultural production. The present-day estimates of soil salinization are best-educated guesses as reliable information about soil salinity is not available because of its complex spatio-temporal and dynamic nature. Under such circumstances, using the Geographical Information System (GIS) and the proximal and remote sensing tool to map and monitor the soil salinization is a viable tool. The presentation will give a brief overview of the status of salinization and how GIS research is helping to map and monitor it. An accurate inventory and information on resources are very crucial to growers, researchers, policy-makers, and extension specialists to prioritize the research and optimize the use of resources for sustainable agricultural development. The presentation will give a brief overview of the GIS-Geoserver-based information system being developed by our team.
Dr. Gopal Ramdas Mahajan is working as an ICAR-ARS, Senior Scientist (Soil Science) at the Natural Resource Management Section of ICAR - Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa, Goa, India since 2012. He completed B.Sc. in Agriculture from Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Maharashtra, India in 2007, M.Sc. in Agriculture from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India in 2009, and obtained a Ph.D. degree from ICAR - Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India in the field of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry. He is presently a Research Fellow, ENSC, UCR, and Visiting Scientist, USDA Salinity Lab, Riverside, California. His research interest lies in soil fertility and plant nutrition, the use of remote sensing for soil and plant nutritional status, and the characterization and management of salt-affected soils. He is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship 2021-22 by USIEF, International Plant Nutritional Scholar Award 2013 (IPNI), ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research Award 2013 (ICAR), and Early Career Research Award 2017 (SERB, DST, Government of India). Dr. Mahajan has published 31 research papers in journals of international repute. He has developed digital tools like mobile apps for agricultural resource management.   https://ccari.icar.gov.in/Gopal.html

We'll also have brief announcements at the beginning.
Respond "yes" or "tentative" to this calendar invitation to indicate you'll be attending, and to receive the Zoom meeting information from me shortly before the meetup. (Another option: register through Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/geospatialgis-meetups-tickets-349816890737> to receive an automated email with the Zoom information.) I'll have a sign-in sheet for those who attend in person.
Feel free to forward this invitation. This meetup will be recorded.

Hope to see you there, on Zoom or in person!


-Janet Reyes
Geospatial Information Librarian
UC Riverside Library

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