#USGS FEWS NET MANUAL#

#USGS FEWS NET MANUAL#

Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations Book 9 Handbooks for Water-Resources Investigations National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data Chapter A4. Geological Survey TWRI Book 9 9/99 Chapter A4.

Rowland is currently the Principal Investigator for the Early Warning for Food Security Focus Area, comprising FEWS NET, West Africa Resilience, GeoSUR, and Afghanistan activities. National Field Manual - Water Resources of the United States - USGS of 158 /158. drought monitoring, phenology studies), United Nations Environment Programme Global Resource Information Database (UNEP GRID), Afghanistan and Iraq spatial data infrastructure and water resources support, West Africa land use studies (land use dynamics and adapting to climate change), and low-head hydropower assessments in South America. For many years, Rowland managed and supervised the Early Warning and Environmental Monitoring Team at EROS, including projects such as FEWS NET, Vegetation Dynamics (U.S. For many years at EROS, he coordinated USGS participation in the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) activity. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Antananarivo (part of an Inter-Agency Agreement between USGS EROS and USAID). Rowland spent one year in Madagascar (he is fluent in French), supporting GIS and RS activities at the Malagasy national forest service and at the U.S. He has also worked closely with regional Remote Sensing Centers in Africa. The GeoWRSI is a stand-alone installable software for calculating the Water Requirements Satisfaction Index (WRSI), as it is implemented by the USGS/FEWS NET activity. He has extensive experience in organizing and providing GIS and RS training workshops throughout Africa, including West, East, and Southern Africa. Rowland has worked at USGS EROS since 1992, supporting geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) applications and capacity building in developing countries. Jim Rowland is a physical geographer with background studies in climatology.

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