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	FIG Climate Compass Task Force Seminars - recordings now available
		3 Webinars 20-22 February 2024
		Recordings are now available: 3 FIG Climate Compass Task Force 
		Seminars held in February 2024
		
		
		It was really very fantastic to see so many of you in our recent 
		week-long seminar series in February, and particularly to meet you 
		during the Task Force meetings at the end of these seminars. In these 
		three seminars, we showcased regionally relevant case studies showing 
		opportunities and gaps for surveying and climate. The unique and 
		attractive part of these seminars was the interactive, participatory 
		conversations for surveyors from around the world interested in climate, 
		to map our expertise to catalyze a better future for people, planet and 
		economics. It was a revolutionary interactive seminar series for all 
		surveyors interested in climate to meet each other, learn from each 
		other, inspire each other and share their expertise. The recordings of 
		our three seminars are available at the links below. 
		
			
				|  | We have incredible drawings which have been done for us by Dayna Hayman which 
		you can view
				here - if you'd like them, please feel free to see more of her work 
		and her other Graphic Recordings & Complex Visualisations Projects at 
		visit her website at www.daynahayman.com.au. | 
		
		We have incredible drawings which have been done for us by Dayna Hayman which 
		you can view
		
		here - if you'd like them, please feel free to see more of her work 
		and her other Graphic Recordings & Complex Visualisations Projects at 
		visit her website at www.daynahayman.com.au.
		FIG Climate Compass Task Force Seminar & Annual Meeting 01: 
		
		Tue Feb 
		20 Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific - watch at https://youtu.be/yyJZpn4UiuM
		
		
			- Dr. Paul van Asperen is Advisor, Digital 
			Systems Environmental Act, National Water, the Netherlands with a 
			Ph.D in land administration. He will speak on the Netherlands new 
			Environmental Planning Act and how the digital system has been 
			developed to support it.
- Dr. Eranda Gunathilaka, Senior Lecturer at 
			Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka. He has a 
			Ph.D in tidal monitoring and is Chair of FIG Commission 4 on 
			Hydrography. He will speak on Sri Lanka’s national environmental 
			plan (NDC) and surveying challenges and opportunities.
- Ms. Rumbidzai Chivizhe has an Engineering Masters (Geomatics) 
			and is a Lecturer at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. She will 
			speak on how to use a range of survey tools to monitor flooding from 
			tropical cyclones.
		
		www.daynahayman.com.au
		
		FIG Climate Compass Task Force Seminar & Annual Meeting 02:
		
		Wed Feb 
		21 Asia-Pacific and the Americas - watch at https://youtu.be/WJsIBVAi3ho 
		
			- Dr. Charisse Griffith-Charles is a Senior Lecturer at the Department 
		of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management at the University of West 
		Indies in the Caribbean. She will speak on informal settlement 
		regularisation, disaster management and small island developing states 
		(SIDS) using the extensive work she has done on this in the field.
- Ms. Kate Fairlie, with a Masters from Oxford University in Sustainable 
		Development, works for a globally respected Australian surveying 
		company, Land Equity International, as a land administration specialist. 
		From their work in the region she will present 4 case studies from 
		Asia-Pacific linking land and climate.
- Prof Ruishan Chen of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China and Director 
		of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) East Asian Hub. He 
		has been involved with IPBES. He will speak on climate change, disaster 
		management and carbon neutrality initiatives in China, focusing on 
		cities.
 
		
		www.daynahayman.com.au
		
		FIG Climate Compass Task Force Seminar & Annual Meeting 03: 
		
		Thur 
		Feb 22 the Americas, Europe, Africa - watch at https://youtu.be/imY6Fi3yrA0
		
			- Usue Donezar is the Expert Lead at the Copernicus Land Monitoring 
		Service (CLMS) within Europe. She has 2 Masters degrees (Geoinformation 
		Science; Law and political science). She will speak on Copernicus’ 
		climate change service, its free data sets and dashboards used by the 
		world on climate, land, water and marine.
- Simon Mwesigye is a Land Tenure specialist at UN-Habitat supporting 
		Ugandan country operations. He is a valuer with a Land Management 
		Masters. He will talk on customary tenure and local forms of land 
		certificates within the national land administration system linked to 
		natural resource certificates for access to wetlands.
- Nelson Nieto is an environmental engineer specialising in GIS and 
		climate change. He is a researcher in the field of Earth Observation 
		Technologies of the Research and Prospective Directorate of the 
		Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi. In his professional and research 
		career he has developed and led research projects in cooperation with 
		international entities in the study and monitoring of natural resources, 
		strategic ecosystems, territorial studies, and risk management.
		
		www.daynahayman.com.au
		
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		Stay tuned - we have two exciting webinars coming soon, and look forward 
		to sharing the details with you in coming weeks, and have a strong 
		presence at the FIG Workng Week 2024 in Accra, Ghana! 
		
		
		
		 
		Roshni Sharma and Clarissa Augustinus,
		Co-Chairs of FIG Climate Compass Task Force
		
		31 March 2024