CAWa Edu Workshop „CAWa Tools in Water and Land Resource Management“ at Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration (TIIAME)
A CAWa Edu Workshop took place at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration from June 13th to 19th 2018.
CAWa summer school 2018 at the German Kazakh University
The 5th Summer School "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water and Land Resources " took place at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty 11-22 June 2018.
International Symposium on Water and Land Resources in Central Asia – Apply for Travel Grants until May 31 2018!
The participation in the International Symposium (www.cawa-project.net/conference-2018) is free of charge. However, travel expenses might not be covered for everybody!
We offer grants (including travel expenses and accommodation) for a limited number of participants without financial support from their home institution.
International Symposium on Water and Land Resources in Central Asia – Call for Abstracts is open!
Central Asia, comprising the arid to semi-arid regions of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, faces enormous challenges with regard to the scarcity and the pronounced inter-annual variability of water resources.
CAWa Summer School 2018: Call for Applications
The Call for applications for the annual CAWa Summer School "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water and Land Resources" has been opened. Please submit your documents by 30 April 2018. The Summer School is the fifth in a row and will be held from 11 to 22 June 2018 at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty.
CAWa Project Meeting in Tashkent on the "Validation Strategy for Land Use Classification"
Within the CAWa project, the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg (Germany) and the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission (SIC ICWC) in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) held a meeting on ‘Validation Strategy for land use classification’. This meeting was organized within the Work package III: “Online Tool for Monitoring of Land and Water Use Efficiency” on 27th February – 1st March 2018 at SIC ICWC.
CAWa Flyer
CAWa scientists in close cooperation with Central Asian partner organizations developed several tools, all aiming at the improvement of transboundary water management.
These tools cover a broad range of water related applications, such as hydro-meteorological observations in high mountain regions, radar altimetry based monitoring of reservoir levels, remote sensing
based assessments of land use and snow cover and user friendly algorithms for seasonal precipitation and runoff forecasts. The flyer gives an overview of CAWa tools. Interested users are welcome!
Job Announcement
Name of position: Research Associate – Specialist for Remote Sensing and GIS-based analysis
Location of the position: German-Kazakh-University in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Deadline for applications: February 27, 2018
Employer: CAWa project at Department of Remote Sensing at University of Würzburg and German-
Kazakh-University (GKU) in Almaty
WUEMoCA Administrator Training as a Follow-up of the Server Transfer to the SIC ICWC
From October 24 to 27, the Scientific Information Center - Interstate Coordination Water Commission of Central Asia (SIC ICWC) in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg (Germany) conducted a first joint WUEMoCA administrator training for IT-specialists, programmers as well as GIS and remote sensing experts at the SIC ICWC.
Workshop on "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water Resources" hold at TIIAME
In the frame of CAWa Project, the first workshop on "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water Resources" at TIIAME (Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers) was held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on 7-8 August 2017.