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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">The United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment states: “ecosystems are critical to human well-being - to our health, our prosperity, our security, and
to our social and cultural identity.” Conservation and biodiversity management play important roles in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Earth observations can help with these efforts.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) will be providing a webinar series in January 2019 on how to use satellite imagery for Conservation & Biodiversity applications. This online webinar series introduces participants
to the use of satellite data for conservation and biodiversity applications. The series will highlight specific projects that have successfully used satellite data. Examples include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">monitoring chimpanzee habitat loss</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">decreasing whale mortality</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">detecting penguins</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">biodiversity observation networks</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Session One: Remote Sensing for Conservation</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">January 22, 2019</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This session will focus on remote sensing for habitat suitability, species population dynamics, and monitoring wildfires.</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Session Two: Remote Sensing for Biodiversity</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">January 24, 2019</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This session will focus on the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON), Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON), and essential biodiversity variables.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">By the end of this training, attendees will:</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">• </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">be able to outline uses of remote sensing for habitat suitability, species population dynamics, and monitoring wildfires</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">• </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">learn about the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON) Marine (MBON), and essential biodiversity variables.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This webinar is open and you can register at
</span><a href="https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/land/webinars/conservation-biodiversity-2018" id="LPlnk103568" class="x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/land/webinars/conservation-biodiversity-2018</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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