SkyTruth’s Project Inambari Wins at Artisanal Mining Challenge for Rainforest Conservation
SkyTruth and partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation win funding for a public map platform to track mining in the Amazon.
On September 30, SkyTruth, along with its partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, were selected as a winner at the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge for our proposal to develop a public map that tracks mining in the Amazon using satellite radar imagery. We call this effort Project Inambari after one of the rivers in the region that has been particularly devastated by illegal and unregulated gold mining.
SkyTruth Board Member Darshan Karwat: Reimagining Engineering
/in Climate, Mining, SkyTruth Spotlight /by Amy MathewsDarshan Karwat wants to put social and environmental justice at the heart of engineering.
Darshan Karwat thinks big. Really big. Like as big as the cosmos. Or like reinventing an entire profession. So he asks a lot of questions. Questions that challenge conventional thinking. Questions that many people have never even thought about.