session 6

Title

Assessing and Mitigating the Global Freshwater Crisis

type

oral

Description

Water is life and with Earth’s changing climate, water availability, quality and security are under stress creating a global societal crisis. Despite its importance, the challenges of assessing and monitoring fresh water are poorly understood as is the ability to generate products to inform decision makers. The vantage point of space affords a unique opportunity to make the critical measurements related with fresh water. This session will focus on the past, present and future space flight missions devoted to making freshwater measurements. It will also include modelling systems for predicting availability and address products generated for societal benefits.

Date

2024-10-17

Time

15:00

Room

Space Hall 3

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Mr. Parag Vaze, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;

• Co-Chair: Ms. Elizabeth Seward, British Interplanetary Society, United Kingdom;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Chen Xiaoli, Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics & Electricity, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), China;