Event Details:

A new webinar series on Climate Resilience and Sustainable Communities in Southeast Asia, part of a project funded by the U.S. Department of State through the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will begin in January 2025. The goal of this project is to establish long-term partnerships with regional partners through jointly addressing themes of common interest related to climate change, clean energy, environmental sustainability, and societal resilience. 

The first webinar in a series of five will be on Wednesday, January 22 at 8:00 am EST, 8:00 pm Vietnam time. Please register for the webinar here. It will be one hour long and feature opening comments by Dr. Yadu Pokhrel of Michigan State University and a presentation by Dr. Thanh Ngo-Duc of the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH), followed by at least 20 minutes of open discussion. Dr. Thanh will focus his talk on "Recent Regional Efforts in Developing Gridded Climate Data and Future Projections" in line with the theme of this webinar series.

Dr. Thanh is the Co-Director of the Department of Space and Applications (DSA), and Co-Director of the LOTUS International Joint Laboratory at USTH, Vietnam. Using modeling and remote sensing tools, his research focuses on the topics of natural disasters and climate change. He is the lead author of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of IPCC (2021). Dr. Thanh is currently the Chairman of the Scientific Committee in Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED). He received his engineering diploma and master's degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (France) in 2001 and 2002, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Paris VI in 2005.