High-Level Project Summary
Our team, has aimed to provide sufficient information regarding climate change in Pakistan and Srilanka. Due to the fact that these countries have faced heavy calamities owing to drastic changes in climate, over the past decade. Pakistan faced annihilating floods in 2010 and unfortunately now, in 2022. Contrarily, Sri lanka has been facing the issues of floods and heavy monsoon rains over the past few years. We have provided the causes, consequences and solutions to these climatic catastrophes
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
- establishes the fact, that what climate change actually is, its various causes- natural and owing to humans.
- Effects of climate change in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, two underdeveloped nations in south asia
- Mentioning the total casualities, people displaced, live stock killed
- In the video- possible solutions to these problems, are mentioned
- the benefits are that each and every detail is mentioned in the slides demo, and the video too displays that information.
Space Agency Data
We used data from Nasa mainly due to the fact that we were easily gaining all the information we required from it, we used pictures statistics and other factual data. It inspired our project by providing it the scientific data that was needed in order to make our project, stand out, among other projects having the same topic of climate change.
Hackathon Journey
The space apps experience was all in all, a blissful journey throughout the road- from forming teams to multi tasking and dividing the information to be found and filtered by individuals in our team. to finally reaching our destination- completing the challenge.
I learned how to respond to the questions of my team-mates effectively, ensuring that i am available for my team-mates during their time of need, as well as not batting an eye while our teammates were feeling anxious and confused, though, this statement doesnot signifies that i didnt help them, instead i learned how to remain calm during stressful situations. I learned how to maintain a certain level of respect and not breaching the limits of peace and security of our fellow team mates, since i am the team leader and the only male in the group of 3, the others- Fathima and Soumya being females from Sri Lanka and India respectively.
Our team and I discusses thoroughly, upon which topic to chose from a plethora of arts, sciences and tech challenges. Consequently we unanimously agreed upon chosing the challenge of climate change since we as south asians, are facing the catastrophes of climate change, in recent times.
Our approach was to keep things simple, i.e. everybody focusing on a single chunk of the main topic, plus skimming and skamming the required information, and then finally combining the sea of raw facts, figures and statistics into a well organized- 7 slide- google presentation. As my teammates were really outspoken, so we didnot found it surprising to resolve confusions and queries within fraction of a second. By and by, we worked as a proper team, in spite of this, i would like to thank Fathima Eshqa and Soumya B.K. my teammates from the bottom of my heart, becuase they were the ones who kept the ship sailing and anchored our teamwork, while i was facing many confusions regarding the desired information and research to be done, nevertheless their courteousy was so over whelming that even i woke up late nights from the past two days to lookup on the required data they were sending me. Neverthless, their wits to accept me as the team leader is undeniably plausable, but the most significant thing is this- they were ready to be my teammates when i had given up hope to join any team- as I was constantly being rejected by many teams.
References
- Slide 3 in project ''demo'' - https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/worldview/worldview-image-archive/pakistan-flooding-30-Aug-2022 [slide 4 too]and https://reliefweb.int/map/sri-lanka/sri-lanka-floods-emergency-response-coordination-centre-ercc-dg-echo-daily-map
- Disaster Risk Reduction in Sri Lanka, Status Report 2019, published by the United Nations Office
for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) slides 4 and 5.
3- https://www.unitar.org/maps/map/3604 , https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-8/ , https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-9/ , https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/pakistan-2022-floods-response-plan-01-sep-2022-28-feb-2023-issued-30-aug-2022 , https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/pakistan-2022-floods-response-plan-01-sep-2022-28-feb-2023-issued-30-aug-2022 slide-5
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/05/13/bridge-collapse-in-pakistan-due-to-glacier-lake-outburst-flood/ , https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1564444648742850560?s=20&t=6v0ENpKC7SGhx7D5OxUniA , https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/08/1125632 , https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/PakistanFloods, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/about/joshua-stevens , http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ , https://earthdata.nasa.gov/lance , https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ , https://www.jpss.noaa.gov/mission_and_instruments.html , https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/about/sara-pratt , An image taken flooded gampaha district in 2021 slide 6.
Tags
#water # climate change # floods.