High-Level Project Summary
Climate change is expected to exacerbate heat-related extremes that impact human health and environmental and ecological systems. The impacts of climate change are already evident in Egyptand globally. Heat waves are often associated with droughts and forest fires that havemulti-billion-dollar impacts on national and global societies. These phenomena appear to be increasing in frequency, intensity, and duration and affect the water-energy-food nexus with consequent impacts on social and economic structures. Environmental co-factors that are related to the heat waves and heat stress and affect health include air pollution (PM2.5—inhalable particles whose diameters are 2.5 )
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Detailed Project Description
However, this current period of warming is occurring more rapidly than any past events. It has become clear that humanity has caused most of the last century’s warming by releasing heat-trapping gases—commonly referred to as greenhouse gases—to power our modern lives. We are doing this through burning fossil fuels, agriculture, land use, and other activities that drive climate change. Greenhouse gases are at the highest levels they have ever been over the last 800,000 years. This rapid rise is a problem because it’s changing our climate at a rate that is too fast for living things to adapt to. Climate change involves not only rising temperatures, but also extreme weather events, rising sea levels, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, and a range of other impacts. Earth has warmed by 1.3°C on average relative to the pre-industrial climate primarily due to humans burning coal, oil, and gas. Global heating continues to increase at approximately 0.1°C every five years. Impacts from global heating include intensified heat waves, aridification, wildfires, storms, and floods, sea-level rise, melting glaciers and ice sheets, crop failures, species extinction, ecosystem loss, and strains on human systems (water, food, infrastructure, economic, insurance, etc.)
Space Agency Data
All the data on the site is taken from the sources that were available and helped us understand and configure the site, thank you NASA
Hackathon Journey
First and through regular meetings we formed a team, got to know each other, and picked a challenge based on our skills, expertise, and area of knowledge after deeply understanding the problem.
Mustafa: Team Leader
Ahmed: Resources Investigator
Abdelrahman: Designer
Seif: Web Developer
Youssef: Web Developer
We picked a team name, designed a logo… and did all the paperwork.
Then we divided roles and primary tasks and made sure we got all the necessary tools, knowledge, and resources to work on the challenge.
We also made sure to attend the maximum number of workshops which allowed us to dive deep into understanding the different tools we can use to solve the problem.
We picked a solution name “Green Army” inspired by the problem description (How Does Climate Change Affect You?) and did a short brainstorming session to think of how we can approach our solution.
We Divided Initial Tasks:
Mustafa& Ahmed: Search for ways of how we can use NASA’s and other space agencies' EO data along with other open source data.
Youssef&Seif: Set up local data to host our website/web app and look for ways of how we can design our website
Abdelrahman: Look for ways to gather crowdsourced data and apply it to get access to available data from social networks.
It was an incredibly helpful experience for all of us as it grew our teamwork skills and we learned a lot during the workshops provided by our mentors during the challenge, we also were able to solve any issues by helping each other and didn't let any setbacks stop us from continuing to work.
Our team is concerned about how natural hazards have negative effects on people’s lives; this is why we are presenting a solution that will allow for early detection of Climate Change. Our approach to developing this project was to do a brainstorming session, where everyone contributed ideas until we came up with the final one. It is great to have people with different backgrounds and skillets in the team, as it allows us to solve the issues we faced more easily. In conclusion, our challenge experience was excellent, because collaboration leads to better solutions.
References
Data:
- Nasa Climate Change
- ARSET CLIMATE TRAININGS
- NASA Earth Science
- NASA Earth Data
- NASA Worldview
- NASA Applied Sciences
- The Fourth National Climate Assessment
- U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
- Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
- landsatlook
- Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
- Climate change and health
Tags
#climate_change#Web#awareness#Reduce_carbon_emissions