Short film on my Bangladesh research

A short film about my collaborative interdisciplinary research project in Bangladesh is featured at the AGU Cinema at the 2019 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, and is also available on YouTube. The film, by Andre Leroux, focuses on interdisciplinary research on the changing river systems of Bangladesh and the prospect of sustainably managing the delta in the face of climate change and sea-level rise.

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Workshop on River Navigability and Inland Shipping in Bangladesh

Workshop on River Navigability and Inland Shipping in Bangladesh: Economic Importance and Impacts of Environmental Change

On a recent trip to Bangladesh I collaborated with Dr. Bishawjit Mallick (Chair of Environmental Development and Risk Management at Technische Universität Dresden), the environmental activist collective Riverine People, and Professor Md. Monirul Islam at Dhaka University, and representatives of the School of Environmental Science and Management at the Independent University of Bangladesh and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development to organize a workshop on River Navigability and Inland Shipping in Bangladesh with a focus on the economic impact of formal and informal use of inland waterways for passenger and cargo traffic.

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Scientific and Informed Research Needed on Waterways

The Daily Samakal (Bangladesh) reported on a workshop I helped to organize in Dhaka on “River Navigation and Inland Shipping in Bangladesh: Economic Importance and Impacts of Environmental Change”. Participants included academics, government officials, representatives of the shipping industry, and members of community and political activist groups.

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