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Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and an economic and food security lifeline for roughly 30 million people living near its shores in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. But it also takes lives. Cyclical, daily weather patterns around the lake create violent nighttime thunderstorms that kill roughly 3,000 to 5,000 fishermen per year. “This is definitely one of the stormiest places on Earth,” said Wim Thiery, a climate scientist at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel who has studied Lake Victoria for several years. “Almost every night, you see these intense thunderstorms and sometimes even water

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science Division has selected new projects from the 2018 Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team focus area solicitation. PMM projects focus on investigations related to satellite observations of precipitation using measurements from, but not limited to, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, GPM mission constellation partner spacecraft, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Specifically the PMM program supports three types of investigations: (1) The

Presentations Tuesday, June 9th Time Description Speaker(s) Download Introductions and Overview 8:30-8:45 Greetings and Workshop Purpose Lawrence Friedl, NASA HQ Download 8:45 – 8:55 Introduction to GPM Ramesh Kakar, GPM Program Scientist Download 8:55 - 9:15 GPM Mission Overview Gail Skofronick-Jackson, NASA GSFC Download 9:15 - 9:30 Remarks from JAXA Kinji Furukawa, Acting Project Manager of GPM/DPR, JAXA Download 9:30-10:00 TRMM and GPM Data Products George Huffman, Deputy Project Scientist, NASA GSFC Download 10:00-10:20 Discussion and Q&A All speakers N/A Science Advancements: TRMM to GPM

Download the Meeting Presentations GPM Applications Workshop Whitepaper Take the Workshop Feedback Survey June 9th - 10th, 2015: College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center 3501 University Blvd. East, Hyattsville, MD 20783 June 11th, 2015: Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center User Hands On Training Session Download the Workshop Agenda (.pdf) The NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) will hold the Second User Workshop on June 9-10th, 2015 at the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in College Park, Maryland

Agenda August 1, 2017 Introductions and Overview 9:00 – 9:15 Greetings and Workshop Purpose NASA and WRI introduction and welcome 9:15 – 9:30 Introduction to NASA Food Security and Agriculture activities Danielle Wood, NASA 9:30 – 9:45 Introduction to GPM and Data Products Gail Skofronick-Jackson, NASA GSFC 9:45 – 10:00 JAXA’s GPM Agricultural Applications Hiroyuki "Hiro" Iwamoto, JAXA 10:00 – 10:15 Overview of WRI engagement with Earth Observation Data Janet Ranganathan, WRI 10:15 – 10:20 Discussion and Q&A All speakers Panel 1: Disaster Relief and Food Aid 10:40 – 10:45 Introduction to Panel

Co-hosted by GPM and the World Resources Institute Location: World Resources Institute, 10 G St NE #800, Washington, DC 20002 Date: August 1st, 2017 8:00am – 5:00pm Agenda: forthcoming View Meeting Files View Agenda (.pdf) All NASA civil servants and contractors must also register for this meeting in NCTS, Conference Code 30020-17 Workshop Description: This one-day workshop will focus on engaging the governmental and non-governmental organizations, public and private industry, academia, and other end users on how NASA precipitation and other water data can be used for agricultural applications