Saleh Ahmed is the Recipient of 2 Student Awards
Saleh Ahmed is a Ph.D. student in the UA’s Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Arid Lands Resource Sciences with a minor in Global Change. He also is working as a graduate research associate for the International Research and Applications Project (IRAP) to support research efforts to understand different aspects of climate vulnerability and adaptation planning in Asia.
Saleh has recently been the recipient of 2 student awards:
- 2016 Carson Scholarship Program
- CLIMAS – 2016 Climate Society Graduate Fellows Program
Carson Scholarship Program
Carson Scholarships are given to excellent and diverse graduate students at the University of Arizona who are studying renewable energy, environment and social justice. As a Carson scholar, Saleh’s award includes: a one year scholarship of $5,000. Scholarships are sponsored by the Institute of the Environment, the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, the UA Renewable Energy Network, Biosphere 2 and private donations
Read more about Saleh’s Carson award at: http://carson.arizona.edu/content/saleh-ahmed-0
CLIMAS Climate & Society Graduate Fellows Program
What is CLIMAS?
CLIMAS stands for Climate Assessment for the Southwest
CLIMAS is housed at the University of Arizona’s Institute of the Environment, is part of the nationwide Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program funded by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It administers the Climate & Society Graduate Fellows Program, which is designed to provide support for currently enrolled University of Arizona graduate students from any degree-granting program whose work is focused on the nexus of climate research and decision making. Fellowship projects must incorporate some aspect of climate research. For 2016, 5 students have been selected for CLIMAS’S Climate and Society Graduate Fellows Program across various departments at the University of Arizona, of whom 2 are from Arid Lands Resource Sciences PhD program.
Up to four fellowships in the amount of $5,000 each are awarded annually.
Saleh’s winning abstract is below:
Project Title: Developing a Community Hub for Climate Innovations in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh
Abstract: Bangladesh ranks as one of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate variability and change. A majority of local farmers and fishermen, whose livelihoods are dependent on climate-sensitive sectors, do not receive adequate climate information that can help improve their adaptation decision-making and increase community resilience. However, several evidence suggest that poor and marginalized farmers can improve their adaptation decision-making if they receive the appropriate demand-driven climate information in a timely manner. This motivates to develop a stakeholder-driven and user-inspired community hub for climate innovations in southwest coastal Bangladesh, where the livelihoods of majority of people are dependent on climate-sensitive sectors, and exposed to various adverse impacts caused by climate variability and change. This community hub should play instrumental role in creating opportunities for multi-way interactions and knowledge and information exchange by coproducing climate knowledge among various stakeholders concerning climate-related issues that are directly linked to local livelihoods. Ultimately, this community hub for climate innovations should play critical role promoting various social innovations in the region. The fundamental objective of this project, with the support from CLIMAS, is to develop a stakeholders-driven & use-inspired process of needs assessment that feeds into a development proposal, which can ultimately be scaled-up by national or international development partners for larger impacts across the regions. A small farming community in southwest coastal Bangladesh is the focus of this planned project.
For more information on the Climate & Society Graduate Fellows Program, please go to: http://www.climas.arizona.edu/education/fellowship-program