Welcome to my curated list of trainings, workshops, and special activities organized by category for easy navigation.
📡 Drone Operations & Demonstrations
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| March 21, 2026 | Global Surveyor's Day | Virtual |
| Nov 18–20, 2025 | GeoAwareness Week | Drone Flight Approval (UA & FAA), Teaching & Demonstration |
| June 28, 2025 | National Water Center Innovators Program: CUAHSI Summer Institute | Drone Flight Approval (FAA), Supervision & Demonstration |
| Nov 15, 2023 | GIS Day | Drone Flight Approval (UA & FAA), Teaching & Demonstration |
🌍 Technical Workshops & Hackathons
| Date | Event | Format |
|---|---|---|
| September 21-25, 2026 | Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment 2026, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana | AGSE Virtual |
| August 25-26, 2026 | Near-surface Geophysics Community Input Workshop | NSF NGF, operated by EarthScope |
| August 3-7, 2026 | InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) Course | NSF NASA, USGS, operated by EarthScope |
| June 8th - August 28th, 2026 | ESA Seismology Skill Building Workshop (SSBW) | Virtual |
| June 3-5, 2026 | AI Unlocked Workshop ACCESS Support Team and NAIRR Pilot User Experience Working Group, Denver, USA | NSF ACCESS & NAIRR |
| May 18-20, June 1, 2026 | CAUSHI Data Publishing Program Virtual | CAUSHI |
| May 21 & 29, 2026 | Estimating Biomass and Change with GEDI and the OBIWAN API | NASA ARSET |
| May 19 & 20, 2026 | UF/FL-ASPRS Spring 2026 Geospatial Workshop | ASPRS |
| May 12-13, 2026 | Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset | NASA’s Satellite Needs Working Group Implementation Team (NSITE) and University of Alabama Huntsville |
| Mar 15, 2026 | Access NAIRR AI Workshops | ACCESS/NAIRR, NSF and University of Colorado Boulder |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Introduction to a machine learning model to estimate water quality parameters based on satellite observations | NASA ARSET |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Introduction and Demonstration of STREAM | NASA ARSET |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Machine Learning for Remote Sensing | – |
| Oct 23, 30 & Nov 6, 2025 | Spaceborne Lidar for Monitoring Vegetation Structure & Biomass using GEDI | Virtual – 11:00 AM–1:00 PM |
| July 28–31, 2025 | WaterSoftHack | Machine Learning & Cyberinfrastructure for Water Science – Virtual |
| June 4–7, 2024 | HydroLearn CIROH Virtual Summer Hackathon & Workshop | Synchronous Online – Hydrology & Water Resources Engineering |
| Feb 28–Mar 1, 2023 | Headwall Hyperspectral Remote-Sensing Workshop | University of Florida, Gainesville |
📚 Academic & Professional Development
| Date | Event | Format |
|---|---|---|
| May 22–June 26, 2025 | PhD Writing Challenge | Virtual |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Mentorship Mondays: Maintaining Effective Communication | Rose Admin Building – Room G55 |
| Fall 2023 | AAG Professional Development Webinars | Aug 31 & Dec 7 – Virtual |
| Feb 22–24, 2022 | Literature Review Writing Workshop | RDI Writing Unit |
| 2021 | Invited Expert: STEM Talk (Research & Technology) | Ullens School, Nepal – Virtual |
| Mar 2021 | Technical Expert Committee | Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation |
🎓 Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) & Safety Training
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| May 15, 2026 | PhD Symposium: Pathways Beyond Academia |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation |
| Sept 26, 2024 | GTA Training: Effective PowerPoint |
| 2025 | General Driver Safety Training |
| Nov 6, 2024 | GTA Training: Upgrading |
| Nov 21, 2024 | GTA Training: Generative AI for Teaching |
🧠 Wellness & Academic Skills
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2024 | Anxiety / Academic Anxiety – Virtual |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Thesis & Dissertation Workshop |
| Oct 8, 2024 | Building Resilience – Virtual |
| Sept 30, 2024 | Internship Know-how |
| Oct 22, 2024 | Understanding Open Access |
🌐 International Programs & Certifications
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| July 13–17, 2026 | I‑GUIDE Summer School – University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign, USA |
| June 9, 2026 | Bridging R&I among Coastal Regions, Online |
| May 2–4, 2026 | ByteBoost summer workshop - Stony Brook University, USA |
| Dec 10–11, 2019 | International Workshop on Capacity Building & Education Outreach in Advanced Geospatial Technologies |
| July 1–7, 2019 | Summer School – Wuhan University, China |
| Mar 11–22, 2019 | Instructional Skills (IS-2) – TITI under CTEVT |
- CyberWater2, Sep 21-25
- ENVI Unlock Automated SAR Processing with AI, Sep 24
- WaterSoftHack, July 20–July 31 Virtual
- CUAHSI Virtual Open House, June 24
- UCGIS 2026 Symposium — AI Everywhere, University of Maryland, College Park, June 15–18
- High Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing School June 9-12
- Introduction to Scientific Machine Learning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, April 10
- ISPRS WG III/4 with the technical support of the ISPRS Student Consortium
- Developing Sustainable Earth Science Applications, NASA ARSET Training Courses, April
- Monitoring Water Quality in Lakes and Coastal Regions Using STREAM NASA ARSET Training Courses, March
- Hyperspectral Data for Land and Coastal Systems NASA ARSET Training Courses, March
- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing NASA ARSET Training Courses, March
- ByteBoost 2.0: Supercharge Your Research with Cutting-Edge Testbeds, Stony Brook University, March 25, Apr 8 & 22
- Building a Data Pipeline with AI (a Claude Code Demo), NAIRR Pilot Webinar March 26
- IOI Ocean Academy (Black & Mediterranean Seas), Sustainable Coastal Tourism Development and Ocean Governance, 24 February - 17 March
- EUNICoast Online Seminars "Bridging R&I among Coastal Regions Feb 10
- HPRC Shortcourse - ACES: Python for Programmers New to Python via Zoom Videoconference, Tuesday, February 24
- HPRC Shortcourse - ACES: Python for New Programmers via Zoom Videoconference, Tuesday, February 3
- WaterSoftHack Cybertraining — Machine learning and cyberinfrastructure skills for water science and engineering applications (July 28–Aug 08, Virtual)
- Spaceborne Lidar for Monitoring Vegetation Structure and Biomass using GEDI — Oct 23, 30 & Nov 6
- CyberTraining Workshop — Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Spatial Data Science for Disaster Resilience (UCGIS Symposium, June 23–27, Laramie, WY)
- HydroLearn Courses — Snow and Climate, Culvert Design using HEC-RAS, Frequency Analysis in Hydrology, and Introduction to Floodplain Analysis
- EO College — Introduction to Machine Learning for Earth Observation
- GIS and Earth Observation University — Sentinel Hub Webinar Series course
- NASA classes — Open Science Essentials, Open Science 101, Virtual Field Tour
- NASA ARSET — Fundamental of Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral Data for Land and Coastal Systems
- Geoversity — Introduction to Geowebapp building with Open Source Tools, UAVs in Precision Agriculture
- EarthScope Consortium — Intro to GMT for Geophysics, Earth Scope 2026 Semismology Skill Building Workshop
- ESRI Classes: Imagery in Action, The Location Advantage, Getting Started with Site Scan for ArcGIS, Do-It-Yourself GeoApps, Catrography, Spatial Data Science: The New Frontiers in Analytics, Going with Spatial Analysis
- AI and Machine Learning on Olympus/Great Learning
- Part 107 Small Uas Initial Part 61 Pilots (ALC515), Part 107 Small Uas Initial Part 61 Pilots (ALC451)