Science and Technology for Sustainable Development

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Science and Technology for Sustainable
Development
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Where in the world is LLU?
Loma Linda University
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What in the world?

• LLU founded in 1905
• Health sciences campus
• Health Care
• Academics

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What in the world?

• LLU Health Care
• LLU Medical Center teaching hospital
• LLU Health Care Network
• LLU 4 Hospitals Multiple health care
  facilities
• Pioneer in pediatric organ transplantation
• Proton accelerator cancer treatment
• Ongoing collaboration with NASA theoretical
  research.
• Venom ER Animal Planet channel.

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What in the world?

• LLU Academics Schools of gt
• Science Technology - Nursing
• Public Health - Graduate
• Medicine
• Allied Health Professions
• Dentistry
• Pharmacy
• Degrees
• Undergraduate BS, BSPH
• Masters MA, MS, MPH
• Doctoral degrees PhD, MD, DDS, DrPH, DrPsy,
  DPharm

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Loma Linda Universitys Global Outreach

• Student body
• Over half are international and minority
  students
• International vocation
• Outreach in many countries around the world
• E.g., reconstruction of health care
  infrastructure in Afghanistan.
• LLU academic extension programs in several
  countries
• Chile, Peru - Kenya - Ukraine
• Peace Corps Training Program Environmental and
  Global Health
• Many faculty conduct collaborative research
  abroad

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Where You Are Has a Great Influence on the Kind
of Information You Want and Need.

• Faculty involved have strong FIELD EXPERIENCE
• new courses will have applied focus in real
  places in Developing countries such as
• Fiji - Pacific
• Central America
• Caribbean
• Africa

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• Sam Soret is from Spain
• Seth Wiafe is from Ghana
• Both have extensive experience both abroad and
  in the US

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Smog Levels
Sam Soret GIS technology and methods in public
health Air pollution modeling. Environmental
epidemiology. Environmental health policy.
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Stephen Dunbar, Marine Biology, Biodiversity.
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Ron Carter Dean, SST
Conservation and Molecular Biology Caribbean
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Burkina Faso 1975-77 1993
China, Japan,Thailand.
HAITI / DR 1972 - 2001
Marshall Islands
Ghana Gabon Mali Malawi S. Africa Eritrea
RWANDA KENYA 1983-1993, 2001-2
Utah
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Robert Fords Personal Links to Central America
Frisco 1949
Near La Ceiba
Trip thru Peten 1930s
Guanaja - 1957
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MOSQUITO COAST 1998 Fulbright Scholar
Guanaja damage to forests
Guanaja
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Partner with NASA Earth System Science
Education for the 21st Century Consortium of
Universities
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LLUs focus SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE and links to
SOCIAL POLICY, HEALTH ENVIRONMENT, and
CONSERVATION
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NASAs Earth Science Enterprise
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Development of Geoinformatics and ESS at LLU

• 2001 2003 2004 2005
• BSPH HG
• HG Unit
• Cert. HG
• HG Lab
• BS ESS

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Development of Geoinformatics and ESS at LLU
Cutting the ribbon for the official opening of
the Geoinformatics Laboratory on April 30, 2004,
Mr. Jack Dangermond, President and founder of
ESRI, Redlands, California Dr. Richard Hart,
Chancellor of Loma Linda University and Dr.
Patricia Johnston, immediate past Dean of School
of Public Health.
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Development of Geoinformatics and ESS at LLU

• The laboratory provides state-of-the-art
  facilities to support teaching, research, and
  practice activities relating to geographic
  information systems and allied technologies.

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Geoinformatics Lab/SPH Training Research
Added new courses in -Remote Sensing -Systems
modeling -Applied Earth Systems Science -Field
Courses.and research (Africa, Asia, Latin
America, US southwest)
WORKING with PARTNERS such as
Applied areas of focus -Poverty-mapping and
social capital -Community-based natural resource
management -Disaster mitigation and humanitarian
relief -Global health and social
policy -Biodiversity and conservation -Global
change and sustainability
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• Cal State University San Bernardio, Water,
  Resources Institute
• UCR (Univ. Of California) Fire Research Lab
• JPL Jet Propulsion Lab-NASA

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ESSC at LLU

• Focus
• Emphasis on enhancing our unique foundation of
  international outreach and collaboration.
• Specialization on Health Geoinformatics and
  Ecoinformatics
• Global place-based field application in
  conservation, Health, social policy, and
  sustainable development

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Many changes are affecting the region and need
to be documented and mitigated
Increasing gap between Rich Poorurbanization,
declining agriculture
Stress on Natural Capital, e.g. wetlands, reefs,
forest biodiversity loss, e.g. Manatees, birds,
iguanas
1975
Socio-economic changes, e.g. tourism,
fisheries, trade embargoes, ethnic/demographic
conflict, drugs, crime, sewage, health, land
conflict, disease risk....
West Bay, Roatan
2004
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Bay Islands
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Cuero y Salado
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Lago de Boca Cerrada
January 1999 LANDSAT
Cuero y Salado
Barra Rio Salado
Barra Rio Cuero
Bosque Latifoliado
La Union
African Palm Proccesing Plant
Tripoli
San Francisco
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IKONOS - December 3, 2003
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IKONOS - December 3, 2003
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MAPAS DIVERSAS DE MESOAMERICA AREAS PROTEGIDAS Y
CORREDORES BIOLOGICOS
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Perspectivas Geográficas en Imágenes y Mapas
Región Centroamericana
Contactt Robert E. Ford Tel.
909-558-7507 Email rford_at_llu.edu or
rford_at_igc.org
Cuero y salado
Biomasa acuático y terrestre Centroamérica
Meso América Satélite SEAWIFS
Fuegos Mesoamericanos
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Attracting researchers, academics and
Geo-tourists is part of the IHTs SAVE Strategy
to promote Scientific, Academic, Volunteer and
Educational travel to Honduras. IHT Honduran
Institute of Tourism

• SAVE Institute and SAVE Center
• The Honduras Institute of Tourism (IHT) seeks
  partners in the founding of the
• SAVE Institute (SI). The SAVE Institute, an
  international, non-profit organization,
• will manage two major programs
• Tropical Research and Academics Program will
  focus biodiversity research on important
  conservation goals and establish Honduras as an
  international classroom for the study of
  tropical biodiversity
• The Tropical Naturalist Program will create
  opportunities for Geo-tourism in Honduras.
  Geo-tourism represents a new trend in
  international tourism marketing, improving and
  expanding the eco-tourism mission of nature
  conservation. Geo-tourists are concerned with
  preserving a destinations geographic character
  the entire combination of natural and human
  attributes that make one place distinct from
  another.

Source The SAVE Strategy, IHT, Honduras. 2005
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SHOULD SAVE AND ESSE21 BECOME PARTNERS?What do
you think?

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Some NGO University Partners in Honduras
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Other Studies Needed

• Land Use/Land Cover Change 1965 2005
• Water quality impact from point and non-point
  source pollution, e.g. farming, processing,
  urban.
• Aquatic ecology change in wetlands, e.g. Depth,
  chemistry, biota, etc.
• Off-shore, near-shore, and in-shore limnology and
  oceanography, e.g. patch reefs, beach erosion,
  sedimentation, lagoon changes, etc.
• Human vulnerabilities and sustainable
  livelihoods, e.g. poverty, health, tourism,
  conflict resolution, environmental and social
  policy, etc.

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Overall Need Better Monitoring and Forecasting
Natural Resource Management

• With focus on issues of
• Sustainable livelihoods
• Human health and hazards
• Coastal zone management
• Conservation and biodiversity
• Poverty analysis and culture
• Geospatial data management

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World Federation of Neurology Project UCLA, LLU
and UNAH
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Ph.D Program in Social Policy Social
ResearchSustainable Development
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GIDEON MAZINGA, MALAWIPh.D Program in Social
Policy
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District-level poverty headcountSource
Government of Malawi, 2000
Much of data courtesy Todd Benson/IFPRI
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Vedast Makota, NEMC (Nat. Env. Mngt. Council) and
the Vice-Presidents Office
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Eight Students w/Honduras Interests U.S., Latin
America, Europe

• Eddie McField Honduras Social Policy/Poverty
• Daniel GonzalezUruguay Marine Biology
• Marie-Lys Bacchus France Marine Biology
• Tom Rossi, U.S. Water Resources Policy and
  ConservationNo Picture Shown
• Jesse Bliss, Health and Development
  Geoinformatics
• Lee Greer, Molecular Biology (Genetic
  Anthropology)
• Wendy Billock Invertabrate Marine biodiversity
• Rob Lovich - Herpetology

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Plans for the Future

• Discussion
• Q Answers ?
• Contact us gtgtgt

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Thank you
CONTACT
Email rford_at_llu.edu
Tel. [phone]
LLU-ESSE21 homepage
http//resweb.llu.edu/rford/ESSE21/