Sabine Grunwald

International Activities

Locally relevant graduate degrees through international distance education:

http://international.ifas.ufl.edu/

Strengthening agricultural and environmental capacity through distance education:

Partnership between UF, Center for International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT and International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT:

http://international.ifas.ufl.edu/distance_education/SAECDE/index.shtml

U.S. India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative (funded project)

"Information and Communication Technologies for Capacity Building in Water Management: U.S. India Collaborative Extension/Outreach and Distance Education"

(PI: K.R. Reddy, UF; co-PIs: S. Grunwald, UF and L. Staal, UF; collaborators: V. Balaji - International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Aric Tropics - ICRISAT, Hyderabad India; M.D. Reddy - Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India; B.S. Dhillon - Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India)

IFAS/UF - India Collaborative Activities, trip to Hyderabad, India (2006) (report: pdf)

Short Course on GIS - Applications in Land Resource Management: July 31 to August 4, 2006 in Hyderabad, India (instructor: Dr. Grunwald) -- Press release

Pilot project East Africa (University of Nairobi, Kenya; Makerere University, Uganda; CIAT, Cali, Colombo): http://international.ifas.ufl.edu/distance_education/SAECDE/index.shtml

Commission Pedometrics - International Union of Soil Sciences

International visiting scholars / student exchange programs - GIS Research Laboratory, Soil and Water Science Department, UF:

Yvonne Cohen, University of Wales, Bangor (March 2006)

Andre Moura, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil [Program for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education – U.S. Dept. of Education and CAPES- Brazil’s Ministry of Education] (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006)

Bernard Fungo, Makerere University, Uganda [distance education student - M.S. Env. Sci.] (Spring 2006 - present)

Nomé Sakané, Bazega, Burkina Faso, Africa [Borlaug International Fellow] (Oct. 2005)

Marianela Rodríguez, Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (Sept. to Nov. 2004)

Martha Otello, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Columbia [distance education student] (Fall 2004)

Gustavo de Mattos Vasques [Program for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education – U.S. Dept. of Education and CAPES- Brazil’s Ministry of Education] (Fall 2003 and Spring 2004)

Adrien Mangeot visiting scholar from the National School of Geographic Sciences and Curie University, Marne La Vallee / Paris, France (Spring 2002)