Feb 27 Weekly Round-up

🌍 Weekly Round-up: Deadlines, Events, Training & Opportunities
Dear Readers: Exciting training, opportunities and events for the EO community this week.

New items have a ⭐! 

📅 Deadlines

⭐28 February. Award nomination. Young African Space Professionals Award, NewSpace Africa Conference. https://newspace.spaceinafrica.com/award/

⭐1 March. Online workshop registration. Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation Innovation Services, European Commission Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/artificial-intelligence-and-earth-observation-innovation-services-2026-03-09_en

⭐5 March. Funding opportunity. Climate Adaptation & Finance in Africa, Mountain Research Initiative.  https://mountainresearchinitiative.org/funding-opportunities/call-for-funding-proposals-economics-of-climate-change-adaptation-in-africa/

⭐6 March. Abstract deadline extension. International Astronautical Congress 2026. https://iafastro.directory/iac/account/login/

6 March. Research program application deadline. NASA EarthRISE Developers Academy. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents. https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/capacity-building/develop/apply

8 March. Application deadline. Geodesy for a Resilient Africa Summer School. 29 June-3 July, Cameroon. https://africangeosummer.org/

10 March. Two application deadlines for courses at Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia Pacific (CSSTEAP). Info: www.cssteapun.org

• Geospatial Technology and Modelling for Urban Climate Resilience & Disaster Risk Reduction, May 4-15.
• Satellite Remote Sensing Data Acquisition & Processing, April 20-May 15. 

15 March. Application deadlines for course at Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia Pacific (CSSTEAP): 30th post-graduate course in remote sensing and GIS, July 2026-March 2027. Info: www.cssteapun.org

⭐15 March. Registration. EO Makerspace Hackathon, We Make Future
https://en.wemakefuture.it/next/events/eo-makerspace-hackathon/

20 March. Case study abstract deadline.The 2026 Earth Observation Handbook: Adaptation & Resilience, CEOS. https://eohandbook.com/2026casestudies/

⭐22 March. Scholarship applications. Master Research Programme In Informatics For Climate Change. West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL). https://wascal.org/call-for-applications-for-master-research-programme-in-informatics-for-climate-change-2022-2023-academic-session/

⭐24 April. Abstracts. 3rd United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress, UN-GGIM. https://ggim.un.org/3UNWGIC/call_for_abstracts#overview

26 June. Abstract deadline. Machine Learning for Land and Hydrology conference. ECMWF.  https://events.ecmwf.int/event/530/

30 September. Call for Papers. Weather & Climate-Induced Multi-Hazard Futures, Natural Hazards special collection. www.nature.com/collections/facabjihee

🗓️ Webinars / Training

⭐4 March. Online Webinar. Assessing the Socioeconomic Benefits of Hydrological Monitoring in Southwest Pacific. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reliable-data-is-critical-for-effective-climate-share-7432783677895532544-FqGv

4 March. Webinar. Quantum Computing for Space Science and Technology, IEEE GRSS. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6vlzgw-fSfuRetJGrSwaeg#/registration

⭐5 March. Online Webinar in English/Spanish. Introduction to Machine Learning (ML)/Deep Learning (DL) Theory. First of 3 webinars; others March 19/April 22. UN-GGIM: Americas GeoAI Community of Practice. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f6f7b736-1fa2-4934-aee9-895685232fb4@05c95b33-90ca-49d5-b644-288b930b912b

⭐9 March. Online Seminar. Integrating Methods for Quantifying Groundwater Recharge in North Africa’s Semi-Arid Regions,  Water Harvesting Lab – UNIFI.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abderrahman-el-farchouni_i-look-forward-to-discussing-groundwater-share-7432018217335717888-nsWq

11-12 March. Workshop. Putting PACE Data to Work Across the Earth System. NASA. https://pace.oceansciences.org/events_more.htm

12 March. Workshop. EVE: An Open-Source Earth Science LLM, IEEE GRSS. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vkc60wl2RsyJKMRPMi0DtA#/registration

16 March-17 April. Online course. Machine Learning for Earth Systems Modelling. For European meteorological agencies. https://learning.ecmwf.int/enrol/index.php?id=96

⭐19 March. Online Webinar. GEO AquaWatch Early Career Scientist Winner Water Talks. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/geoaquawatch_earlycareer-globalsouth-waterquality-ugcPost-7432463983028305921-DF7b

⭐19 March. Online Webinar in English/Spanish. Practical Training on Applications of Machine Learning (ML)/Deep Learning (DL) Numerical, Non-Image Data. Second of 3 webinars; next April 22. UN-GGIM: Americas GeoAI Community of Practice. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6920fcfb-07a6-4764-8766-dae0a3d38591@05c95b33-90ca-49d5-b644-288b930b912b

24 March. Webinar. GEO Open House Webinar #2: DRR-Climate-Biodiversity nexus. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/E97C0nvsQx6pWglDlVEzlw#/registration

⭐31 March. Online Webinar. Accelerating Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine.IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eLbTLQCeQT-qEp3vYczneQ#/registration 

🌐 Conferences

27-29 March, AO GEO 8th Workshop, in person and online. https://earthobservations.org/about-us/events/8th-aogeo-workshop

2-4 June. IAF Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC 2026), Kigali, Rwanda. https://www.iafastro.org/events/global-series-conferences/the-iaf-global-space-conference-on-climate-change-2026/

💰Resources/other opportunities

Workshop recording. Challenges and Opportunities in Data Sharing & Critical Zone Science. CUAHSI and EarthScope Consortium. https://youtu.be/mRTtZzoF8j0?si=hq2ybCf7c9IgrOAd

⭐Workshop resources. Special GEO Health Community of Practice Session with AfriGEO. https://www.geohealthcop.org/workshops/2026/1/20/telecon-afrigeo

⭐Podcast. Region of Solutions: Empowering Communities from Space, UNESCAP, https://www.unescap.org/podcast/empowering-communities-space

⭐Resources. “Help Hub” for  analyzing Ocean Biology Distributed Archive Center data products with Python. https://nasa.github.io/oceandata-notebooks/

To share your event or resource, email us at secretariat@eotecdevnet or tag us on LinkedIn.