Opportunities Round-up: Oct. 16

🛰️ Geospatial innovation in Africa and the Americas, Air Quality fundamentals training, and a new GEO Women’s Community – just a few of the many amazing opportunities and resources in this week’s round-up!

📅 Deadlines

⭐1 November. Internship application deadline. Space Law and Sustainability Internship. United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/285723

⭐15 November. Entry deadline. 2026 GIS Day Map Challenge. Geospatial Research Forum. https://lnkd.in/p/e7iNkP3g

🧠 Training, webinars and events

⭐New online, self-paced training. Fundamentals of Remote Sensing for Air Quality Applications. NASA ARSET. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/trainings/fundamentals-remote-sensing-air-quality-applications

⭐New online, self-paced training. Machine Learning for Earth Systems Modeling – Course 3. ECMWF. https://learning.ecmwf.int/enrol/index.php?id=100

⭐New online course. Using the NOAA Satellite Proving Ground Global Flood Website and NOAA Tidal Analysis Datum Calculator (TADC) Course. COMET MetEd.  https://www.comet.ucar.edu/our-latest-comet-meted-courses

19-23 Octubre. Online training en español. Introducción a la observación de la Tierra en óptico y SAR/ Impacto climático en la agricultura y seguridad alimentaria. CopernicusLAC Panama Centre. www.copernicuslac-panama.eu/oportunidades-de-participacion/

20 & 27 October. Online course in English y en español. Monitoring Surface Water with SAR for Water Resource Management/Monitoreo de Inundaciones con SAR para la Gestión de los Recursos Hídricos. NASA ARSET. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/trainings/monitoring-surface-water-sar-water-resource-management

21 October. Webinar. Glacier Changes in the Karakoram: Insights from the X-ECV Karakoram Anomaly Project. ESA Climate Change Initiative. climate.esa.int/en/climate-change-initiative-training/webinars/upcoming-webinars/

⭐22 October. Webinar. Geospatial Innovation for Africa’s Future. American Geographical Society. https://lnkd.in/p/ew3n_fBy

⭐22 October. EO Cafe. From EO Solutions to Local Impact: Bridging the Uptake Gap. EARSC. Register here.

26-30 October. In-person conference (Zimbabwe). AARSE 2026: Smart Earth, Smart Africa. African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment. aarse2026.org/

27 October. In-person workshop (Estonia). Space for Resilience. Eurisy and EU Agency for the Space Programme. www.eurisy.eu/event/space-services-for-regional-resilience-workshop-in-estonia/about-estonia/

⭐28 October. Webinar. Exploring Expedited NASA ICESat-2 Quick Look Data Products in the Earthdata Cloud. NASA Earthdata. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/events/exploring-expedited-nasa-icesat-2-quick-look-data-products-earthdata-cloud

28-30 October. In-person conference (Kenya). Eastern Africa Drought and Preparedness Conference (EADP2). ICPAC. eadp.icpac.net/

3-5 November. In-person workshop (England). High Resolution Thermal Remote Sensing. EARSeL Thermal SIG, National Centre for Earth Observation and UK Space Agency. thermal-rs.earsel.org/?page_id=1410

⭐10-13 November. Symposium. XXII International SELPER Symposium 2026: From Sensor to Management – Geospatial Innovation for a Sustainable Future. SELPER. https://selperargentina.org/

16 November. In-person event (Poland). Knowledge Exchange Space Panel: Building Skills, Partnerships and a European Network for the Future Space Economy. SpaceSUITE and StARR. starr.pl/knowledge-exchange-space-panel/

⭐27 November. Webinar. Towards Coupled AI Climate Models. ECMWF. https://events.ecmwf.int/event/587/

🌍 Community announcements & resources

⭐New Community Established. GEO Women Community. Group on Earth Observations (GEO). https://lnkd.in/p/eErQ2DR6

⭐Report. 2026 GEO Symposium Report. Group on Earth Observations (GEO). https://earthobservations.org/about-us/news/the-2026-geo-symposium-report-is-now-available

⭐Update. 10th AfriGEO Symposium article. earthobservations.org/about-us/news/from-vision-to-action-afrigeo-charts-a-decade-of-african-leadership-in-earth-intelligence

Call for Abstracts. 4th Space Science and Geospatial Annual Research Conference (S-ARC2027): AI-Assisted Space and Geospatial Technologies and Applications. Space Science and Geospatial Institute. https://ssgi.gov.et/events

Call for contributions. FOSSGIS 2027: Free and Open Source Geospatial Software, Open Data and OpenStreetMap. FOSSGIS, HeiGIT and Heidelberg University. fossgis-konferenz.de/2027/