Argentine scientists were recognized by NASA for water solutions and climate risk mitigation projects

Climate change and water and food insecurity are some of the challenges facing the world today. Against this backdrop, the Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge competition, a NASA initiative, is deployed as an ideal space for innovators from various disciplines. This contest, which brought together almost 1,600 participants from 100 countries, highlighted the work of five young Argentinians under 30 years of age.

These are Francisco Furey and Malena García Vildoza, members of the Viva Aqua team, one of the five winning groups, who focused their work on the crisis of access to drinking water in the world; and María Azul Schvartzman, Iván Barbero and Alfonso Aguilera, who achieved an Honorable Mention by highlighting their project on climate risk mitigation among the 33 selected.

The objective of this competition is to create visualizations, through the use of Earth observation (EO) data, that provide accurate information about the atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, land cover and the built environment, essential points to promote the Development Goals Sustainable from: zero hunger, clean water and sanitation, and climate action.