News january 2005
Walter Immerzeel joins FutureWater
Walter Immerzeel has over six years experience in geo-informatics and water resource management with a special focus on the interface between GIS and simulation models. He also has extensive experience in the application of Remote Sensing in mountain areas for systematically assessing and monitoring droughts and food security. He has worked in the Netherlands as well as in a number of developing countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Tibet). In The Netherlands he has worked on several projects for Dutch waterboards focusing on climate change, water storage and flooding.
For one and a half year Walter was attached to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal as associate expert GIS and natural resource management. He was project leader of a research project funded by the Dutch eco-regional fund on the assessment of the "water tower" function of Tibet.
On the Altiplano in South America he is working on an expert system to characterize rainfall patterns based on Remote Sensing.
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