For 13 weeks during the summer of 2026, students at Bronx Community College’s Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute (BGCCCI) will be able to look into the factors that cause climate change in urban areas. That’s because the center was recently awarded a $300,000 NASA-funded research grant, allowing students to focus on climate change and its relationship to land-use and land-cover changes.

The project will have students spending two and a half months analyzing Earth monitoring data from Landsat Sentinel satellites, a combination of NASA’s Landsat program and the European Union’s Sentinel program, and noting any changes.

“We believe this grant will be transformative,” said BCC President Dr. Larry Johnson. “It moves our state-of-the-art Geospatial Computing Center one step closer t

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