The November 2021 session of the Science Book Forum was a special one that highlighted the first Qatar-NASA scientific mission concept to explore deserts' response to climate change.
Under a Space Act Agreement with NASA and Qatar Foundation, represented by Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at HBKU, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and QEERI will jointly formulate the first mission concept dedicated to assessing both cold and warm desert responses to climate change. In particular, the mission will use radar subsurface mapping to explore the thickness of parts of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica that control sea level rise in the upcoming decades, as well as mapping the shallow aquifers in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and how they respond to climatic and human drivers.
The forum hosted Dr. Essam Heggy, project principal investigator, and Dr. Artur Chmielewski, project manager from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a high delegation team from NASA.
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