PEER COVID-19 Awards Announced
PEER is happy to announce the awards of the COVID-19 Special Call. Out of 194 pre-proposals submitted, 15 proposals from eight countries were selected for funding. The awards can be viewed on the COVID-19 projects page. Additionally, PEER is happy to announce the award of six special projects in Bhutan and five projects in Cambodia. These projects can be seen in detail on the Bhutan webpage and Cambodia webpage. At this time there are no plans to announce any future calls under PEER, as the program is scheduled to end in July 2024.

PEER Seminar Series
The PEER program is proud to continue this series featuring project PIs who discuss their work and successes on a number of critical issues.
  

PI: Mónica Moreno Brush, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología
U.S. Partner: Eddy Langendoen, United States Department of Agriculture/ Agricultural Research Service
November 18, 2022

This webinar was the thirteenth in the series. It featured Dr. Monica Moreno Brush, who is a researcher and senior analyst at the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation in Peru, as well as the PI of Project 8-235: Impacts of alluvial mining in the Madre de Dios Basin: physical effects and mitigation planning. On November 18, she discussed the project work exploring the impacts of alluvial gold mining on the Madre de Dios River, as well as efforts to implement effective mitigation strategies.

The PEER program organizes a series of webinars to provide PEER principal investigators the chance to present their work and its impacts. Speaker webinars are available on the PEER Seminar Series webpage.