Catherine Nakalembe (Ph.D.)

Assistant Professor at Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland
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College Park, Maryland, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German Elementary proficiency
  • Swahilli Elementary proficiency
  • Luganda Native or bilingual proficiency

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Lydia Gallant-Britton

I had the pleasure of working with Catherine while she was a graduate student at Hopkins. Catherine was always pleasant, conscientious and very clever and innovative in completing whatever tasks were assigned. During this time, she shared her goals with me and it's wonderful to see that her focus is on track.

Omongin Augustine

Congratulations catherine.i hope your study in the fertile soils of karamoja will come out with an irrigation project under a land reform for the karamojong to end the many decades of development retardation,i was born in namalu,land reforrm is important.But government took all the fertile lands for prisons,game moore big chunks of land compared to other areas with same but small land.why big chunks of land taken from the karamojong.Govt should surrender some of the land to the karamojong.

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Credentials

  • IT Essentials I&II (Hewlett-Packard)
    Hewlett-Packard

Experience

  • Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Assistant Professor
      • Jan 2023 - Present
  • NASA Harvest
    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Africa Director
      • Dec 2017 - Present

    • Africa Lead
      • Nov 2017 - Present

  • University of Maryland
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Assistant Professor
      • Jan 2023 - Oct 2023

    • Associate Research Professor
      • Jul 2021 - Jan 2023

    • Assistant Research Professor
      • Jan 2018 - Jul 2021

      I lead NASA Harvest Africa Program focusing on capacity building in the use of Earth Observations (EO) data (remotes sensing and electronic field data). On-going work on crop type & area mapping and crop conditions monitoring. I work with government ministries of agriculture in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Mali, with regional agencies ICPAC and RCMRD and with development partners including LWR, World Bank, UNDP, JRC, FAO, WFP, and FEWSNET.

    • Program Assistant: NASA Land Use Land Cover Change Program
      • May 2012 - Jan 2018

    • Faculty Assistant: Department of Geogrphical Sciences
      • Jul 2014 - Dec 2017

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
      • Aug 2010 - Jun 2012

  • World Bank Group
    • International Trade and Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Consultant, CLIMATE POLICY TEAM
      • Nov 2013 - Jul 2014
  • IPCC WGII Volunteer Chapter Scientist in the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
    • Volunteer Scientist
      • Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
  • The World Bank
    • United States
    • International Trade and Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Consultant (Environment Group)
      • Jun 2011 - May 2012

    • Consultant (Climate Investment Fund)
      • Feb 2011 - Jun 2011

  • Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda
    • Field Researcher
      • Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
  • The Nature Conservancy
    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • TNC Lands Data and Information Intern
      • May 2011 - Aug 2011

    • TNC Lands Data and Information Intern
      • May 2011 - Aug 2011

      GIS analysis, data entry and update of the conservation database for The Nature Conservancy lands

  • Washington Adventist University
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Adjunct Faculty
      • Dec 2010 - May 2011
  • Johns Hopkins University
    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Sustainability Intern
      • Jul 2009 - Sep 2009
  • The Johns Hopkins University
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Sustainability Intern
      • May 2009 - Aug 2009

      Duties included cleaning and entering utility data for John Hopkins University’s Homewood campus buildings into the National EnergyStar˝ database and assessing building’s energy efficiency and sustainability. Together with fellow interns we develop an optimization model for cost-benefit analysis for refurbishing buildings and develop templates for brochures to encourage behavior change to increase energy savings in office buildings. Duties included cleaning and entering utility data for John Hopkins University’s Homewood campus buildings into the National EnergyStar˝ database and assessing building’s energy efficiency and sustainability. Together with fellow interns we develop an optimization model for cost-benefit analysis for refurbishing buildings and develop templates for brochures to encourage behavior change to increase energy savings in office buildings.

    • Graduate Student
      • 2008 - 2009

    • Graduate Assistant
      • 2008 - 2009

  • Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)
    • Graduate Assistant
      • 2008 - 2009
  • Ecowatch Africa
    • Programs Coordinator
      • Jan 2007 - Aug 2008
  • Uganda Wildlife Authority
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • GIS Intern
      • Sep 2006 - Sep 2006

Education

  • University of Maryland College Park
    PhD, Geographical Sciences
    2010 - 2017
  • The Johns Hopkins University
    Masters, Environmental Engineering
    2008 - 2009
  • Makerere University
    BS, Environmental Science
    2003 - 2006

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