Dr. Mark Turin & Dr. Sara Shneiderman are part of a larger team led by Yale University who have received $750,000 USD from NASA to investigate how social change and natural disasters affect patterns of mobility and urbanization in Bhutan, India and Nepal. Click here to read more.
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