Nanne Tolsma

YEP period 2016 - 2018, batch 9

Young Expert at Satelligence - Vietnam

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First position after YEP

Business Developer at Satelligence, the Netherlands

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YEP Role

Physical geographer and Hydrologist at Satelligence. I was working on a long term project for Satelligence with local agribusiness company LT Group, based in Long Xuyen and Ho Chi Minh City. 

Click here for more information about my project.

 

Skills

• Project management

• Remote Sensing

• Technical skills regarding water management

• Field work

Background

Nationality: Dutch
Education: MSc. Hydrology, VU Amsterdam

 

Experience before YEP

This is my first job but had some prior experience in projects:

 

Participant Wetskills Water Challenge United States,  June 2016

Project in which a mixed and multidisciplinary team of four young professionals develop
innovative concepts for a case study, provided by the water sector, during an extensive two-week
programme in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Study case: City Blueprint Boston (case owner KWR Watercycle Research Institute).

 

Research intern at P4GES, January 2015 – June 2016

My Master Thesis, 'The effects of land use on hydraulic conductivity, preferential flow pathways and soil fauna in the Didy region of the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor (CAZ) in Madagascar', was part of of the P4GES project (''Can paying for global ecosystem services reduce poverty?''). P4GES was a three year project (2013-2016) consisting of a consortium of eleven institutions in the UK, Madagascar, the USA, Switzerland and the Netherlands.