Sayantan "Monty" Majumdar

I'm happy to share that I’m starting a new position as an Assistant Research Professor of Hydrologic Sciences and Remote Sensing @DRIScience , Reno, Nevada!

Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano spewed lava nearly 1,400 feet into the sky during an eruption that ended early Christmas Eve morning, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

Today, Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) was sworn in as NASA’s 15th Administrator. At a time of intense competition across the last frontier, he will lead the most talented minds in the nation to ignite the orbital economy, usher in world-changing scientific discovery, and return American astronauts to the Moon – this time, to stay. America’s historic mission in space continues. 🚀 go.nasa.gov/4s5NYGE

Timely, high-quality water data is now available for all 48 contiguous United States. 💧 OpenET, a tool from NASA and its partners, provides crucial data for managing water resources, planning irrigation, monitoring drought, and evaluating fire risk. go.nasa.gov/3Y0piBz

Comprehensive #CPDrylands review explores mapping approaches and sustainable management pathways to safeguard vital #water resources. Read more on #groundwater potential mapping in India: bit.ly/4pykfUL #WaterSecurity #Sustainability #GroundwaterManagement @hydromaj

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Introducing Gemini 3 ✨ It’s the best model in the world for multimodal understanding, and our most powerful agentic + vibe coding model yet. Gemini 3 can bring any idea to life, quickly grasping context and intent so you can get what you need with less prompting.  Find Gemini 3 Pro rolling out today in the @Geminiapp and AI Mode in Search. For developers, build with it now in @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI.  Excited for you to try it!

With some fantastic colleagues globally. @GauravTalukda14 @hydromaj

Looking forward to contributing to this much needed project! Thanks for involving me in this, @m_saharia and @GauravTalukda14!

@m_saharia Congrats, @m_saharia! Looking forward to working with you, @GauravTalukda14, and others. Thanks for involving me in this project!

Super excited to share that one of my dream projects just got funded. We will be building a Digital Twin for the Ganga River Basin at IIT Delhi. All of the AI and supercomputing tools that we have developed indigenously brick by brick over the past 5 years will now be deployed into this project. Our target is build the first fully open-source digital twin for rivers in India. Very thankful to the NMCG/Ministry of Jal Shakti for promoting the use of advanced technology in the service of our sacred river. Link: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…

Growing up in small town in India, you can see greatness from far, someone reached moon, nasa put a rover on mars… you can see the greatness but you are not sure you can be more…. We moved to US as an experiment… masters became PhD… and then my partner joined Optimus… suddenly you felt like you can touch the greatness and you can be part of it… That’s what US does to you, you can be nobody one moment and next moment you can be part of history! Even though you aren’t conventional candidate , they take chances on you. I’m sure no Indian university would’ve taken a chance on me (trust me I tried), but UMD did. That's the true power of this place. It doesn't just change your opportunities; it fundamentally changes your own perception of what you are capable of!

Launching a new home for all our open-source geospatial python tutorials - covering #GeoPandas, #XArray, #Dask, #XEE, #SamGeo and more. Check them out at geopythontutorials.com

@civil_iitd ,@iitdelhi ,hosted seminar 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞 with Dr @hydromaj from @DRIScience #hydrology

@dtrugman2 Huge congrats!

Congrats, Avi! You made us all proud, and me especially!

NASA's repository of geospatial data contains key insights on everything from climate and air quality to urban planning and disaster response—but its scale and complexity make it difficult to parse. With Earth Copilot, they're making it easier than ever for anyone to access that data: aka.ms/AAsy6xd

The economic value of the Landsat program grew from $3.4B in 2017 to $25.6B in 2023, which, as we mention in the report, is vastly underestimated. Working on this project, which attempted to put a monetary value on satellite imagery, with an honest approach, is perhaps the most interesting and the most important work I have ever done. It was an absolute honour to collaborate with some world-class economists and researchers.

🚀 We are thrilled to announce the release of the Icechunk storage engine, a new open-source library and specification for the storage of multidimensional array (a.k.a. tensor) data in cloud object storage. Read our blog post about Icechunk here: earthmover.io/blog/icechunk

DRI researchers Thomas Ott and Sayantan Majumdar @hydromaj and their recent study were featured in a Western Water Notes article by Daniel Rothberg that reaffirms the role of #OpenET in effective groundwater management. Read more: bit.ly/westernwaterno… #ScienceThatMattersNow

@USGSLandsat @openetdata @watermapper @DRIScience

Stoked to share our new #openaccess publication in @ElsevierConnect Ag. Water Management. We demonstrate the benefit of using @USGSLandsat field-scale actual ET from @openetdata to estimate irrigation groundwater pumping in Nevada and Oregon. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.agwa…

@nitheshnirmal @USGIF @EOI_lab @HIRSlab Congrats, Nithesh!

It's exciting to have been awarded the 2024 USGIF Doctoral Scholarship!! Thank you @USGIF @EOI_lab @HIRSlab !! #PhD #GEOINT #geospatialIntelligence