Susana Beatriz Adamo

Dr. Susana Beatriz Adamo is a research scientist at the Center for Integrated Earth System Information (The Climate School, Columbia University), and project scientist at SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, one of NASA DAACs). She is also an adjunct associate professor of climate in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development and the Climate and Society Program in the Climate School, and coordinator of the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN). Her research interests include: environmental migration and displacement, social vulnerability and environmental change, dynamics of internal migration in developing countries, and data integration related to demography and environment links, particularly global and regional georeferenced population databases. Among other projects, she has worked on the development of gridded population databases, including topics such as distribution, basic demographic characteristics, and net migration; vulnerability, climate variability and migration in Latin America; migration, cities and climate change; vulnerability to winter storms and air pollution in the US Northwest; and air quality and environmental justice. She holds a B.S. in geography from the University of Buenos Aires, an M.S. in population studies from FLACSO-Mexico, and a Ph.D. in demography/sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

See also Dr. Adamo's full profile on Columbia Climate School's main website.