| CIESIN’s Deputy Director, Bob Chen, is Elected
as CODATA's Secretary General |
December 7, 2004
Robert S. Chen, Deputy
Director and a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for International
Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), was elected to a four-year
term as Secretary General of the Committee on Data for Science
and Technology (CODATA) of the International Council for Science
(ICSU) at its 24th General Assembly, which took place in Berlin,
Germany on November 11–12.
See: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story12-07-04.html
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| PERN Cyberseminar on Urban Spatial Expansion:
The Environmental and Health Dimensions, November 30- December
15, 2004 |
October 15, 2004
The Population-Environment
Research Network Web site will hold a cyberseminar on Urban Spatial
Expansion: The Environmental and Health Dimensions from November
30 to December 15, 2004. The cyberseminar features a background paper
by Dr. Charles Redman, Director of the Consortium for the Study
of Rapidly Urbanizing Regions, and Ms. Nancy Jones, a researcher
at the International Institute for Sustainability, Arizona State
University; and a distinguished panel of experts.
See: http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/seminars.jsp
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| Global Spatial Data and Information User Workshop,
September 21-23, 2004, Palisades, NY |
September 28, 2004
Presentations are now
available for download from the Web site for the Global Spatial
Data and Information User Workshop, which took place
September 21-23 at the Monell Building on the Lamont-Doherty Campus
of Columbia University, Palisades, New York. This workshop brought a
core set of institutions actively involved in global spatial data
and information development and dissemination together with representatives
of key user communities to address both short- and long-term needs
for coordination and collaboration. The overall purpose of the
workshop was to coordinate spatial data and information dissemination
among key actors in the global data community in order to better
meet user needs at global as well as regional and national levels.
See: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/GSDworkshop/
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| PERN Cyberseminar on Population, Consumption
and the Environment, May 17-31, 2004 |
May 15, 2004
The Population-Environment
Research Network will host an online seminar focusing on consumption-environment
research and its linkages to the population-environment research
agenda. The purpose of this seminar is to explore a research agenda
for studying the linkages between population, consumption and
environment in both developed and developing countries. It features
a background paper by PERN's Coordinator, Alex de Sherbinin, and
Sara Curran of Princeton University, as well as a distinguished
panel of experts.
See: http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/seminars.jsp
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| Workshop on Extending the Boundaries: Managing
and Preserving Geospatial Electronic Records, May 13, 2004 |
| May 15, 2004
CIESIN hosted a workshop
on "Extending the Boundaries: Managing and Preserving Geospatial
Electronic Records" on May 13in Palisades, New York.
See: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/ger/
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| GCRIO to be Transferred |
| January 30, 2004
Starting on February 9, the Global
Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) will be transferred
to and managed by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Office
in Washington, DC. The management and staff at CIESIN are proud
of the service that they have provided over the past decade following
our design, launch and implementation of GCRIO in 1993. GCRIO
was authorized by Section 204 of the U.S. Global Change Research
Act of 1990.
See: http://www.gcrio.org
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| ENTRI Service Now has EarthTrends Country Profiles |
| January 30, 2004
SEDAC's Environmental
Treaties and Resources Information (ENTRI) service now features
EarthTrends country profiles, produced by the World Resources
Institute (WRI). Use the Country Explorer, choose a country, and
view the country's full record to access the profiles.
See: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/entri/
See also: http://earthtrends.wri.org/
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| Papers from the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human
Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community Now
Available for Download |
| January 20, 2004
Full text of 120 papers
and posters are now available for download for the 2003 Open Meeting
of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research
Community, held 16-18 October 2003 in Montreal, Canada.
See: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/openmeeting/
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| CIESIN Receiveds Two Grants from the U.S. Geological
Survey |
January 20, 2004
CIESIN has received
two contracts totaling $876,000 over three years from the U.S. Geological
Survey to establish a Northeast Node of the National Biological
Information Infrastructure.
See: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story01-20-04.html
See also: http://nin.nbii.gov/
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