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Meetings
This page provides links to upcoming and past meetings organized or co-sponsored by CIESIN or its NASA-funded project, Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). For more information, please contact User Services or the appropriate CIESIN staff member.
2009 | 2008 | 2007 |2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
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| 2009 |
June
1- 12 |
Summer Institute 2009: Climate Information for Public Health
Workshop—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
A hands-on training course for healthcare professionals in developing countries. The group of 12 students will learn how to integrate climate data with population data to improve decision-making in both the planning and prevention spheres of health care. Organized by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and co-sponsored by CIESIN and the Mailman School of Public Health. |
Apr
20-24
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Geospatial Analysis for Attaining the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development
Workshop—University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
This five-day training workshop in geospatial data analysis techniques will take place April 20-24, 2009 (one week prior to the upcoming International Human Dimensions Programme Open Meeting.) Aimed at staff from census bureaus, health ministries, and/or non-governmental organizations in developing countries, the workshop will use geospatial analysis to help guide efforts to meet the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and promote sustainable development. Digital recording of the training and course materials will be made available on the Web site of PERN (Population-Environment Research Network), hosted by CIESIN. CIESIN is hosting the workshop, with support from the IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population). Registration information.
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Feb
2-13 |
PERN Cyberseminar: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Population Dynamics and the Environment
online seminar
The theoretical and methodological aspects of research into the population-environment nexus, using
an interdisciplinary, social-ecological perspective on population dynamics as a springboard for exploration. |
| 2008 |
Nov
20-21 |
Earth Institute Cross-Cutting Initiative Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Urbanization in Modern China
Workshop—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
The Medical School has developed a prospective conceptual model that considers how rising economic development leads to increases in urbanization and results in high risk behaviors and exposures for urban populations. CIESIN is hosting the workshop and providing data and methodological expertise on the spatial distribution of populations, and thus changes in the population CVD risk, in light of North-South, rural-urban, and urban-urban migration trends.
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Sept
15–17 |
Integrating Spatial Data
Workshop— University of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo state, Brazil
A variety of data integration methods developed by CIESIN will be presented, accompanied by hands-on training exercises using ArcMap and Geoda software packages. Led by
CIESIN senior staff associate Alex de Sherbinin and associate research scientist Susana Adamo. |
| Aug
27 |
Natural Hazards and Civil Conflict in the Asia-Pacific Region
Working meeting—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Hosted by CIESIN, this working meeting brings together colleagues from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), along with scientists from the IRI and the LDEO. The main meeting objective was to coordinate efforts to assess risks from eight major natural hazards—earthquakes, floods, cyclones, landslides, tsunamis, drought, volcanoes, and wildfires—and from civil conflict. The project, supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will provide the OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) with better data and specific recommendations regarding future needs for humanitarian assistance. A public talk held on August 25 provided an opportunity for interactions with the broader Earth Institute community interested in disaster management issues. |
June
2–14 |
Summer Institute 2008: Climate Information for Public Health
Workshop—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Twelve representatives from institutions involved in health care in developing countries, primarily in Africa, are participating in the hands-on training course, which teaches how to integrate local and regional climate information with population data to improve decision-making and enhance public health outcomes. Hosted by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) in partnership with CIESIN and the Mailman School of Public Health. |
May
21–23 |
Global Slum Mapping
Workshop—ITC headquarters in Enschede, The Netherlands
Workshop participants will work on a short list of 8–10 test case cities to apply consistent methodologies for automated slum identification using a variety of image processing techniques, both to identify the spatial extent and distribution of slums, and in conjunction with survey data, to develop population estimates. CIESIN senior staff associate Alex de Sherbinin and Doherty research scientist Christopher Small will present papers on the integration of poverty and remote sensing data at the urban scale and strengths and limitations of remote sensing for slum mapping, respectively.
Co-organized by CIESIN, together with UN-HABITAT and the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in the Netherlands. |
| 2007 |
Dec
13–14 |
Poverty Mapping Workshop
Hands-on Seminar— Mapping Global Inequality Conference, Santa Cruz, CA
A hands-on seminar in two parts (each session 1 1/2 hrs). Part one: deconstructing poverty and other measures of well-being; and geographic perspectives on population and poverty data. Part two: where to find georeferenced poverty data sets; and interpretation of maps using alternate data classification schemes. With exercises for creating and interpreting poverty maps to inform policy on poverty alleviation resource allocation.
Led by Maria Muniz, research associate, CIESIN.
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Oct
29–
Nov 12 |
PERN Cyberseminar:
Hazard Vulnerability in Population-Environment Studies
Online seminar
The investigation of societal vulnerabilities underlying hazard impacts amid the growing awareness of climate change. With background papers by Daniel Hogan and Eduardo Marandola, University of Campinas, Brazil. |
Oct
1–2 |
Global Roads
Data User Workshop—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
By invitation. |
Sept
3–14 |
PERN-PRIPODE Cyberseminar on Population-Development-Environment Linkages in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa
online seminar
Have negative predictions about droughts in this region during the early 1970s and 1980s been borne out, or have agricultural systems coped and adapted to growing population numbers? This cyberseminar held by CIESIN’s Population-Environment Research Network Web site addresses these questions.
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June
11–13 |
PRIPODE: Urban Population, Development, and Environment Dynamics
Workshop—Nairobi
Features selected policy-relevant papers that accurately present some aspect of the current PDE dynamics in a given urban agglomeration, the findings of which can be applied to solving problems associated with rapid urbanization in contexts of high poverty and growing strains on the environment and natural resources. This workshop is part of the PRIPODE program coordinated by CICRED and sponsored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affaires.
Co-sponsor: CIESIN, with African Population & Health Research Centre (APHRC)and the Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED).
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| Apr
11 |
Poverty Mapping Workshop: Understanding the Spatial Dimensions of Poverty in the Developing World
Hands-on Seminar—Columbia University Morningside Campus, Mathematics Building, Room 410, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
A hands-on seminar in two parts (each session 1 1/2 hrs). Part one covers deconstructing poverty and other measures of well-being; and geographic perspectives on population and poverty data. Part two covers where to find georeferenced poverty data sets; and interpretation of maps using alternate data classification schemes. Features exercises creating and interpreting poverty maps to inform policy on poverty alleviation resource allocation.
Sponsor: CIESIN. Led by Robert Chen, Director, CIESIN; Marc Levy, Associate Director, Science Applications, CIESIN; Maria Muniz, Research Associate, CIESIN; and Bridget Anderson, Staff Associate, CIESIN.
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| 2006 |
Nov
16–17
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Arctic Data Usability and Accessibility Issues
User/Provider Workshop and Public Seminar—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Members of the applied and research science, data provider, and tool development communities will gather to clearly define system requirements for improving the accessibility and usability of arctic data. The workshop will be followed by a public seminar to discuss polar data issues in the context of the International Polar Year, an international scientific initiative aimed at increasing understanding of the critical role of the polar regions in global processes. Hosted by CIESIN's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
For more information about the workshop, please contact Mark Parsons at National Snow and Ice Data Center. For information about the seminar, please contact Bob Chen, CIESIN interim director.
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July
8–21 |
Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Summer Meeting—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Six Science/Applications communities (“clusters”) met around these subjects: Air Quality, Coastal Management, Disaster Management, Ecological Forecasting, Public Health, and Water Management. Technical workshops covered topics such as Web services, GIS, knowledge representation, collaboration technologies, data access, and data quality. Hosted by CIESIN's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
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Apr
10–26
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PERN Cyberseminar: Rural Household Micro-Demographics, Livelihoods, and the Environment
Online Seminar
Background paper by Alex de Sherbinin.
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Jan
9–10
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Rethinking the Estimation and Projection of Urban and City Population
Workshop—Columbia University, New York City
Experts in remote sensing, demography, and the social sciences discussed the use of remote sensing data to detect and track urban and intra-urban features, systematically and globally.
Sponsor: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Co-chair: CIESIN's Deborah Balk, with participation by CIESIN staff.
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| 2005 |
Oct
9–13 |
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change Research Community
University of Bonn, Germany
Bi-annual meeting for social scientists focusing on global environmental change issues. Major themes: Adaptive Management and Resilience; Coastal Zones, Human Use of Oceans; Environmental History; Global Environmental Change and Human Security; Globalization and Global Environmental Change; Human Dimensions of Carbon and Water Management, Food, and Health; Industrial Transformation; Insituttional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; Land-Use, Land-Cover Change; and “Methods in Human-Environment Studies.
Co-sponsor: CIESIN. Serving as session chairs/co-chairs were CIESIN staff Deborah Balk, Robert Chen, Alex deSherbinin, and Marc Levy. Alex de Sherbinin was also a member of the International Scientific Planning Committee.
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Sept
5–16 |
PERN Cyberseminar: Population Dynamics and Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
Online seminar
Rural household micro-demographics, livelihoods and the environment provided a forum for scholars from around the globe and from a wide range of disciplines to discuss recent research examining the reciprocal relationships among household-level population dynamics, rural livelihoods and the environment.
Co-sponsor: UN Millennium Project
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| 2004 |
Nov 30–
Dec 15
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PERN Cyberseminar on Urban Spatial Expansion: The Environmental and Health Dimensions
Online seminar
CIESIN's Population-Environment Research Network Web site held a cyberseminar which featured a background paper by Dr. Charles Redman, Director of the Consortium for the Study of Rapidly Urbanizing Regions; Ms. Nancy Jones, a researcher at the International Institute for Sustainability, Arizona State University; and a distinguished panel of experts.
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Sept
21–23 |
Global Spatial Data and Information: Development, Dissemination, and Use
Workshop—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
A core set of institutions assessed the coordination of spatial data and information dissemination among key players in the global data community in order to better meet user needs at global as well as regional and national levels. Hosted by CIESIN's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
Co-sponsors: CIESIN with FAO, UNEP, WHO, CGIAR, and CO-DATA
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May 13
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Extending the Boundaries: Managing and Preserving Geospatial Electronic Records
Workshop— Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Practitioners and managers from both the geospatial and data archiving communities met to address the challenges faced by state and local government personnel in managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records. Hosted by CIESIN.
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| 2003 |
Oct
16–18 |
5th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community
Montreal, Canada
Bi-annual meeting for social scientists focusing on global environmental change issues. Major themes: Transitions and Change: How does the view that the world is made up of complex coupled systems influence our research; Governance, Markets, and Ethics: What do we know about the institutions that mediate between human behavior and global change; and Poverty and security: How does global change affect those already vulnerable and how does it increase the vulnerability of others?
Co-sponsor: CIESIN. CIESIN's Marc Levy served as co-chair of the International Scientific Planning Committee.
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| 2002 |
Fall
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Disaster Risk Hotspots
Workshop—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Organized by the Disaster Risk Hotspot Project, composed of the Center for Hazards and Risk Research at Columbia University (CHRR), The World Bank, and a number of partner institutions as activities of ProVention Consortium, with funding from the UK Deparment for Development (DFID). CHRR participants included LDEO; CIESIN; the International Research Institute for Climate Protection (IRI); and other centers within The Earth Institute of Columbia University.
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Feb
4–8
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Open GIS Consortium (OGC)
Consortium—Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
More than 220 members from industry, government, and universities held the next technical and planning committee meetings at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Hosted by CIESIN, with NASA and several other federal agencies as sponsors of this initiative, and Columbia University participating as a coordinating organization.
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| 2001 |
Oct
6–8
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4th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bi-annual meeting for social scientists focusing on global environmental change issues. Major themes: Challenges of Integration in Human Dimensions Research; Urban Sustainable Development; Vulnerability—a core human dimensions theme;
Poverty and the Environment; Trade, the State, and the Environment;
and Integrating Human Dimensions Research into Climate Change Assessments.
Co-sponsor: CIESIN.
CIESIN's Marc Levy served as co-chair of the International Scientific Planning Committee.
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Sept
6–7
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Disaster Risk Hotspots
Workshop
Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Some 35 experts representing a range of hazards, disciplines, and approaches participated, including seven from Europe.The workshop reviewed the scientific basis for defining and comparing natural disaster risks of different types by combining hazard data with spatially detailed estimates of potentially vulnerable human populations and their infrastructure, economic activities, and coping capacities. CIESIN helped organize and host a joint workshop on “Assessment of High Risk Disaster Hotspots” co-sponsored by the World Bank's Disaster Management Facility (DMF) [later to become the “Hazard Management Unit”] and Columbia University's new Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR).
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| June 12–15 |
Photo-oxidant, Particles, and Haze Across the Arctic and North Atlantic: Transport Observations and Models
Workshop
Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
International experts from the global and regional atmospheric chemistry communities convened to assess the current state of knowledge, identify research needs, and improve the coordination of research efforts with regard to a series of specific scientific questions of interest to the international environmental policy and research communities. Hosted by CIESIN.
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada in coordination with UN/ECE European Monitoring and Evaluation Program (EMEP) and Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP)
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| Feb 23 |
Remote Sensing Applications at the State and Local Level
Workshop
Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Approximately twenty representatives from local and state governments and non-governmental organizations in New York and New Jersey participated in the workshop, which addressed issues of the availability of and needs for remotely sensed data products on the part of local users.
Sponsored by CIESIN's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
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| 2000 |
Dec
4–5 |
Remote Sensing and Environmental Treaties: Building More Effective Linkages
Workshop
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC
A targeted and results-oriented discussion on the applications of remote sensing to enhance the effectiveness environmental treaties. Hosted by CIESIN's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
Co-sponsor:The World Conservation Union (IUCN), MEDIAS-France, and the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Project.
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May
2–3 |
Gridding Population Data
User Workshop
Lamont Campus, Palisades, New York
Key developers and users of gridded population databases met to foster the exchange of ideas and methods and to stimulate new activities through collaboration. Hosted by CIESIN's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
Co-sponsors: National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and UNEP
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