[ESIP-all] SEDAC News for January-February 2003

Bob Chen bchen@ciesin.columbia.edu
Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:00:58 -0500 (EST)


The January-February issue of SEDAC News is now available online at:

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/snews/sedacnews_jan-feb2003.html

The table of contents is given below. Please feel free to contact us
if you have any comments or questions.

Cheers, Bob.

SUMMARY

+ 2003 Human Dimensions Open Meeting announced
+ Human Footprint and Last of the Wild datasets available
+ GPW accessible through World Atlas of Biodiversity
+ CIPEC Summer Institute 2003 announced
+ FGDC Metadata Roundtable held
+ SEDAC presentation given at U.S. State Department
+ SEDAC to participate in AAG Annual Meeting
+ Presentation and booth planned in DC and Philadelphia
+ Chris Lenhardt joins Arctic System Science subcommittee
+ Correspondence published in The Lancet
+ GPW cited in the New York Times and J. of Aerosol Science
+ China data cited in two journal articles
+ Last of the Wild dataset featured on National Public Radio
+ Environmental Performance Index used in Foreign Policy
+ 2002 ESI cited in two journal articles
+ Calendar of Events


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Dr. Robert S. Chen
Deputy Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network
 (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Manager, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
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