[ESIP-all] AGU IN058: Where We Live and Work: Improving Data and Models for Human Settlements, Infrastructure, and Population Distribution

[Bob Chen]

Sorry I wasn't able to make it out for the Summer meeting! As I'm sure 
you're aware, the deadline for submitting to the fall AGU meeting is 
coming up next week, Wednesday, August 2, at 11:59 pm US Eastern 
Daylight Time. We are pleased to note that Vincent Seaman of the Bill 
and Melinda Gates Foundation and Catherine Linard of the Free University 
of Brussels have agreed to be the invited speakers in our session. We 
hope you will consider submitting to the session--it should be an 
unusual opportunity to interact with the growing number of groups 
developing and utilizing diverse data on human settlements, population, 
and the built infrastructure.

Hope to see you in New Orleans! Cheers, Bob

*****
Dr. Robert S. Chen
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
tel. +1 845-365-8952; fax +1 845-365-8922
e-mail: bchen at ciesin.columbia.edu
CIESIN web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
SEDAC web site: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu

On 7/7/17 11:35 AM, Bob Chen wrote:
> Please consider submitting an abstract to session IN058, "Where We 
> Live and Work: Improving Data and Models for Human Settlements, 
> Infrastructure, and Population Distribution," at the fall American 
> Geophysical Union meeting, December 11-15, 2017, in New Orleans 
> (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26361). 
> The session will be an unusual opportunity to interact with the 
> diverse set of data providers, users, and other stakeholders working 
> with georeferenced data and models related to human settlements, the 
> built infrastructure, and population distribution in support of a 
> range of research and application areas. We are interested in not only 
> in new data and methods for mapping and characterizing population and 
> infrastructure in an integrated way, but also in examples of the 
> applications of these data in disaster risk management, mitigation and 
> adaptation efforts, poverty reduction, conservation, resource 
> management, communications and transportation, and other aspects of 
> sustainable development.
>
> As I'm sure you know, the submission deadline is *Wednesday, August 
> 2*. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. We 
> hope you will consider submitting to this session! Cheers, Bob
>
> P.S. Apologies for cross-posting...
>
>
>     IN058: Where We Live and Work: Improving Data and Models for Human
>     Settlements, Infrastructure, and Population Distribution
>
> *Session ID#: * 26361
>
> Our exposure and vulnerability to extreme events, climate change, 
> conflict, and other threats, as well as our ability to develop 
> sustainably and build resilience, are conditioned on where we live and 
> work and on our ability to develop and maintain protective 
> infrastructure in sustainable human settlements. An increasing array 
> of remote sensing and other data sources are opening up opportunities 
> to better assess, monitor, model, and predict population and 
> infrastructure patterns, characteristics, and change on diverse 
> spatial and temporal scales. This session will showcase new data 
> sources and applications, innovative data mining and analytic methods, 
> and evolving modeling and validation approaches from a range of 
> natural, social, health, and engineering science communities. It will 
> provide a venue to examine and discuss emerging applications of data 
> to address pressing societal decisions, challenges in open data 
> access, integration, and use, and ways to facilitate interdisciplinary 
> collaboration across the public and private sectors.
>
> Primary Convener: *Robert S Chen*, Columbia University of New York, 
> Palisades, NY, United States
> Conveners: *Budhendra L Bhaduri*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak 
> Ridge, TN, United States, *Andrea Gaughan*, University of Louisville, 
> Dept. of Geography and Geosciences, Louisville, KY, United States and 
> *Gregory Yetman*, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United 
> States
> *
> Co-Organized with:*
> *Earth and Space Science Informatics*,Global Environmental Change,and 
> Natural Hazards
>
> *****
> Dr. Robert S. Chen
> 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
> tel. +1 845-365-8952; fax +1 845-365-8922
> e-mail:bchen at ciesin.columbia.edu
> CIESIN web site:http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
> SEDAC web site:http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu

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