Cyberseminars
The purpose of cyberseminars is to provide a forum for scientists from the social and natural sciences to debate and discuss cutting edge population-environment research topics.
How to participate in (or leave) a cyberseminar
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Maria Jose Andrade-Nuñez, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras | |
Brian Blankespoor, World Bank | |
Sergio Freire, European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) | |
Stefan Leyk, University of Colorado Boulder | |
Catherine Linard, University of Namur | |
Alessandro Sorichetta, University of Southampton | |
Cascade Tulholske, University of California Santa Barbara |
A webinar to introduce the topic to PERN cyberseminar participants took place at 10am US EDT (UTC -4) on 14 October 2019.
Population-environment research on land system dynamics relies on data products that provide spatio-temporal information about land cover, land use activities, human population distributions and movements. With the increasing availability of finer-scale data products and higher power computational tools, researchers have a wide variety of data and methodological options from which to integrate people and pixel data. Of specific interest to this cyberseminar are the gridded, raster-based products that represent settlement patterns, population density and socio-demographic characteristics have rapidly advanced and proliferated in recent decades. There are a wide variety of gridded population and settlement datasets for end-users to choose from, with varying temporal and spatial specificities combined with underlying methods informing the relevant application and use of subsequent population data sets for further studies.
This cyberseminar will focus on the fitness-for-use aspect of various gridded population and settlement products and their suitability for different application areas in population-environment studies. We will explore issues of uncertainty, endogeneity, temporal-explicitness, and spatial conformity in these data products along with scale and projection considerations. The seminar also provides examples of applications of gridded population and settlement products in population-environment research. The cyberseminar provides a platform for dynamic engagement between producer and end-user research communities to push forward the conversation on understanding the continued method development and advancement for integrating these products into the nexus of population-environment-climate studies.
This PERN cyberseminar is being co-organized with the POPGRID Data Collaborative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
How to participate in (or leave) a cyberseminar:
PERN Cyberseminars are conducted using a standard email discussion list.
- To subscribe, send an email to pernseminars+subscribe@ciesin.columbia.edu
- To post, send an email to pernseminars@ciesin.columbia.edu
- To unsubscribe, send an email to pernseminars+unsubscribe@ciesin.columbia.edu
All who are interested in cyberseminar topics are invited to participate and subscription is free. Please adhere to the following standards of conduct when participating.
To ensure that the cyberseminar is successful and that we have a lively intellectual discussion, we would like to ask all the participants to be mindful of a few standards of conduct similar to those you might find in a face-to-face meeting. Please remember :
- Respectful disagreement is fine; impoliteness is not accepted.
- Opinions are welcome; advocacy is not - this is an intellectual debate, please refrain from using this forum for any advocacy purposes.
- Respect other's email space: do not repeat something you have already said and limit yourself to a reasonable number of postings.
With these standards in mind, we look forward to your active participation in the seminar.
If you experience technical difficulties, please contact the coordinators.