http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:49:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/04/migration-in-risk-prone-areas/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/04/migration-in-risk-prone-areas/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:54:40 +0000 Center for International Earth Science Information Network http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=33869 Access to data that lets us analyze global migration patterns is critical to climate change adaptation planning, among other applications.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/04/migration-in-risk-prone-areas/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/04/in-your-own-backyard-mapping-communities-near-superfund-sites/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/04/in-your-own-backyard-mapping-communities-near-superfund-sites/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:04:51 +0000 Center for International Earth Science Information Network http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=27338 The NPL Superfund Footprint Mapper is an interactive, online mapping application—a clickable map—that lets users visualize a rich variety of population and environment characteristics of areas in the vicinity of Superfund sites.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/04/in-your-own-backyard-mapping-communities-near-superfund-sites/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/03/major-spatial-data-collection-released/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/03/major-spatial-data-collection-released/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:52:42 +0000 Alex de Sherbinin http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=18509 Urbanization poses both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development and environmental management. Improved data on patterns of human settlement and trends in population can help researchers and policy makers better understand differences between urban and rural areas in terms of their impacts on the environment and vulnerability to environmental variability and change. The newly released [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/03/major-spatial-data-collection-released/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/24/updated-map-viewer-enables-visualization-of-socioeconomic-and-earth-science-data/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/24/updated-map-viewer-enables-visualization-of-socioeconomic-and-earth-science-data/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:32:38 +0000 Elisabeth Sydor http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=15817 Terra Viva SEDAC Viewer, a map viewer and standalone software application, has been updated for 2011 with the addition of several new SEDAC data sets, including climate change scenario data and indicator collections with hundreds of variables. Terra Viva contains map data and GIS functions in one package. An excellent tool for educators, as well [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/24/updated-map-viewer-enables-visualization-of-socioeconomic-and-earth-science-data/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/03/mapping-peace-protests-and-violence-around-the-kenyan-referendum/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/03/mapping-peace-protests-and-violence-around-the-kenyan-referendum/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:58:01 +0000 Jaclyn Leigh Carlsen http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=5165 You may have heard that on Wednesday, August 4, a historic event will be taking place: a referendum deciding the acceptance or rejection of a new constitution for Kenya. The Green side (aka ‘Yes camp’) is headed by President Mwai Kibaki and supported by Kenya prime minister Raila Odinga and much of the parliament. The [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/03/mapping-peace-protests-and-violence-around-the-kenyan-referendum/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/12/pondering-the-deep/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/12/pondering-the-deep/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 19:32:33 +0000 Kim Martineau http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=349 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/12/pondering-the-deep/feed/ 0