Organization:
Research Title: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Funding Level (millions of dollars):
| FY94 | 5.0 |
|---|---|
| FY95 | 6.0 |
| FY96 | 0.0 |
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) Component:
(a) Subcommittee: Global Change Research Subcommittee (100%)
(b) Environmental Issue: Global change (70%); Understanding
socioeconomic
driving
force (30%)
(c) Research Activity: Impacts and adaptations: socioeconomic (30%); Data
management
(70%)
5. Organizational Components:
Operations, Data and Information Systems Division
Office of Mission To Planet Earth
Point of Contact:
Jerry Garegnam
Phone: 202-358-0770
E-Mail: jgaregna@hq.nasa.gov
Research Goals:
CIESIN operates the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). SEDAC
is
the element within the Mission To Planet Earth's, Earth Observation System Data
and
Information System (EOSDIS) that provides access to socioeconomic data (for
combination
with EOS and other Earth Science data) which is necessary to support the public
policy
analysts and policy makers.
Research Description:
SEDAC is one of the EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) . Earth
science
research results, often in the form of new derived science products, must be used
in combination with socioeconomic data and information to analyze the effects of
changing environmental conditions on human activities such as agriculture, urban
planning, health changes, etc. SEDAC will develop new policy oriented information
products that synthesize Earth science and socioeconomic data and will provide the
connectivity to
sources of socioeconomic information around the world.
Program Interfaces:
SEDAC coordination, as is all the EOSDIS DAACs, is through the Committee on
Earth
and Natural Resources (Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
(CENR)) Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR).
Program Milestones:
The SEDAC contract with CIESIN was finalized in July, 1995 and will be tied to the
Major EOSDIS Milestones.
Policy Payoffs:
A better understanding of the extent, causes, and regional consequences of global
change's
human dimension.