【Talk & Lecture】Global Mapping of Human Settlements and Population：Research and Applications in Support of Sustainable Development
Date: Jul.26th, 2019
Time: 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Robert S.Chen
Venue: Room 357, Mong Man Wai Building, Zijingang Campus
[Speaker Intro]
Robert S. Chen is Director and Senior Research Scientist of Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). In 1994, he helped establish the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), a NASA data center operated by CIESIN that today continues to develop and distribute socioeconomic, environmental and integrated datasets that complement satellite data and imagery. Chen also works with many different international organizations. He has contributed to activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for more than a decade and is an ex officio member of the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis. He is currently secretary-general of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Council for Science. He is also on the faculty steering committee for the Columbia Global Center | Beijing and served on the University’s E-Science Task Force. He received his B.S. and two master’s degrees from MIT and earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
