State of the Planet

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  • Migration in Risk-Prone Areas

    Migration in Risk-Prone Areas

    Access to data that lets us analyze global migration patterns is critical to climate change adaptation planning, among other applications.

  • In Your Own Backyard: Mapping Communities Near Superfund Sites

    In Your Own Backyard: Mapping Communities Near Superfund Sites

    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.

  • Major Spatial Data Collection Released

    Major Spatial Data Collection Released

    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…

  • Updated Map Viewer Enables Visualization of Socioeconomic and Earth Science Data

    Updated Map Viewer Enables Visualization of Socioeconomic and Earth Science Data

    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…

  • Mapping Peace, Protests, and Violence in Kenya

    Mapping Peace, Protests, and Violence in Kenya

    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…

  • Pondering the Deep

    Another world lies beneath the Hudson River, as scientists have shown using pulses of sound to map the bottom. In recent years, the bathymetry maps developed at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Stony Brook University have turned up hundreds of shipwrecks and a new channel off Battery Park City, drawing interest from treasure hunters and mariners…

Colorful banner image over Earth with text "Open House Discover Science, October 19, 2024, 10am to 4pm

Join us on Saturday, October 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House! Celebrate 75 years of science with us at our beautiful Palisades, NY campus. The event is free and open to everyone, with a suggested $5 donation. Learn More and RSVP

  • Migration in Risk-Prone Areas

    Migration in Risk-Prone Areas

    Access to data that lets us analyze global migration patterns is critical to climate change adaptation planning, among other applications.

  • In Your Own Backyard: Mapping Communities Near Superfund Sites

    In Your Own Backyard: Mapping Communities Near Superfund Sites

    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.

  • Major Spatial Data Collection Released

    Major Spatial Data Collection Released

    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…

  • Updated Map Viewer Enables Visualization of Socioeconomic and Earth Science Data

    Updated Map Viewer Enables Visualization of Socioeconomic and Earth Science Data

    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…

  • Mapping Peace, Protests, and Violence in Kenya

    Mapping Peace, Protests, and Violence in Kenya

    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…

  • Pondering the Deep

    Another world lies beneath the Hudson River, as scientists have shown using pulses of sound to map the bottom. In recent years, the bathymetry maps developed at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Stony Brook University have turned up hundreds of shipwrecks and a new channel off Battery Park City, drawing interest from treasure hunters and mariners…