In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sat down with Laura Cline from the Department of State (Dos) Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU).

00:59 Laura describes her role at DoS HIU specifically with the Secondary Cities and the Cities COVID Mitigation Mapping (C2M2) program.

1:55 Outreach and mapping initiatives – MapGive.  Find mapping opportunities atHIU.state.gov and https://mapgive.state.gov

9:16 The value of partnerships and the Participatory Mapping Partnerships Network

11:51 Join a mapathon!

13:54 Laura shares her perspective on the value of open data.

18:19 Valuable partnerships – World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group, National Science Foundation Spatial Temporal Consortium and the Harvard Geospatial Center for Geospatial Approaches

19:58 Data Sources discussed

Secondary Cities https://secondarycities.state.gov/

C2M2 https://mapgive.state.gov/c2m2/

Open Street Map https://www.openstreetmap.org

Humanitarian Data Exchange https://data.humdata.org/

In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dr. Robert Chen and Dr. Alex de Sherbinin from the Center for International Earth Science and Information Network (CIESEN) at Columbia University.

1:00 Dr. Chen talks about his career path to CIESIN.

1:42 Early research on the impact of sea-level rise.

3:35 CIESIN is born as an independent consortium.

4:30 Dr. Chen describes his current role at CIESEN.

6:10 CIESIN datasets that are openly available to the community http://www.ciesin.org/  and Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/

8:00 Partnership’s key to discovering, understanding and trusting interdisciplinary data.

9:45 Value of partnering with the WWHGD  https://wwhgd.org

12:05 Dr. de Sherbinin describes climate induced migration and the challenges with measuring it.

16:00 The World Bank’s Groundswell Report(s) https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29461

19:40 Datasets used to produce climate-induced migration projections – coming soon through SEDAC https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/

In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sat down with Dr. Melinda Laituri from Colorado State University who spoke about her research on Secondary Cities, participatory mapping, and water security.

1:00 Dr. Laituri describes the Secondary Cities project.

2:26 Secondary Cities data  https://secondarycities.state.gov/

3:45 Establishing partnerships across the Secondary Cities.

5:35 Where are the Secondary Cities?

7:10 On the ground with Secondary Cities.

8:25 Data resources https://secondarycities.state.gov/ https://hiu.state.gov/

9:05 Secondary Cities methodology used during COVID pandemic for the Cities’ COVID Mitigation Mapping (C2M2) project.  https://mapgive.state.gov/c2m2/

11:15 Understanding second and third order impacts of COVID through the C2M2 research and mapping.

11:55 Water Security – what are the services needed and at what scale to understand water needs?

13:45 Using participatory mapping to better understand water and its availability?

14:45 Where in the world will be next find Dr. Laituri?

15:25 Key things needed to better inform our future.

16:20 Dr. Laituri is no stranger to the WWHGD.  Visit our event archives at wwhgd.orgto hear her presentations during “Secondary Cities and Participatory Mapping” webinar in 2016; “Mapping Water Availability and its Impact on Humans in 2020” and the 50th WWHGD Anniversary Event – focused on Planetary Health in 2020.

In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt speak with Jim Courson from the International Mission Board. Mr. Courson speaks about his work at IMB and discovering, mapping and sharing data on people groups around the world.

00:50 Mission of IMB

2:40 Why Ethnolinguistic Groups Research

3:50 How do you gather data on people groups? Ethnologue: Languages of the World

5:50 How do you map data on people groups?

7:00 Discover people groups data here - People Groups Official Web Site

9:30 What makes the “Dog’s Head” region in Northwest Brazil special?

13:18 The challenge of mapping 8,500 unique people groups found across the world.

15:09 Humanitarian relief to Ukraine.

16:05 Modeling to describe the people groups.

18:15 Use of external datasets People of India | Anthropological Survey of India (ansi.gov.in)

WorldPop :: Mapping Populations

20:30 Download IMB data here: imb Open Data (arcgis.com)

In this second episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt speak with Dr. Budhu Bhaduri from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Bhaduri speaks about his journey to become the Director of the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, the rich history of ORNL, and the value of partnering with the World-Wide Human Geography Data (WWHGD) Working Group.

5:05 Mission of ORNL and its historical investment in science (https://www.ORNL.gov)

9:10 ORNL’s impact on the Human Geography community 

10:50 Value of partnership with the WWHGD Working Group

11:45 Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data Working Group (https://hifld-geoplatform.open data.arcgis.com)

14:00 WWHGD.org artifacts (https://WWHGD.org)

14:40 Partnership with ORNL Urban Dynamics Institute for the 2018 Human Geography Dimensions of Energy Access and Use Symposium (https://wwhgd.org)

In this first episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, the hosts, Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt, speak with the cochairs of the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group, Dr. Debbie Fugate and Dr. Lee Schwartz, about their journeys as cochairs of the Working Group, as well as the origins and history of the Working Group. The hosts, Dr. Fugate, and Dr. Schwartz discuss how the Working Group approaches the study of human geography and why it is such a critical unifying function.

WWHGD website: https://WWHGD.org