North America Nodal Office

Center for Global Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO)

+1-517-432-7774

Michigan State University
218 Manly Miles Building
1405 S. Harrison Road
East Lansing, MI 48823
United States

Focus on:
a. Social-ecological (or coupled human and natural) systems
b. Water-Energy- Food Nexus
c. Co-design, co-implementation, co-production of knowledge
d. Africa (e.g., Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Tanzania)
e. Asia (e.g., Mongolia, China, Lower Mekong Countries, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan)
f. North America (e.g., the US Midwest)
g. South America (e.g., Brazil, Colombia)

People in This Office

 

Events

 

October

3

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 (All day) to Tuesday, October 10, 2023 (All day)

This free online ARSET Training being offered 3-10 October will cover the basics of natural hazard risk modeling and exposure development with a focus on fusing data from multiple datasets expressly for the purposes of risk assessment.

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October

26

Thursday, October 26, 2023 (All day) to Thursday, November 9, 2023 (All day)

This free online ARSET Training being offered from 26 October to 9 November will provide an overview of spectral indices for land and aquatic applications. Use cases from recent Earth Action projects (such as NASA DEVELOP) will further highlight how spectral indices can provide essential information about land and aquatic environments.

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Jobs

 

Two graduate positions in Geography

McGill University

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Friday, December 1, 2023

The Land, Environment and Development lab at McGill University is opening two funded graduate positions (MA/MSc or PhD): one to study livelihood resilience in deforestation frontiers, and another to study Mennonite land acquisitions in Latin America, both starting September 2024. Deadline: 1 December 2023 for full consideration.

Associate or Full Professor (Tenured), Environmental Studies - Environmental Sciences

New York University

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Sunday, October 1, 2023

The Department of Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University encourages applications from scholars across scientific disciplines with research interests in environmental science, and are particularly interested in researchers working at the nexus of energy, water, and food. Deadline: 1 October 2023

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Environmental Studies - Animal Studies

New York University

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Sunday, October 1, 2023

The Department of Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University encourages applications from scholars whose research specializes in any dimension of Animal Studies, a multidisciplinary field that examines what nonhuman animals are like, how human and nonhuman animals relate to each other, and the significance of these relations across several dimensions. Deadline: 1 October 2023

News

 
September 5, 2023

A new publication in Nature Sustainability estimates the range of economic losses between US$39.4 million and US$107.5 million annually in 2016-2017, under 100% soy or corn counterfactuals, respectively.

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GLP News

January 2, 2023

The Global Land Programme (GLP) IPO moved to its new home at the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences in the United States on 1 February 2023. This transition was made possible by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in support of the land science community as a key part of international global change research infrastructure.

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October 11, 2022

This series of sessions at the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting aims to bring together researchers and practitioners focused on rural-urban linkages and their implications for multi-dimensional inequalities, food systems, land-use change, human well-being, or multi-scale socio-environmental governance in the context of climate change. Deadline: 28 October

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July 17, 2022

Please consider submitting an abstract to the American Geophysical Union conference session 'GC054 - Linkages across climate, hydrologic, and agricultural systems.' AGU will be held in Chicago and virtually from Dec 12-16, 2022. Deadline to submit an abstract: 3 August 2022

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