User Working Group

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UWG Mission

The SEDAC User Working Group (UWG) provides ongoing advice and guidance regarding SEDAC activities and plans. Its responsibilities include reviewing SEDAC’s progress and performance, representation of user community perspectives in the development of SEDAC products and services, recommendation of specific data products and services to NASA and SEDAC, and provision of strategic guidance to NASA and SEDAC on objectives, priorities, target user communities, implementation approaches, and other issues. UWG members represent a broad range of social and natural science disciplines and other user groups from the public and private sectors. A SEDAC project scientist serves as executive secretary for the UWG.

User Working Group Chair

Barbara Ryan, Retired, former Secretariat Director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

User Working Group Executive Secretary

Susana Adamo, SEDAC Lead Project Scientist, CIESIN

Current UWG Members

Shaida Badiee
Open Data Watch

Nita Bharti
Biology Department, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University

Mariel Borowitz
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology

Douglas C. Comer
Cultural Site Research and Management

Sara Curran
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Lola Fatoyinbo
Biospheric Sciences Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Charlie Frye
Esri

Keith Garrett
Geospatial Operational Support Team, World Bank

Dave Jones
StormCenter Communications, Inc.

Laura Kurgan
Center for Spatial Research, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Stefan Leyk
Department of Geography, University of Colorado

WenWen Li
CyberInfrastructure and Computation Intelligence Lab, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University

Brian O'Neill
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University of Maryland

Navin Ramankutty
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia

Lea Shanley
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Stanford University Libraries

David Van Riper
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota

Danielle Wood
Space Enabled Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab