Terra Populus: A Global Population/Environment Data Network

Lead PI: Robert Chen

Unit Affiliation: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

September 2011 - August 2016
Inactive
Global
Project Type: Research

DESCRIPTION: CIESIN supported development of the Terra Populus data service (now known as IPUMS Terra). IPUMS Terra integrates population and environmental data across disciplinary scientific domains, enabling research into dramatic transformations of human populations, the environment, and their interactions.

SPONSOR:

University of Minnesota

ORIGINATING SPONSOR:

National Science Foundation

RESEARCH TEAM:

Susana Adamo, Sandra Baptista, Alex de Sherbinin

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

Minnesota Population Center; InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

WEBSITE:

https://terra.ipums.org/

KEYWORDS

data integration environment population demography

THEMES

Stewardship of the planet