ESM News 2012/2013
Updated estimate shows less land for biofuel
Less land may be available for growing biofuels than previously thought, according to a new study of land availability published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Citizen scientists were major contributors to the report. More
Towards Constraining GHG Emission in the Future: Systems Analytical Challenges Ahead
ESM researcher Matthias Jonas will give a lecture at the Lviv Polytechnic National University in the Ukraine on Thursday, 22nd of November 2012. More
beta-hybrid.geo-wiki.org launched
A new Geo-wiki branch beta-hybrid.geo-wiki.org has been launched recently. More
beta-hybrid.geo-wiki.org launched
A new Geo-wiki branch beta-hybrid.geo-wiki.org has been launched recently. More
Citizens add to Forest Cover Map
ESM researchers Marijn van der Velde, Linda See and Steffen Fritz recently wrote a Correspondence in Nature to illustrate how ‘crowd sourcing’ initiatives can complement remote sensing data. More
Informal Future Forest Meeting
On Monday 22nd of October 2012, the working group from the Swedish Future Forests program/SLU will visit the ESM Program again to discuss further collaboration within the Future Forest Project. More
Geo-Wiki Presentation at the World Food Summit
ESM Researcher Linda See will present a summary of the recent USAID hackathon experience at the World Food Summit in Des Moines Iowa, US on 16 Oct 2012. More
Hacking for Humanity - New Hackathon starts on 13th of October 2012!
The Geo-Wiki Team will take part in a new hackathon focusing on Central African Republic. Cropland information for this country is currently poor since the two best cropland maps disagree almost completely on where cropland occurs. Our aim is to improve this situation. More
Hacking For Hunger - Hackathon Continues
Data Cleanup Geo-Wiki Crowd-Sourced Data in Ethiopia: Stopping Land Grabbing and Improving Food Security More
Modelling Workshop in DRC organized by the National REDD Coordination
ESM researchers Aline Mosnier and Géraldine Bocquého will participate in a modeling workshop organized by the National REDD Coordination (CN-REDD) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). More
Revision: IPCC Good Practice Guidelines for LULUCF
Hannes Böttcher (Ecosystem Services and Management) will attend an international Expert Meeting and the First Lead Author Meeting on September 24-28 in Kobe, Japan. More
Assessing Effectiveness of European Biofuel Sustainability Criteria
Stefan Frank will present his study on the Effectiveness of European Biofuel Sustainability Criteria at the meeting of the Austrian Society of Agricultural Economics (ÖGA) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. More
UPDATE: Current Geo-Wiki Competition
The competition will end on the 15th of September, so the final race has started! More