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About the CLIMB project Climate change (interlinked with humanitarian crises and other economic and health factors) could lead to internal resettlement, international migration, and other (new) forms of human mobility. However, the empirical link between...

Coastal mangrove forests provide important ecosystem goods and services, including carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and hazard mitigation. However, they are being destroyed at an alarming rate by human activities. To characterize mangrove...

This project analyzed CDC published mortality data of a dozen major causes since 1999, and applied the Exponential Smoothing (ETS) algorithm to simulate the 2020 mortality rates per cause, per month and per state, assuming there was no COVID-19 pandemic...

Sponsored by NSF, this project is to build a comprehensive data repository of virus cases, associated social and natural information from different resources for sustainable archive; share data with the research communities through smart data discovery...

In collaboration with OmniSci Technologies and the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center, and in close coordination with Harvard Research Computing (FASRC), the CGA has deployed the OmniSci GPU database and PostGIS, on Harvard's large computation cluster....

Moorcroft Lab Recent technological advances in remote sensing are moving terrestrial ecosystem monitoring beyond land cover change mapping, in the form of imaging spectrometry able to detect light intensity from tens to hundreds of contiguous spectral...

The Out of Eden Walk is a 24,000-mile journalistic endeavor to create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news. Sponsored and hosted by...

Funded by OmniSci Technologies, LLC. as a member of the I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center Can be hosted on Harvard Cannon Cluster, Amazon AWS, Mass Open Cloud, MapD Cloud. Use cases: Improving access to hydrological models used in water management...

With funding from the Sloan Foundation and Harvard Dataverse , Ben Lewis, Devika Kakkar, Merce Crosas, and David Smiley developed a prototype, open source, spatio-temporal visualization platform dubbed "the BOP" (Billion Object Platform). The first goal...

Spatiotemporal Innovation Center Everything happens in space and time. From natural disasters to human catastrophes; from public health to energy sustainability; from urban growth to food security; 21st-century challenges call for a deep understanding of...