A new article in Frontiers in Climate, "Perspectives on Citizen Science Data Quality," offers a data lifecycle approach for improving data quality. Robert Downs, Senior digital archivist at Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), is lead author, with co-authors Hampapuram Ramapriyan, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI); Ge Peng, University of Alabama Huntsville; and Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC).
CIESIN research scientist Susana Adamo and associate director for Science Applications Alex de de Sherbinin, who is also manager of NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), are among co-authors of the article "Food Security among Dryland Pastoralists and Agropastoralists: The Climate, Land-use Change, and Population Dynamics Nexus," appearing in The Anthropocene Review. Lead author is Illan Stavi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Adamo is also one of the guest editors of the Special Issue of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), "Bridging Science and Policy through Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Global Change Research in the Americas," in the journal Environmental Development.