User Working Group

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

Molly Macauley,  Research Director, Resources for the Future

User Working Group Executive Secretary

Marc Levy, SEDAC Lead Project Scientist, CIESIN

Current UWG Members

Paul Bartel
Senior Fellow, National Defense University

Linda Billings
School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University

Uwe Deichmann
Development Research Group, The World Bank

Ruth DeFries
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology (E3B), Columbia University

Erle Ellis
Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Peter Fox
Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Marc Imhoff
Joint Global Change Research Institute

Kyle McDonald
NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center, CCNY

Mark R. Montgomery
Population Council

Jonathan Patz
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Olga Wilhelmi
Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)