The Lamont Earth Science Colloquium presents:
Operationalizing Data Co-Production at Scale for Urban Climate Resilience
with Dr. Dana Thomson, Senior Staff Associate III, Associate Director for Science Applications, Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN)
Achieving equitable, climate-resilient cities requires data systems that connect global science with the lived realities of complex, rapidly changing cities and neighborhoods. This talk presents the City Segments Layer - a globally standardized neighborhood dataset covering 5,000+ cities in 107 low- and middle-income countries - as a scaffold for integrating environmental, climate, and socioeconomic indicators into decision-ready data products. By embedding interpretable vulnerability metrics and continuous feedback mechanisms, we illustrate emerging processes for large-scale data co-production in which data scientists, local governments, and citizen “experience experts” collaboratively generate, validate, and refine global datasets derived from Earth observation, GIS, and local knowledge. These evolving feedback loops ensure open, interoperable data infrastructures, and make climate and social vulnerability information more accurate, relevant, and actionable for last-mile users.
The Earth Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), provides a lively forum for discussing a wide variety of topics within the Earth sciences and related fields. Colloquia are attended by the full range of scientific and technical staff at LDEO. Colloquium attendance is required of all pre-orals DEES graduate students. The Colloquium Series supports the Lamont Seminar Diversity Initiative.
