The Population-Environment Research Network, hosted by Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), is holding its first official "cyberseminar" through April 30. The Network’s on-line seminar series provides a venue to discuss recent empirical results from field studies, as well as theories, conceptual models, data needs, and research approaches in this emerging field. The first cyber-seminar open to anyone with interests in human-environment interactions, examines a paper by researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Environmental Science and Policy entitled "Migration, Markets, and Mangrove Resource Use on Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia."

The Population Environment Research Network is an academic and web-based information source on current population and environment research worldwide. The network aims to stimulate greater communication about, and the advancement of, methodologies and approaches to population-environment research. It accomplishes this through an on-line and searchable database of recent literature, most of which is available in digital format, as well as by hosting occasional cyber-seminars on current research topics. Our target audiences are institutions and individual researchers around the world from disciplines including demography, geography, anthropology, history, political science, ecology, biology and environmental studies, as well as all others interested or actively involved in population and environment research.

The network is co-sponsored by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme (IHDP) and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Population, Consumption and Environment Initiative. Columbia’s CIESIN hosts the web site and provides technical assistance to the Network coordinators. The network has an advisory board of 39 distinguished demographers, economists, political scientists, ecologists and other scientists from around world.