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GeoLunch
Time: Thursdays 1:10 - 2:00PM
Location: Mulford 103
The GIF and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) host a weekly GeoLunch seminar series offering interesting talks, group discussion, and show-and-tells all involving geospatial theory, research, and application. Geolunch is open to everyone.
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Scheduled Presenters:
February 21
Presenter: Michele Orsi,
map2app
Topic: map2app, a startup that turns geo-located content into mobile apps
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
February 28
Presenter: Mark Tukman, Tukman Geospatial
Topic: Vegetation Mapping in Sonoma County
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
March 7
Presenter: Roberta Damasceno, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ)
Topic: Integrating Species Distribution Modeling and Thermal Physiological experiments to assess phylogeographic structure of a tropical lizard
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
March 14
Presenter: Jing Wu, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Topic: Cell-based Deformation Monitoring via 3D Point Clouds
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
March 21
Presenter: Gio Rapacciuolo, Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, UC Berkeley
Topic: Range dynamics plots: a new tool making use of species' distribution records at multiple times to assess how well species distribution models predict range dynamics over time
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
March 28
No Geolunch, Spring Break
April 4
Presenter: Javier del Castillo, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)
Topic: Adapting to Rising Tides – Collaborative efforts to adapt Bay Area communities to rising sea levels
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
April 11
Presenter: Kevin Lacefield, Information Systems Department, County of Sonoma
Topic: Hammer meet Nail – Using GIS within a County Government
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
April 18
Presenter: Robin Kraft, World Resources Institute
Topic: Scaling geospatial data management and analysis: FORMA, a deforestation alerting tool that uses Hadoop for data processing and CartoDB for visualization
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
April 25
Presenter: Cynthia Powell, Calflora
Topic: Maps, Apps, and Botany Saps: Putting the Science in Citizen Science
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
May 2
Presenter: Sarah Lewis, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
Topic: Mapping goes fuzzy when considering tequila plants as a bioenergy crop in the U.S.
Location: 103 Mulford Hall
Previous GeoLunch agendas can be found on the following pages:
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006