August 28

GIF Open House - click here for details

September 11

Presenter: Michael Byrne, Geospatial Information Officer (GIO), State of California

Topic: "California's IT/GIS strategy" click here for full presentation (.pptx, ~7MB)

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

September 18

Presenter: Oliver Sonnentag, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: "How do land management practices affect net ecosystem exchange of an invasive plant infestation?" click here for full presentation (PDF, ~2MB)

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

September 25

Presenter: William McShea, Wildlife Ecologist, Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park

Topic: "Mapping distribution as a conservation measure; an example using Asiatic black bears in China"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

October 2

Presenter: Kevin Koy, Manager, Geospatial Innovation Facility, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Agent Based Models and GIS"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

October 9

Presenter: Nicole Boyle, Geographic Information Specialist, Statewide Database, UC Berkeley

Topic: "California's Redistricting Database"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

October 16

Sorry, no Geolunch this week

October 23

Presenter: John Chiang, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Center for Atmospheric Sciences - UC Berkeley

Topic: "Tropical rainfall and climate change"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

October 30

Presenters:

Kim Carlson - PhD Candidate, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Matt Colgan - PhD Candidate, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University

Topics:

Kim: "Using a Landsat time series (1990-2008) to evaluate oil palm's role in land use change in Indonesian Borneo"

Matt: "Topo-edaphic Controls over Woody Biomass in South African Savannas"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

November 6

Presenter: Kass Green, President, Kass Green & Associates

Topic: “Mapping the Vegetation of the Grand Canyon Using ADS40 imagery, Image Segmentation, and CART"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

November 13

Sorry, no Geolunch this week

November 20

Presenter: Tim Bean, PhD Student, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Pushing the envelope: hierarchical distribution modeling of the giant kangaroo rat"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

November 27

No Geolunch - Thanksgiving

December 4

Presenter: Rafael Real de Asua, Senior GIS Analyst; Eric Edlund, GIS Analyst; Sebastian Araya, GIS Analyst

Topic: "Stillwater Sciences - Integral GIS from fieldwork to desktop spatial analysis"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

December 11

Presenter: Marc Parisien , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Mapping and understanding landscape-level fire probability using simulation modeling"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room