September 16

Presenter: Maggi Kelly, Associate Professor, Associate CE Specialist, & GIF Faculty Director, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Historical Ecology from Rescued Data: The Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

September 23

Presenter: Kevin Koy, Manager, GIF

Topic: "Understanding Myanmar's endangered Eld's Deer through Remote Sensing and GIS"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

September 30

Presenter: Sam Blanchard, Staff Research Associate, ESPM, UC Berkeley

Topic:

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 7

Presenter: John Rozum, EBM Tools Training Coordinator, NatureServe, NOAA Coastal Services Center - Contractor

Topic: "Using Geospatial Information and Tools To Guide Better Land Use Decision Making"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 14

Presenter: Brian Galey, GIS/RS Specialist, GIF

Topic: Discussion: Server-Side Technologies for Geospatial Data

Brian will lead an informal discussion on some of the different options that are now available when working with geospatial data in a server environment (GeoServer, MapServer, ArcGIS Server). Come share your knowledge in this area, or just listen and learn from others experience.

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 21

Presenter: Maria João Ferreira dos Santos, Post Doctoral Fellow, MVZ

Topic: "Multi-spectral Remote Sensing of wildlife habitat: three case studies in mammals, birds and fish"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 28

Presenter: Scott Loarie, Post Doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institute, Stanford

Topic: "Keeping our eggs in our baskets: managing biodiversity responses to climate change"

Scott grew up in Healdsburg in Northern California and received undergraduate and masters degrees in ecology from Stanford University. He has a PhD in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University where he studied African mammal migrations with Stuart Pimm. He is currently a post-doc at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford studying land-use and climate effects of biofuel expansion in South America.

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

November 4

Presenter: Lorraine & Alan Flint, USGS

Topic: "Evaluating Changes in Western Watersheds: Implications of Climate Change for Landscapes and Water Availability from Regional to Local Scales"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

November 11

No GeoLunch. Veterans Day

November 18

No GeoLunch. GIS Day 2010

November 25

No GeoLunch. Thanksgiving

December 2

Presenter: Paul Waddell, Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Assessing Community Sustainability Strategies: Scenario Modeling, Visualization and Public Engagement"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

December 9

Presenter: Timothy Doherty, Coastal Planner, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Topic: "Climate Change and Adaptation Planning in San Francisco Bay"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall