September 6

Presenter: Iryna Dronova, PhD Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: Object-based image analysis - new paradigms for landscape ecology

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

September 13

Presenter: Michael Cohen, PhD Student, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

Topic: Hypothetical Geographies of the Electrical Distribution System

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

September 20

Presenter: Geoff McGhee & Lauren Sommer, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University

Topic: The Making of "Envisioning California's Delta"

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Geoff McGhee, a veteran of online infographics and multimedia, is the Creative Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. His center recently collaborated with KQED Radio's QUEST and the San Francisco Estuary Institute to create an interactive map of the historical Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Geoff will talk about the unusual three-way collaboration among scientists, researchers and journalists, and some of the lessons learned along the way: the challenges of web-based interactive visualization, storytelling with data, and reaching a broad audience while preserving scientific precision.

Lauren covers environment and science as a reporter with QUEST - KQED's multiplatform science and environmental series. As part of her day job, she has scaled Sierra Nevada peaks, hunted for newts in the rain, and desperately tried to get her sea legs - all in pursuit of good radio. Originally from the Bay Area, Lauren attended Cornell University and has a background in environmental policy. Before joining KQED, she cruised bunny slopes as a ski instructor in Tahoe, California and ate croissants in France as a travel writer for Frommer's. Her work has appeared on Marketplace, Living on Earth, and NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

September 27

Presenter: Michel Serafinelli, PhD Student, Economics, UC Berkeley

Topic: Worker Flows in Local Labor Markets

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 4

Presenters:

Kevin Koy, Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF)

Michelle Koo, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ)

Topic: Developing an Informatics Engine for Understanding Biotic Response to Global Change

The GIF and Berkeley Natural History Museums, have been awarded a grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop a research and collaboration tool that will unify the UC's vast specimen and Field station data with environmental layers. The project is a part of the Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology (BiGCB), and incorporates the work and data from a wide array of research. A full summary of the project can be found here.

Michelle and Kevin will talk about the plans for populating and developing the engine, and solicit feedback for potential use cases.

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 11

Presenter: Lu Liang, PhD Student, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: Applying spatial-temporal and phylogenetic analysis approaches for improved understanding on global H5N1 transmission"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 18

Presenter: Van Kane, Research Associate, College of Environment, University of Washington

Topic: Development of forest structural heterogeneity in the Pacific Northwest and Sierra Nevada forests at landscape scales from LiDAR data

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

October 25

Presenter: Pawel Misztal, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: Using aircraft measurements for mapping emissions from oak woodlands and other landscapes in California

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

November 1

Presenter: Sean Maher, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

Topic: Testing and implementing machine learning classification methods as ecological niche models

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

November 8

Presenter: Kristin Byrd, U.S. Geological Survey

Topic: Remote Sensing of Wetland Carbon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

November 15

No Geolunch, GIS Day is Wednesday November 14th.

November 22

No Geolunch, Thanksgiving