January 23

No Geolunch: GIF Open House

January 30

Presenter: Ana Carnaval

Topic: "Stability predicts diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 6

Presenter: Jeremy Freund, Geospatial Innovation Facility, UC Berkeley CNR

Topic: "Kite Aerial Photography Techniques for Vegetation Monitoring in Rural Senegal"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 13

Presenter: Dr. Christopher Potter, Ecosystems Science and Technology, NASA AMES Research Center

Topic: "Predicting the combined impacts of climate and land cover change on ecosystems of the Western United States -- Lessons from remote sensing and process modeling"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 20

Presenter: John Connors, Kelly Research Lab, ESPM, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Range of categorical associations for comparison of maps with mixed pixels"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 27

Presenter:Tao Xue, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Topic: “Mapping Urban Expansion and Planning Transport in Beijing and Zhengzhou”

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 6

Presenter: Phil Duffy, Climate Central

Topic: “Climate Projections for Species Impacts Studies”

Location: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

March 13

Presenter: Noah Wasserman, Department of Geography, San Francisco State University

Topic: "Repeat Photography and the Sierra Nevada Mountains"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 20

Presenter:Douglas Allen, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Landscape-scale stream temperature prediction: integrating topography, vegetation, and hydrology in a simple, process-based model"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 27

No Geolunch: Spring Break

April 3

Presenter:Jason Kolbe, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Predicting species distributions and detecting environmental niche shifts during biological invasions."

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 10

Presenters:Maggi Kelly, John Connors, & Shufei Lei, ESPM, UC Berkeley

Topic: "OakMapper. The evolution of a participatory webGIS: what's new, what's next, and how you can be involved."

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 17

Presenter:Lindsay Irving, California Academy of Sciences

Topic: “Conservation Mapping in Panama: Building a Greenprint of a watershed preserve”

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 24

No Geolunch: GIF Advisory Board Meeting

May 1

Presenter: Presenter: Dr. J.Kudoh (工藤純一), The Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi - Japan

Topics:

"1) Forest Fire Detection for Far East Russia by using NOAA AVHRR.
 2) Visualization of Air Pollution for East Asia by using NOAA AVHRR.
 3) Image Fusion Processing for IKONOS 1m Color Imagery by using Steepest Decent  Method."

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

May 8

Presenter: Dan Warren, Ph.D. student, Graduate Group in Population Biology, UC Davis

Topic: "New tools for model (Species Distribution Modeling) evaluation and hypothesis testing in evolution and ecology"

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room

May 15

Presenter: Heather Constable, SRA Georeferencing Supervisor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

Topic: “VertNET: The Future of Biodiversity Informatics and Conservation Tools”

Location: 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room