February 3

Presenter: Jamie Kass & Marcus Klatt, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Topic: "The Bay Area Aquatic Resource Inventory - a comprehensive high-res basemap of wetlands, tidal habitats, and anything else wet"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 10

Presenter: Robert Hijmans, UC Davis

Topic: "Improving modeling methods to predict species responses to climate change"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 17

Presenter: Kyle Holland, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Feature extraction from mobile lidar data"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 24

Presenter: Edward Pultar, UC Santa Barbara

Topic: "Combining social, transport, and data networks"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 3

Presenter: Ryan Branciforte, Bay Area Open Space Council

Topic: "The Explorer, An Interactive Mapping Tool for Biodiversity in the San Francisco Bay Area"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 10

Presenter: Qinghua Guo, UC Merced

Tentative Topic: "Searching for the Best Environmental Niche Model for Mapping Species’ Distributions under Climate Change"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 17

Presenter: Jeffrey Chambers, Tulane University/LBNL

Topic: Blowdown disturbances in Amazon forests: Tree species community assembly and ecosystem processes"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

March 24

Spring Break - No GeoLunch

March 31

Presenter: Sarah Van Wart, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Local Ground: A paper based toolkit for documenting local geospatial knowledge"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 7

Presenter: Ken-ichi Ueda, iNaturalist.org

Topic: "New developments in the iNaturalist website"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 14

Presenter: Jim Thorne, UC Davis

Topic: "Climato-Bio-Geogo-sleuth: the case of the 80-year-old data and changes in California"?

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 21

Presenter: Nicholas Tripcevich, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Digital Data Recording and Field GIS in Archaeology"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 28

Presenter: Guin Wogan, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Tentative Topic: "Paleohabitat Reconstruction and Refugia in SouthEast Asia"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room