February 2

Presenter: John Connors, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University

Topic: "Relationship between Urban Heat Island and Spatial Configuration in Phoenix, AZ"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 16

Presenter: Maggi Kelly, Marek Jakubowski, Feng Zhao
Kelly Lab, Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Program (SNAMP)

Topic: "Use of LiDAR in Forest Management"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

February 23

Presenter: Brian Hamlin
GeoCal

Topic: "Applied Open Source using PostGIS and QGIS"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 1

Presenter: Sally Thompson, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Pattern formation in vegetation - from the jungle to the deserts to our backyard"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 8

Presenter: Cristi Delgado, City of Berkeley

Tentative Topic: "GIS at the City of Berkeley - turning the City's authoritative data into useful information for the City's mission critical systems, citizens and staff"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

March 15

Presenter: Shawn Newsam, School of Engineering, UC Merced

Topic: "Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information: Crowdsourcing What-Is-Where Through Proximate Sensing"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

March 29

No GeoLunch - Spring Break

April 5

Presenter: Ellen Kersten, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Evaluating spatial variability of food resources in Bay Area neighborhoods"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 12

Presenter: Bernhard Höfle, Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg

Topic: "Combining LiDAR point clouds and 3D GIS analysis for improved natural object description"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 19

Presenter: Lisa Schile, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: "Tidal wetland vegetation in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: modeling species distributions with sea-level rise"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room

April 26

Presenter: Maria Santos, Bill Lane Center for the American West and Spatial History Project, Stanford University

Topic: "Reconstructing conservation history in California"

Location: 103 Mulford Hall Conference Room