February 21

Presenter: Michele Orsi, map2app

Topic: map2app, a startup that turns geo-located content into mobile apps

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

February 28

Presenter: Mark Tukman, Tukman Geospatial

Topic: Vegetation Mapping in Sonoma County

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

March 7

Presenter: Roberta Damasceno, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ)

Topic: Integrating Species Distribution Modeling and Thermal Physiological experiments to assess phylogeographic structure of a tropical lizard

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

March 14

Presenter: Jing Wu, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

Topic: Cell-based Deformation Monitoring via 3D Point Clouds

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

March 21

Presenter: Gio Rapacciuolo, Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, UC Berkeley

Topic: Range dynamics plots: a new tool making use of species' distribution records at multiple times to assess how well species distribution models predict range dynamics over time

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

March 28

No Geolunch, Spring Break

April 4

Presenter: Javier del Castillo, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

Topic: Adapting to Rising Tides – Collaborative efforts to adapt Bay Area communities to rising sea levels

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

April 11

Presenter: Kevin Lacefield, Information Systems Department, County of Sonoma

Topic: Hammer meet Nail – Using GIS within a County Government

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

April 18

Presenter: Robin Kraft, World Resources Institute

Topic: Scaling geospatial data management and analysis: FORMA, a deforestation alerting tool that uses Hadoop for data processing and CartoDB for visualization

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

April 25

Presenter: Cynthia Powell, Calflora

Topic: Maps, Apps, and Botany Saps: Putting the Science in Citizen Science

Location: 103 Mulford Hall

May 2

Presenter: Sarah Lewis, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Topic: Mapping goes fuzzy when considering tequila plants as a bioenergy crop in the U.S.

Location: 103 Mulford Hall