GIS Day 2008

GIS Open House - open for self-tours and exploration.
Location: Room 111 Mulford Hall

Computer workstations will be set up, each with a different example of how GIS can be used to visualize data and solve problems.

University/Higher-Education Presentations
Location: Mulford Hall Rooms 103 & 124.

See presentations by Colleges/Universities/Museums. Five speakers will present on a variety of topics in GIS.  There will be 2 concurrent sessions organized by the Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF). Speakers to include:

Mulford 103:


• Tim Bean (2:30-2:50)
  UC Berkeley
  Tim is a PhD student here in the College of Natural Resources. He will be presenting on Accelerated population growth at park edges: global datasets and local problems. This talk will focus on the potential for using large-scale datasets to detect patterns at local scales.
  
  
• Kristin Byrd (2:50-3:10)
  California Academy of Sciences
  Kristin is the GIS Coordinator at the CAS. She will be presenting on GIS in the Academy while highlighting recent projects.
  
  
• Jon Stiles (3:10-3:30)
  UC Data
  Jon is the Assistant Director for UC DATA Archive. He is currently directing UC Berkeley's Census Research Data Center (RDC) which offers high resolution census data. Jon will be presenting on the GIS data that is offered through the RDC, and how you can access them.
  

Mulford 124:


• Michelle Koo (2:30-3:00)
  Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
  Michelle is the MVZ's GIS specialist. Using biodiversity informatics and GIS, Michelle is creating models of the evolutionary landscape for California's endemic species by trying to identify regions of rapid diversification that ultimately may be used in conservation prioritization.
  
  
• Claire Kremen (3:00-3:30)
  UC Berkeley
  Claire is Faculty here in the College of Natural Resources, where she studies biodiversity, and seeks to find mechanisms for slowing its loss. She will be presenting recent findings in the analysis of lemurs of Madagascar.
  
  

Break and Poster Session
Location: Room 111 Mulford and surrounding hallway

Refreshments Served. Come view a variety of posters and maps while meeting new people in the GIS community.

GIS Open House is open for self-tours and exploration.
Location: Room 111 Mulford Hall

Computer workstations will be set up, each with a different example of how GIS can be used to visualize data and solve problems.

Professional Presentations
Location: Mulford Hall Rooms 103, 124, and 240.

See presentations by GIS professionals. Speakers will present on a variety of topics in GIS.  There will be 3 concurrent sessions organized by the Northern California Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA). Speakers to include:

Mulford 103:


• Tara Byrnes (5:30-6:00)
  GeoEye
  Tara is Manager of the North America Reseller Channel. She will be presenting on the recently launched GeoEye-1, the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial Earth-imaging satellite.
  
  
• Alicia Torregrosa (6:00-6:30)
  US Geological Survey (USGS)
  Alicia Torregrosa is a physical scientist with the Western Geographic Science Center of the USGS in Menlo Park, CA. She will be presenting examples of climate change research from across the USGS and results from her "phenocams" --ground-based digital cameras deployed to monitor phenological shifts.

Mulford 124:


• Brian Soland (5:30-6:00)
  MIG Inc.
  Brian Soland is a planner at MIG Inc. in Berkeley, California. He will will describe the planning process, health indicators, and analysis conducted for the City of Richmond's revolutionary Community Health and Wellness Element.
  
  
• Josh Livni (6:00-6:30)
  Umbrella Consulting
  Josh Livni is the founder of Umbrella Consulting, a consortium of GIS and web developers. He will be presenting on walkable neighborhoods, and how a popular website, walkscore.com, integrated open source solutions in their recent analysis of the top forty most populous cities in the United States.

Mulford 240:


• Tim Sinnott (5:30-6:00)
  GreenInfo Network
  Tim Sinnott is the GIS Manager at GreenInfo Network in San Francisco. He will be presenting on GreenInfo's use of GIS for public interest groups and discussing/demonstrating some current marine and land conservation projects.
  
  
• Zach Wilson (6:00-6:30)
  UUorld, Inc.
  Zach Wilson is the cofounder of UUorld, Inc. (pronounced "world"), which has just released four-dimensional mapping software (3D +time). He will review recent innovations in the geo-information industry and explore economic and demographic trends in California.
  
  

Break & Poster Session
Location: Room 111 Mulford and surrounding hallway

Refreshments Served. Come view a variety of posters and maps while meeting new people in the GIS community.

Keynote presentions
Location: Genetics & Plant Biology Building 100

• Sarah Manley (7:15-7:45)
  OpenStreetMap
  Sarah Manley is the Community Ambassador of OpenStreetMap. She will be presenting on OpenStreetMap, it's uses past, present and future.
  
  
• Gary Geller (7:45 - 8:30)
  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
  Gary is deputy manager of the NASA Ecological Forecasting Program. He will present an overview of TerraLook, which provides easy access to recent and historical satellite images, as well as software for working with images and overlays, all at no cost.

Monitoring agricultural encroachment into a national park in Lao PDR using TerraLook