GIIF-CAMFER GeoLunch
Fall 2007

Fridays, 1-2pm
111 Mulford Hall

GeoLunch is a weekly seminar series offering interesting talks, group discussion, and show-and-tells - all having to do with geospatial theory, research, and application! The GIIF and the Center for the Assessment and Monitoring of Forest and Environmental Resources (CAMFER) are teaming up to present GeoLunches. If you have a suggestion for a speaker or want to present yourself, please contact either Karin Tuxen or Ashley Holt.

GeoLunch occurs every Friday, 1:00 - 2:00pm in 111 Mulford Hall Conference Room, unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker Location
Sept. 7 GIIF Open House, 1-4 pm
See flier - spread the word!
111 Mulford
Sept. 14

Toby Minear
Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UCB
"Ground-based LiDAR: Topographic mapping for environmental science"

111 Mulford conf. room
Sept. 21 No GeoLunch. 111 Mulford conf. room
Sept. 28 No GeoLunch. 111 Mulford conf. room
Oct. 5 Jolyon Thurgood and Peter Ashley
HJW Geospatial, Inc., Oakland, CA
"A Day in the Life of a Commercial Mapping Company"
111 Mulford conf. room
Oct. 12 Michelle Koo
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley
"Mapping Evolutionary Hotspots in California: in progress project to identify regions of rapid diversification in mammals and amphibians"
111 Mulford conf. room
Oct. 19 Alan Di Vittorio
"Revealing the ozone specter: A quantitative signal of forest stress"
111 Mulford conf. room
Oct. 26 Charless Fowlkes
Computer Science Division, Dept. of Elec. Eng. & Computer Sciences
College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
"Learning to Detect Boundaries in Natural Images"
111 Mulford conf. room
Nov. 2 No GeoLunch.  
Nov. 9 John Deck
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley
"Mapping biodiversity on the web"
111 Mulford conf. room
Nov. 16 Weimin Li
Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UCB
"Detailed Urban Vegetation Extraction and Tree Height Estimation with Multi-source High Resolution Imagery"
111 Mulford conf. room
Nov. 23 No GeoLunch (Thanksgiving Holiday).  
Nov. 30 Chris Potter
NASA
Postponed til next semester - TBA!
111 Mulford conf. room
Dec. 7 TBA 111 Mulford conf. room

Past GeoLunch schedules:
Spring 2007