Geography 297 Seminar

Year: 
2007
Units: 
2
Course: 
GEO297
CRN: 
41045
Meeting Time: 
W 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: 
Wellman 230
Description: 

This invited speaker seminar series provides students an opportunity to hear about a variety of ongoing research projects and applications of GIS and other spatial technologies. The speakers represent a wide array of universities, state and federal agencies, and NGOs.

Everyone is welcome to attend this Geography Graduate Group seminar.

Contacts:
Jim Quinn, jfquinn@ucdavis.edu
Patrick Huber, prhuber@ucdavis.edu
Nate Roth, neroth@ucdavis.edu
Alex Mandel, aimandel@ucdavis.edu
Karen Beardsley, kbeardsley@ucdavis.edu

Schedule:

Date Speaker Organization Topic
4/4 Quinn Hart and
Roger Kunkel
UCDavis, CSTARS and
California Resources Agency
GIS Web services in practice
4/11 Marco Trombetti CSTARS Using Artificial Neural networks to estimate vegetation canopy water content from MODIS data
4/18 Mark Nechodom U.S. Forest Service -- Sierra Nevada Research Center Public Costs and Benefits from the Use of Wildland Biomass for Energy Production: A Life Cycle Assessment Approach to Quantifying Public Goods
4/25 Mike Byrne California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Using GIS to Plan for Ubiquitous Broadband Deployment in California
(download presentation [.ppt])
5/2 Emma Underwood The Nature Conservancy Setting Conservation Priorities: The Global Mediterranean Ecosystem Assessment
5/9 Rob Ball
Rich Green
Michael Hickey
Kern Council of Governments
Merced County Association of Governments
Tulare County
California's Final Frontier: Land Use Modeling in the San Joaquin Valley
5/16 Peter Stine U.S. Forest Service -- Sierra Nevada Research Center Sensitive species in the Sierra Nevada: Why and what can we do about it
(download presentation [.ppt])
5/23 Open    
5/30 Ramesh Sharma Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, India Restoration of Mountain Fluvial Aquatic Environment Degraded by Transportation Network in Garhwal Himalayas
6/6 Tom Moritz Getty Research Institute The World Database on Protected Areas: an evolving case study in geo-referenced conservation
(download presentation [.ppt])
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