Events

Dr. James Wickham | Senior Research Biologist | US Environmental Protection Agency   Abstract: Preserving and restoring the world’s forests is regarded as having a positive (cooling) effect on a warming climate.  However, some have cautioned against reforestation and afforestation as a climate-warming-mitigation strategy outside of tropical regions, without considering the potentially counteracting biophysical effects (albedo, transpiration)…

Nate Irwin | Lead Developer | Trailhead Labs, San Francisco, CA   Abstract: For a number of reasons, the relevance of GIS, as we know it, is waning. Geography, on the other hand, is alive and well. In fact, it’s so pervasive that you’d be hard-pressed to find a tech company whose portfolio doesn’t include it in…

Dr. Budhendra Bhaduri | Geographic Information Science and Technology Group | Oak Ridge National Laboratory   Abstract: Increasing resolutions of geographic data provides a compelling motivation for spatiotemporal analysis of dynamic data streams.  The challenge in processing large volumes of high resolution earth observation and simulation data by traditional GIS has been compounded by the drive…