• Meetings generally occur the third Thursday of every other month from 4-6 PM and Socials generally occur the third Thurdsay every other month (alternating) from 6-8 PM

 upcoming

Social - Wednesday, September 2, 2009 

• Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00/9:00 PM 
• Place: Front Page, Dupont Circle - MAP

 

 

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Brownbag "Rapid Response Tools for Conservation: Fire Alert System" - Tuesday, November 13, 2007

• Time: 12:00 – 1:00
• Place: Conservation Internationial Conference Room 5104 - MAP

GIS DAY! - Geography Bee - November 14, 2007

• Time: 3:30 – 5:00 pm
• Place: Conservation Internationial Conference Rooms - MAP
• Please join us for the 3rd annual Geography Bee on GIS Day!  Beverages and food will be provided. 

 

Social - October 18, 6-8 pm

    @ Atomic Billiards - 3427 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008 - Map  

Meeting - September 20, 5-7 pm

     @ Conservation International - 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202 - MAP

      Proposed Ajenda (may change):

• Intro and overview of GIS/RS at CI (J Musinsky)
• Habitat monitoring throughout the biodiversity hotspots (J Epting)
• A satellite based model of neotropical forest flammability: a combined approach using MODIS and TRMM data for fire prediction in Mexico and Amazonia (K Tabor)
• Rapid response tools for conservation (L Miller)
• Conservation Outcomes Mapping (K Keonig)

       View the Meeting Presentation Summaries here  

Social - August 16th, 6-8 pm

    @ Atomic Billiards - 3427 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008 - Map 

Meeting - July 19th, 5-7 pm

   @ NatureServe - 1101 Wilson Boulevard, 15th Floor, Arlington, VA 22209

• Andes-Amazon Project (Carmen Josse and Jessica Dyson)
• Coastal-Marine Ecosystem-Based Management Tools (Sarah Carr)
• Exploring America’s Natural Places Online Encyclopedia (Rickie White and Lori Scott)
• Quick demonstrations of NatureServe Vista and Kestrel (Jessica Dyson and Kristin Barker)

      View the Meeting Presentation Summaries here 

Meeting - May 10th, 4-6 pm

    @ WWF - 1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, N.W. , Washington, DC 20090-7180

• Hydrosheds (Bart Wickel)
• Marine Ecoregions of the world (Al Lombana)
• Freshwater Ecoregions of the world (Rebecca Ng)
• GIS and remote sensing tools for coral reef conservation (Aurelie Shapiro) 

Free Training - April 23, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

      Introducing ArcGIS 9.2 ESRI Seminar Series View Brochure

     @ Conference Room 1B, The Nature Conservancy, 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia

 

Meeting - March 15, 3-5 pm

    @ The Nature Conservancy - First Floor, Room 1A

• Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being - Florence Landsberg and Janet Nackoney, World Resources Institute

• Applying GIS and remote sensing to sport chipanzee conservation and behaviour research in western Tanzania - Lilian Pintea, Jane Goodall Institute
• ArcGIS 9.2 Overview - Carmelle Terborgh, ESRI 

      View the Meeting Presentation Summaries here

Meeting - January 18, 3-5 pm

    @ The World Resources Institute 

• Society for Conservation GIS Overview - Susan Miller, The Nature Conservancy 
• Conservation GeoPortal Overview - Frank Biasi, National Geographic Society
• Alternative Web Mapping Solutions using PHP and GD Library - Stephen Adam, World Resources Institute 
• Google Earth Placemarks: "Gas Drilling in the Upper Green River Valley (WY)" - Matthew Erdman

       View the Meeting Presentation Summaries here

Meeting - December 6, 6-8 pm 

    @ The Nature Conservancy

    Thanks everyone for coming!  It was a great kickoff!