ICE News and Announcements

Instructor: Jim Quinn.

TA: Alex Mandel.

We will investigate the principles and examples of implementations of Web 2.0 interactive websites in the context of mapping, from basic mapping to web based GIS analysis. Students will research and learn a variety of methods and tools for bringing geographic data to a web audience and be expected to participate in group projects to create a web based, map application.

The class will be hands-on with short lecture/discussions (30 minutes) followed by 1.5 hours of computer lab time to work on individual and group projects. Programming and/or GIS skills are recommended but not required, however a willingness to self-learn new computer programs and operating systems is a must.

Here's a select list of likely topics you will learn in the course (Google-able terms): Google Maps API, Openlayers, Geoserver, Mapserver, TileMill, Mapnik, OpenStreetMap, Mapquest, GeoDjango, MapProxy, MapFish, OGC Web Services, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python
 

ESP 198 / GEO 298 2 units, see link for more information.

Outdoor California, the magazine of the California Department of Fish & Game, features a Special Report on cooperative conservation entitled "Finding the Perfect Balance".  The article, by freelance journalist Stephanie O'Neill, quotes and describes the field work of ICE ecologist Bob Meese, who has been working with tricolored blackbirds for 4 1/2 years and who serves as the scientific lead on the multi-agency Tricolored Blackbird Working Group.

Download the presentations from Steve Blum, Senior Staff Counsel for the State Water Resources Control Board.

Most of the world's population of tricolored blackbirds are found in the Central Valley of California, and in the past century their numbers have declined dramatically. Most tricolor nesting occurs in a few large, temporary colonies, and often these colonies are located in grain fields that are due to be harvested days before young tricolors leave the nest. ICE research biologist Bob Meese is leading the statewide efforts to document the changes in the blackbird populations and is working with a diverse group including farmers and other landowners to detect and monitor at-risk colonies and to conserve these colonies so that the birds' efforts to reproduce are successful. Dr. Meese's work is featured in the January 9 Sacramento Bee.

Professor Ramesh Sharma will give a talk entitled:

"Restoration of Mountain Fluvial Aquatic Environment Degraded by Transportation Network in Garhwal Himalayas."

at noon in 2124 Wickson Hall. UC Davis, sponsored by ICE and the Geography Graduate Group.

Ramesh Sharma is the professor and chairman of the Department of Environmental Sciences, H. N. B. Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal, Uttaranchal, India and an internationally recognized leader in the study of long-term and large-scale environmental change in the Himalaya mountains. He has degrees in zoology, freshwater fishery biology and a doctor of science (D.Sc.) in environmental biology.