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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Our Geospatial/GIS meetup for February will be held tomorrow,
<b>Thursday, February 9</b> from 12:00<b>*</b> – 12:50 pm PST, on Zoom and in Rivera Library, Room 140.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">*NOTE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: because the room will be occupied until just before noon, we might have to start a few minutes past the hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Our presenter will be Richard Minnich, Professor of Geography in UCR’s Earth and Planetary Sciences department. Dr. Minnich will present on
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Tree Atlas of the Californias, compiled using Google Earth</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This atlas is a compilation of unprecedented high resolution maps of 87 tree species in the three Californias along the North American Pacific coast—California south of San Francisco,
Baja California, and Baja California Sur—interpreted from Google Earth<sup>TM</sup> imagery. Google Earth is a transformative platform for broad scale ecological research. It permits the viewing of vegetation at high resolution both at large scales for broad
spatial pattern, and local scales for taxonomy, population characteristics, and map accuracy. Using the history function one can observe vegetation dynamically on georeferenced time-series imagery including growth, recruitment, mortality, vegetation response
to disturbance, and long term vegetation dynamics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In the mapping process, imagery is analyzed one species at a time. While this requires multiple scans of the study area, species by species, the eye automatically captures “surprises”
subliminally and this led to discovery of 31 species range extensions not reported in previous surveys or in botanical collections. The species approach permits the analysis of single taxa and deconstruction of
<i>a priori</i> defined plant assemblages. The kml/kmz software gives capability to separate maps of species as independent files that can be aggregated into plant communities in a geographic information system (GIS).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Implications of the outcomes of this mapping project will be discussed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We’ll start with a few announcements prior to the presentation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The meetup will be recorded.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here’s the Zoom information for attending online:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/97390641880?pwd=M0NJYkJ2VGt5bnVFTU0waDBKUG1LQT09"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/97390641880?pwd=M0NJYkJ2VGt5bnVFTU0waDBKUG1LQT09</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Meeting ID: 973 9064 1880<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Passcode: 725274<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+16694449171,,97390641880#,,,,*725274# US <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+16699006833,,97390641880#,,,,*725274# US (San Jose)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I hope you can join us!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Janet Reyes</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
<i>Geospatial Information Librarian</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UCR Library | University of California, Riverside</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">P.O. Box 5900 | Orbach Library, Room 128</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Riverside, CA 92517-5900</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Office: 951.827.6421 | Fax: 951.827.2255 | </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:janet.reyes@ucr.edu">janet.reyes@ucr.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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