Sonoma State University

Research Colloquium (GEP 311)

Everyone is Welcome!

The Geography, Environment, and Planning Research Colloquium is free and open to the public and the entire SSU community. 

  • WHEN: Wednesday at noon (Please click on the speaker or date below for more details)
  • WHERE: Either in-person, Stevenson Hall, rm 1102 or via Zoom

Please email Professor Jose Hernandez-Ayala (hernan27@sonoma.edu) if you would like to attend a Zoom presentation. 

Spring 24 GEP Colloquium

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Xavier Castro Macalaster Univeristy Remote sensing applications for analyzing landcover changes from biodiversity and conservation perspective
Dr. Jesus Barajas UC Davis Reassessing traffic safety: Conditions and causes of dangerous streets and their implications for racial justice
Dr. Edil Sepulveda NASA Monitoring carbon from space: An overview of NASA's Carbon Monitoring System Initiative
Dr. Erin Bray San Francisco State University Examining key questions in Hydrology: How rivers warm and river rocks round?
Dr. Di Yang University of Wyoming Geospatial AI Meets Citizen Science: Revolutionizing Landscape and Ecological Monitoring
Dr. Zeke Baker Sonoma State University Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future
Dr. Dimitris Herrera University of Tennessee Observed changes in hydroclimate attributed to human climate change forcing
Dr. Ana Torres U.S. Census Bureau How to use U.S. Census Bureau Data to explore racial and ethnic characteristics of demographic data
Dr. Alison Ford Sonoma State University The End of the World As We Know It: Prepping as an Environmental Practice
Dr. Jose Diaz Garayua CSU Stanislaus The Smoke & Vape Free Scholar Initiative: UC Merced and Stan State Collaboration
Dr. Hannah Herrero University of Tennessee A holistic approach to evaluating ecosystem health: Mosquito Lagoon, Florida
Dr. Matt Clark Sonoma State University Using acoustics and sensors in the air and space for monitoring ecosystem biodiversity and health
Dr. Johanna Engström University of Florida Decreasing water resources in Southeastern U.S. as observed by the GRACE satellites

Spring 2023

Speaker List
DateSpeaker/Title of Presentation
Feb. 1Dr. Daniel Soto, Sonoma State University, "Action Research for the Energy Transition"
Feb. 8Dr. Kevin Fang, Sonoma State University, "Twin pandemics: Increasing traffic deaths in the Covid-era"
Feb. 15Dr. Jeff Balwin, Sonoma State University, "Using inductive research methods to understand tropical beach erosion and beaver management policy"
Feb. 22Prof. Tom Robinson, Sonoma State University, "What has 15 years of regional land conservation coordination taught us for the next 15?"
Mar. 1Dr. Morgan Gray, Pepperwood Preserve, "Trends in wildlife response to the 2017 Tubbs Fire"
Mar. 8Dr. Rheyna Laney, Sonoma State University, "Delivering Wildlife Habitat on Working Agricultural Lands Cost-effectively: The case of migratory shorebirds on California rice lands"
Mar. 15Colin Quinn, Northern Arizona University, "How ecoacoustics can reveal patterns in ecosystem dynamics in Sonoma Count"
Mar. 29Dr. Leo Salas, Point Blue Conservation Science, "Evaluating the ecosystem impacts of California off-shore wind leases with geospatial data"
Apr. 5Dr. Matthew Clark, Sonoma State University, "Quantification and monitoring of wildfire fuels in Mediterranean-climate forests of Northern California at plot to stand scales"
Apr. 12Monica Delmartini, Ag + Open Space, Sonoma County, "The Role of Landscape-Scale Fuels Management in Ecosystem Resilience and Restoration"
Apr. 19Dr. Susan Handy, UC Davis, "How Bicycling Can Save the World – And How Research Can Contribute"
Apr. 26Dr. Jose Javier Hernandez-Ayala, Sonoma State University, "Why are some hurricane seasons in the North Atlantic more active than others"
May 3Dr. Stephen Sillet, Cal Poly, Humboldt, "Calibrating a space laser for biomass estimation of tall Sequoia sempervirens forests"
May 10Dr. Michelle Goman, Sonoma State University, TBD