We welcome information on campus projects involving GIS.
Please send information on current work to ccary@berkeley.edu 

• The Geospatial Interest Group is an informal group that meets every month to discuss issues of GIS, remote sensing, and geophysical prospecting.  Participants include graduate and undergraduate students, staff, and faculty members from the Archaeological Research Facility, Dept of Anthropology, and Integrative Biology. 

Past GIS Projects Around Campus

• "Effect of Large-Scale Perturbations in the Physical Environment on the Evolution of Neogene Mammal Faunas."
   
• a project headed by Prof. Elizabeth Deakin for Caltrans involves researchers in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, City and Regional Planning, and Demography. The project will use data from the next demographic Censes to do trends analyses and demographic projections for use by state, regional and local transportatiun planning agencies. Maps and data will be accessible through a GIS interface to the results of this study
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• in the Wildlife Biology and Management Unit of the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, under Prof. Reg Barrett: 
  • PhD student Rick Truex is constructing a habitat model for the Pacific fisher (a large weasel) in the Sierra Nevada to be validated with tracking data from the ground. 
  • PhD student Brian Mitchell is using GIS of a 50,000 acre study area in the northern Sierra to keep track of 30 radio-collared coyotes and analyze their movements relative to environmental variables. 
  • PhD student Mark Jordan is using GIS on study of Pacific fisher in southern Sierra similar to Mitchell study above. 
• at the Archaeological Research Facility, current GIS-related research includes: 
  • Soil Transport Analysis, Midi-Pyrenees, conducted by Margaret Conkey (Anthropology) and William Dietrich (Geology and Geophysics).  Involves the creation of soil transport models to predict the effects of soil movements on the locations of Paleolithic settlements in the Midi-Pyrenees of France. 
  • Palaeohydrology and Human Occupation in Central Baja California, Mexico, conducted by Eduardo Serafin (Anthropology).  Landsat imagery is combined with ground data to reconstruct Late Pleistocene environmental conditions in Central Baja California to facilitate the location of early archaeological sites. 
  • Geophysical Prospecting at Metini, Fort Ross, California, conducted by Dennis Ogburn (Archaeological Research Facility), Anna Naruta (Anthropology), Erika Radewagen (Anthropology), and Kent Lightfoot (Anthropology).  Field data, including magnetometer and electrical conductivity survey, surface collection, excavation, and EDM contour mapping, are being combined via GIS in order to predict the locations of certain types of subsurface deposits in the Native American village site of Metini at the historic Russian settlement of Fort Ross in Northern California. 
  • Peña Oviedo Project, Cantabria, Spain, conducted by Agustin Diez-Castillo (Anthropology).  Field work and analysis of excavation and survey data for Neolithic Period archaeological sites are being combined with GIS analysis of viewsheds, slope, aspect, etc. to understand settlement patterning.