Seminars This Week: Big Data, Naval Places, and Eco-Econ

Three seminars are scheduled this week in Hardin Hall, beginning with the School of Natural Resources Seminar Series on Wednesday, Oct. 31. The Geography and Applied Ecology seminar series’ will both host talks on Friday, Nov. 2.

On Wednesday, Qingfeng (Gene) Guan—an assistant professor at SNR specializing in geographic information science—will present "GeoComputational Intelligence and High-performance Geospatial Computing" in the Hardin Hall auditorium at 3:30 p.m.

He will discuss the problems associated with vast and complex sets of data, and how those obstacles might be overcome.

For more information about Guan's seminar, visit the SNR Seminar Series page at http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar8.

The Geography General Seminar Series continues Friday, Nov. 2, at 2 p.m. in room 228 at Hardin Hall with Glenn Humphress' "Beyond Projecting Power in Ocean-Space: The Naval Vessel as Place."

For more information about Humpress' seminar, visit the Geography seminar page at http://snr.unl.edu/geographygis/students/seminars.asp.

Gary Lynne, an agricultural economics professor at UNL, is the featured speaker of the Applied Ecology series. His seminar, "Is there an 'Ecological' Economics? Toward a Metaeconomics Approach," is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. in Hardin Hall room 163.

For more information about the Applied Ecology Seminar Series, go to http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#10.


For more information about all of SNR's seminars visit the seminar page at http://go.unl.edu/SNRseminars.