Nancy Thomas is the Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF). Nancy brings extensive experience in the development and analysis of gespatial data to map, monitor, and model land use and land cover for a variety of domestic and international natural resource managment applications. She has given numerous presentations and workshops on geospatial technologies and facilitated many successful research collaborations. For more information about Nancy and the GIF see gif.berkeley.edu.