Michael Schaepman, former Professor Remote Sensing at the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing of Wageningen University, who recently moved to the Faculty of Science of the University of Zürich, Switserland, will present on Monday the 14th December 2009 at 18:15 his Inaugural lecture: "Species from Space – Remote Reflections on Pixels, Processes, and Policy" at the Aula Universität-Zentrum, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland.