Remotely sensed indicators of peatland hydrological feedbacks
Posted 4 weeks ago
From Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience (Furukawa et al. 2025) This paper was made possible through the contributions in the data collection, conceptualization and writing phases, of members (past and present) of the Mac Ecohydrology Lab as reflected in the authorship. In particular, I would like […]
Case Study Part 2: Rapid assessment of low intensity wildfire in Central Ontario with UAV
Posted 8 months ago
In Part 1, we used satellite imagery and ground surveys to assess the impact of the relatively small, low intensity early season wildfire SUD008 in Central Ontario. Subsequently, we captured RGB imagery of the study area on May 30, 2025 using a UAV (DJI Mavic Mini 2, SZ DJI Technology, China) to an approximately 1.5 […]
Case Study Part 1: Rapid assessment of low intensity wildfire in Central Ontario with satellite imagery and field surveys
Posted 8 months ago
An early season wildfire (SUD008) started approximately a kilometre east of Giroux Lake on May 13, 2025, burning for about a week before being declared out, with a total area burned of 30 ha (Figure 1). While actively fought and fairly low severity, this fire’s proximity to our other research sites and ability to quickly […]
Natural Asset Mapping Project (NAMP) of Georgian Bay Biosphere Mnidoo Gamii: Testing Land Cover Classification
Posted 1 year ago
This work is Part 2 of an ongoing project conducted in collaboration with the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere (GBB) alongside Dr. Brandon Van Huizen and Dr. Chantel Markle of University of Waterloo and my supervisor Dr. Mike Waddington. This portion and Part 1 on data gap analysis was presented on GIS Day at McMaster […]
Natural Asset Management Plan (NAMP) of Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere: Data Gap Analysis
Posted 2 years ago
This work is part of an ongoing project conducted in collaboration with the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere (GBB) alongside Dr. Brandon Van Huizen and Dr. Chantel Markle of University of Waterloo and my supervisor Dr. Mike Waddington. Special thanks to our funders—Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Ganawenim Meshkiki (GMI) and the Eastern Georgian […]
“Seeing” Peatland Stress from Space: Relationships between Sentinel satellite data and peat moisture. Part 1
Posted 2 years ago
This is the first in a multi-part series detailing the process of linking in-situ peatland water table data to satellite data. While monitoring the water table, or moisture status of a peatland is by no means a complicated task that is usually accomplished simply with a groundwater well, they beg the question of ‘ungauged basins’ […]
Gaining more experience with Experience Builder: Building Web Apps with ArcGIS Experience Builder
Posted 2 years ago
Recently, as an ECCE associate I was fortunate to be able to partake in a two-day course offered by Esri Canada: Building Web Apps with ArcGIS Experience Builder. While I have dabbled a bit in the self-guided lesson options available through the Esri Course Catalogue, this was the first instructor-led course for me (and the […]
2023 ECCE App Challenge: ConservNation Canada
Posted 3 years ago
It’s been several months since the whirlwind of the App Challenge held this past spring has come and gone. While I can’t speak to the entirety of this challenge and the resulting app developed with Team GIS (Gauging Impacted Species) consisting of myself, Daniel Van Veghel and Henry Gage, this post will elucidate upon some […]
ArcGIS in Hydrological Field Data Collection: Reflections on the 2022 Field Season
Posted 3 years ago
This post is an overview of our research lab’s recent usage of ArcGIS applications, specifically the mobile platform, in the collection of field hydrological data. Our lab, the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab, has integrated ArcGIS in our field data collection since 2018 with the Collector App, and has since shifted to Field Maps in 2021 along […]
