GIS Ambassador: My Experience with Maps and Geographic Teaching
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Introduction Hello! I’m Adam Nearing, a Cape Bretoner with a lifelong fascination for maps. Growing up near the Highlands National Park, I spent my childhood exploring the island’s rugged coastline and plateaued highlands. I credit these family hiking and camping trips for my early spatial awareness and environmental respect. Our annual winter journeys to Marble […]
About Me – Congping Li
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Hello everyone! My name is Congping Li, and I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. I’m excited to introduce myself to the ECCE community and the research projects I have been working on. My academic journey began in Tourism Management and Planning, where I completed […]
Designing the Cool City: From Wind Corridors to Green Roofs
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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the blog. Lately, as I dive deep into urban density projects, specifically working through an urban density and infill analysis for the City of Burlington, I constantly question the physical consequences of how we construct our urban environments. Planners frequently discuss density in terms of housing economics and transit efficiency, […]
Remotely sensed indicators of peatland hydrological feedbacks
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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 […]
How Different Riders Move Through Hamilton: What a Year of Bike Share GPS Data Reveals
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As part of my PhD, I set out to understand how different bike share riders actually move through a city. We often talk about bike share users as if they form a single, homogeneous group. But once you dig into the data, a far more nuanced landscape emerges.
What’s going on in Switzerland?
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Last semester, I was tasked with completing a remote sensing project about ANYTHING I wanted to look at. But who knew choosing a topic would be the hardest part? I thought hard and long about what I wanted to do- terrestrial or marine? environmental vs anthropogenic? After much thought, I chose to quantify glacier retreat […]
Boldly Going Where Many a Human Has Gone Before…
Posted 5 hours ago
Enough with the pretentiousness, I am Esha, and I am currently a student of BTech GIS programme at BCIT. As much as I hate making a hobby my entire Identity, I think I can safely bet on this being the part that you, as a GIS blog reader, would be most interested in. In fact, […]
About Me
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Hi! My name is Emily Klaassen. I am currently going into my third and final term of the BCIT Advanced Diploma Program in GIS before beginning my practicum with Squamish Nation in the spring. I first became passionate about GIS in the third year of my B.A.& Sc. at McGill University in the Interfaculty Environment […]
A small space to say “Hello”
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I’ve always had an interest in maps, as a child. In fact, one of my favourite books to sign out at my local library were World Atlases, though it didn’t go beyond me being fascinated by a topographical depiction of the world. Even my decision to pursue a Bachelors of Environment in Global Environmental Systems […]
The GIS-Blues
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With this semester bringing a slew of new courses ranging across different topics, I have encountered one issue: none of my current classes make use of any Esri products. The courses I have taken over the past two to three semesters have helped me hone my skills with ArcGIS Pro and provided me with opportunities […]
