“I’m Only Here Because It’s a Required Course”: The Art of Teaching GIS
Posted 1 week ago
I remember being a second-year student in my introductory GIS class, one of many who begrudgingly took the course as a graduation requirement and nothing more. I did not know what GIS was until my first year of university, and the thought of committing to learning this entire interface, loosely aligned with my career goals, […]
Access to Public Green Spaces & Park Equity in Vancouver, BC
Posted 1 week ago
An analysis of access to public green spaces in Vancouver, BC that reveals which neighbourhoods are underserved Introduction Public parks are essential for community well-being, providing space for recreation, relaxation, and social connection. However, not everyone in Vancouver, British Columbia, has equal access to these green spaces. This project uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to […]
Building Interactive Urban Forestry GIS Tools
Posted 1 week ago
Urban forest plays a critical role in supporting a healthy and resilient city by providing important environmental, social, and economic benefits. In light of this, the City of Port Moody is implementing their Urban Forestry Management Plan to inventory existing urban tree canopy and develop a long-term management plan to maximize benefits of trees while […]
Speed Up Geo-Feature Engineering With ArcPy – Using Land Use Regression as Example
Posted 3 weeks ago
Land Use Regression (LUR) is a widely used approach for modeling environmental exposure, such as air pollution or noise, by linking observations at specific locations to surrounding built and natural environment characteristics. In practice, LUR models rely on spatial predictors that summarize what is near a location (e.g., road density, land use composition, vegetation) and […]
Hi ECCE! I’m Devin 👋
Posted 3 weeks ago
Hello everyone—my name is Devin, and I’m a second-year PhD student at the University of Toronto. I’m excited to introduce myself to the ECCE community and share a bit about what I’m working on, what brought me into GIS, and the kinds of questions I’m hoping to explore with you all. My academic path didn’t […]
New Project: Map
Posted 4 weeks ago
Although I was exposed to GIS very early on in my undergraduate degree, Fall 2025 was the first time that I actively began studying GIScience. As with many ‘introductory’ classes, there was a lot of heavy lifting when it came to learning geospatial jargon and thinking spatially. Grappling with different types of joins and Boolean […]
About me!
Posted 4 weeks ago
Hi there, My name is Julia MacFarlane (she/her) and I am from Aurora, Ontario, Canada. I am finishing up my fourth year at Dalhousie University, pursuing an Honours degree in Environmental Science with a minor in Sustainability and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems. A lifelong love for the outdoors has shaped me into the person I […]
A 15-Minute City: An Accessibility Analysis of Toronto Healthcare Institutions
Posted 4 weeks ago
Over this past semester I had the pleasure of working on an analysis consisting of Toronto’s coverage of healthcare facilities based on the 15-Minute City model. The 15-Minute City is the concept where residents of the city are able to access essential services and amenities such as work, shopping, and leisure within a 15-minute walk […]
About me – Mo Li
Posted 4 weeks ago
Hello everyone! My name is Mo Li, and I am entering my final semester of the Master of Planning program at Dalhousie University. I am also a graduate of the GIS Technician Certificate program at COGS.My journey with GIS began in 2008, following the devastating Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, China. Seeing how GIS played […]
About Me – Faiza Saeed
Posted 4 weeks ago
Hello, everyone! My journey with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) did not begin in a university lab or lecture hall. Instead, it started through volunteering—digitizing roads, buildings, and infrastructure for disaster response projects with platforms like Zooniverse and the Red Cross. I also contributed to citizen science initiatives that mapped environmental patterns, ranging from land-cover changes […]
