GIS in Education and Research Conference – an Undergrad’s Perspective
Posted 7 years ago
A few weeks ago on October 11th I was fortunate enough to attend the Esri Canada Education and Research Conference with several of my McMaster GIS colleagues at the beautiful University of Toronto campus. The plenary and opening session featured Dr. Cynthia Brewer of Penn State, creator of the famous ColorBrewer app. The ColorBrewer presentation […]
Access to Parks and Cellphone Technology
Posted 7 years ago
As the temperature begins to warm up I am happy to continue a project that relies on nice weather and lush parks! Working under Dr. Daniel Rainham in his Spatial Information for Health Knowledge lab, we have the opportunity to partner with both Waterloo University, and Wilfrid Laurier University to explore some exciting smartphone based […]
Pursuing a Graduate Degree in Geography
Posted 7 years ago
Hello everyone! As a newly-minted ECCE member, in the spirit of fostering community and collaboration I would like to take this chance to briefly introduce my research interests and encourage all of you to consider pursuing graduate studies in geography. I am currently in the first semester of Carleton University’s Geography PhD program, and have […]
Getting Started at COGS
Posted 7 years ago
My name is Colin Werle, I am an ECCE Student Associate at the Centre of Geographic Sciences in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia where I am currently on track to completing an Advanced Diploma in Geographic Sciences. I have a BA in Geography, and a minor in Economics from Saint Mary’s University in my […]
GIS in Education and Research Conference – My Experience
Posted 7 years ago
This past Wednesday, October 11th, me and a few of my colleagues got the opportunity to attend the Esri Canada GIS in Education and Research conference at the University of Toronto campus. This conference occurs every two years and attracts educators and students in the field of GIS. It was my first time visiting the […]
Where is the Centre?
Posted 7 years ago
Early this year one of my professors approached me and several other students to take part in a project that had to do with Ottawa. As the 150th Anniversary of Canada was looming in the not so distant future he’d been approached to cover the topic of what the centre of Ottawa really was. But […]
Swooning Over Ocean Maps: Studying Mahia, by the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute
Posted 7 years ago
In the 1940s, the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute commissioned a survey to the country’s east. Over the course of the next fifteen years, the Institute mapped the ocean floor, and charted many of the species living in the largely-unknown waters of the South Pacific Ocean surrounding the island nation. Ultimately, the project was responsible […]
Impressions 6 weeks in at COGS
Posted 7 years ago
Hello! My name is Michelle Brake, I am a ECCE Student Associate for the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. I am enrolled in the post-graduate Advanced Geographic Sciences program. I graduated from Mount Allison University in 2016 with a major in Geography and a minor in Drama. My major allowed me […]
Python script to retrieve time-series changes in snow cover area from MODIS
Posted 7 years ago
As a part of Directed Studies in Geomatics course supervised by Dr. Murray Richardson at Carleton University I developed a tool that allows a user to easily produce time-series plots of snow-cover area and other relevant pieces of information (e.g. bare ground, cloud, and night cover) for any region (defined by an input shape file) […]
Land Cover Change in the Badlands of Italy using Remote Sensing
Posted 7 years ago
I am currently a first year Master’s student at McMaster University, working for Dr. Darren Scott. I just graduated from McMaster in April 2017, with a degree in Honors Earth and Environmental Science and a minor in GIS. During my fourth year, I completed an undergraduate thesis with the help of my supervisor, Patrick DeLuca. […]
