Meet Zehui Yin: ECCE New Student Associate at McMaster University
Posted 5 days ago
My name is Zehui Yin, and I am one of the new ECCE student associates at McMaster University. I am pursuing a PhD in Geography at the School of Earth, Environment & Society, under the mentorship of Dr. Darren Scott.
My Journey to GIS – Skyler Grasley
Posted 3 weeks ago
The geospatial relationship between datapoints is a powerful medium over which you can connect seemingly disparate data, to try and tease out a casual or correlative relationship. Space is the nexus of many datasets, and it allows us to generate deep and useful insights into many things, from social issues, to plate tectonics and orogenies, to economics, to weather and more.
Natural Asset Mapping Project (NAMP) of Georgian Bay Biosphere Mnidoo Gamii: Testing Land Cover Classification
Posted 3 weeks 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 months 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. Background The Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere (GBB) spans 175 km of the eastern coast and freshwater archipelago of […]
My GIS Internship Experience
Posted 2 months ago
Colliers is a Canadian commercial real estate (CRE) firm, headquartered in Toronto. The firm provides services to tenants and landlords ranging from brokerage, property management, urban planning, engineering, and beyond. As fulfillment of the requirements for my co-op program, I first worked at Colliers in a data entry role in Winter 2023, after which […]
“Seeing” Peatland Stress from Space: Relationships between Sentinel satellite data and peat moisture. Part 1
Posted 5 months 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 10 months 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 […]
GIS Day at McMaster University: Perspectives from an ECCE Student Associate
Posted 1 year ago
Every year around GIS Day, McMaster University holds an exciting series of lighting talks and demonstrations from members of the University community using GIS. This year, there were 12 speakers who spoke on topics, whose level of expertise ranged from co-op undergraduate students to PhD candidates to Research Assistants to Postdoctoral Fellows. This post aims […]
GIS Development Student at Bruce Power
Posted 2 years ago
During the winter of 2022, an amazing opportunity came my way as a co-op student who thrives in expanding her connections and skills in GIS. I landed a position to work at Bruce Power as a GIS Development Student for an 8-month work term. Located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, Bruce Power is […]
ArcGIS in Hydrological Field Data Collection: Reflections on the 2022 Field Season
Posted 2 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 […]
