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 […]
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. […]
Blending R’s Hidden Gem and WebGIS Development: A Live Case
Posted 7 years ago
My teammates, Karl Chastko and Spencer Elford, and I competed this years Esri’s App Challenge on sustainable transportation. The development of our app (check it out) was something unique from the standard way of web development (i.e. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). Some of you guys may be thinking, “What’s so unique?” Others may think that […]
Sean Leipe – ECCE Student Associate at McMaster
Posted 7 years ago
I’ve just completed my 4th year at McMaster University, majoring in Earth and Environmental Sciences with a minor in GIS. Though I enjoy the core earth sciences I’ve been much more focused on the GIS side since enrolling in an introductory course back in 2nd year, and have taken every available GIS course since! This […]
Learning with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
Posted 8 years ago
This past February I was fortunate enough to take the Introduction to Web Development Using ArcGIS API for JavaScript course offered by Esri Canada through the ECCE program. This was the first time I have taken a course through Esri as well as the first online programming course I have taken. The course was 3 […]
Karl Chastko – ECCE Student Associate at McMaster
Posted 8 years ago
Karl Chastko is the subject of this spotlight article as one of McMaster’s top students in ECCE program. He has submitted winning entries in the two most recent story map competitions (the Esri Global Content Challenge, and the International Year of Global Understanding storymap competition). This year I will be graduating from McMaster University where […]
Why you should attend Esri’s Developers Summit (Palm Springs)?
Posted 8 years ago
Last year, two of my friends (also student associates of Esri Canada) went to the 2016 Esri’s Developers Summit. When they came back, they said to me, “You should really go to this conference next year. You’re gonna love the experience. Plus, it is even more beneficial for you since you have some development background.” […]
Spencer Elford – ECCE Student Associate at McMaster
Posted 8 years ago
Spencer Elford is one of the top student associates participating in the ECCE program at McMaster University. Recently, he submitted a winning entry in the Esri Global Content challenge. For this spotlight article, Spencer has given us an overview of his academic background and his experience as an ECCE student associate at McMaster over the […]
Making Apps That Promote Citizen Engagement with AppStudio for ArcGIS
Posted 8 years ago
In one of my recent courses I had the opportunity to create an application using AppStudio for ArcGIS as an assignment. This software allows you to create native applications (meaning apps that are created for use on specific platforms, as opposed to mobile web apps) without knowing any programming. Of course, if you have programming […]
Esri’s Global Content Challenge: Climate Change in Earth’s Polar Regions
Posted 8 years ago
This is a guest post by Kevin Yang, a student in the Honours Earth and Environmental Sciences program at McMaster University, who recently won third prize in the Ocean category of the Esri Global Content Challenge held last fall. For my global content challenge, I wanted to utilize the capabilities of ArcGIS to study a […]
