Unfolding the Map: Khawlah Ali’s Path to GIS
Posted 6 days ago
About me Hello there! My name is Khawlah Ali and I’m excited to be one of the student associates for Esri Canada’s GIS Centres of Excellence on behalf of the University of Toronto. I am currently in my third year pursuing a double major in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Technology Coding & Society (TCS), and […]
Telling You Something About Me.
Posted 6 days ago
Hi there! My name is Zoe, and I’m a fourth-year undergraduate student in Human Geography at the University of Toronto. I’m thrilled to be one of UofT’s student associates with the Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence and look forward to sharing my interests and research on the ECCE Blog, as well as participating in […]
“About Me” – New Student Associate
Posted 6 days ago
Hi everyone! I am excited to be taking part in Esri Canada’s student associate program! To begin, here is a little about me: I am currently in my 4th year at the University of Toronto pursuing a double Major in Human Geography with a focus in Planning, Environmental Geography, and a GIS Minor. I’m passionate […]
Quantifying Nationwide Greenspace Accessibility with CANUE
Posted 3 months ago
Introduction Over the past year, I worked with student collaborator Emily Moffat and supervisor Joey Syer from the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) to produce a national greenspace provision layer as part of the University of Toronto’s geography professional experience placement course. Greenspaces refer to varied land designations such as parks, nature reserves, […]
Unveiling Parking Ticket Disparities in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Posted 10 months ago
This blog will present the findings from a project completed during a graduate course, co-authored with Leila Denise Uy. A parking ticket is a citation for an inactive motor vehicle violating local laws, such as parking in a prohibited space or an unauthorized manner (Mucciolo et al., 2023). Usually, tickets are issued by police officers […]
Remote and Direct Sensing: Merits of Mixed Method Protocols in Ecology
Posted 10 months ago
This summer I had the opportunity to design and carry out a week-long research project at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Gothic, Colorado—as part of an ecology and evolutionary biology field course. RMBL is a renowned site for long-term ecological research, especially that pertaining to global climatic change. Gothic is situated in a […]
Exploring Historical and Modern Toronto With ArcGIS Pro
Posted 1 year ago
Visualizing historical and modern land use along lost rivers in Toronto.
Collecting and Calculating Land Data – Preparing for Analysis of Remote Sensing Microscale Urban Heat
Posted 2 years ago
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post introducing my MSc Thesis. Since then, I finished my summer fieldwork which consisted of cycling over 560 kilometres of cycling and road infrastructure measuring air temperature every 1-second in Mississauga, Ontario. I also had the opportunity to present my preliminary thoughts on this project at the […]
Exploring Cycle-Level Heat – Preparing for Analysis of Remote Sensing Microscale Urban Heat
Posted 2 years ago
This blog post will present my current MSc Thesis project. As human population increases, we are seeing a trend towards more people living in cities than in rural areas (Hiemstra et al., 2017). In 1861, 16% of Canadians lived in urban regions; whereas, in 2011, 81.5% lives in urban regions (Statistics Canada, 2018). Urban areas […]
Temperature and vegetation variation within a rapidly growing town
Posted 2 years ago
As a first-year MSc student at the University of Toronto Mississauga, I wrote a paper for a planning course where I integrated remote sensing data with planning documents to understand environmental change in the rapidly growing Town of Milton, Ontario. In this blog post, I will summarize the paper including my methods and findings. However, […]
