City Planning, ArcGIS, and beyond!

Posted 5 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

Hi Everyone, My name is Leah Fulton, and I’m a third-year undergraduate planning student studying Community Design at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, NS. I am hoping to get into the honours program for my fourth year to graduate with a Bachelor of Community Design, Honours in Urban Studies with a Minor in Geography and a […]

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Learning through Teaching

Posted 5 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

Hello! My name is Lama and I am currently in my fourth year of my Environmental Science degree with a certificate in GIS. I’ve been taking GIS classes since the end of my second year and have loved it ever since, which is partially why I am pursuing a certificate in it. This semester I […]

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Mapping Risk to Public Health from Radon

Posted 6 years ago

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Radon is the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer after smoking in Canada, and attributed to 16% of lung cancer deaths. Nova Scotia has developed and released a map outlining the risk of radon exposure based on environmental factors (https://novascotia.ca/dhw/environmental/radon.asp). These factors were equally weighted to produce the outcome of radon risk and relied on […]

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SolVES 3.0: A Software to Map Social Values in Marine Spatial Planning

Posted 6 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is now recognized internationally as an important part of marine and coastal management. MSP offers a tool for policymakers to demarcate specific areas of distinct stakeholder values when managing shared-use spaces. This process places public participation, communication, and collaboration at the centre of ocean governance (Nutters & Pinto da Silva, 2012). […]

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Access to Parks and Cellphone Technology

Posted 6 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

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 […]

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Swooning Over Ocean Maps: Studying Mahia, by the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute

Posted 6 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

  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 […]

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Marine Pollution in the Halifax Harbour Pt. II: Waste and the City

Posted 7 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

In a previous post, I introduced a project that my marine management class at Dalhousie University has developed in tandem with Nova Scotia’s Clean Foundation to study marine pollution in the Halifax Harbour.  Today I want to expand on that introduction and discuss some of the major socio-cultural factors influencing marine waste inputs and patterns […]

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Special Interest Group on GIS at ICIS

Posted 7 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

I recently had the privilege of attending the 2016 International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS) to present my research on using neuroscience measures to detect cognitive states in e-learning sessions. For those who are not familiar with ICIS, it is the main conference of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), the professional body governing the Management […]

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How Do We Define Green Spaces?

Posted 7 years ago

By in the Dalhousie Blog

Due to my interest and work looking into the health impacts of natural areas, it is crucial to create variables that allow me to quantify greenspace. A number of different methodologies have been developed in an attempt to provide the best proxy for a population’s exposure to ‘greenspace’, and no one method has been universally […]

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