In the wake of , , and recent record , I was reminded of the foundational role of mobile communications technology in the response to 2005鈥檚 .
I had the amazing opportunity recently to attend the , California. The Esri 鈥楿C鈥 as it鈥檚 known is an annual event that showcases what鈥檚 new and hot in the Esri GIS world, and provides a chance for over 16,000 GIS and map nerds to get together, learn from each other, and generally celebrate everything geospatial.
The partnership is a great opportunity for academics to work directly with those organizations pushing the leading edge of our field. Last fall, University of 蓝莓视频 student held a co-op placement working at Montreal-based non-profit (and Geothink partner) .
I recently had the pleasure of working on a new project called 鈥淰olunteered Drone Imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared image repository鈥, with , University of Washington-Tacoma, and , a recently-graduated MES student from 蓝莓视频.
A new paper by PhD Candidate has just been published in the !
At long last, a team publication from the GEOIDE grant The Participatory Geoweb has been published in ACME journal.
I鈥檝e co-authored an exciting new paper with from McGill University. It is currently online first with . With this piece we take a look at the dominant models of open data provision by government and start to lay out what the challenges are for delivering open data.
I鈥檝e recently published a jointly-authored viewpoint piece with from Ryerson University in .
We all know that climate change is having a major impact on weather patterns around the globe. One industry that is particularly exposed to these changes is the ski industry. Though large mountain/high elevation ski resorts may remain insulated from the impacts of shorter ski seasons and more erratic weather, those ski resorts at low altitude are particularly vulnerable to a changing climate. As a mid-latitude, lower elevation (comparatively) ski region, the Pyrenees are one area where the impacts of a changing climate are pronounced.
A chapter from my dissertation has been recently published in . This paper, titled 鈥鈥 presents material from a series of interviews that I conducted with tourism planners in Nova Scotia.