Looking forward to some sun (or fog) in California! Myself and two group members, Sara Harrison and Qing Lu are off to present at the Association of American Geographers annual conference in San Francisco.
I鈥檝e recently been successful with obtaining five years of funding from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation鈥檚 Early Researcher Award (ERA). This generous funding will allow me to measure the value and impact of open data initiatives, assessing how open data is accessed, used, and exploited.
At long last, a team publication from the GEOIDE grant The Participatory Geoweb has been published in ACME journal.
This post is by PhD student on her recent experience attending the .
As part of Geography 187: Problem Solving in Geomatics, I鈥檝e started using as a tool for students to gain experience collecting in-situ field data. Fulcrum is both a mobile app (for iOS and Android) and a data management/survey design backend.
I'm currently leading a research project that looks to compare two first-year Geomatics courses (GEOG 181 and the new GEOG 187).
I鈥檝e recently been awarded funding from the and the . I鈥檇 like to thank both of these government funding agencies for their support of a new research and training initiative that I call the 鈥楪eospatial Mobility Lab鈥. This effort is also co-sponsored through direct contributions of equipment and services from and .
I鈥檝e recently published a jointly-authored viewpoint piece with from Ryerson University in .
I am currently recruiting graduate students to start in September 2014. I place a priority on graduate student supervision and try to support all my students as best I can, through providing timely feedback on written work, facilitating networking within academia and industry, and supporting student travel to conferences when possible. The position outlines and instructions are listed below.
Recently I鈥檝e been fortunate enough to be part of a team that has been awarded a for a 5-year study of 鈥淗ow the Geospatial Web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions鈥, also called . This is an unparalleled opportunity to make a long-term impact on emerging research themes of open data, citizen digital participation, and to trace the changing nature of geospatial data creation and use.