2009 SKI Program

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Thursday, Feb. 19

Mixer (event) in evening to welcome new and returning participants, Brick House, 401 Second Ave.

 

Friday,

Feb. 20

 

3:00-4:00pm

Conservation GIS/ Environmental GIScience  

1

Is the Development of Environmental Knowledge in Human Wayfinding Sequential or Simultaneous? Rui Li and Scott Bell

2

Elephants Avoid Costly Mountaineering Jake Wall

3

Spatial exploration of the relationship between grizzly bear health and environmental conditions in Alberta Tracy Timmins, Andrew Hunter, and Gordon Stenhouse

4

Spatially Evaluating Resource Selection Functions using Conditional Randomization Mary Smulders, Trisalyn Nelson, and Scott Nielsen

5

Relationships between Cold-water Corals off Newfoundland and Labrador and their Environment
Krista Jones, Rodolphe Devillers, and Evan Edinger
     

4:00-5:00pm

Geospatial Ecological Modeling  

1

Spatio-temporal mapping of vegetative types in the Canadian Mixed Prairie Arun Govind and Scott Bell

2

Unravelling the Mysterious Phenomenon of Yellow-Cedar Decline Claire Wooton and Brian Klinkenberg

3

The effect of landscape pattern on mountain pine beetle spread Colin Robertson, Michael A. Wulder, Trisalyn A. Nelson, and Joanne C. White

4

National Forest Fire Susceptibility Assessment using the EOSD Nicholas Gralewicz, Trisalyn Nelson, and Michael A. Wulder

5

Automated labelling of remotely sensed disturbances: Framework and example Benjamin P. Stewart, Michael A. Wulder, Trisalyn Nelson, Greg Mc Dermid, and Julia Linke
     

5:00-6:00pm

Sensors All Around  

1

Improving seabed classification through the use of multiple acoustic frequencies Andrew Cuff, John Anderson, and Rodolphe Devillers

2

Temperature Mapping in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley David Colville and Wayne Reiger

3

A dynamic self-adapting recommendation engine for the sensor web Rohana Rezel and Steve Liang

4

moved due to flight delay  
     

6:00-7:00pm

Dinner and Keynote with Marie-Josee Fortin

 

 

7:00-8:00pm

O O  

1

An Object-based Spatial Data Search Engine Ehsan Mohammadi, Andrew Hunter, and Gordon Stenhouse

2

Prairie Shelterbelt Inventory: Using High Resolution Imagery and Object-based Classification Joey Pankiw, John Kort, and Joseph M. Piwowar

3

GEOgraphic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA): Developing a New Sub-Discipline in GIScience Geoffrey J. Hay

4

An Ontology-Based Spatial Clustering Reasoning System Wei Gu and Xin Wang

5

Integrating ontologies and schema for biographic and geographic databases Renee Sieber, Christopher Wellen and Yuan Jin
     

8:00-9:00pm

The Broad Expanse of Urban GIS  

1

3D Cellular Automata and Mobile Terrestrial Lidar: Simple rules for urban geography Gregory Mc Quat and Robin Harrap

2

A political ecology of scale in urban air pollution monitoring Michael Buzzelli

3

A multi-agent system to simulate the decision process of stakeholders involved in a land residential project in the Calgary region Michael Kieser and Danielle J. Marceau

4

Examining Access to Health Care at the Neighbourhood Level Laura Bissonnette, Kathi Wilson, and Scott Bell
     

Saturday,

Feb. 21

 

3:00-4:00pm

Geoviz Time  

1

Real-time Interactive Groundwater Visualization using 3D Cellular Automata Cyrille Médard de Chardon and Nick Hedley

2

Perception of Pattern and Process in Seabird Distributions: an Assessment of the Impact of Alternative Visualization Methods David J. Lieske

3

Augmented Space: What Geographic Environments Might Look Like in the Near Future
Nick Hedley

4

Sketch mapping and Geographic Knowledge: What Role for Drawing Ability? Scott Bell and Jace Iong
     

4:00-5:00pm

Managing Disaster and Risk with GIS  

1

Designing Public Geovisualizations to Improve Tsunami Education in Ucluelet, British Columbia Matt J. Kurowski and Nick R. Hedley

2

Geo-statistical Analysis and Modeling of Residential Fire Risks in Toronto Area to Predict Personal Response and Property Damaged

 

Alireza Ghaffari and Ali Asgary

3

Exploring the Deterrent Effect of Marine Pollution Monitoring in Canada's Pacific Region Norma Serra, Patrick O’Hara, Rosaline Canessa, and Stefania Bertazzon

4

Making Communities Safer Participatory Mapping and PGIS in support of Community Risk Assessment Michael K. Mc Call
     

5:00-6:00pm

Participatory GIS Theory and Practice  

1

Participatory mapping in climate change adaptation: the case of three rural communities in the Canadian prairies Lorena Patiño

2

Evolving approaches to Community Mapping in Southwest Nova Scotia Robert Maher and Jeffrey Wentzell

3

Cultural sites, traditional knowledge and participatory mapping; Long-time landscape use in Sápmi Stine Barlindhaug

4

Participatory mapping and development: the development of Participatory mapping Jon Corbett
     

6:00-7:00pm

Dinner and Student Awards

 

 

7:00-8:00pm

Impacts of the Geoweb  

1

Towards a socio-economical evaluation framework of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Anisur Rahman Gazi and Stéphane Roche

2

The Geo Web 2.0 and the new generation of PPGIS Boris Mericskay and Stéphane Roche

3

Overcoming the Limitations of Participatory Geographic Information Technologies using the Geospatial Web Jon Corbett, Patrick Allen, and Kasondra White

4

Injury data collection and analysis in low-resource settings Using Web 2.0 and the geospatial Web Jonathan Cinnamon, Nadine Schuurman, and S. Morad Hameed

5

Mashups, hacktivism and DIY mapping on the World Wide Web Alan Mc Conchie and Brian Klinkenberg
     

8:00-9:00pm

It's all about the Data  

1

An Efficient Method for Static and Transportation Facility Location Allocation in Large Spatial Datasets Wei Gu and Xin Wang

2

Data handling, Interpretation and Visualization for Static and Mobile Terrestrial LiDAR; Qualifying the Problems, Solutions, and Opportunities Michael Martin, Gregory Mc Quat, and Rob Harrap

3

A Decision Framework for Local Indicators for Categorical Data (LICD) Jed A. Long, Trisalyn Nelson, and Michael A. Wulder

4

A synthesis of the wisdom of leaders in spatial analysis Trisalyn Nelson and Art Getis

9:00pm+

Panel TBD  

 

Sunday, Feb. 22

Wrap-up