Final Program 2008

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Thursday, February 14

Mixer (event) in evening to welcome participants

 

Friday

February 15

Presenter

3:00-4:00pm

Plants and Animals

 

1

Making Sense of Animal Locomotion, presentation pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4

Andrew Hunter

2

The Impact of Landscape Change on Grizzly Bear Habitat Use in the Foothills Model Forest, Alberta Canada

Anne Berland

3

Quantifying the Impacts of Landscape Disturbance on the Spatial Patterns of Grizzly Bear Habitat Use

Mary Smulders

4

Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Chlorophyll - A Measurement within the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, presentation

H.D. Eckstrand

5

Mapping Local Knowledge on Recreational Boating in the Southern Strait of Georgia

Darcy Gray

     

4:00-5:00pm

Involvement

 

1

First Nations and Spatial Ontologies: An Emerging Research Area

Christopher Wellen

2

Spatializing the Metis Historical Database using Google Maps API , presentation

Jon Corbett

3

Including Aboriginal Values in Resource Management Through Enhanced Geospatial Communication

Nancy Elliot

4

Enhancing Stakeholder Bargaining Power: The Effectiveness of Collaborative GIS in Marine Zoning

Rosaline Canessa

     

5:00-6:00pm

Interdependencies

 

1

Visioning Local Futures: The Development of a Computerized Tourism Planning Support System, presentation

Peter Johnson

2

The Role of GIS in Modeling Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies: A Case Study at UBC, presentation pt 1, presentation pt 2

Alejandro Cervantes-Larios

3

Spatial Statistical Analysis of Detected Illegal Vessel-Source Oil Discharges in Canada's Pacific Region

Norma Serra Sogas

4

Air Pollution and Exposure Modelling, pt. I

Christy Lightowlers

5

Air Pollution and Exposure Modelling, pt. II

Eleanor Setton

     

6:00-7:00pm

Dinner and Keynote, Michael Goodchild

 

 

7:00-8:00pm

Modeling Our Landscape

 

1

The Role of GIS in Agricultural Policy and Program Research

Christina M. Canart

2

Spectral Characteristics and Landscape-Level Mapping of Selected Shrub Types in the Canadian Mixed Prairie, presentation

Arun Govind

3

Interactive Calibration of a Land-use Cellular Automata Model

Jean-Gabriel Hasbani

4

The Use of Remote Sensing in Temporal Change Analysis for Grassland Monitoring

Jessica Henderson

5

Comparing Demographic and Lot Effects in an Agent-based Simulation of Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon

Peter Deadman

     

8:00-9:00pm

Moving Spaces

 

1

A Comparison of Methods for Computing Cardinal Directional Relations of Polygons

Colin Robertson

2

Cycling in Cities: Using GIS to Study how the Built Environment Influences Active Transportation

Meghan Winters

3

An Exploration of Quantitative Methods for Comparing Urban Development Scenarios, presentation

Sean Howard

4

Improving Public Health Inspectors' Efficiency Using Geographical Information Systems Optimal Routing Technology

Jennifer Evack

5

Projecting the Spread of an Invasive Species in an Urban Park Using Historical Spread Rates and a GIS, presentation

David Boschman

     

Saturday

 

February 16

 

3:00-4:00pm

Health of Things

 

1

Determining Appropriate Locations for Siting Palliative Care Hubs in British Columbia using Geographic Information Systems, presentation

Jonathan Cinnamon

2

Modelling Effects of Hospital Services Changes in Rural and Remote Areas using GIS

Nadine Schuurman

3

GIScience Applications for Prevention Epidemiology: the Join-count Autocorrelation Test for Binary Health Data

Nathaniel Bell

4

Emerging Infectious Diseases and Agent-based Models: Moving Epidemiology from Analyzing Pattern to Simulating Process, presentation

Raja Sengupta

     

5

Predictive Modeling and GIS for Conservation

David J. Lieske

     

4:00-5:00pm

Living on the Slopes

 

1

Living on the Edge: Spatial Pattern Implications of the Current Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic

Jed Long

2

Determination of Canadian Snow Regimes Using Passive Microwave Radiometry

Carson Farmer

3

A Tale of Two Targets: Scanning Rockmasses and Building Facades with Static and Mobile LiDAR , presentation

Matt Lato

4

Using GIS to Manage and Analyse Spatial and Temporal Data in the Study of Massive Landslide Behaviour, presentation

Katherine Kalenchuk

5

TITAN to Google Earth: Work Flow for Data Processing for Mobile Terrestrial LIDAR

Michael Martin Evans

     

5:00-6:00pm

Online All the Time

 

1

Climate Change! Maps! Action! Public Response to Climate Change Projections using Digital Earth and Geoweb Applications

Britta Ricker

2

Internet Mapping in the Kootenays, presentation

Ian Parfitt

3

Classifiying Spatial Data on the Internet

Scott Bell

4

Web Map Mashups: Cartography of Insurgence?, presentation

Alan Mc Conchie

5

Unearthing Google: Corporate Networks: Public Participation Geographic Information Systems and (Infiltrating) Cyborgs

Luke Eades

     

6:00-7:00pm

Dinner and Student Awards

 

 

7:00-8:00pm

Blue Sky

 

1

Structure Across Scales: Hierarchical Decomposition of Spatiotemporal Data Using A Scale-Space Approach

Arie Croitoru

2

The Rise of Multimodal Geospatial Interface Research

Nick Hedley

3

Spatial Statistics: Putting the Myths into Perspective

Marie-Josee Fortin

4

Break and Enter Crime Opportunity Spaces in Regina, presentation

Joseph Piwowar

5

P2PSAM: A Fully Decentralized Peer-to-Peer GIS Architecture

Steve Liang

     

8:00-9:00pm

Inter-generational

 

1

Participatory Geoweb: A Research Agenda

Renee Sieber

2

The Reflexivity of Geospatial Technology: Exploring the Geographies of Hope and Fear, presentation

Brian Klinkenberg

3

Geo Web Toolsets for Ecoforestry Education and Management

Charles Burnett

4

Conducting Applied Geomatics Research under the NSERC College Community Innovation Pilot Program, presentation

David Colville

5

Applied Geomatics Research in Nova Scotia; Sharing our Eight Years of Experience, presentation

Robert Maher

9:00pm+

All things educational

 

 

Sunday, February 17

Wrap-up