Final Program 2008
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Thursday, February 14
Mixer (event) in evening to welcome participants
Friday
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February 15
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Presenter
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3:00-4:00pm
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Plants and Animals
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1
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Making Sense of Animal Locomotion, presentation pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4
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Andrew Hunter
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2
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The Impact of Landscape Change on Grizzly Bear Habitat Use in the Foothills Model Forest, Alberta Canada
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Anne Berland
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3
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Quantifying the Impacts of Landscape Disturbance on the Spatial Patterns of Grizzly Bear Habitat Use
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Mary Smulders
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4
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Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Chlorophyll - A Measurement within the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, presentation
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H.D. Eckstrand
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5
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Mapping Local Knowledge on Recreational Boating in the Southern Strait of Georgia
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Darcy Gray
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4:00-5:00pm
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Involvement
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1
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First Nations and Spatial Ontologies: An Emerging Research Area
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Christopher Wellen
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2
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Spatializing the Metis Historical Database using Google Maps API , presentation
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Jon Corbett
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3
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Including Aboriginal Values in Resource Management Through Enhanced Geospatial Communication
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Nancy Elliot
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4
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Enhancing Stakeholder Bargaining Power: The Effectiveness of Collaborative GIS in Marine Zoning
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Rosaline Canessa
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5:00-6:00pm
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Interdependencies
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1
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Visioning Local Futures: The Development of a Computerized Tourism Planning Support System, presentation
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Peter Johnson
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2
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The Role of GIS in Modeling Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies: A Case Study at UBC, presentation pt 1, presentation pt 2
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Alejandro Cervantes-Larios
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3
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Spatial Statistical Analysis of Detected Illegal Vessel-Source Oil Discharges in Canada's Pacific Region
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Norma Serra Sogas
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4
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Air Pollution and Exposure Modelling, pt. I
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Christy Lightowlers
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5
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Air Pollution and Exposure Modelling, pt. II
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Eleanor Setton
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6:00-7:00pm
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Dinner and Keynote, Michael Goodchild
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7:00-8:00pm
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Modeling Our Landscape
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1
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The Role of GIS in Agricultural Policy and Program Research
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Christina M. Canart
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2
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Spectral Characteristics and Landscape-Level Mapping of Selected Shrub Types in the Canadian Mixed Prairie, presentation
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Arun Govind
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3
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Interactive Calibration of a Land-use Cellular Automata Model
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Jean-Gabriel Hasbani
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4
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The Use of Remote Sensing in Temporal Change Analysis for Grassland Monitoring
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Jessica Henderson
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5
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Comparing Demographic and Lot Effects in an Agent-based Simulation of Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon
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Peter Deadman
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8:00-9:00pm
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Moving Spaces
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1
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A Comparison of Methods for Computing Cardinal Directional Relations of Polygons
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Colin Robertson
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2
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Cycling in Cities: Using GIS to Study how the Built Environment Influences Active Transportation
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Meghan Winters
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3
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An Exploration of Quantitative Methods for Comparing Urban Development Scenarios, presentation
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Sean Howard
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4
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Improving Public Health Inspectors' Efficiency Using Geographical Information Systems Optimal Routing Technology
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Jennifer Evack
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5
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Projecting the Spread of an Invasive Species in an Urban Park Using Historical Spread Rates and a GIS, presentation
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David Boschman
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Saturday
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February 16
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3:00-4:00pm
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Health of Things
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1
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Determining Appropriate Locations for Siting Palliative Care Hubs in British Columbia using Geographic Information Systems, presentation
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Jonathan Cinnamon
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2
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Modelling Effects of Hospital Services Changes in Rural and Remote Areas using GIS
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Nadine Schuurman
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3
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GIScience Applications for Prevention Epidemiology: the Join-count Autocorrelation Test for Binary Health Data
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Nathaniel Bell
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4
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Emerging Infectious Diseases and Agent-based Models: Moving Epidemiology from Analyzing Pattern to Simulating Process, presentation
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Raja Sengupta
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5
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Predictive Modeling and GIS for Conservation
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David J. Lieske
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4:00-5:00pm
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Living on the Slopes
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1
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Living on the Edge: Spatial Pattern Implications of the Current Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic
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Jed Long
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2
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Determination of Canadian Snow Regimes Using Passive Microwave Radiometry
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Carson Farmer
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3
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A Tale of Two Targets: Scanning Rockmasses and Building Facades with Static and Mobile LiDAR , presentation
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Matt Lato
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4
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Using GIS to Manage and Analyse Spatial and Temporal Data in the Study of Massive Landslide Behaviour, presentation
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Katherine Kalenchuk
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5
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TITAN to Google Earth: Work Flow for Data Processing for Mobile Terrestrial LIDAR
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Michael Martin Evans
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5:00-6:00pm
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Online All the Time
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1
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Climate Change! Maps! Action! Public Response to Climate Change Projections using Digital Earth and Geoweb Applications
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Britta Ricker
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2
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Internet Mapping in the Kootenays, presentation
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Ian Parfitt
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3
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Classifiying Spatial Data on the Internet
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Scott Bell
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4
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Web Map Mashups: Cartography of Insurgence?, presentation
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Alan Mc Conchie
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5
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Unearthing Google: Corporate Networks: Public Participation Geographic Information Systems and (Infiltrating) Cyborgs
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Luke Eades
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6:00-7:00pm
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Dinner and Student Awards
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7:00-8:00pm
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Blue Sky
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1
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Structure Across Scales: Hierarchical Decomposition of Spatiotemporal Data Using A Scale-Space Approach
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Arie Croitoru
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2
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The Rise of Multimodal Geospatial Interface Research
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Nick Hedley
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3
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Spatial Statistics: Putting the Myths into Perspective
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Marie-Josee Fortin
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4
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Break and Enter Crime Opportunity Spaces in Regina, presentation
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Joseph Piwowar
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5
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P2PSAM: A Fully Decentralized Peer-to-Peer GIS Architecture
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Steve Liang
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8:00-9:00pm
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Inter-generational
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1
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Participatory Geoweb: A Research Agenda
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Renee Sieber
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2
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The Reflexivity of Geospatial Technology: Exploring the Geographies of Hope and Fear, presentation
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Brian Klinkenberg
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3
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Geo Web Toolsets for Ecoforestry Education and Management
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Charles Burnett
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4
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Conducting Applied Geomatics Research under the NSERC College Community Innovation Pilot Program, presentation
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David Colville
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5
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Applied Geomatics Research in Nova Scotia; Sharing our Eight Years of Experience, presentation
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Robert Maher
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9:00pm+
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All things educational
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Sunday, February 17
Wrap-up
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