conferences

Another year, another great conference from Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada. 16 students from the Geothink grant attended the pre-conference.

Approximately 70 people attended, among them engineers, geographers, planners, law graduate students, planners. We heard 53 presentations, from Mapping for the Czech airforce to Geosocial to geospatial data in land tenure. And a great keynote from Nigel Waters.

See below the fold from talks from Geothink and from our lab.

Our presence at the annual Association of American Geographers meeting in NYC, February 24-28

Community Activism on the Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb) (Sponsored by Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group; Applied Geography Specialty Group; GIScience, Cyberinfrastructure, and Social Media Special Session Track)

ORGANIZER(S): Renee Sieber, McGill University; Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia-Okanagan

CHAIR(S): Renee Sieber, McGill University

Wendy E Brawer, Founding Director, Green Map System, Green Maps: Transforming Local Information into Global Interaction.

Marcy L Burchfield, MSc, Neptis Foundation, An experiment in building an ad hoc collaborative regional planning community on the Geoweb.

Pamela Robinson, MCIP RPP, Ryerson University; Nick Weigeldt, Clean Air Partnership, Expert vs. Crowdsourced Urban Planning: A VGI Cage Match with Governance Implications.

Renee Sieber, McGill University; Andreane Lussier, McGill University; Patrick Quinn, McGill University; Peter Johnson, McGill University, Community Activism, Watershed Management, and the Geospatial Web 2.0.

Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Food networking: using the geoweb to support food related dialogue.

Our presentation at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Mark Chandler and Linda Sohl (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University) and Jian Zhou and Renee Sieber (McGill University). EdGCM: Educational Global Climate Modeling: Tools for Training the Climate Change Generation. February 16-20, Vancouver, Canada.

Several graduate and undergraduate students represented Team 41 at the 2011 GEOIDE Conference, held this year in Toronto on May 16th and 17th.

Lukanyenko, Roman. 2011. Citizen Science 2.0: Increasing quality and participation. Poster presented at the 2011 Annual GEOIDE Conference May 16-17, Toronto.

Mc Conchie, Alan and Brian Klinkenberg. 2011. Interactive User Validation of Volunteered Geographic Information. Poster presented at the 2011 Annual GEOIDE Conference May 16-17, Toronto.

Torio, Dante. 2011. Using Fuzzy Logic to Map the Threat of Coastal Squeeze in Marshes at Wells Reserve and Portland, Maine. Poster presented at the 2011 Annual GEOIDE Conference May 16-17, Toronto.

Tudge, Pamela. 2011. Communicating Climate Change Report for Year 2. Presented 2011 Annual GEOIDE Conference May 16-17, Toronto.

Walker, Blake, and Claus Rinner. 2011. Deconstructing Effective Participation on the Geoweb. Poster presented at the 2011 Annual GEOIDE Conference May 16-17, Toronto.

Hanif Rahemtulla, along with Gail Chmura, also at Mc Gill, presented "VGI in the Restoration and Conservation of Coastal Marshes: A Case Study of the Bay of Fundy" in the Linking Science and Local Knowledge session, Oceans Management Research Network (OMRN) Conference presentation, Ottawa, ON, October 23, 2009.