The Participatory Geoweb - News

The Facebook of Forest Fires: Team 41 in the Globe and Mail this week

ptudge — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:26:24 +0000

Featured in the Globe and Mail this week is project investigator Dr. Jon Corbett and GEOIDE students Aidan Whitely and Samantha Brennan from UBC Okanagan with their project that maps forest fires in the Okanagan.

Check out the project's web site at: http://firehistory.ok.ubc.ca

Globe and Mail article at:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/the-facebo...

Toronto team portrayed in Ryerson research news and student newspaper

rinner — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:21:32 +0000

The Toronto node of the project is portrayed in a January 9, 2009, article on the Ryerson University homepage entitled "Can government and citizens work together to stop climate change?" See http://www.ryerson.ca/news/news/Research_News/20090109_Climate.html.

Under the headline "Geography prof's map tool lets citizens have their say", The Ryersonian student newspaper of January 28, 2009, discusses the Argoomap tool developed by Ryerson students and researchers. A scan of the article is included below.

ryersonian-jan2009

rinner — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:20:00 +0000