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Fully Funded Positions Available in Modelling Land Change and Estimating Ecosystem Function

October 31, 2014

We are seeking two PhD students (and may consider highly skilled students interested in obtaining a Master’s) with deep interests in geography, computer science, statistics, ecosystem modelling, or agent-based modelling to join our research team and model the ecological impacts of land use and land cover change (project summary below). Applicants do not need to have expertise or backgrounds in each of the above disciplines as unique expertise and depth in each of these disciplines is required to make novel scientific and modelling advances and contribute to the success of the larger...

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MCC Student – Glenn Milner – Funded to Assess Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystems in Peel Region

June 26, 2014

Climate change adaptation has been recognized by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and many other organizations as a critical complement to greenhouse gas mitigation efforts. Accordingly, TRCA developed a Climate Change Strategic Plan (2007), which amongst other directions, supports programs and projects that further the understanding and development of adaptive management strategies by partner municipalities and the private sector. The Region of Peel is one partner municipality that has developed the...

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[GIS-SIG] GIScience Student Awards (CAG 2014: Brock University)

June 3, 2014

GIScience student awards were announced today for students who presented at this years Canadian Association of Geographers conference at Brock University. The Chair of the GIScience Study Group Tarmo Remmel sent out the email below to the GIScience, CAG, and CAGList email lists. For oral presentations, second prize was given to one of our lab members Bogdan Caradima and honourable mention was given to Andrei Balulescu! Both Bogdan and Andrei are conducting research on retail location and are funded by Mitacs...

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SLUCE Synthesis Workshop

May 19, 2014

With project SLUCE2 funding reaching an end, many of those who have took part in SLUCE related research reunited in Ann Arbor today for a two day workshop (May 19-20, 2014) to synthesize our various research efforts, explicitly identify our contributions to science, and identify gaps that require attention and future research. While only about half of those who have worked on the project were able to make it , it was an exciting day packed with knowledge transfer and critical thinking.

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Dr. Scott Heckbert

Dr. Scott Heckbert to Give Guest Lecture on ABM and GIS

May 16, 2014

Agent-based modelling and GIS: Applications to land use change and environmental modelling

Dr. Scott Heckbert is an environmental economist at Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, and adjunct...

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Andrei Balulescu

Lorne Russwurm Award for Outstanding TA Performance – Awarded to Andrei Balulescu

May 15, 2014

The Lorne Russwurm Award for outstanding performance by a teaching assistant (TA) is awarded by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management annually to a TA that has performed beyond the ‘call of duty’ and exemplified outstanding performance. The contributions of Andrei Balulescu exceeded instructor expectations and all formal course requirements. He provided assistance to students and the...

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Ian Evans

Ian Evans Awarded Special Graduate Entrance Award

May 14, 2014

A number of new students are joining our research team this May. One of them, Ian Evans has recently been awarded a Special Graduate Entrance Award. Ian completely his undergraduate degree in April, which included a senior honours thesis titled “A review and application of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) for future integration in agent-based models of land-use and land-cover change (ABMs/LUCC)”. The level of detail and independent study performed by Ian in this senior honours thesis was unprecedented and we look forward to continuing the development of RUSLE into an...

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