Ian was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario and completed an undergraduate program in Geography & Environmental Management with a specialization in Geomatics at the University of Waterloo. His current research interests are (1) integrating the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) into Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) models and (2) characterizing natural landscapes as a model for reclamation planning in Alberta, Canada. Through these projects, he is pursuing a growing interest computer programming. Outside of the academic world, he enjoys reading, cycling, and writing and...

Keith is currently working towards the completion of his undergraduate degree in Geomatics, with a minor in Computer Science, at the University of Waterloo. He will be beginning his Masters in May 2014 with the general direction of building tools for empirically informing agent-based models for use in agricultural decision-making. As part of his research, Keith will be working with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Socio-Ecological Infrastructure acquired through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. His broader research interests include Web 2.0 geographic information systems, geographic...

Bogdan Caradima joins the Estimating Market Potential project with an undergraduate degree in environmental studies and a keen interest in ecology and GIS. While Bogdan’s undergraduate focus has been on species distribution models, his graduate studies seek to implement an Ontario-wide suitability analysis for retail development in an agent-based model of spatial resource competition. Bogdan’s interests also extend into methods of multi-criteria evaluation, land use change modelling, and how these methods relate to ecological models and impacts.