Agenda
This year's GIS Day event was held at the Geospatial Centre at the Dana Porter Library and consisted of an open house at the Geospatial Centre and a series of presentations in the Flex Lab. Welcome from the GIS Day team!
Introductory speaker
Ian Evans: Geographers Without Borders: Think globally, act locally
Geography/Planning 481 project presentations
- John Manore, Alexander Wilson, Thomas Stubbs, Vicky Vanthof, Jia Yu: Discovering Ontario agriculture through GIS
- Liuyi Guo, Yanjun Jiang, Zarrin Tasneem, Xing Wang: A GIS-based flood susceptibility analysis and risk area assessment
- Kristen Dekroon, Zahra Jeraj, Todd Poirier, Hayden Wong: Wind turbine suitability
- Xiaojing Cao, Huipeng Liao, Ruoran Lin, Jingye Zhang: Exploring the association between walkability and diabetes
- Ruoyu Ma, Zeyuan Qi, Jonathan Walters, Zhibin Zheng: Sports and recreation facility evaluation and development
Lightning talks
- Carolyn McCormick: Data collection tool for fear of crime research
- Hongjing Chen: GIS and trail analysis
- Shadman Chowdhury: Exploring trends in nutrient and solute export across watersheds in Ontario
- Ian Evans: Suitability analysis for ideal honey bee apiary locations in Southern Ontario
- Trevor Ford: Mapping Canadian military history
Geospatial Centre open house
Concurrently with the presentations there was an open house at the Geospatial Centre in the Dana Porter Library. Refreshments will be served.
