GIS Day 2025

Agenda

2:30 - 3:00

  • Welcome from the organizers
  • Cake and refreshments sponsored by WAGS

3:00 - 4:00

  • Lightning talks
    • Building an Automatic Map Generation Workflow Utilizing ArcPy and Jupyter Notebooks, Matthew Woodward
    • Understanding gully expansion rates using drone jmagery, air photo analysis, and building Digital Elevation Models, Jess Zhang
    • Heat Island and Green Infrastructure Vulnerabilities in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Felix Adebayo
    • Hospital Drive-Time Access for Adults 65+ in the GTA​, Mohan Mahbaz
    • Impact of flooding on transit accessibility in Toronto, GEOG 481 group project report, Benjamin Marsh, Agnes Barkho, Marcus Cheung, and Cindy Wang
    • Heat Smart: Mapping Waterloo’s Portable Cooling Network, Taaha Khan
    • Using GIS to Determine Landslide Susceptibility and Associated Impact in the Okanagan, B.C. GEOG 481 group project report, Kirsi O'Quinn, David Han, and Ishdeep Sandhu
    • Used LiDAR-derived terrain data and aspect analysis to identify suitable habitat for an endangered herbaceous plant. Mapped slope orientations linked to preferred conditions, highlighting how open-source GIS tools can guide evidence-based conservation., Serina Tourangeau
    • Access to Greenspaces by census tracts in Windsor, Jana Jandal Alrifai
    • Raster generation and data preparation for high performance computing to classify land cover, Matilda Kim

4:00 - 4:30

  • Social/Networking