Papers
Lawrence, H., Robertson, C., Feick, R., & Nelson, T. (2020). The spatial-comprehensiveness (S-COM) Index: Identifying optimal spatial extents in volunteered geographic information point datasets. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(9), 497
Malik, K., McLeman, R., Robertson, C., & Lawrence, H. (2020). Reconstruction of past backyard skating seasons in the Original Six NHL cities from citizen science data. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien.
Shaughnessy, K., Reyes, R., Shankardass, K., Sykora, M., Feick, R., Lawrence, H., & Robertson, C. (2018). Using geolocated social media for ecological momentary assessments of emotion: Innovative opportunities in psychology science and practice. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 59(1), 47–53.
Lawrence, H., Robertson, C., Feick, R., & Nelson, T. (2015). Identifying Optimal Study Areas and Spatial Aggregation Units for Point-Based VGI from Multiple Sources. In F. Harvey & Y. Leung (Eds.), Advances in Spatial Data Handling and Analysis (pp. 65–84). Springer, Cham.
Robertson, C., McLeman, R., & Lawrence, H. (2015). Winters too warm to skate? Citizen‐science reported variability in availability of outdoor skating in Canada. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien, 59(4), 383–390.
Sykora, M., Robertson, C., Shankardass, K., Feick, R., Shaughnessy, K., Coates, B., Lawrence, H., & Jackson, T. W. (2015). Stresscapes: Validating linkages between place and stress expression on social media. MUD@ ICML.
Conferences
Lawrence, H. (2018). Visualization of public sentiment of Victorian Whitechapel before, during, and after the Jack the Ripper murders. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lawrence, H. (2017). The prevalence and use of relative spatial terms to denote location by online news. Presented at the The 2017 AMMCS-CAIMS Congress, Waterloo, Ontario.
Lawrence, H., Robertson, C., & Feick, R. (2015a). Identifying optimal spatial extent of VGI data for analysis based on predefined quality metrics. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.
Lawrence, H., Robertson, C., & Feick, R. (2015b). New metrics for new datasets: A comparison of a customly defined metric to well-defined metrics of spatial analysis for VGI. Presented at the The 2015 AMMCS-CAIMS Congress, Waterloo, Ontario.
Samuels, B., Villalon, M. E. L., LeGros, N., Lawrence, H., & Garbati, J. (2015). Extending Vocabulary Knowledge with the Laurier VocApp. Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Second Language Pedagogies, Waterloo, Ontario.
Lawrence, H., & Robertson, C. (2014a). Integrated spatial analysis of user-generated geographic content. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Tampa, Florida.
Lawrence, H., & Robertson, C. (2014b). VGI-based citizen science: A field report from the frontlines of the RinkWatch Project. Presented at the ESRI GIS in Education Conference in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Lawrence, H., Robertson, C., & Feick, R. (2014). Identifying optimal study areas and spatial aggregation units for point-based VGI from multiple sources. Presented at the Joint International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modeling and Applications, Toronto, Ontario.
Lawrence, H., & Robertson, C. (2013). VGI-based citizen science: Its function in research and education though the example of RinkWatch. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, California.
Lawrence, H., & Robertson, C. (2012). VGI Online User Communities: A Review of Methods/Metrics for Summarizing their Characteristics. Presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division Annual Meeting, Scarborough, Ontario.
Workshop Leader
Victoria, British Columbia
Kathmandu, Nepal
Lecturer/Instructor Positions
University of Toronto Scarborough
- GGRA30 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Empirical Reasoning
- GGRB30 Fundamentals of GIS I
- GGRB32 Fundamentals of GIS II
- GGRC42 Making Sense of Data: Applied Multivariate Analysis
- GGRD30 GIS Research Project
Wilfrid Laurier University
- GESC254: Geog Information & Analysis, Specialized tutorial sessions
University Positions
Writing Centre Tutor (Wilfrid Laurier University, 2012 - 2018)