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...
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...
It is always great to see how well students do beyond our time together. Taylor Anderson was a student who excelled in two courses under my instruction (GEOG 381 and 481). With no programming background, she dove into python and programming with ArcGIS in our Advanced GIS...
Two members of our spatial analysis lab will presenting their masters work at the upcoming Canadian Association of Geographers annual meeting. They have been accepted to present in one of two GIScience special sessions chaired by Dr. Tarmo K. Remmel of York University and...
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...
Junyi completed her Bachelor of Environmental Studies Degree in 2013 specializing in Geomatics at the University of Waterloo. With programming and spatial analysis skills and some recent work experience with Bell Mobility, she is keen to derive analytics from large volumes of data to discover hidden patterns relevant to real-world decision making. Undergraduate projects of interest include: assessing optimal land cover change detection methods for application at the urban-rural fringe using multi-temporal Landsat-TM images; and image segmentation evaluation to validate spatial 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...
Li Zhang joins our research team from China. She started working with Dr. Robinson on her undergraduate thesis, which involved conducting a social survey and analyzing the spatial distribution of carbon emissions from different human activities. Currently Li is working on a carbon estimation project that involves comparing multiple carbon assessment approaches to estimate carbon storage in forested landscapes. With great interest in carbon estimation, Li will be focusing her Master’s research on carbon flux estimation in agricultural systems using an agent-based modeling approach that...
It is always great to see how well students do beyond our time together. Taylor Anderson was a student who excelled in two courses under my instruction (GEOG 381 and 481). With no programming background, she dove into python and programming with ArcGIS in our Advanced GIS...
I will be presenting at the Global Land Project on Friday, March 21 in the following session of the Global Land Project Open Science Meeting.
