Geographic Information Science (GIS) Day
Nov 15, 2023
1:00PM to 5:00PM
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Canada
Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/11/2023
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
The Sherman Centre, Mills Library
The GIS Lab in the School of Earth, Environment & Society will celebrate GIS Day on Wednesday November 15, 2023. Researchers across several departments at McMaster University have shown innovative application of technology, data collection, geospatial information visualization, and thought leadership through geographic information systems.
McMaster’s GIS Day this year consists of a mix of live lightning talks and demonstrations by members of the University community using GIS, talks focusing on themes relevant to both the social sciences and natural sciences. You are invited to attend in person for the lightning talks on GIS Day which will take place in The Sherman Centre on the first floor of Mills Library. Please see the schedule below.
| Time | Presenter | Title |
| 1:00PM | Patrick DeLuca, GIS Specialist, School of Earth, Environment & Society | GIS at McMaster University |
| 1:15PM | Christine Homuth, Spatial Information Specialist Saman Gourdazi, Cartographic Resources Librarian Britney Sostar, Makerspace Coordinator, McMaster University Library |
How Can the Library Support Your GIS Project |
| 1:30PM | John Bell, Director of I.T., Humanities Randy Wallinga, Director of I.T., DeGroote School of Business |
MacNav – Wayfinding Pilot at McMaster |
| 2:00PM | Dr. Léa Ravensbergen, Assistant Professor, School of Earth, Environment & Society | GIS in Transport Research and Practice |
| 2:15PM | Kayla Golay Lausanne, PhD Candidate, Anthropology | Mapping Ancient Urbanism: GIS Application to Document the Social Lives of Ancient Urban Communities |
| 2:30PM | Leah Smith, Honours Integrated Science, ECCE Student Associate | Aerial Imagery in GIS: A Historical Study of McMaster University |
| 2:45PM | Alex Furukawa, PhD Candidate, ECCE Student Associate | ConservNation Canada: Identifying threats to protected areas and future conservation opportunities |
| 3:00PM | Sam Fanaki, Honours Environmental Science Co-op, ECCE Student Associate | GIS in the Workplace: A Co-op Student’s Experience |
| 3:15PM | Eva Novoselac, Honours Environmental Science Amaka Onyeze, Honours Environment and Society Alice Stubbs, Honours Environment and Society |
Experiences the 2023 National Geomatics Competition |
| 3:30PM | Reta Meng, PhD Candidate, Biology | Classification of the At-Risk Blanding’s Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) critical habitat using ArcGIS Image Classification Wizard |
| 3:45PM | Dr. Zilong Zhong, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Earth, Environment & Society | Analysis of 2023 Wildfire and Biomass Loss in Canadian Forests Leveraging GEE and Machine Learning |
| 4:00PM | Yiyao Li, Research Assistant, The Gonsamo Group Lab, School of Earth, Environment & Society | Mapping Peat Depth in the Hudson Bay Lowland Using Open-Source Remote Sensing Data |
| 4:15PM | Kangyu So, PhD Candidate, School of Earth, Environment & Society | Using Eddy Covariance and Satellite Observations to Analyze Climate Feedback in Red Pine Plantations Undergoing Silvicultural Interventions |