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. If anyone has any questions or would like to get in touch with any of the presenters, please send an email to Patrick DeLuca (delucapf@mcmaster.ca)
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
2024 Lightning Talks Schedule
Location: GIS Lab, Burke Sciences Building, Room 332
| Time | Presenter | Title |
| 1:00PM | Dr. Rodrigo Perez, School of Earth, Environment & Society | The use of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in glacial landsystem analysis: Two cases studies in Northern Perú and Southern Iceland |
| 1:15PM | Brittany Sostar, Thode Makerspace Coordinator
Christine Homuth, Spatial Information Specialist Nancy Waite, Coordinator Library Accessibility Services Saman Gourdazi, Cartographic Resources Librarian |
How Can the Library Support Your GIS Project |
| 1:30PM | Alice Stubbs (Honours Environment and Society) and David Figueroa (Honours Biodiversity & Enviro Science) | 2024 ECCE App Challenge: Road2Home |
| 1:45PM | Leah Smith, Honours Integrated Science, ECCE Student Associate | Navigating Science Communication: ArcGIS StoryMaps as Educational Resources for Public Engagement in the Geosciences |
| 2:00PM | Elias Winward (MSc Candidate), Biology | Detecting the Breeding Habitat of a Cryptic Salamander in Southern Ontario |
| 2:15PM | Dr. Zilong Zhong, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Earth, Environment & Society | Burned Area Mapping and Carbon Emission Estimation of Canada’s 2023 Wildfires using Google Earth Engine |
| 2:30PM | Frank Wang, BHSc (2nd year Medical School student) | Trees and Life, Heat and Death: Integrating Temperature and Vegetation with Code Red |
| 2:45PM | Alex Furukawa, PhD Candidate, ECCE Student Associate
(co-authors: Drs. Brandon van Huizen, Chantel Markle, and Mike Waddington) |
Natural Asset Mapping Project (NAMP) of the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere : Gap Analysis and Land Cover Classification |
| 3:00PM | Elliot Jeyaseelan, Facility Technology Administrator, Facility Services | GIS at Facilities |
| 3:15PM | Zehui Yin, PhD Candidate, ECCE Student Associate | What Makes People Happy with Their Neighbourhoods? Exploring Individual Characteristics Beyond Sociodemographics in Scarborough, Ontario |
| 4:30PM | Dr. Krista Amolins, Higher Education Academic and Licensing Support Specialist, Esri Canada | Workshop: Designing a map for field data collection with ArcGIS Field Maps (held in BSB 331)* |
| 5:30PM | Dr. Krista Amolins, Higher Education Academic and Licensing Support Specialist, Esri Canada | Workshop: Exploring Imagery in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and ArcGIS Map Viewer (held in PGCLL B131)* |
* To reserve your seat for either workshop, contact Patrick DeLuca at delucapf@mcmaster.ca