Research

MSc Thesis Opportunity: Use of satellite imagery to detect non-point sources of pollution in streams

A two-year M.Sc. thesis scholarship is to work with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Fluvial Systems Research (FSR) on...

Gearing up for fieldwork, Summer 2019

The ice is finally melting here in Ottawa, and we're getting ready for this season's fieldwork. - In Gatineau Park, satellite image...

Field course in Zanzibar, August 2018

It's official - we ran a Geomatics and Landscape Ecology field course in Zanzibar, 6-26 August 2018! The course focused on the...

Mapping wild leek with a small drone

We also just got another paper published, in which we outline a methodology for mapping wild leek using a small drone, based on work in...

Tracking temperature in Tibet

We don't do shallow water in my lab. In collaboration with friend and colleague Yongming Xu and others, we used coarse-resolution (MODIS)...

Satellite-Derived Bathymetry for Nunavut

Many northern communities rely on up-to-date bathymetric information for safe ship passage between regions. However, bathymetry data for...

Bathymetry by consumer drone

In preparation for Shallow Survey 2018, we are testing how well a standard consumer-grade drone (Phantom 3 standard) can be used to map...