Schedule

Lightning talk session, 9:30 a.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Integration of Field Maps and Survey123 for Agricultural Data Collection – Craig Irwin, Water Quality Specialist, UTRCA
• Constructing the 3D distribution of limnological variables within three interconnected lakes in the Kawarthas – Nolan Pearce, Postdoctoral Fellow, Trent University
• The Northern Tornadoes Project: Mapping Canada's Tornadoes - Aaron Jaffe, Engineering Researcher, The Northern Tornadoes Project
• How I Developed my Internship Research Output - Joseph Butler, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Western University Faculty of Science-Department of Biology

Demonstration session, 11 a.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (20 minutes per presentation)

• Bespoke ArcGIS Script tools for repetitive processing tasks – Craig MacDonell, GIS & Remote Sensing Technician, University of Glasgow
• Josh MacFadyen, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC), University of Prince Edward Island

Lightning talk session, 12:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Vision SoHo - Cristi Jerez, Undergraduate Summer Intern for History Department/ Student, Western University
• Coding With Nature: Future Generations Are Counting On It – Jonathan Brown, GIS Special Volunteer Projects, GO Open Data

Lighting talk session, 2 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Telecommunication Design in QGIS and PostGIS - Justin Chang, GIS Analyst, Mobia Technology Innovations
• The Social Geography of Heart Transplant Care in Ontario - Pei Jun Zhao, Resident Physician, Western University
• Geospatial Job Opportunities with Federal Government of Canada & More – Jonathan Murphy, Canada’s Geospatial Career Coach & Founder of Canada’s national Geospatial Leadership Conference, GeoIgnite

Lightning talk session, 3:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Mapping Canada's History using the Local History Atlas - Ben Woodward, Undergraduate Geography Student, Digital History Canada
• Moving Toward the City: On the Changeable and Elusive Cityscape - Colton Sherman, Teaching Assistant & ASP Peer Coach, Western University (English Department)
• White-tailed Deer Spatial Movement - Jared Newport, GIS Undergraduate Student, Western University 
• Spatial cluster analysis with public transit performance data – Stanley Ho, Graduate Student, Department of Geography and the Environment, Western University
• Telling Cow Stories with Maps - Claudia Hirtenfelder, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University

Lightning talk session, 9:30 a.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• The impacts of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) on social equity analysis of public transit reliability - Reyhane Javanmard, Master's student, Western University
• Mapping Outdoor Recreation - Matthew Ketchin, Graduate Student, Department of Geography and the Environment, Western University
• Steps to conduct a spatial analysis – Jesse Sutton, PhD Student, Department of Geography and the Environment, Western University
• Using ESRI Field Maps and Survey123 to collect data in the field – Natalia Hrynko, Master’s Student, Department of Geography and the Environment, Western University

Lightning talk session, 11 a.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Mapping The Brown Homestead - Jessica Linzel, Director of Community Engagement, The Brown Homestead
• Story Mapping Book History  - Arielle VanderSchans, Library Assistant, Western University Libraries
• Women who read through disability and illness - Grace O'Hanlon, Science Librarian, University of Manitoba
• Creative Data - Brian Rex, Associate Professor & Department Head, Department of Architecture / University of Manitoba
• Medieval GIS? Visualizing 15th century women - Roisin Cossar, Professor and Head, Department of History, University of Manitoba

Networking Session, 12:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour

This is an open networking session, providing a chance to connect with others who are working in or interested in learning about GIS. This is an informal session that will start with an initial icebreaker followed by general conversation over lunch or coffee. Breakout rooms will be created depending on the number of attendees. 

Lightning talk session, 2 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Everyone Loves a Scavenger Hunt: Promoting the University of Ottawa Map Library Through Experiential Learning – René Duplain, Research Librarian (GIS), University of Ottawa Library
• Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA); mentorship, memberships, and careers - Francine Berish, Geospatial Data Librarian and ACMLA Co-President, Queen’s University Library
• An update on building a longitudinal geospatial data infrastructure for the National Topographic System (NTS) 1:50 000 maps - Kara Handren & Amber Leahey, Data Librarian / Data & GIS Librarian, University of Toronto / Scholars Portal
• Story Mapping Book History  - Arielle VanderSchans, Library Assistant, Western University Libraries

Lightning talk session, 3:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Measuring the geographic polarization of neighbourhood values using housing transactions big data - John Hutchenreuther, Masters Student, Western University
• GISHub and geospatial data sharing infrastructure at the University of Manitoba Libraries - Meg Miller, GIS & Data Visualization Librarian, University of Manitoba 

Wednesday includes both virtual and in-person sessions.  In-person sessions are held at the Map and Data Centre on the ground floor of Weldon Library at Western University.

Demonstration session, 9:30 a.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour

• Using ArcGIS Workflow Manager to compile a national geodatabase of parks and protected areas in Canada – Alexander Wray, PhD Candidate, Human Environment Analysis Lab

Displays, throughout the day

• GIS Day Craft Table - Arielle VanderSchans and Rebecca Power, Crafters, Western University Libraries
• 3D Printing vs. Augmented Reality: Making experiences using GIS data - Jordan Clark, Manager, Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Library
• Augmented Reality Sandbox - Collin Branton, GIS Water Resources Project Specialist, Upper Thames River Conservation Authority
• The Northern Tornadoes Project - Aaron Jaffe & Connell Miller, Wind-Impacts Researchers, The Northern Tornadoes Project
• Department of Geography & the Environment, Western University
  • Kathy Tang - GIS and ECCE Program at Department of Geography & Environment
  • Jinfei Wang - Land cover change using high resolution imagery
  • Jed Long - Camera trap for animal movement analysis
• Close Range Photogrammetry – Ted Strazimiri, SkyDeploy UAS / Fanshawe College
• Fanshawe GIS & Urban Planning – Martin Healy
• Using ArcGIS Workflow Manager to compile a national geodatabase of parks and protected areas in Canada – Alexander Wray, PhD Candidate, Human Environment Analysis Lab

Trivia event, 7:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 3 hours (approximately) prizes to be won

Geography-Themed Trivia Night

This year’s trivia is a hybrid event. You can play in-person at the Grad Club at Western University, or join online.

How to play online: Join with a team, or let us put you in a team. Questions will be streamed via the Twitch channel , and team answers will be collected via the Trivia Discord. Lots of prizes up for grabs.

Wednesday includes both virtual and in-person sessions. 

Lightning talk session, 10:30 a.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Mapping my World – Sean McLachlan, Professional Artist, Printmonger Press 
• Mapping Natural Disasters, a grade 9 experience. - Ewan Geddes, High School Geography teacher, TDSB, York Mills C.I. Toronto District School Board
• Human mobility, sociodemographics, and context; what are the relationships? - Milad Malekzadeh, PhD Candidate in GIS, Western University
• Measuring spatial accessibility to parks using an improved 2SFCA method based on a youth-focused park quality index - Jayden(Zhe) Chang, Graduate Student, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University
• Lake and Soil Monitoring of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Using Synthetic Aperture Radar - Xin Zhou, Graduate Student, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University

Lightning talk session, 12:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• Mapping Displacement and Inequality in Manitoba for First Nation communities - Shirley Jean Thompson, Associate professor, Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba

Lightning talks and demonstration session, 2 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7-20 minutes per presentation)

• GIS to the teachers! - Lauren Sinclair, K12 GIS Educator, Learn ArcGIS, Esri
• StoryMap: Assessing the Accessibility of IPV-Related Services in Rural Areas of the Prairies - Masha Kardashevskaya, Research Associate, RESOLVE, University of Manitoba
• Canadian Communities Policy Observatory GIS Datasets - Christopher Hewitt, Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow, Western University NEST

Tutorial session, 3:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (20 minutes per presentation)

• A gentle introduction to Inkscape (And tips for exporting from QGIS) – Meg Miller, GIS & Data Visualization Librarian, University of Manitoba Libraries

Trivia event, 7:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 3 hours (approximately) prizes to be won

Geography-Themed Trivia Night

This year’s trivia is a hybrid event. You can play in-person at the Grad Club at Western University, or join online.

How to play online: Join with a team, or let us put you in a team. Questions will be streamed via the Twitch channel , and team answers will be collected via the Trivia Discord. Lots of prizes up for grabs.

Lightning talk session, 9:30 a.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• A Visual Remembering: Mapping Student Narratives Outside the Mohawk Institute - Erdanya Anderson, Research Assistant, Huron University College
• Mapping the Loyalist Migrations – Jaeden Cooke, Research Assistant, Huron University College
• The 1937 Blackfriars Flood: Creating a Public Walking Tour with StoryMaps - Niġel Klemenčič-Puglisevich, Hannah Mantel, Kathrine Bondar, and Sarah Pointer
• Digital Disruptions: Introducing Students to GIS through an Open Educational Resource, Tom Peace, Associate Professor, Huron University College

Tutorial, 11 a.m. EST

Duration: > 1 hour

• ArcGIS Online - Laura Secord's Journey - Sharon Janzen, Map Library Associate, Geospatial Data Coordinator, Brock University

Networking session, 12:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour

• GIS Working Group Open Meeting – Liz Sutherland, GIS Specialist, Western Libraries, Western University

This session will be run as a Zoom Meeting as opposed to a Webinar. This is an open meeting of the London GIS Working Group, anyone who is interested in learning about GIS jobs and listening to GIS professionals is welcome to attend. The session will run as a show-and-tell round table. Link to be provided.

Demonstration session, 2 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (20 minutes per presentation)

• Applying GIS in a Water and Wastewater Utility – Alexandre Nunes, Technical Analyst, Regional Municipality of Peel
• GEO.ca - One-Stop access to Canada's Geospatial Data and Information (DRAFT) - Steven Dunning, Deputy Director, Natural Resources Canada
• Real-time risk mapping to inform rapid decision-making - 1. Tarun Katapally, 2.Sheriff Ibrahim, 1. Associate Professor; 2. PhD Candidate, Health Information Science Program, DEPtH Lab, Western University

Lightning talk session, 3:30 p.m. EST

Duration: 1 hour (7 minutes per presentation)

• (Re)purposing cadasters: When mapping ecclesiastical archives advocates for Indigenous land rights. - Léa Denieul Pinsky, PhD Candidate, Concordia University
• Countermapping through Traditional Land Use and Traditional Ecological Knowledge study with First Nation members in Northern Ontario and Manitoba  - Keshab Thapa, PhD Candidate, University of Manitoba
• Role of urbanizaton of CO2 emissions trends - Muhammad Luqman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO Australia
• Robust UGS availability: Identifying urban green space deserts and oases considering different travel distance thresholds - Naser Ahmed, Graduate student and teaching assistant, Western University
• Remote Hermitage or Vibrant Community? Using ArcGIS to visualize the development of Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire - Meredith Bacola, Assistant Professor in the Jesuit Centre for Catholic Studies, St Paul’s College, University of Manitoba

Tutorial session, 9:30 a.m. EST

Duration: >1 hour

• spnaf: An R package detecting network hots-pot - Hui Jeong (Hailyee) Ha, Research Associate, Western University, Department of Geography and Environment

Tutorial session, 1:00 p.m. EST

Duration: >1 hour

• Python for ArcGIS – Working with ArcGIS Notebooks (workshop) – GIS Analyst, Western University, Department of Geography & Environment
  Thanks in advance,