2017 GIScience Excellence Award
GIScience Excellence Award
Offered and adjudicated by the GIScience Study Group
Annual nominations are due by midnight of 15 April 2017
The award will be presented in 2017 at the CAG held at York University.
Purpose
- To recognize distinction in research, scholarship, creativity, service, and/or teaching excellence among GIScience community members in Canada.
- To enhance the prominence and reputation of the GIScience Study Group and the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) as national leaders in any research, teaching, or service area that substantially touches GIScience.
- To recognize and promote excellent research practices, dissemination, or educational developments that advance knowledge and/or engagement with the wider community.
Terms of Reference
- No self-nominations are permitted.
- Nominees must not be students, in the context of the nomination.
- Nominations must be compiled by the nominator, and then submitted electronically to the Chair of the GIScience Study Group, who will form an Adjudication Committee comprising 3 individuals to evaluate submissions. If the Nominee does not specifically accept being nominated and to the use of private materials, then no materials that are not publically available should be used in the nomination package.
- The Adjudication Committee of the GIScience Study Group will adjudicate and make recommendations to the GIScience Study Group Executive.
- Normally, the awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the GIScience Study Group, typically held during the Annual Meeting of the CAG. Recipients are encouraged to attend this meeting, to receive the award in person.
- The award recipient will be presented with a certificate of recognition and a cheque for $250.
- If no suitable Nominee is nominated in a given year, the award does not need to be awarded.
Eligibility
- One award will be presented each calendar year to a GIScience practitioner.
- The nominee need not be a Canadian, but must be a member in good standing of the CAG and the GIScience Study Group.
- A nomination will remain active within the pool of nominations for three years.
Nomination Package Requirements
- Nomination letter from the Nominator outlining the rationale for the submission (1-2 pages).
- Nominee's CV.
- Letter from the Nominee giving permission for the nomination and the use of CV and any other items in the nomination package (with exception, see #3 above).
- Any materials or excerpts of the Nominee's work that may be useful to demonstrate distinction or excellence in the area(s) for which the nomination is being made.
Submission
- Preferred application method is through email to chair_gis_sig@dges.carleton.ca. Please submit the application package as a single PDF file comprising all required elements. The filename should contain the surname of the Nominee.
2016 GIScience Excellence Award Winner
CAG GIScience Study Group awards Dr. Renee Sieber thie GIScience Excellence Award: The awarding ceremony took place at the GIScience 2016 conference for which she was the Chair.
Dr. Sieber has met the criteria through contributions to GIScience in Canada in a number of ways, including the GEOIDE and Geothink projects, as well as through her large number of publications, an impressive amount of funding over the years, and numerous conference presentations. She has successfully taught several graduate and undergraduate GIScience courses and she has mentored many students. Dr. Sieber is very well known for pushing those in the GIScience field to be more critical and self-reflective in their practices! Further, she has also helped develop and then co-chaired the Spatial Knowledge and Information conferences and is co-chairing the GIScience 2016 conference. Renee has made significant and substantive contributions to GIScience in her research, teaching, service and community engagement/outreach.
GIScience Study Group Treasurer, Scott Mitchell hands over the GIScience Excellence Award to Dr. Renee Sieber
2016 CAG Travel Grants
Greetings!
Although your study group executive unfortunately can't make it to the conference this year, we would like to support student participation.
Students who are members of this group should apply to me by email, by May 24th, with a projected budget for their attendance costs, including other anticipated sources of funding. I will then review the total applicant demand in comparison to our budget constraints (we have set aside $500 specifically for this but have some room for adjustment if needed), and reply to those students and their supervisors, so that they will know ahead of the conference how much support we can provide.
Best wishes, and enjoy Halifax!
If you are a student and are going to the conference, and don't already have full funding (or would like to give your supervisor's budget a break), please apply. If you are faculty, please pass this on to students. Perhaps it will help if I say that we will consider students whose supervisors are members of the study group, even if the student wasn't aware at the time of CAG registration what a great idea it would be to pay the small student study group membership fee. In other words, eligibility is being extended to any student studying with one of the faculty in this group, not just student members. We will strongly encourage future membership for the student, of course ;)
Scott Mitchell
Scott.Mitchell at carleton.ca
2016 GIScience Excellence Award
GIScience Excellence Award
Offered and adjudicated by the GIScience Study Group
Annual nominations are due by midnight of 15 April 2016
The award will be presented in 2016.
Purpose
- To recognize distinction in research, scholarship, creativity, service, and/or teaching excellence among GIScience community members in Canada.
- To enhance the prominence and reputation of the GIScience Study Group and the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) as national leaders in any research, teaching, or service area that substantially touches GIScience.
- To recognize and promote excellent research practices, dissemination, or educational developments that advance knowledge and/or engagement with the wider community.
Terms of Reference
- No self-nominations are permitted.
- Nominees must not be students, in the context of the nomination.
- Nominations must be compiled by the nominator, and then submitted electronically to the Chair of the GIScience Study Group, who will form an Adjudication Committee comprising 3 individuals to evaluate submissions. If the Nominee does not specifically accept being nominated and to the use of private materials, then no materials that are not publically available should be used in the nomination package.
- The Adjudication Committee of the GIScience Study Group will adjudicate and make recommendations to the GIScience Study Group Executive.
- Normally, the awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the GIScience Study Group, typically held during the Annual Meeting of the CAG. Recipients are encouraged to attend this meeting, to receive the award in person.
- The award recipient will be presented with a certificate of recognition and a cheque for $250.
- If no suitable Nominee is nominated in a given year, the award does not need to be awarded.
Eligibility
- One award will be presented each calendar year to a GIScience practitioner.
- The nominee need not be a Canadian, but must be a member in good standing of the CAG and the GIScience Study Group.
- A nomination will remain active within the pool of nominations for three years.
Nomination Package Requirements
- Nomination letter from the Nominator outlining the rationale for the submission (1-2 pages).
- Nominee's CV.
- Letter from the Nominee giving permission for the nomination and the use of CV and any other items in the nomination package (with exception, see #3 above).
- Any materials or excerpts of the Nominee's work that may be useful to demonstrate distinction or excellence in the area(s) for which the nomination is being made.
Submission
- Preferred application method is through email to chair_gis_sig@dges.carleton.ca. Please submit the application package as a single PDF file comprising all required elements. The filename should contain the surname of the Nominee.
2015 CAG Award Winners
CAG GIScience Study Group awards Dr. Nigel Waters inaugural GIScience Excellence Award: The awarding ceremony took place at the Steam Works Brew Pub during our Study Group's Annual Business Meeting and lunch. The award was introduced this past year to recognize distinction in research, scholarship, creativity, service, and/or teaching excellence among GIScience community members in Canada. A further goal of this award is to enhance the prominence and reputation of the GIScience Study Group and the CAG as national leaders and to recognize and promote excellent research practices. The call for this award is attached as general reference along with a picture of Dr. Waters giving his short acceptance speech. An arm's length adjudication committee evaluated nominations and concluded unanimously that Dr. Waters was worthy of this distinction. Excerpts from their recommendation are included below: "The Adjudication Committee for the GIScience Excellence Award is pleased to have recommended Dr. Nigel Waters for the award this year. One of the purposes of the award is to recognize distinction in research, scholarship, creativity, service and/or teaching excellence among GIScience community members in Canada". Dr Waters' long career has made notable and sustaining contributions to many of these areas. The materials submitted by the nominator outlined very convincingly of the relevant contributions from his academic career at both the University of Calgary (1975 to 2007) and at George Mason University (2007 to 2014). Highlights from his tenure at University of Calgary include his being a Founding Director of the Masters in GIS program (1999 to 2006), one of the first in Canada to have a designated masters in GIS - a model that has since been replicated around the world. He moved to George Mason in 2007 to take up a position as the Director for the Centre of Excellence for Geographic Information Science. During his career, he has 16 PhD students and 53 Masters students, 29 of which were in the MGIS program at the University of Calgary. His research contributions have primarily focused on GIScience and its applications to a broad range of subject areas, notably: Transportation Geography; Health and Medical Geography; and Environmental and Habitat Modeling. In addition to student supervision and mentoring, he was very active in organizing academic conferences (at local, national and international levels) and encouraging student participation. It would be remise not to mention the many editorial roles he has taken on during his career, overseeing the quality in a variety of journals (and other formats) into which GIS scholars publish."
GIScience Study Group Chair, Tarmo Remmel hands over the GIScience Excellence Award to Dr. Nigel Waters
BEST ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in conjunction with Esri Canada)
- First Place: Jake Wall - University of British Columbia - "African elephant conservation: new spatial approaches brin new understanding"
1-year ArcGIS license with extensions - Second Place: Gillian Harvey - University of Victoria - "Towards improved methods for modeling marine mammal distributions and densities to support coastal conservation"
1-year ArcGIS license with extensions
2015 SKI Award Winners
BEST ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in conjunction with Esri Canada and SKI-Canada)
- First Place: Laruen Arnold - University of Saskatchewan "Sample analysis of a population survey for the 'public attitudes towards nuclear issues in Saskatchewan' study" [Link]
ArcGIS online license and $500 - Runner-up: Tania Khalafbeigi - University of Calgary - "A proposal to address the big data challenges for the Internet of Things"
$500 - Runner-up: Wook Jung - University of Saskatchewan - "Challenges and benefits using a GPS-tracking method for understating human behaviours during navigation"
$500
2015 GIScience Excellence Award
GIScience Excellence Award
Offered and adjudicated by the GIScience Study Group
Annual nominations are due by midnight of 15 April
The award will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the GIScience Study Group at Simon Fraser University in June 2015.
Purpose
- To recognize distinction in research, scholarship, creativity, service, and/or teaching excellence among GIScience community members in Canada.
- To enhance the prominence and reputation of the GIScience Study Group and the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) as national leaders in any research, teaching, or service area that substantially touches GIScience.
- To recognize and promote excellent research practices, dissemination, or educational developments that advance knowledge and/or engagement with the wider community.
Terms of Reference
- No self-nominations are permitted.
- Nominees must not be students, in the context of the nomination.
- Nominations must be compiled by the nominator, and then submitted electronically to the Chair of the GIScience Study Group, who will form an Adjudication Committee comprising 3 individuals to evaluate submissions. If the Nominee does not specifically accept being nominated and to the use of private materials, then no materials that are not publically available should be used in the nomination package.
- The Adjudication Committee of the GIScience Study Group will adjudicate and make recommendations to the GIScience Study Group Executive.
- Normally, the awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the GIScience Study Group, typically held during the Annual Meeting of the CAG. Recipients are encouraged to attend this meeting, to receive the award in person.
- The award recipient will be presented with a certificate of recognition and a cheque for $250.
- If no suitable Nominee is nominated in a given year, the award does not need to be awarded.
Eligibility
- One award will be presented each calendar year to a GIScience practitioner.
- The nominee need not be a Canadian, but must be a member in good standing of the CAG and the GIScience Study Group.
- A nomination will remain active within the pool of nominations for three years.
Nomination Package Requirements
- Nomination letter from the Nominator outlining the rationale for the submission (1-2 pages).
- Nominee's CV.
- Letter from the Nominee giving permission for the nomination and the use of CV and any other items in the nomination package (with exception, see #3 above).
- Any materials or excerpts of the Nominee's work that may be useful to demonstrate distinction or excellence in the area(s) for which the nomination is being made.
Submission
- Preferred application method is through email to chair_gis_sig@dges.carleton.ca. Please submit the application package as a single PDF file comprising all required elements. The filename should contain the surname of the Nominee.
2015 CAG Travel Grants
Hello!
Are you a student member of the GIScience Study Group?
Are you going to, or wanting to go to, the Canadian Association of Geographers meeting at Simon Fraser University in June (http://www.sfu.ca/cag2015.html)?
Apply for the GIScience Study Group (http://www.yorku.ca/gis_sig/) Travel Grant!
Not a member? Become one and then apply.
Requirements:
- Be a student member in good standing of the GIScience Study Group of the CAG
- Be presenting a paper or poster at this year's CAG meeting at SFU on a related GIScience topic
- Provide a travel budget (with quotations if possible) to indicate need (deficit between expenses and available funding)
- identify all expected travel, accommodation, and meal expenses
- identify any sources of other funding for this trip
- identify any additional sources of funding applied for
- identify the location where your travel will originate from and the mode of transport
- provide your full name, affiliation, supervisor (if graduate), and complete contact information for you and your supervisor (mailing, phone, email, web)
- All applications must be received by the Chair of the GIScience Study Group (Dr. Tarmo Remmel) prior to midnight, Sunday, March 15 by email to chair_gis_sig@dges.carleton.ca
The total value distributed will be dependent on demonstrated need, availability of funds, and the number of suitable applicants.
These grants will not cover 100% of travel costs, but will provide some support to lessen the burden.
2014 CAG Award Winners
Hello!
I am thrilled to announce the winners of the student competitions for best oral presentation and best poster at this year's CAG held at Brock University last week. There were many excellent contenders, making the judging difficult, but we thank the numerous judges and all of the presenters; we could not do this without you. This year's competition was organized by the GIScience Study Group who together with Esri Canada, and Exelis Visual Information Solutions have offered up several excellent prizes for our winners. We congratulate all of the winners; we will be contacting you individually to arrange prize delivery.
Sincerely,
Tarmo Remmel
Chair, GIScience Study Group
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- First Place: Yuestas David - York University - "Quantifying runoff at the sub-watershed level with a physically based model: field measurements and the SWAT hydrological model"
ESRI: iShuffle & books
GIScience Study Group: $175 - Second Place: Bogdan Caradima - University of Waterloo - "Criteria development for a suitability analysis of retail development across Ontario, Canada"
GIScience Study Group: $75 - Honourable Mention: Andrei Balulescu - University of Waterloo - "Estimating market potential using census data"
Exelis Visual Information Systems: 1-year license for ENVI + IDL - Honourable Mention: Nick Savelli - Brock University - "A comparative analysis using change detection to monitor urban growth and its influences on public transportation in St. Catharines and Thorold, Ontario (2000-2013)"
Exelis Visual Information Systems: 1-year license for ENVI + IDL
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
- First Place: Patrick Kirby - Carleton University - "Biodiversity model uncertainty analysis considering spatial and thematic uncertainty"
ESRI: iShuffle & books
GIScience Study Group: $175 - Second Place: Donovan Bangs - University of Waterloo - "Exploring field-bounded, remote sensing and agriculture: spatial discretization of Ontario farmland"
GIScience Study Group: $75 - Honourable Mention: Scott Gardner - University of Guelph - "There once were apples on the shore: land management history on a shorefront Norfolk County farm in relation to soil erosion and runoff"
Exelis Visual Information Systems: 1-year license for ENVI + IDL
2014 CAG Awards
The GIScience Study Group is partnering with ESRI Canada to award top GIScience student presentations at this year's annual CAG meeting at Brock University.
Esri Canada's Education and Research Group is pleased to support the GIScience Speciality Group with a prize for the best GIScience poster (using any form of GIS technology) and the best GIScience research paper presentation.
Prizes will include iPod shuffles and the balance up to $200 as a credit at Esri Press. To not miss your chance, get your abstract submitted asap!
2014 SKI Award Winners (@SKI2014)
This year we offered 2 runner-up awards at $250 each for best GIScience student presentation:
- Presentation (Runner-up): Stephanie Piper, University of Waterloo - "The value of open data"
- Presentation (Runner-up): Blake Walker, Simon Fraser University - "Spatial patterns of head and neck cancers in British Columbia"
2014 Awards: SKI Canada
We are pleased to announce that the study group is contributing to student awards at the Spatial Knowledge and Information (SKI)- Canada conference in February. We are combining resources with the Convergence network, creating two sets of prizes: 1st and 2nd prize for papers submitted to the proceedings, and 1st and 2nd prizes for presentations at the meeting venue. $500 will be awarded for each first prize, and $250 for the second prizes.
If you / your students have not yet submitted an abstract, please consider doing so ASAP (the deadline is midnight on 25 October 2013!).
Please pass on this information to any students/supervisors who might not be on this mailing list.
The conference will be held 7-9 February in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
2012 Award Winners
This year we offered 2 top awards at $150 each for best GIScience student paper or presentation, and two runner-up awards at $100 each:
- Presentation (Winner): Jed Long, PhD Candidate, University of Victoria - "Measuring dynamic interaction patterns in movement data"
- Presentation (Runner-up): Yikalo Araya, PhD Candidate, York University - "Characterizing the spatial patterns of post-fire vegetation residual patches in boreal wildfires: effects of analytical scale"
- Poster (Winner): Jurjen van der Sluijs, BSc Student, Brandon University - "Alternative photogrammetric workflows for the development of digital elevation models from UAV imagery"
- Poster (Runner-up): Christine Sisco, MSc Student, Lakehead University - "Remote sensing as a tool for evaluating rural small town change - an analysis of the evolution of land use form and function in southern Ontario"
2012 Awards
This year we are offering 4 awards at the Annual CAG meeting in Waterloo:
- Best student presentation ($150)
- Runner-up student presentation ($100)
- Best student poster ($150)
- Runner-up student poster ($100)
To be eligible for this award, you must register beforehand with Dr. Scott Mitchell by sending a short email to Scott_Mitchell AT carleton.ca stating that you would like your presentation/poster to be considered.
Open to any student presentation where the following criteria are met:
- Student must present (presentation cannot be by a co-author or another stand-in) (oral or poster)
- Topic must relate to GIScience
- Student must register with Scott Mitchell by MAY 28 to be eligible
- Prize includes membership in Study Group for 1 year and if the student's supervisor is not already a member, they will be strongly encouraged to join
2011 Award Winners
This year we offered 5 awards at $100 each for best student paper or presentation (in no particular order):
- Hagedorn, Douglas, MSc student, U of Calgary - "An affordance based approach to improved GIS access for blind and visually impaired users"
- Ko, Connie, PhD student, York University - "Extracting geometric features from airborne LiDAR for tree species classification"
- Lawson, Fiona, MSc student, Simon Fraser University - "Examining the spatial accessibility of trauma services in Canada using geographic information systems"
- Mui, Amy, PhD student, University of Toronto - "Using GIS to measure habitat fragmentation for Blanding's Turtle in a Southern Ontario wetland complex"
- Proctor, Cameron, MSc student, University of Toronto - "Mapping of European frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae) using Quickbird imagery"
2010 Award Winners
- Best Poster: Valerie Torontow (Carleton)
- Runner-up Poster: Nick Ochoski (Carleton)
- Best Paper/Presentation: Stephanie Lapka (Calgary)
- Runner-up Paper/Presentation: Connie Ko (York)
- Runner-up Paper/Presentation: Anthony Jjumba (SFU)