The AGRG Summer 2010 Newsletter is available . (PDF, 2.4 MB)
 
All newsletters from 2003 on are available at http://agrg.cogs.nscc.ca/newsletters/

AGRG researchers under the leadership of Dr. Chris Hopkinson will be flying coast to coast across Canada to survey boreal transects and several forestry/water resources research sites from Newfoundland to Alaska, and from the Rockies in the south to the St Elias and Denali mountains in the north. This is the most ambitious C-CLEAR mission in its ten year history and involves dozens of research partners across Canada and the US.

I will be posting blog entries and photos of our adventures as we travel this summer, hopefully with some interesting stories!  Our field team this year is made up of:

Downloadable here (PDF, 1MB)

Workshop held April 29 in Annapolis Royal
“Rediscovering the wealth of places”

Some of the content presented at the workshop is now available on the Workshop Followup page.

Workshop Report

Bob Maher receiving his Royal Warrant from Queen Anne's Household

We have added solar resource maps for the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, showing solar energy for the month of July for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 calendar years. See the maps.

We have added a Google Maps Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the Annapolis Valley.

http://www.globecampus.ca/, the College/University oriented site of the GLobe and Mail, has a couple of good article on GIS and research - GIS: A hot field, and Colleges advancing research.

Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve presented Wednesday, November 11th to the Annapolis Field Naturalist Society at 7:30 pm at the Granville Ferry Community Hall, and On Thursday, November 12th to the Womens Institute at the Paradise Community Hall.

Bob Maher is making two presentations this week. On Wednesday, November 11th he will be speaking to the Annapolis Field Naturalist Society at 7:30 pm at the Granville Ferry Community Hall. On Thursday, November 12th he will be speaking to the Womens Institute at the Paradise Community Hall. In both cases, the subject will be Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve and Applied Geomatics research.

This position requires a basic understanding of how GPS works. Candidates must have advanced GIS skills, including an understanding of ArcObjects, VB.NET, and VBA (or Python), in an ArcGIS environment. Candidates must be comfortable with both Spatial Analyst and Network Analyst extensions. Candidates should be proficient in developing and managing MS Access databases, and connecting to these databases via OLEDB or ADO (ability to set table constraints, joins, relationships and other data integrity issues).  The successful candidate must also have experience working as part of a team in a research environment.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required along with proven problem solving ability and evidence of critical thinking.