The Forest Watershed Research Centre is proud to announced the successful PhD defense of Dr. Shane Furze. His thesis “A High Resolution Digital Soil Mapping Framework for New Brunswick, Canada” presents an approach to digital soil mapping of soil properties for New Brunswick, Canada, following the underlying principles of soil formation in which soil properties …
The UNB Forest Watershed Research Centre has been selected by the Canadian Institute of Forestry as the 2017 recipient of the Canadian Forest Management Group Achievement Award. This Award recognizes the outstanding achievements by teams or groups of managers, researchers, and scientists in the field of natural resource management related activities in Canada. The UNB Forest …
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On June 6 and June 8, 2017, a mix of foresters, landscape planners, government scientists, community members, and students gathered to hear current and former graduate students describe their work at the EMEND research site. The presentations and discussions were part of the EMEND Symposium 2017, hosted in Peace River and Edmonton. Some attendees were …
High resolution inventory solution (HRIS) developed through Tesera is being used to maximize the return on investments on timber and non-timber management properties. Tesera integrated the depth-to-water map produced by the Forest Watershed Research Centre, which helps to outline riparian buffers using stream, wetland, lake, and river datasets. To see more about this project visit: …
Forest Watershed Research Centre (March 2017) is further advancing its flow-channel and wet-areas mapping initiative WAM) using “PhoDAR” (Photogrammetric Detection and Ranging) technology. The aim is to model and map flow channels and wet areas at the 1 to 10 cm scale for specific areas of interest, based on stereo imagery.
A blog post was published on Esri Canada’s website highlighting 2016 Esri Young Scholar Marie-France Jones. It is an interview that explains Marie-France’s work and experience at the Esri San Diego user conference. You can read the interview here: http://esri.ca/en/blog/esri-young-scholar’s-take-esri-user-conference-experience
Marie-France Jones was recognized as Canada’s 2016 Esri Young Scholar Award winner. She was the top candidate in a PhD program. The award recognizes exemplary work in geospatial science. Link to the Esri award announcement. Marie-France is a PhD candidate in Forestry, working in the Forest Watershed Research Centre under the supervision of Dr. Paul …
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Alberta’s wet areas mapping initiative was initiated in 2005 and has made positive contributions to land and forest management. During this ten year time period, the wet areas mapping model has undergone a significant transformation to address complex challenges of mapping lands within the boreal forest. New spin-off modelling tools have also become an operational …
The Forest Watershed Research Centre provided a quick overview of its flood extent mapping initiative by way of a short presentation, entitled “Mapping inland and coastal flooding: streams, rivers, lakes”. Meeting details: http://www.nbse.ca/planning/meetings/rsc7-other-meeting-2015-10-26/ [wpdevart_youtube]Utuzw3Heqvg[/wpdevart_youtube]
Mina Nasr successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled: GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF TOTAL MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS IN STREAM AND LAKE SEDIMENTS ACROSS CANADA. Her thesis was considered “monumental” by the examination committee in terms of scope and detail. Parts of the thesis have already been published, and more will appear in publications and in a government report.