final program - Canadian Association of Geographers

TH2-F BIOGEOGRAPHY (Thursday 10:30 to 12:00, Arts 2C17)
CHAIR: Mary-Louise Byrne
1. Nicholas Sidhu, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Using Isotopes to Characterize Periphyton in the
Old Crow Flats, Yukon, for Hydroecological Monitoring and Paleolimnological Applications.”
2. Taly Dawn Drezner, York University, “Reproductive Effort increases in a Keystone Desert
Species.”
3. Emma L. Davis, Mount Allison University, “To Plant or Not to Plant: Assessing the Fitness of
Commonly Planted Shelterbelt Species under Future Climate Scenarios.”
4. Christopher Malcolm, Brandon University, “Habitat Selection of Slimy Sculpin (Cottus cognatus)
with Respect to Depth, Temperature, and Dissolved Oxygen in Clear Lake, Riding Mountain
National Park, Manitoba.”
5. Vito Lam, University of Waterloo, “Effects of Tillage Practices in Phosphorus in Soil and Tile
Drainage from Agricultural Fields.”
TH3-F ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE (Thursday 1:30 to 3:00, Arts 2C17)
CHAIR: Chris Malcolm
1. Don Allin, University of Waterloo, “The Effects of Wildfire on the Geochemical Composition
and Phosphorus Speciation of Cohesive Sediment in the Crowsnest River, Alberta.”
2. Geoff G. L. Kershaw, Dalhousie University, “Canoeing the Clearwater: A Dendrochronology
study Quantifying Long-term Aerial Pollution Downwind of the Alberta Oil Sands.”
3. Joseph Piwowar, University of Regina, “Changes in Growing-Season Phenology in the Northern
Mixed- Grass Prairie.”
4. Kevin W. Turner, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Identifying Drivers of Hydrological Change in Old
Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, Canada
TH4-F ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING (Thursday 3:30 to 5:00, Arts 2C17)
CHAIR: Mryka Hall-Beyer
1. Assunta Saliola, University of Toronto, “Object-based Segmentation for the Delineation of
Individual Tree Crowns and Canopy Gaps.”
2. Jurjen van der Sluijs, Brandon University, “Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the
Development of high resolution Digital Elevation Models for localized areas.”
3. Yuestas David, York University, “Effect of Increased Density of Green Roofs on Low Flows.”
4. Cristian Suteanu, Saint Mary’s University, "From IF to F: The Role of Clustering, Classification
and Mapping Processes for Digital Earth's Information Integration Objective."
F1-F ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING (Friday 8:30 to 10:00, Arts 2C17)
CHAIR: Joe Piwowar
1. Karunakaran Suthakar, University of Jaffna, “Extracting Natural Drainage Patterns From
Elevation Data for Identifying Incongruent Land Uses in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.”
2. Abdullah BaMasoud, Wilfrid Laurier University, “The Predictive Accuracy of Shoreline Change
Rate Methods on Point Pelee, Ontario (1931-2008).”
3. Matthew D. Adams, McMaster University, “Application of Land Use Regression for Predicting
Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations in Hamilton Ontario, Canada: Short-Term Mobile Data
Collection for Long-Term Concentration Estimation.”
4. Michael Bitton, Louisiana State University, “A New Beach-Dune Cycle of Foredune Evolution,
Examples from Gulf County, Florida.”