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Current Students:

 

Catrina MacKenzie (PhD Candidate): Spatial Measures of Human Disturbance in Kibale National Park, Uganda (Start: Jan 1, 2008).

 

*Tyler Bonnell (PhD): Agent-Based Models of Infectious Disease transmissions amongst Colobus monkey groups in Kibale National Park, Uganda (Start: Sept 1, 2010).

 

*Primary Supervisor, Co-supervised with Colin Chapman, Anthropology

 

Graduated Students (at McGill University)

 

^Georgina O'Farrill (PhD 2010, CONACYT Doctoral Scholarship): Identification of Keystone Species in Protected Areas of the Yucatan Peninsula.

 

Martha Otero (PhD 2010, NSERC Doctoral Scholarship): A GIS-based methodological framework for estimating the potential of bundling environmental services in Andean Watersheds.

 

^^Tyler Bonnell (M.Sc 2010, Graduate Recruitment Award): Agent-Based Models of Infectious Disease transmissions amongst Colobus monkey groups in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

After thesis: Continuing for PhD at McGill.

 

Karina Benessaiah (M.Sc 2008, Levinson and Warren Scholarship): Mangroves, Shrimp Farming and Coastal Livelihoods Land Cover and Use change in the Gulf of Fonseca, Nicaragua.

After thesis: Pursuing PhD at Arizona State University under Prof. B.L.Turner

 

Jeremy Jackson (M.Sc 2008, Warren Scholarship): Agent-Based Models of Gentrification: A case study of Boston.

After thesis: Co-ordinator, Boston Scholar Athlete Program.

 

Paola Bauche (M.Sc 2007, CONACYT Masters Fellowship). Interactions of Payment for Hydrological Services (PHS) and Forest Transitions: A case study of the Rio Cuale Watershed, Mexico.

After thesis: working for Comision Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR) Mexico in their PHS Dept.

An online article about her research is available here.

 

Sandra Bolanos (M.Sc 2007, Levinson Fellowship). Integration of Image Analysis and GIS for Coffee Mapping.

After thesis: working as Remote Sensing Analyst, Dendron Resource Surveys Inc., Ottawa

 

Lesley Raymer (B.Sc. 2008, Geography Honours Thesis): Spatial Patterns of Non-Market Housing in Vancouver BC.

 

E. Nicole Lulham (B.Sc. 2006, School of Environment Honours Thesis):

Geovisualization of Infectious Disease Mortality Rates for Montreal Wards: Census Years 1901-1951

After thesis: enrolled in M.Sc, York University.

 

Christine Bartlett (B.A. 2005, International Development Studies Honours Thesis): Potable water stress in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Differential Impact on Urban Poor

 

Santiago Gonzalez (B.Sc. 2005, Geography Honours Thesis): Water Resources Inventory of Syria

After thesis: enrolled in M.Sc, Natural Resource Science, McGill University.

 

^Co-supervisor with Andrew Gonzalez, Biology

^^Primary Supervisor, Co-supervised with Colin Chapman, Anthropology

 

Graduated Students (at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)

 

Mike Paluzzi (M.Sc, 2003). Improving Location-Allocation models using heuristic approaches: applications to emergency management systems.

After thesis: enrolled in PhD program, Geography, University of Connecticut

 

Chen Yan (M.Sc, 2002). HST-DSM: A Hybrid Spatio-temporal Data Model.

After thesis: completed a second Masters in Computer Science from Univ. of Nevada, subsequently employed by ESRI Inc. in the Raster Development Team.

 

Premkrishnan Radhakrishnan (M.Sc, 2002). An SDSS for Evaluation of Agricultural Acreage in Well Head Protection Areas.

After thesis: working as GIS Analyst for Indiana State Geological Survey. Also, co-founder of the 39 Degrees North consulting firm.

 

Brad Larson (M.Sc, 2002). An SDSS capable of applying Species-Specific Viability Parameters to National GAP Analysis Program Datasets.

After thesis: working as GIS Manager for Effingham County, Illinois.

 

Fareeza Karimushan (M.Sc, 2002). Spatial variations in hurricane occurrence during La Nina, El Nino and Neutral Phases.

After thesis: enrolled as a B.Sc. student of Physics at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

 

Cheng Luo (M.Sc, 2001). Structure and design of an Efficient Temporal Geographical Information System (TGIS) Data Model.

After thesis: completed PhD in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

 

*Rui Ding (M.Sc, 2001). Pricing Residential Disamenities: The Cost of Crime.

After thesis: enrolled as a PhD student at the Bloustein School of Urban Planning, Rutgers University.

 

*Primary Supervisor, Co-supervised with James LeBeau, Center for the study of Crime, Delinquency & Corrections.

 

 

 

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Department of Geography

McGill University

805 Sherbrooke Street West

Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6

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Last updated 13/03/2008