I was able to catch presentations on GIS modeling of landslides, soil loss, and slope mapping of rugged terrain, in addition to my boss's talk on the decrease of agricultural land in Surrey, BC. He showed some maps I digitized, contrasting 30 years of shifting and merging agricultural lots and their tangible erosion in favor of RCI development. Most of the others I attended were on wetland hydrology and lotic ecosystems. The hydro presentations were quite technical in terms of highlighting their results, and quite advanced in terminology, but amazingly I found myself understanding most of what was said. That I attribute to my excellent Hydrology professor (who was one of the presenters), plus the presenters ability to define the important elements in their work. The only one that threw me for a loop was the aeolian physics of sand particles of a vegetated dune, and the subsequent quadrant mapping of their behavior during microclimate wind eddies & gusts.
Thanks to my university's geography department, the cost of the conference was covered, and I will direct the reimbursement to relief of the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan. Below is a list of the presentations I attended with, of course, my university profs in bold (gotta represent the alma mater):
- Connie Chapman (University of Victoria) - Turbulent airflow and sediment transport over a vegetated foredune, PEI National Park
- Parthiphan Krishnan (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) - A GIS for Municipally Enabled Sustainable Agriculture
- Terence Lai (Simon Fraser University) - Simulation of Urban Landslides: Cellular Automata approach
- Laurens Bakker (Simon Fraser University) - Spatial disaggregation of the Universal Soil Loss equation using Cellular Automata approach
- Brandon Heung (Simon Fraser University) - Automated procedure for digital landscape classification based on DEM data
- Sarah Howie (Simon Fraser University) - Vegetation variation across lagg forms of raised bogs in coastal BC
- John Martin (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) - The Hydrologic response of a small forested swamp complex, North Vancouver BC
- Yue-Ching Cheng (Simon Fraser University) - Ins and Outs of Burns Bog: A look into the water balance of a large ombrotrophic bog in the Fraser Valley
- Jan Thompson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) - Management of small water storages: A case study of small farm dams in New Zealand
- Steven Marsh et al (University of the Fraser Valley) - Variation of Fraser River, Kanaka Creek, and Silver Creek geochemistry
- Maureen Attard (Simon Fraser University) - Progress towards acoustic suspended sediment transport monitoring: Fraser River
- Jessica Craig (University of Victoria) - Dendroglaciological investigations at South More glacier, northern BC coast mountains
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