Canadian Forest Service employee directory

Profile

• Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 1993

Areas of interest:

• Development of geospatial approaches, methods and models that integrate remote sensing and geographical information systems data to monitor forest landscapes and provide spatially-explicit data and information to support inventory, monitoring and forecasting within an ecosystem-based management framework

Current Graduate Student Advisory Committees:

• Randal Greene, Memorial University of Newfoundland, A GIS-based multiple criteria approach to support integrated land management decision making (Co-supervisor)

• Emilie Lessard, Université de Sherbrooke, Development of GIS models for predicting and mapping fibre attributes from forest inventory and environmental attributes, (Co-supervisor)

Awards

• Natural Resources Canada Departmental Merit Award for Collaboration and Partnership, Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests Project (2006)
• Natural Resources Canada Departmental Merit Award for Collaboration and Partnership, Individual achievement award for building strong partnerships through collaborative research in remote sensing across Canada (2003)
• James M. Kitz Award, Canadian Institute of Forestry (2002)
• Canadian Remote Sensing Society Best MSc Thesis Award (1990)

• Governor General’s Gold Medal, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1989)

Current Research Projects

• Mapping fibre attributes from forest and environmental variables in Newfoundland
• Improving forest structure and biomass information from remote sensing at regional and national levels
• Monitoring indicators of land cover and forest type change for the Humber River Basin using satellite imagery and geographic information systems
• An ecosystem-based management framework for integrated land management and assessment of sustainability, vulnerability and adaptive capacity: application within the Humber River Basin
• Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests

• Humber River Basin Project

Education

• B.Sc. (Hon.) in Geography (1987), Memorial University of Newfoundland

• M.Sc. in Geography with specialization in Remote Sensing (1989), Memorial University of Newfoundland

Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor, Département de géomatique appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke (since 2003)

• Professional Associate, Sustainable Resource Management, Memorial University of Newfoundland (since 2009)

Publications

• Canadian Forest Service Publications