Speakers

Rebecca Bartlett

Rebecca Bartlett is the GIS and Digital Resources Librarian at Carleton University. She takes great pleasure in finding elevation profiles for bike routes that foolish colleagues share with her, thinking that an 8km hill climb will dissuade her from a "pleasant" Sunday ride.

Stéfano Biondo

Titulaire d'un baccalauréat en géographie de l'Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM) et d'une maîtrise en sciences de l'information de l'Université de Montréal, Stéfano Biondo a développé au cours des dernières années une expertise en gestion et en diffusion des données géospatiales au sein des bibliothèques universitaires. À l'origine de la création du Centre d'information géographique et statistique (Centre GéoStat) de la Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval, où il occupe la fonction de cartothécaire depuis 2005, il participe à l'acquisition, à la conservation et à la mise en valeur des collections cartographiques et géospatiales. Il est également coauteur de l'ouvrage L'Apparition du Nord selon Gérard Mercator.

Jay Brodeur

Jay Brodeur holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Earth Sciences from McMaster University and manages the Maps, Data, GIS Centre at McMaster University Library. His interests include projects that improve access to cartographic and geospatial information, and integrates them into research, teaching and learning, and public use.

Bernie Connors, PEng

Bernie Connors is a graduate of UNB’s Surveying Engineering program and a professional engineer. He has worked in geomatics since 1987. Bernie joined the NB Civil service in 1997 and moved to SNB in 2008 specifically to work on the GeoNB project.

Bernie’s passion for maps spills over into his private life. Bernie is an active contributor to OpenStreetMap and in his spare time Bernie built the NB Sport Spots website. NB Sport Spots maps the locations of sport facilities in New Brunswick.

Eva Dodsworth

Eva Dodsworth is the Geospatial Data Services Librarian at the University of Waterloo library where she specializes in teaching GIS and map-related content to the university community. Eva's interests include historical cartographic research, teaching geoweb applications and historical GIS. Eva is also a part-time online instructor for a number of library schools, and continuing education organizations where she teaches the use of GIS technology in libraries.

Trevor Ford

Trevor Ford is a third year PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. Having started his PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2013 under the supervision of Dr. Mark Humphries, Trevor was offered the chance to come to WLU with Mark in order to continue his studies and join the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic Disarmament Studies in 2014 as Archival Manager. Since his arrival, Trevor has led the archiving staff to completely reorganize and cataloging LCMSDS’ holdings, including a year-long scanning project that digitized all of the Centre’s maps. Currently he has just finished setting up LCMSDS’ new website waterlooatwar.ca, which chronicles the Waterloo County based 118th Battalion during the First World War. Trevor is currently working on several different projects including one that is a joint venture with the University of Waterloo’s Geospatial Centre in which the Centre’s maps are being geo-referenced and added to Google Maps.

With help from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Joseph-Bombardier Research Scholarship and under the supervision of Dr. Humphries, Trevor’s doctoral research covers the role of the Canadian military’s intelligence units and their domestic activities during the First World War. Trevor specifically examines the Military Intelligence Branch and their conduct against real and perceived enemies during and immediately after the war. This subject is not only unexplored but is also highly relevant to today’s national security apparatus and the wider concept of state security in Canada. Trevor has published three articles on this subject and is currently working on a collected letters book.

Jordan Hale

Jordan Hale is the Original Cataloguer & Reference Specialist at the University of Toronto’s Map & Data Library. She has an MA in political and cultural geography from the University of Toronto, and is a part-time MI student in the Faculty of Information.

Amber Leahey

Amber Leahey is the Data and Geospatial Librarian at Scholars Portal, the digital library project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). She supports SP data services including >odesi<, Scholars GeoPortal, and Scholars Portal Dataverse.

Heather McGrath

Heather McGrath is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), in the Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering (GGE) department. She is supervised by Dr. Emmanuel Stefanakis, Associate Professor, P.Eng. Prior to enrolling in the PhD program she completed her Master's degree, also in the GGE Department of UNB, and undergraduate degree in Geography and GIS at McMaster University in Ontario. Her research interests are in GIS and web mapping which promote spatial visualization and interaction with maps and information.

Sasha Mullally

Sasha Mullally is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick, where she teaches courses and supervises graduate students in the history of medicine and health care, Canadian social history, women’s history and the history of the Atlantic region. Her research area is the social history of medicine, healthcare and medical technologies. Drawn from her interest in technology, public history, and a longstanding interest in digital humanities, she has also developed a joint honours/graduate course on digital history, which she has offered since 2011.

Kristy Nicoll

Kristy Nicoll is a Geographic Information Systems Analyst with Service New Brunswick. In June of 2015 she was hired onto the GeoNB team straight from her completion of an Advanced Geographic Sciences diploma at the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Nova Scotia. Before that, Kristy completed her bachelor’s degree in geography from Memorial University.

Dr. Paul Peters

Dr. Paul Peters (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is the Canada Research Chair in the Spatial and Social Inequalities of Health and Health Service Delivery and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Economics at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He is also the Associate Director, Research in the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT). His expertise is in spatial demography and population health. His current work focuses on the relationship between social and spatial determinants of health for small areas, whether urban neighbourhoods or rural communities.

Joël Rivard

Joël Rivard is a Cartographic Specialist with the Maps, Data & Government Information Centre (MADGIC) at the Carleton University Library. Before taking this position four years ago, Joel was the GIS/Data Technician in MADGIC for over seven years. He has an honours degree in Geomatics with a minor in Environmental Studies and he’s currently enrolled in the Masters of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Will C. van den Hoonaard

Dr. Will C. van den Hoonaard of the University of New Brunswick (Canada), has authored or edited a dozen books on a wide range of topics: a 700-year history of women in cartography, the Bahá’í Community of Canada, ethnicity, marine resource management policies in Iceland, and a textbook on sensitizing concepts. The National Geographic featured his recent book, Map Worlds, and his research in Iceland was plotted in an Icelandic novel. He also recently authored a children’s book on the childhood of a Persian prophet.

He devotes much attention to exploring ethics in research. His U. of Toronto trilogy (The Ethics Rupture, 2016, The Seduction of Ethics, 2011, Walking the Tightrope, 2002) constitute a critical analysis of research ethics regimes. They are clarion calls to resist the bio-medically driven research-ethics review regime. With his wife Deborah, he authored Essentials of Thinking Ethically in Qualitative Research (2013). He is founding Member of Canada’s Panel on Research Ethics. The Health Improvement Institute honoured him with an Award for Lifetime Achievement for Excellence in Human Research Protection. He holds the UNB President’s Medal, a Merit Award, and the United Nations Association of Canada Global Citizen Award.

Born in the Netherlands, he lived as a child in a cave in France, worked as receptionist in the International Patent Bureau, and, not finishing high school, migrated to Canada, where he worked in a goldmine in Canada’s Northwest Territories. He obtained a PhD (Sociology) at the University of Manchester. He again appreciates the opportunity to present his work to ACMLA.

Markus Wieland

Markus Wieland is a Geographic Information Systems Specialist at the University of Waterloo. GIS has been a confluence of his previous work as a software engineer and technical designer. Markus has been in the GIS field since 2009 as an educator and professional.

Barbara Znamirowski

Barbara Znamirowski holds a Bachelor degree from Queen’s University and a Master of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University. She is Head of the Maps, Data & Government Information Centre at Trent University Library and ESRI Site License Administrator for Trent. Her current research interests include regional HGIS, pedagogical approaches to expanding data literacy on campus, and effective content management of web sites for maps, data and government publications. She is editor of the ACMLA Bulletin’s GIS Trends column.