NEWS
September 2009
Britta Ricker joined the Spatial Interface Research Lab team this Fall. Britta is working on research funded by GEOIDE NCE, and will focus on the development, implementation and user testing of mobile augemented reality games for geomatic education. Welcome Britta!
April 24 2009
Cyrille Medard de Chardon successfully defended his MSc thesis today. Congrats to Cyrille!Title: Using Geovisualization Interfaces to Improve Multi-Stakeholder Understanding of Okanagan Basin Hydrogeology
Examining Ctte: Dr. Nick Hedley (SFU Geography), Dr. Diana Allen (SFU Earth Science),Dr. Murray Journeay (NRCan)
March 30 2009
Ranae Kowalczuk successfully defended her MSc thesis today. Congrats to Ranae!Title: Evaluating the Potential of Interactive Geovisualization Tools in Public Avalanche Education
Examining Ctte: Dr. Nick Hedley (SFU Geography), Dr. John Clague (SFU Earth Science), Dr. Pascal Haegeli (SFU Resource & Environmental Management).
March 2009
SIRL Director Dr. Nick Hedley and SIRL grad student Matt Kurowski were featured in a new CBC documentary that aired this month. The 2-hour nationally-aired documentary, titled "Shockwave" reviewed a selection of the latest science and research to characterize, model and communicate tsunami hazards. The full documentary can be viewed on CBC's DocZone video player for those with Canadian IP addresses [trailer] [full documentary].
February 21 2009
SIRL grad student Cyrille Medard de Chardon won a prize for his research presentation at Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference 2009. His paper was rated in the top five of over 40 student presentations given. Congrats to Cyrille!February 21 2009
SIRL grad students Matt Kurowski and Cyrille Medard de Chardon presented their research at the Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference 2009 , in Fernie BC. Their titles were "Designing Public Geovisualizations to Improve Tsunami Education in Ucluelet, British Columbia", and "Real-time Interactive Groundwater Visualization using 3D Cellular Automata", respectively. SIRL Director Dr. Nick Hedley gave a presentation titled "Augmented Space: What Geographic Environments Might Look Like in the Near Future".RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
MARCH 2010
There are no new graduate research positions available at this time. However, occasionally I do invite excellent senior undegraduates to work on a specific short-term project with us.
I will be looking for new MSc or PhD students to join us in Fall 2011*. (*Note that you will need to apply to SFU in Jan/Feb 2011 in order to be considered for entry in Fall 2010!)