Sabina Trimble鈥攚ho graduates this month with an MA in history鈥攚ill don a mortarboard on Nov. 9, but her fondest memory as a student was being blanketed and given a hand-woven cedar hat, in a traditional Coast Salish honouring at her defence in August 2016.
In a UVic-led study, the first data-driven estimate of the Earth's total supply of groundwater shows that less than six per cent of groundwater in the upper two kilometers of the Earth's landmass is renewable within a human lifetime.
Heavy rain did not deter 25 undergraduate geography students from their hands-on learning course on beach dynamics and coastal erosion this February. Using new digital mapping technologies including terrestrial laser scanning (ground based LiDAR), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), kites and balloons, the students captured high-resolution imagery of Cadboro Beach.
A lifelong love of maps led Michael Branion-Calles to the master鈥檚 degree he receives this month in geography. But his path was not straightforward鈥攊t started in English. 鈥淚 began my undergrad degree at UVic in English,鈥� says Branion-Calles, 鈥渂ut once I took an elective geography class I quickly changed my degree path.鈥� He says his appreciation for maps goes back to his childhood and as a kid he always liked maps鈥攁n affection that eventually pointed him to the spatial pattern analysis and research (SPAR) lab in the geography department.
Groundwater: it鈥檚 one of the planet鈥檚 most exploited, most precious natural resources. It ranges in age from months to millions of years old. Around the world, there鈥檚 increasing demand to know how much we have and how long before it鈥檚 tapped out.
You could walk across London of the 1500s in about 20 minutes. And now, thanks to the survival of a 450-year-old woodcut map, Shakespeare鈥檚 world can also "open up to us like a Google map,鈥� says Dr. Janelle Jenstad (English), project director of UVic鈥檚 constantly evolving Map of Early Modern London (MoEML).
Did you have a near miss during your morning cycling commute? Then map it on bikemaps.org and your incident will be part of a new 番茄社区 project aimed at improving cycling safety. UVic geography professor Dr. Trisalyn Nelson and a te鈥�
Indigenous communities across Canada are engaged in intensively mapping their lands, waters, resources and knowledge. These maps have unparalleled importance today not only for future generations celebrating Indigenous knowledge, but in discussions over land and resource development and the recognition of Indigenous rights.
UVic is continuing its leadership with collaborative Indigenous mapping research by bringing together more than 100 representatives from Indigenous organizations across Canada for a four-day intensive workshop beginning Aug. 25.
New genetic database holds huge potential for fisheries science and conservation Salmon鈥攖hey鈥檙e tasty and nutritious to eat, many livelihoods depend on them and they鈥檙e crucial to the health of coastal ecosystems. Turns out they鈥檙e also a goldmine of information for geneticists and molecular biologists.
Rooftops in the downtown core are prime sun spots鈥攁nd knowing where to plan future installation of solar panels to capture the most energy is a step in the right direction, agree municipal officials and UVic researchers.
The City of Victoria and the 番茄社区 are teaming up to develop a solar energy map, to help indicate how much solar energy could be captured from rooftops in Victoria. Part of this work involves installing a 鈥減yranometer鈥�, an instrumen鈥�
Any map is only as good as the data with which it鈥檚 created. For the Cowichan Tribes, Google maps鈥攍ikely the most turned-to source of basic location information鈥攕howed empty, unused land where in fact hundreds of people, buildings, landmarks and other facilities reside.
