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Debunking Dust Bowl Dogma
Required reading in numerous U.S. history survey courses, it is the consummate tale of human folly: the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major […]
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Inside TECTERRA’s Investing in Innovation Event!
Hello GIS, Geomatics, and Remote Sensing Friends! In February, I was given the opportunity to attend TECTERRA’s Investing in Innovation: Geomatics Growth & New Opportunities for Canadian Companies event held in Ottawa, Ontario. After graduating […]
Education & Careers
Timothy Ensom – Environmental Scientist
This time around GoGeomatics Canada is looking to the west to find Hydrologist Timothy Ensom at Golder Associates. Welcome to GoGeomatics Canada Tim. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. GoGeomatics: First off […]
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Top Five Canadian Geomatics LinkedIn Groups
Since our Top 10 Canadian Geomatics Twitter feeds article was such a (controversial) hit, we’ve decided to do another entry in our social media series. This time we’re taking a look at the hottest Canadian […]
Education & Careers
A to B – (A Geographers Journey)
Hey everyone! It’s been suggested by a number of people including GoGeomatics Canada that I consider writing a blog and for some time and I had been giving it some serious thought. In that suggestion […]
Technology
Out of Place — An Introduction
I know things that others don’t, I feel things that others can’t And yet its not part of this time or this place. — From the poem “Out of Time, Out of Place” by Daniel […]
Education & Careers
Women in Canadian Surveying
GoGeomatics Canada is interviewing Wendy Macisaac of Midwest Surveys Inc. in Calgary, Alberta, about her career and being a female surveyor in a profession long dominated by men. GoGeomatics: We would like to give our […]
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Catherine Ennis – International GIS Manager
Welcome Catherine Ennis to the GoGeomatics community! GoGeomatics: We would like to give our readers some background. Let’s start with some basic career history. Could you tell us where you are from and what lead […]