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2019 MURC Volunteer

Volunteering in MURC (Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference) on March 16th, 2019 – involving morning check-in booth service, oral presentation room setup and presentation timing

Intro to GIS: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

In this assignment, I produced two maps of ecologically sensitive areas (one showing the project area and snow line/high elevation and protected areas and the other showing the same data draped on a 3D Hillshade) from the Proposed Garibaldi at Squamish Ski Hill Project in British Columbia, Canada. I incorporated all the Ben Fry's stages of an effective data visualization to determine areas that must be ecologically protected and undisturbed from the development of the Ski Hill project.

Intro to GIS: Rental Affordability

In this assignment, I joined variables in tabular files to spatial maps files for Census Tracts (CTs) in both Metro Vancouver and Montréal. I then visualized and worked with rental housing cost data by exploring various methods for classifying quantitative data (monthly cost of rent) for Metro Vancouver CTs, comparing the monthly costs to Montréal, and also looked at another rental indicator which is housing affordability (the percent of people spending more than 30% of their income on rent).