What’s NEW at AGRG?

Bob Maher

Senior Research Scientist

Applied Geomatics Research Group

NSCC, Middleton, NS

GANS Christmas Social December 11/08

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1. Where is AGRG?2. Who is AGRG?3. Highlights for 20084. Internships, Geomatics Products5. Expectations for 20096. Questions for 20097. Questions for GANS

Where is AGRG?

BobDavidTim

RogerChris

Bill – AIF Project ManagerJeff - BIC

Who is AGRG?

Highlights 2008

1. New AIF award2. New Joint MSc. in Applied Geomatics3. Creation of the Business Incubation Centre4. Online Wind and Solar atlas5. Field work in Peru and MacKenzie Delta6. Community mapping workshops

Chris Hopkinson

David Colville

Tim Webster

Roger Mosher

Jeff Wentzell

Bill Livingstone

Bob Maher

Expectations for 2009

Ⅰ New CFI Proposal

New NSERC ProposalⅡ

Ⅲ Proposals by other Institutions

Integrating Remote and In-situ Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, Modeling and Validation

Developing the Maritimes Geomatics industry in collaboration with the Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG)

Expectations for 2009

V Geomatics Atlantic Conference

VI Rural Secretariat Proposal

VII AIF Year 2 project

IV Summer Institute

Changes at COGS

Re-use of the term “Geographic Sciences”

Re-design of the Survey stream including 3rd year and Marine Geomatics

Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Geographic Sciences with specializations

Changes at AGRG

Consolidation of joint MSc.

New industrial internship pathways

Questions for GANS?

2. How can AGRG help the provincial government serve maps to the communities? David)

1.How can AGRG help the Geomatics industry in Nova Scotia? (Bob)

Questions for GANS?

What workshops can CIG/AGRG offer at Geomatics Atlantic in Wolfville? (Tim)

What is needed to make the BIC attractive to possible entrepreneurs in Nova Scotia? (Jeff)

Check out our website:http://agrg.cogs.nscc.ca

Email: bob.maher@nscc.ca