Courses
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GEOG363)
Advanced Geographic Information Systems (GEOG463)
Remote Sensing (GEOG465)
Summer GIS Certificate
Advanced Quantitative Research Methods (HENV 610)
Student supervision
Jennifer Donnini, MSc, Remote sensing of forestbiodiversity, September 2023 – Ongoing
Michael Ekwe, PhD, Monitoring corn and soybeanleaf area index and above-ground biomass mass using multi-sensor data, September 2022 - Ongoing
Lingshan Li, PhD, The impact of spatialpatterns of urban green infrastructure on urban microclimate and air quality(co-supervision with Carly Ziter and Ursula Eicker), January 2020 - Ongoing
Yann Quash, MSc., Assessing the impact of gold mining on forest coverin the Surinamese Amazon from 1997 to 2019: A semi-automated satellite-basedapproach, September 2020 –March 2023
David Fargey, MSc., Remote sensing applied toplant phenology monitoring, September 2019
Jason Langford, BA/Honours, Measuring the effect ofMontreal’s Rooftop Albedo on Urban Heat, July 2021 – May 2022
Eric Laflamme, BA/Honours, Monitoring treeline changes inQuebec: phenology, landcover and climate, July 2019 – May 2020
Jacques Simon- Mayer, BSc/Honours, Mapping and monitoring surface water chlorophyll αusing satellite imagery: investigation of industrial impacts on western lakeErie’s water quality, September 2019 - April 2020
Olivier Makuch, BSc/Honours, Monitoring tundra phenologyacross Canada, July 2019 – May 2020
Sayeda Kulsum, MEnv, Environmental impactassessment for agricultural production systems in Canada (independent project), Completed September 2018
Evelyn Znoj, MEnv, Artificial neural networkapplied to environmental impact assessment phases (part of the controlled tiledrainage - calculate your benefits project), December 2017 - April 2018
Gurpreet Bharaj Kaur, MEnv, Geospatial technologiesapplied to the environmental impact assessment of agriculture, May 2017 - May 2018
Yuka Makiyama, MEnv, Prioritizing placement ofconservation buffers in the Shire River Basin in Malawi, Completed August2017
Victoria Curl, MEnv, Using artificial neuralnetworks as a prediction tool in environmental impact assessment, CompletedJanuary 2017
Selected essays and book chapters
“Before I made films, I was singing,” conversation with Alanis Obomsawin in Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework exhibition catalogue, eds. Richard Hill & Hila Peleg (Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Prestel, 2022).
“Into the Archive with Joyce Wieland: Bill’s Hat (1967),” special issue of Journal of Canadian Art History, eds. Johanne Sloan and Mark Clintberg 41.1/2 (2020).
“Introduction,”with Lesley Johnstone, in In Search of Expo 67, eds. Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP and Musée d’art contemporain, 2020).
“From Expanded to Intimate Cinemas in Canadian Experimental Film/Video,” in The Oxford Handbook to Canadian Cinema, eds. William Straw and Janine Marchessault (Oxford University Press, 2019).
“Polar Life/La vie polaire at Expo 67,” in Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, eds. Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westersthal Stenport (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2019).
“All-embracing Circlevision 360: Canada 67 at Expo 67’s Telephone Pavilion,” Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67, eds. Monika Kin Gagnon and Janine Marchessault (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2014), 218–233.
“Unfinished Films and Posthumous Cinema: Charles Gagnon’s R69 and Joyce Wieland’s Wendy and Joyce,” in Cinephemera, eds. Zoë Druick and Gerda Cammaer (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2014), 137–158.
“Communicating the Intermedia Archive: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha,” in Database|Narrative|Archive, eds. Matt Soar and Monika Kin Gagnon. A book anthology created in Scalar, open-access at www.dna anthology.com
“Amplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodations and Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor Commission (co-authored with Yasmin Jiwani),” in Shifting the Ground: Nation-state, Indigeneity, Culture, ed. Smaro Kamboureli (Guelph: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2012).
“The Christian Pavilion at Expo ’67: Notes from Charles Gagnon’s Archive,” in Expo 67: More than a Souvenir, eds. Rhona Richman Kenneally and Johanne Sloane (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010),142–162.
“The Persistence of Spectatorship: the Racialized and Ethicized Gaze,” in Precarious Visualities: new perspectives on identification in contemporary art and visual culture, eds. Christine Ross, Olivier Asselin, Johanne Lamoureux (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2008), 120–135.
"Cinematic Imag(in)ings of the Japanese Canadian Internment," in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, ed. Elaine Chang (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2008).
“Tender Research: Field Notes from the Nikkei Internment Centre,” Canadian Journal of Communication 31.1 (Spring 2006).
“The Capacity of Cultural Difference" (with Scott Toguri McFarlane), for the “Minister’s Forum on Diversity and Culture,” Dept of Canadian Heritage, April 2003, Ottawa and “Cultures, Diversity and Everyday Life,” with Council of Europe, May 2002, Montréal.
Books
Co-edited with Lesley Johnstone. In Search of Expo 67/À la recherche d'expo 67. Montreal and Kingston: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and McGill-Queen's University Press, July 2020.
Co-edited with Janine Marchessault. Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67. Anthology with essays, interviews, and filmmaker portfolios; with Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Colin Low and others. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
With Richard Fung, 13 Conversations About Art and Cultural Race Politics. Montreal: Artextes Editions, 2002. Translated into Territoires et Trajectoires. Adapted and translated by Colette Tougas. Montreal: Artextes Editions, 2006.
Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press/Artspeak/ KAG, 2000.
Art-related essays
"With Olivia Michiko Gagnon. "Dana Claxton's Gifts of Fringe," in Dana Claxton (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018)
“Posthumous Collaboration (for Nancy Shaw),” in Prefix Photo 20 (Fall 2009).
“(Media) ‘History from Below’: From the Snaphshot to the Home Movie in Jamelie Hassan’s Installations, in Jamelie Hassan: At the Edge of Words (London ON: Museum London, 2009).
“The Enchantments of Richard Fung’s Unsettling Landscapes (after JMW Turner),” in Richard Fung (Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2008).
“Duels, Dualities and Intertextuality in the Media Works of Stephen Foster,” for Stephen Foster (exhibition brochure), Auckland: MIC Toi Rerehiko, 2007.
“Book and Exhibition Review: Janet Cardiff: The Walk Book and Her Long Black Hair,” Senses and Society 2.1 (July 2007): 259-263.