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Angela Kross, PhD.

Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment


Angela Kross, PhD.
Photo by David Ward

Biography

Angela Kross is a fulltime-faculty in Geospatial Technologies, she has obtained an M.Sc in Geographic Information Science / Remote Sensing from Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands and a Ph.D in Physical Geography / Remote Sensing from McGill University. Prior to joining Concordia in August 2015, she was a post doctoral researcher at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. In her research she uses GIS and Remote Sensing technologies in combination with ground measurements and models to answer questions related to ecosystem processes, vegetation development and land use change in response to anthropogenic and natural events, such as agriculture practices, mining activities and climate change.


Teaching activities

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



Research activities

1. Assess and monitor environmental impacts ofagriculture
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dvancing multi-sensor and multi-source dataintegration methods for improved characterization and quantification of cropdevelopment and its impacts on the environment (NSERC)
-Controlled tile drainage – calculate your benefits (AAFC)


2. Assess and monitor landscape phenology
-Caractérisation et évaluation des changements dela phénologie végétale en réponse aux changements environnementaux à l'aide dela télédétection (FRQNT)

3. Knowledge mobilization strategies and outreach
https://demo.gatewaygeomatics.com/ctd/

4. Remote sensing of biodiversity

5. Earth observation for modelling local to global vegetation and environmental characteristics


From a pretty picture to land cover information to biophysical properties!

Publications

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.

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