Using Ocean-centric Projections: Spilhaus Projection
Overview: Some maps are designed to challenge our assumptions of the world and force us to look at our world…
HYSPLIT Modelling: Investigate the Impact of an Accidental Pollutant Release
Overview: This assignment assumes a potential large explosive point source and examines and describes the transport of that material over…
Gaussian Plume Modelling
Overview: SUMAS 2 was an electric power plant proposal in the town of Sumas, Washington near the Canadian-United States border….
Potential Tanker Explosion Scenario in Vancouver Harbour
Final Project for GEOB 402 Objectives: Examine a specific event using a modeling tool (e.g HYSPLIT, Gaussian or Plume Model)…
Local Air Quality – Ucluelet
Overview: PM2.5 refers to tiny particles or droplets suspended in air that are two-and-half microns or less in width. PM2.5…
Finding Fish in the Bering Sea
Overview: Alaskan Pollock is a key species in the Alaska groundfish complex and a target species for one of the…
Final Project 372: China’s Coal-Fired Power Plants and Annual Average PM2.5
Overview: For the final project of GEOB 372, we were tasked with making a thematic map on any issue we…
372 Lab 6: Choropleth Map
Overview: Choropleth maps are the most common type of quantitative thematic map. Data on many topics are commonly captured as…
372 Lab 2: Point, Line and Area Symbols
Overview: Create a coloured reference map of the provinces, territories and cities of Canada. Audience of the map is for…
Small-Format Reference Map of Massachusetts
Overview: A map is a graphic – either static of dynamic – that conveys a geographical story. In other words,…
270 Lab 5: Environmental Impact Assessment – Garibaldi at Squamish
Overview: The Garibaldi at Squamish project is a proposed year-round destination mountain resort on Brohm Ridge, 15 km north of…
270 Lab 4: Housing Affordability – Working with Census Data
Overview: Statistics Canada creates different census map areas based upon population. In Metro Vancouver, for this lab, we will be…
GEOB 270: Analyzing Tsunami Risk in Tofino and Victoria
GEOB 270 Final Project The final project for GEOB 270 looked at the Tsunami risk for Tofino and Victoria, BC….
270 Lab 3: Storm Surge Analysis – Spatial Analysis, Visualization, Editing
Overview: A storm surge, tidal surge or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami like phenomenon of rising water…