IT - ESRI Scholarship award winner
for 2009.
Adam McLane is a
first year PhD
student in the Department of Geography and is studying the integration
of
remote sensing, GIS and complex systems in forest ecology and wildlife
management applications with his co-supervisors Dr. Danielle Marceau
and Dr. Greg
McDermid. Adam has several years of experience using the ESRI suite of
products
to perform spatial analysis in his research area, and has published
numerous papers
that utilize the functionality of GIS and remote sensing. He is also an
accomplished programmer, and has developed a number of software
packages using
the ArcObjects programming environment with visual basic and python
languages.
In the future, Adam hopes to develop agent-based modeling (AMB) systems
for
wildlife and forestry applications, a critical component of which will
be the
input from GIS and remote sensing databases. He hopes to use his
findings to
support ongoing conservation and management activities for endangered
species
in
Congratulations Adam!