2009 Student Technical Conference
Photos: 1-3 and 10, Kim Delorey; 4-9, Sophie Rose Cote; 2009-March-26
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| McElhanney Geomatics Graduate Paper Competition | ||
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| 1st - $1,000 | Yong-Won Ahn | GPS Positioning Enhancement Based on Different Weighting Scheme to Solve an Ill-conditioned Case in Parameter Estimation Process |
| 2nd - $300 | Landon Urquhart | Application of Spherical Harmonics for Modelling Horizontal Tropospheric Gradients |
| 3rd - $200 | Botshelo Sabone | Assessing Alternative Technologies for Use of Volunteered Geographic Information in Authoritative Databases |
| CIG Undergraduate Paper Competition | ||
| 1st - $1,000 | Ewan Scott | Capabilities, Limitations and Achievable Accuracies of Terrestrial 3D laser Scanning |
| 2nd - $300 | Jody V. Isenor | Testing Horizontal and Vertical Accuracies of the Nova Scotia 1:10 000 Digital Topographic Mapping |
| 3rd - $200 | Roberta E. Holtner | Options for Land Administration Chosen by Selected First Nations in British Columbia |
Many thanks go to Angus Hamilton, Professor Emeritus, and Dr. Kevin Pegler, Geomatics Officer, CFB Gagetown, for judging the graduate paper competition and Mark Doucette, Stephen Hartley, and Jim Martin, CIG members and graduates of GGE, for judging the undergraduate paper competition. Thank you to Nyaladzani Nkhwanana and James Mtamakaya for organizing the conference, and once again, a very special thank you to Sylvia Whitaker who offered support for the organizers and for putting on a beautiful reception afterward.
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Undergraduate presenters, left to right: Ryan Schuler, Robert Love, Adam Stephen, Dikopo Rantolo, Lee Chaulk, Arthur Cooke, Brandon Crouse, Marc Steeves, Randell Hollett, Kevin Levy, and Bradley Middlemiss. Inset left: Aloysius Kam Inset right: George Wilcox |
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| CIG Paper Competition presenters, left to right: Jody Isenor, Timothy Crowell, Roberta Holtner, Ewan Scott, and Evan Green. |
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Some graduate presenters, front: Krista Amolins, Botshelo Sabone, Nyaladzani Nkhwanana, and James Mtamakaya. Back: Yong-Won Ahn, Landon Urquhart, Rui Pinto da Silva, and Titus Tienaah. |
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| Botshelo receiving her 3rd place prize. |
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| Landon receiving his 2nd place prize. |
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| Yong-Won receiving his 1st place prize. |
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| Roberta receiving her 3rd place prize. |
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| Jody receiving his 2nd place prize. |
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| Ewan receiving his 1st place prize. |
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| If Prof. Dare looks particularly proud, he has very good reason. Both Yong-Won and Ewan were supervised by him. Congratulations Prof. Dare on choosing such successful students and thanks Yong-Won and Ewan for making Prof. Dare look so good! |