I would like to acknowledge the sacredness of this land to all who know and love it, especially the original inhabitants, the Lekwungen First Nations and Coast Salish Peoples, who still look to this land as part of their Home Place.

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March 15, 2023 

More R Shiny ...

• Shiny Conference 2023 (Appsilon - Mar 15-17)

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January 11, 2023 

Starting the new year with more R >>> R Shiny in particular ...

• Introduction to Shiny Dashboards (R-Ladies Washington D.C: Anastasia Lucas - Jan 11)

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January 9, 2023 

Another course on Ageing this term at UVic

• Advocacy for Ageing and Disability in Canadian Society - HLTH 405 (Michael Prince) Jan - Apr, 2023

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January 6, 2023 

Honoured as a coder/developer to be asked to help develop interactive tools to help UVic Geography Students plan their courses

• Exploring UVic Geography Courses

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December 08, 2022 

An early morning chat about trees in Glasgow ...

• Trees for Cities (University of Glasgow: UrbanByNature Webinar - Dec 08)

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December 06, 2022 

Continuing to learn more about R ...

• Use of R in Official Statistics (uRos2022: Statistics Canada - Dec 06-08)

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November 06, 2022 

A few more virtual workshops to add to my learning repertoire

• Intro to Iteration in R (R-Ladies St. Louis: Merve Ileri Tayar - Oct 11)
• Clinical Reporting with {gtsummary} (R-Ladies St. Louis: Daniel D. Sjoberg - Oct 17)
• Earth Observation Products for Wildfires Monitoring and Forecast (Eumetstat - Oct 18-20)
• Intermediate Research Statistics with RStudio (UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship - Oct 25)
• R Geospatial Analysis: An Introduction for Business (Business Science: Matt Dancho - Oct 26)

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October 06, 2022 

Virtually attended 3 days of Google Earth Outreach's GeoForGood22 Summit, learning more about how global communities are using Google Earth products, and especially using Google Earth Engine for mapping remote sensing imagery

• Geo For Good 22 Summit (Google Earth Outreach - Oct 4-6)

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September 17, 2022 

Taking a whole Saturday to learn about regional R tips & projects with CascadiaR

• CascadiaR Virtual Conference for Pacific Northwest region (CascadiaR - Sep 17)

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September 12, 2022 

Choosing a course very meaningful to me by studying about Healthy Ageing this term at UVic

• Healthy Ageing - AGEI 472 (Robert Savage) Sep - Dec, 2022

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August 29, 2022 

Taking more opportunities to learn new things online (now that the weather has cooled a bit):

• Active fire products and wildfire mapping in GEE (Google Developer Groups: Morgan Crowley - Aug 28)

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June 1, 2022 

Taking more opportunities to learn new things:

• Nature Journaling (TLC Passport to Nature: Karen Iwachow - May 28)
• Systematic Reviews Data Collection Search Strategy (UVic Libraries: Zahra Premji - May 18, 25, June 1)

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April 29 - May 02, 2022 

I participated in iNaturalist's Greater Victoria City Nature Challenge adding 396 observations of 285 species.

Victoria has the most observations of the other participating Canadian Cities in the 2022 City Nature Challenge.

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Apr 27-28, 2022 

R Shiny: An opportunity to participate in another virtual webinar starting on European time (e.g. 3am PDT):

• Appsilon R Shiny Conference (Appsilon - Apr 27-29)

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Apr 26-28, 2022 

Happy to be accepted for a student scholarship to attend this virtual conference:

• Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference: Honoring our Ancestors: Visions for Future Generations and the Salish Sea (Western Washington University’s Salish Sea Institute - Apr 26-28)

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Apr 10, 2022 

I've just finished a climate course, which very nicely pulled together a lot of info learned in Geog and ES:

• Climate and Society - EOS 365 (Andrew Weaver) Jan - Apr, 2022

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Feb 11, 2022 

Continuing with more webinars to learn different things about what interests me:

• Clam Gardens: Permit & bureaucracy (Clam Garden network - Feb 11)

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Dec 21, 2021 

Another new year begins at 07:58 with the Winter Solstice, as the seasons turn once again ...

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Dec 10, 2021 

I've just finished another Anthropology course, continuing my study of Coast Salish Indigenous Culture:

• Coast Salish Culture and Contemporary Life - Anth 433 (Brian Thom) Sep - Dec, 2021

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Dec 10, 2021 

Continuing with more webinars to learn different things about what interests me:

1. Power to Fly: Drones, Community, and the Future of Mapping (Humanitarian Open Mapping Community Working Group - Dec 10)
2. Clam Gardens & Climate Change (Clam Garden network - Dec 10)
3. GEO Week 2021 ( - Nov 22-26)
4. W̱SÁNEĆ Sea Garden Traditional Knowledge Working Group (Clam Garden network - Nov 19)
5. Geo for Good Summit (Google - Nov 16-19)
6. Botanic art workshop (UVic Campus Gardens - Nov 15)
7. Decolonizing historic survey plans for reconciliation and restoration (Briony Penn - Oct 27)
8. An Introduction to Indigenous Education (Uni 201 - Oct 26)
9. Exploring the Ecological Role of Ancestral Clam Gardens (Clam Garden Network - Oct 15)
10. Traditional Plant Knowledge with Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy Turner (West Van Library - Oct 2)
11. To dig for clams in an enclosure - λápac̓i (Clam Garden Network - Sep 17)
12. Reproducible research in anthropology (Li-Ying Wang, UofWash - Sep 7)
13. satRday Nairobi (Nairobi - Sep 3-4)
14. National Imagery Summit: Landsat and Society (USGS - Aug 31-Sep 2)
15. R Shiny (Appsilon - Aug 10)

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Jun 17, 2021 

Continuing with more webinars, in June, to learn different things about what interests me:

1. Intro to Deep (Machine) Learning (U Bristol Advanced Computing Research Centre: Matt Williams - Jun 18)
2. Text and Sentiment Analysis in R (U Bristol Advanced Computing Research Centre - Jun 18)
3. Open Green Map Demo & New Features (OGM2: GISCollective - Jun 17)
4. Introduction to Data Analysis in R (U Bristol Advanced Computing Research Centre - Jun 17)
5. Shiny App Building in R (U Bristol Advanced Computing Research Centre: Elizabeth Brown, Mango Solutions - Jun 17)
6. Carto 2021 (CARTO & Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives - Jun 14-16)
7. Native Plant Walk (UVic Students With Disabilities & Native Student Union: Earl Claxton Jr. - Jun 14)
8. As the Crow Flies (Rocky Point Observatory: Kaeli Swift - Jun 12)
9. R Shiny Dashboards (Abuja R User Group: Bilikisu Aderinto - Jun 12)
10. RStudio: Filling your bag of workflow tricks (R-Ladies Dammam: María Paula Caldas - Jun 9)
11. Hey Earth Engine: How Do I? (Google Earth Outreach - Jun 4)
12. Arbutus menziesii observations: ARME Treesnap & iNaturalist (WSU Puyallup - Jun 3)
13. Nature Journaling: Numbers (Nature Journaling Week: John Muir Laws - Jun 3)
14. Nature Journaling: Ecological Calendar (Nature Journaling Week: Victoria Grape - Jun 3)
15. Nature Journaling: Pictures (Nature Journaling Week - Jun 2)
16. Nature Journaling: Words (Nature Journaling Week - Jun 1)

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May 20, 2021 

I still continue to participate in a number of virtual zoom-type webinars:

1. Geospatial Data Analysis - Google Earth Engine Python API ( GeoPhilly: Fei Jiang - May 20)
2. Making Science and Nature Stories Your Business (Pandemic University: Sarah Gilman - May 20)
3. Access and Download Copernicus Open Access Data (Copernicus - May 20)
4. Publishing an Earth Engine App to Accompany your Research Paper (Google Earth Outreach - May 19)
5. A Beginners Guide to Urban Forest Bathing (Urban Tree Festival: Katie Mills - May 18)
6. Writing The Art of Evidence: Reaching General Audiences (Pandemic University: Sharon Riley - May 18)
7. Writing Using Your Platform and Influence for Good (Pandemic University: Chris Turner - May 14)
8. Zhoosh up your ggplots (R Ladies Edinburgh: Athanasia Monika Mowinckel - May 12)
9. Community Mapping - Geo for Good Lightning Talks (Google Earth Outreach - May 12)
10. Writing on Nature with Authority, Authenticity & Personality (Pandemic University: Annalise & Cailynn Klingbeil - May 11)
11. Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada (PCF Webinars - Apr 29)
12. Programming with Tidyverse functions (R Ladies Vancouver - Apr 28)
13. Soil: Really Important Tiny Lives (Victoria Compost Education Centre - Apr 24)
14. Birding By Ear (Ann Nightingale - Mar 6,13,20,27, Apr 3,17,24)
15. Clam Gardens (Clam Garden Network - Apr 23)
16. Fun with R (R-Ladies: Chicago and East Lansing - Apr 23)
17. Intro to R Package Development (Nigeria AbujaR User Group Meetup - Apr 17)
18. Sentinel Hub: EO Browser (Sentinel Hub Webinars - Apr 15)
19. An evening of aRt with Ijeamaka Anyene (R Ladies - Apr 14)
20. R Dataframe to simple maps (R Ladies: A Semi-Tidy Tuesday - Apr 13)
21. Google Earth Engine Apps (Geo for Good Summit: Lightning Talks - Apr 8)
22. Unity Essentials Live Learning (Mar 22, Mar 29, Apr 1)
23. Image Editing with GIMP (UVic Digital Scholarhip Mar 29)
24. Worm Composting (Victoria Compost Education Centre - Mar 27)
25. R Package Development (R Ladies - Mar 26)
26. Research Statistics with RStudio (UVic Digital Scholarhip Mar 25)
27. Indigenously Managed Douglas-fir (UVic ES Darcy Mathews - Mar 24)
28. Bring climate change reality to students using Cloud to Classroom (Earth Outreach - Mar 22)
29. Analyzing a Landsat 8 image in Google Earth Engine (Earth Outreach - Mar 2)
30. Living Lands and Indigenous Climate Solutions (UVic Indigenous Studies - Feb 24)
31. Pattern-based spatial analysis (RGS-IBG GIScience Webinar Series - Feb 3)
32. RStudio::global(2021) (R Studio - Jan 21 - 22)
33. R Shiny Masterclass: From Development to Deployment (Appsilon Jan 20)
34. Rasters Revealed 2021 (Conference on use of Raster datasets - Jan 15)

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Apr 15, 2020 

I've just finished another Anthropology course, this time studying 14,000 years of Indigenous history through the lens of Archaeology:

• The Archaeology of British Columbia - Anth 340 (Iain McKecknie) Jan - Apr 2021

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Dec 27, 2020 

My iNaturalist stats for 2020 (July) photo observations of a total of 370 different species, with 385 Research Grade observations (of 250 species: 165 plants, 25 birds, 18 insects, 15 mollusks, 5 fungi/lichen, 4 mammals).

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Dec 22, 2020 

I continue to participate in a number of virtual zoom-type webinars:

1. R stats GGPlot2 5-hr Training Sprint (Cedric Sherer's ggplot2 tutorial - Dec 22)
2. Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire Symposium - series (FIRE 2020 - Nov 2,9,16,23)
3. Virtual Indigenous Mapping Workshop (Indigenous Maps - Nov 16-18)
4. Bridging divides in the wake of a global pandemic (Victoria Forum - Nov 12,13,16)
5. Zotero - advanced skills (UVic Digital Scholarship Commons - Nov 9)
6. Visualizing Variability and Uncertainty in R (RIOT Science Club - Nov 05)

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Nov 02, 2020 

I continue to participate in a number of zoom-type webinars to learn more:

1. Communicating Climate in a Complex World, panel with Michael Mann (Penn State - Oct 28)
2. Zoomtopia: Virtual Zoom User Conference (Zoomtopia - Oct 14,15)
3. Planet Explore 2020 Virtual Conference (Planet Imagery - Oct 13-15)
4. State of the World's Plants and Fungi Virtual Symposium (Kew Royal Botanic Gardens - )
5. A Close Look At The Life Of Trees - Patrick von Aderkas (Uni 201 - Oct 6)
6. Creating Video for Online Learning (DottoTech - Oct 7)
7. The Art of Living in the Time of COVID (15th Annual Lafayette Health Awareness Forum - Oct 1)

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Sept 26, 2020 

I was very happy to participate as a virtual Zoom mentor, helping folks learn SQL, with Ladies / Canada Learning Code Day - over 40 participants in Victoria, and 400 all across Canada!

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Sept 24, 2020 

I continue to participate in a number of zoom-type webinars:

1. Podcasting with Audacity (UVic Digital Learning Commons - Sep 24)
2. Commanding Hope: The Power We Have To Renew A World In Peril - Thomas Homer-Dixon (Royal Roads University: Changemaker Series - Sep 16)
3. Virtual Zoom Coding Mentor Training (Ladies / Canada Learning Code)
4. Rewilding: putting nature back on the map (Birdlife Europe / European Environmental Bureau - Sep 10)
5. Hands on Practice & Scenarios Mentor Training (Canada / Ladies Learning Code)
6. Identifying and Monitoring Pollinators (Pollinator Steward Webinar Series - Sep 17)
7. Creating and Managing Wetlands for Pollinators (Pollinator Steward Webinar Series - Sep 2)
8. Urban Forest Sustainability & the Individual Tree Data Standard (Institute of Chartered Foresters - Sep 1)

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Sept 10, 2020 

I am studying yet another mapping course, this time in Anthropology:

• Ethnographic Mapping & Indigenous Cartographies - Anth 460 (Brian Thom) Sep - Dec 2020

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Aug 18, 2020 

I continue to participate in a number of zoom-type webinars:

1. Nature writing beyond 2020 (Virtual Bird Fair - Aug 19,21,22,23)
2. Intro to Citation Management with Zotero (UVIc Digital Scholarship Commons - Aug 19)
3. Using Geolocation Technology to Fight COVID-19 and Climate Change (ESRI)
4. Urban Forest Sustainability & the Individual Tree Data Standard (Institute of Chartered Foresters, Edinburgh)
5. Creating and Managing Wetlands for Pollinators (Island Pollinator Initiative)
6. Clarity, Caring & Community-Building: Using the 3 Cs to Enhance Online Teaching and Learning Success

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July 29, 2020 

Yet again more online workshops & webinars in July:

• Planet A New Paradigm in Rapid Revisit, Global Intelligence (Planet Labs - Jul 29)
• Using Geolocation Technology to Fight COVID-19 and Climate Change (Jul 24)
• How To Be A Backyard Naturalist (Kelly Brenner - Jul 16)
• R Shiny Workshop: First Steps Towards Interactive Data Visualisation (CaRdiff - Jul 16)
• Effective Online Meetings (Steve Dotto)
• Understanding Phenology with Remote Sensing (NASA - Part 3)

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July 3-12, 2020 

This week I participated in the iNaturalist Project The Great Salish Sea BioBlitz to document biodiversity around the Salish Sea.

The Salish Sea Waterways & Beaches I've visited:

• Esquimalt Lagoon, Albert Head Lagoon, Taylor Beach
• Sooke River
• Wiffin Spit
• Otter Point
• French Beach Prov Park
• Sandcut Beach
• Jordan River
• China Beach Provincial Park
• Botanical Beach Provincial Park
• Cattle Point, Uplands Park & Cadboro Bay
• Goldstream Provincial Park
• McKenzie Bight, Coles Bay, Patricia Bay, Sidney
• Island View Beach

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July 03, 2020 

Just finished 4.5hr freeCodeCamp SQL Tutorial ... very thorough and understandable instructions

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June 30, 2020 

During these times of Covid isolation (mid-April to mid-June), I've been busy participating in a number of zoom-type webinars:

1. Understanding Phenology with Remote Sensing (NASA - Parts 1 & 2 - Jun 30)
2. Organizing Digital Photos (Dotto Tech - Jun 24)
3. Insects in the Garden (Linda Gilkeson - Jun 24)
4. How Will Cities Change With Covid19; The Future of Transportation (Cam Owens - Uni 201 0 Jun 23)
5. Be Kind to your Mind (UVic Alumni Assoc - Jun 18)
6. Ecojustice (Meredith Lemon - Uni 201)
7. e-Rum2020 (European R)
8. Building Next-Generation Data Infrastructure for Plant Phenology (US National Phenology Network - Jun 17)
9. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, & 360° Tours (UVIc Digital Scholarship Commons - Jun 17)
10. FOSS4GUK (Free and Open Software for Geo - Jun 17)
11. Raincoast's Coastal Insights
12. WomenTech Global Conference 2020 (Women in Tech - Jun 10-11)
13. Resilient Gardens for a Changing Climate (Linda Gilkeson - Jun 8)
14. The Science and Practice of Managing Forests in Cities (Urban Forest Connections)
15. Bird Trivia Night (Ann Nightingale, Rocky Point)
16. Planet Explore 2020 (Planet Remote Sensing)
17. Gamers & GIS Analysts Unite! (L3 Harris Geospatial)
18. Jitsi Meet vs Zoom and Google Meet (Dotto Tech)
19. Zoom Remote Desktop Support for both Windows and Mac Control (Dotto Tech)
20. Virtual DHSI Conference & Colloquium (UVic Digital Humanities)
21. Forest Mapping and Monitoring with SAR Data (Google Earth Engine)
22. Google Meet vs Zoom (Dotto Tech)
23. Applications and Answers Using Spectral UAV Imagery (L3 Harris Geospatial)
24. Earth Engine Virtual Meetup (Google Earth Engine - May 6)
25. Vegetation monitoring for Agriculture with Sentinel-2 (RUS Copernicus)
26. Addressing Loss of Tree Cover in Urban Watersheds: The Importance of Local Codes and Policies (Urban Forest Connections)
27. Field Trips for All: Accessibility and Inclusivity for Students with Disabilities (American Geosciences Institute)
28. Earth Day Nature Journaling (John Muir Laws - Apr 22)

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June 17, 2020 

I learned a new web creation tool (marzipano.net) to view 360° images in a browser ... Virtual Tour of Tod Inlet in 360° - you can also manually move around the image in 360° using your mouse or touch screen ...

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April 30, 2020 

I finished my final course needed to complete a double major in Environmental Studies & Geography! Congrats!

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January 26, 2020 

Continuing with my interest in studying the weather and climate ...

• Advanced Studies in Weather & Climate - Geog 484 (David Atkinson) Jan - Apr 2020
  • I'll be needing a review and will use my old climatology & meteorology Flashcards created in 2016
  • 2020-01-25 Campbell Scientific Instrument Workshop with Claude Labine - I helped install one of three weather stations at UVic

• Applied Climatology - Geog 373 (David Atkinson) Jan - Apr 2018
• Climatology & Meteorology - Geog 272 (David Atkinson) Sep - Dec 2016
• Weather Visualization Web Experiments (My Coding Initiatives) Nov - Dec 2016
  • UVic Daily Temp Ranges 1993-2016
  • UVic Temp Anomolies 2011-2016 (column)
  • UVic Temp Anomolies 1993-2016 (line)

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September 09, 2019 

Though I am excited to be using R again, I can't believe I'm willingly taking another statistics course! ... I will likely take advantage of the Flashcards I created for my first Stats course 2 years ago ...

• Advanced Spatial Analysis and Geo-Statistics (using R) - Geog 418 (Chris Bone) Sep - Dec 2019
  • A2: Analyzing Crime In Victoria
  • A3: Census Autocorrelation
  • R Stats resource links collection

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August 31, 2019 

This summer I participated in the BC Parks iNaturalist Project to document biodiversity in some of Vancouver Islands BC Parks. Rated as #18 & #21, so far I've added 635 photographic observations of 238 species, out of over 2000 observers, almost 102,000 observations, and 4,735 species.

The 13 BC Provincial Parks I've visited between May - August 2019 are:

• Gowland Tod Prov Park
• John Dean Prov Park
• French Beach Prov Park
• Juan de Fuca Prov Park
• Sooke Potholes Prov Park
• Goldstream Prov Park
• Little Qualicum Beach Prov Park
• MacMillan (Cathedral Grove) Prov Park
• Kennedy Lake Prov Park
• Miracle Beach Prov Park
• Elk Falls Prov Park
• Strathcona Prov Park
• Spider Lake Prov Park

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January 23, 2019 

Continuing studying Remote Sensing of the Environment using satellite and aerial data

• Digital Remote Sensing - Geog 322 (Randy Scharien) Jan - Apr 2019
• Remote Sensing of the Environment - Geog 319 (Maycira Costa) Sep - Dec 2018

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October 11, 2018 Action Hero Award

I was honoured to be awarded the Action Hero Award by UVic Environmental Studies Department "For being an Agent of Change and sharing their skills and strategies to empower people to engage in global challenges" Award image

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March 6, 2018 

I presented my interactive, mobile-friendly Interactive Trail Guide to Tod Inlet at UVic's Idea Fest 2018, in a 5-minute, 'lightning' presentation, for the The transformative power of maps and stories: Highlighting student and class-based community mapping. Based on my Directed Studies: Engaging With Place.

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January, 2018 

Learning more about climatology

• Applied Climatology - Geog 373 (David Atkinson) Jan - Apr 2018

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December, 2017 

• Intro to Quantitative Methods - Geog 226 (Ian O'Connell) Sep - Dec 2017
• Directed Studies: Engaging With Natural Places - Geog 490 (Teresa Dawson / Johannes Feddema) Sep - Dec 2017

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May 12-13, 2017 

I participated in another Bioblitz for Parks Canada in the 2017 Fort Rodd Hill BioBlitz adding 245 observations of 105 species

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April 24, 2017 

For Earth Day, I participated in 2017 Victoria BioBlitz of Garry oak ecosystems, April 21-22, adding 262 observations of 125 species at University of Victoria, Beacon Hill Park & Uplands Park

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January 5, 2017 
Hangin' out in the forests - will now take on new meanings ...

• Forest Biogeography - Geog 491 (Jill Harvey) Jan - Apr 2017

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Oct 10, 2016 
Study of weather, climate, meteorology, with my head in the clouds!

• Climatology & Meteorology - Geog 272 (David Atkinson) Sep - Dec 2016

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May, 2016 
Learning leadership skills, including creative expression using drawing, watercolours, etc

• Uni 101 Leadership Training - Uni 101/201 (Becky Cory) May - Jun 2016

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April 08, 2016 
Learning about the distribution of plants and animals in relation to place and time, particularly in BC ...

• Biogeography - Geog 274 (Jillian Harvey) Jan - Apr 2016

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September 9, 2015 
I am very happy to be learning more about the physical world in live in ... the atmosphere, weather, climate, rivers, glaciers, earthquakes, coastal processes ...

• Physical Geography - Geog 103 (Ian Walker) Sep - Dec 2015

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January 11, 2015 
Further to my Phenology of Place project, I decided to learn to program web applications using JavaScript, and to learn database management using sqlite

• World Wide Web and Mobile Applications: Native Plant Field Guide App - CSC 130 (Yvonne Coady) Sep - Dec 2014
  • Geog 101A students use this version of the UVic Native Plant Field Guide App Jan - Apr 2015, Sept - Dec 2015
• Database Management & Visualization - CSC 370 (Alex Thomo) Sep - Dec 2014

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May 13, 2014 

I am delighted to announce that Prof Eric Higgs has agreed to supervise my Directed Studies project: Phenology of Place at UVic. I will be designing a database, using phenological phase info mined from 5+ years of Native Plant Photographs @ UVic, to create a phenological calendar

• Phenology of Place @ UVic - ES 490 (Eric Higgs) May - Aug 2014

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April 7, 2014 
Seasons come and seasons go ...

• WSANEC Ethnoecology - ES 381 (Nick Claxton) Jan - Apr 2014
• My Prayer of Gratitude
• GIS Applications & Tools - Geog 329 (Ian O'Connell) Jan - Apr 2013
• Intro To Remote Sensing - Geog 228 (Maycira Costa) Sep - Dec 2012
• Ecological Restoration - ES 341 (Brian Starzomski) Sep - Dec 2012

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July 13, 2012  

Another season passes, with more Environmental Studies & Geography credit courses tucked into my learning-tool-box, over the last 1 1/2 years.

• Cartography - Geog 323 (Ian O'Connell) Jan - Apr 2012
• Environment, Society & Sustainability - Geog 101A (Rosaline Canessa) Jan - Apr 2012
• Traditional Land Resource Management - ES 423 (Brenda Beckwith) Nov 2011
• Intro to Mapping & GIS - Geog 222 (Ian O'Connell) Sep - Dec 2011
• Topics in Political Ecology: Integral Systems Theory - Intro to Principals & Practice - ES 380 (Duncan Taylor) Jul 2011
• Advanced Topics in Ethnoecology - ES 481 (Nancy Turner) Jan - Apr 2011
• Ecological Processes - ES 240 (Trevor Lantz) Jan - Apr 2011

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December 29, 2010 

I've been making note of the terms for Kinds of Place / Ecotopes that I am aware of at UVic, and some of the place names I know, and/or have created from familiar useage, both generic and site-specific (with a nod of thanx to Leslie Main Johnson - 2010)

• Animal & Bird Ecology: Habitat: Blue Heron feeding spot, duck ponds, Hawk woods, woodpecker trees; Deer: browsing patches, trails, yards; Nest: empty; Hummingbird; Rabbit: trails, burrows, root-digging places
• Built Landscapes: Gardens: Finnerty Gardens, Native Plant Garden; Parking Lots: Finnerty Garden/Interfaith Chapel, Fraser Bldg/Bowker Creek, library, McLauren, SSMB
• Spiritual Places: Multi-Faith Chapel, Mystic Vale Trail, Native Plant Garden, Totem Poles
• Topographic Features: Bowker Creek Watershed, Mount Tolmie, Mystic Vale Watershed
• Trails: Bowker Creek Trail, Deer Trails, Mystic Vale Trail
• Vegetation: Meadow: camas, garry oak, grass; Forest: Broken Birch Hollow, Faculty Club Woods, Fallen Maple Woods, Fraser Woods, Ivy-covered Poplar Grove, Pacific Crabapple, Place of Leaning Dogwood; Berry patches: himalayan blackberry, oregon grape, salal, salmonberry, strawberry, thimbleberry, trailing blackberry; Stinging Nettle patches
• Water & Wet Places: creek, ditch, drain, pond, puddle; Bowker Creek, Faculty Club Pond, Mystic Vale

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December 13, 2010 

I will continue to be adding regular seasonal observations, made since May 2010: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn

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Dec 22, 2010: 

I added a Photo Gallery webpage for larger images linked to from Blog & Seasonal Webpages

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Dec 20, 2010: 

I added a Plant Identification webpage, with tables including common, latin names, & links to frottage images I created earlier this summer

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Dec 13, 2010: 

Added a webpage for My Projects: Readings, Research, Web-related

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Dec 12, 2010: 

Added a webpage for each season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, noting date & time of changes

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Dec 11, 2010: 

Added some Web Links that I've been collecting ... Activism, Birds, Blogs, Botanical Photographs, Camping, Environmental Studies, Etc, EthnoBotany, Gardening, Indigenous Knowledge, Marine, Nature Printing, Plant ID, Prints, Seasonal Rounds, Stars, Survival Info, Taxonomy

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Dec 11, 2010: 

I created this website to keep track of the seasonal changes at UVic ... & document my sense of Home Place ...

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