Mountain pine beetle dispersal: the spatial-temporal interactions of infestation.
Robertson et al. 2007
CV
Education
- B.A. (Hon) in Geography, Simon Fraser University, 2002
- Adv. Dip. (Hon) in Geographic Information Systems, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 2004
- M.Sc. in Geography, University of Victoria, 2007
- Ph.D in Geography, University of Victoria, 2011
Work experience
- 2022-Current: Director of Data Science
- Global Spatial Technology Solutions (GSTS)
- Duties included: leading team of 14 data scientists on marine ai and geospatial data science applications
- 2010-2023: Lecturer (10), Assistant (11-15), Associate (16-21) Professor
- Wilfrid Laurier University
- Duties included: teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, research program, university and professional service
- 2022-2022: Senior Data Engineer
- Bluedot Global
- Duties included: applying nlp models, developing model evaluation pipeline
- 2018-2021: Data Scientist
- Red Barn Environmental
- Duties included: Statistical analysis, data wrangling, research/technical writing
Publications
STAMP : Spatial-temporal analysis of moving polygons.
Robertson et al. 2007
Risk rating for mountain pine beetle infestation of lodgepole pine forests over large areas with ordinal regression modelling.
Robertson et al. 2008
Developing an open-source framework for surveillance and analysis of emerging zoonotic diseases.
Robertson and Farmer 2008
Spatial-temporal analysis of marine wildlife.
Nelson et al. 2009
Determination of the compositional change (1999-2006) in the pine forests of British Columbia due to mountain pine beetle infestation.
Robertson et al. 2009
Spatial-temporal analysis of species’ range expansion: the case of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae.
Robertson et al. 2009
Review of software for space-time disease surveillance.
Robertson and Nelson 2010
Review of methods for space-time disease surveillance.
Robertson et al. 2010
Mobile Phone-based Infectious Disease Surveillance System, Sri Lanka.
Robertson et al. 2010
A hidden markov model for analysis of frontline veterinary data for emerging zoonotic disease surveillance.
Robertson et al. 2011
Spatial epidemiology of suspected clinical leptospirosis in Sri Lanka.
Robertson et al. 2012
Rezoning spatial neighbourhoods to capture terrain effects.
Robertson and Nelson 2012
Comparative spatial dynamics of Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Nepal.
Robertson et al. 2013
Bivariate Spatial Clustering Analysis of Point Patterns: A graph-based approach.
Robertson and Roberts 2013
A multi-scale approach to exploring urban places in geotagged photographs.
Feick and Robertson 2014
Risk factors for bovine mastitis in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.
Gunawardana et al. 2015
An overview of spatial analysis of emerging infectious diseases.
Robertson and Nelson 2014
Assessing quality of spatial models using the structural similarity index and posterior predictive checks.
Robertson et al. 2014
Inferring spatial regimes of urban place agreement from heterogeneous user-generated content.
Feick et al. 2015
Japanese Encephalitis: Estimating Future Trends in Asia.
Metelka et al. 2015
Comparing interpolation techniques for monthly rainfall mapping using multiple evaluation criteria and auxiliary data sources: A case study of Sri Lanka.
Plouffe et al. 2015
Towards a geocomputational landscape epidemiology: surveillance, modelling, and interventions.
Robertson 2016
Winters too warm to skate? Citizen-science reported variability in availability of outdoor skating in Canada.
Robertson et al. 2016
Bumps and bruises in the digital skins of cities: unevenly distributed user-generated content across US urban areas.
Robertson and Feick 2015
Stresscapes: validating linkages between place and stress expression on social media.
Sykora et al. 2015
Space-time topological graphs
Robertson 2016
Spatial data issues in geographical zoonoses research.
Robertson et al. 2016
Utility of algorithms for the analysis of integrated Salmonella surveillance data.
Vrbova et al. 2016
Current Themes in Volunteered Geographic Information.
Ferster et al. 2017
Spatial Context from Open and Online Processing (SCOOP): Geographic, Temporal, and Thematic Analysis of Online Information Source.
Robertson and Horrocks 2017
Defining Local Experts: Geographical expertise as a basis for geographic information quality.
Robertson and Feick 2017
Personal Activity Centres and Geosocial Data Analysis: Combining Big Data with Small Data.
Robertson et al. 2017
Using Geo-located Social Media for Ecological Momentary Assessments of Emotion: Innovative Opportunities in Psychology Science and Practice.
Shaughnessy et al. 2017
Spectral-temporal modelling of bamboo-dominated forest succession in the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil.
Greig et al. 2019
stampr: Spatial-temporal analysis of moving polygons.
Long et al. 2018
Inference and analysis across spatial supports in the big data era: Uncertain point observations and geographic contexts.
Robertson and Feick 2018
A unified ecological framework for studying effects of digital places on well-being.
Shankardass et al. 2019
Exploring the Use of Computer Vision Metrics for Spatial Pattern Comparison.
Malik and Robertson 2020
Geographical Expertise: From Places to Processes and Back Again.
Robertson and Feick 2019
Assessing the State of the Art in Discrete Global Grid Systems: OGC Criteria and Present Functionality.
Bondaruk et al. 2020
CliGAN: A Structurally Sensitive Convolutional Neural Network Model for Statistical Downscaling of Precipitation from Multi-Model Ensembles.
Chaudhuri and Robertson 2020
Fluctuating water levels influence access to critical habitats for threatened Cowichan Lake lamprey.
Chaudhuri et al. 2020
Integrating cellular automata and discrete global grid systems: a case study into wildfire modelling.
Hojati and Robertson 2020
Reconstruction of past backyard skating seasons in the Original Six NHL cities from citizen science data.
Malik et al. 2020
Causes of Mortality in Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, 1991-2016.
Mathieu et al. 2020
Traversing the EcoHealthScape: The final frontier in understanding shared determinants of health at the animal-society interface.
Robertson 2020
Integrated discrete environmental analytics system (IDEAS) based on a DGGS.
Robertson et al. 2020
Mapping Rocky Mountain ridged mussel beds with preliminary identification of overlapping Eurasian watermilfoil within the Canadian range.
Wade et al. 2020
InundatEd-v1 0: a height above nearest drainage (HAND)-based flood risk modeling system using a discrete global grid system.
Chaudhuri and Robertson 2021
Spatial assessment of albatrosses, commercial fisheries, and bycatch incidents on Canada’s Pacific coast.
Cox et al. 2021
CWDAT: An Open-Source Tool for the Visualization and Analysis of Community-Generated Water Quality Data.
Gray et al. 2021
Decentralized geoprivacy: leveraging social trust on the distributed web.
Hojati et al. 2021
Talks
You say patchy, I say clumpy: Why is comparing spatial patterns difficult?
Talk at Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA
Global Water Citizenship: Integrating networked citizens, scientists, and local decision-makers.
Talk at GWF Inception Meeting., Waterloo, ON
Discrete global grid systems: An emerging data model for science/community integration.
Talk at 4th Biannual Conference on GIS in Education and Research, Toronto, ON