Laura Brown Email & Phone Number

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

The Canadian Physical Geography Perspectives on Natural Hazards, Climate Variability and Change, Authors: Laura J. Brown; Jaclyn Cockburn; R. Adam Dastrup; and Steven Earle (https://books.lib.uoguelph.ca/canadiannaturalhazardsclimatechange/) was developed to fill the niche needed for Canadian students studying natural hazards and climate change. Open.

Guelph, Ontario

• The Guelph Coalition for Active Transport (GCAT) is a non-profit group that advocates for Guelph's citizens to be able to walk and bike around the city safely. We envision a future active transportation network that is.
• I helped to plan and then Chaired five of our AGMs
• To better understand safe cycling infrastructure, I attend the Ontario Bike Summit meetings
• I collaborated with other Directors to recruit volunteers, create, promote and lead events and workshops https://www.guelphtoday.com/bold/winter-cycling-is-good-for-your-health-and-your-budget-1901051https://www.instagr.
• I have been a delegate at City Council meeting for safer walking and biking infrastructure https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/9985516-guelph-council-oks-physical-distancing-initiatives-as-city-starts-to-reopen/
• I was part of the strategic planning workshops to map GCAT’s futureI am still part of the Programming and Events Committee and continue to develop and plan community events. Show less

Fergus, Ontario, Canada

Won the 2022 Emergency Management Exemplary Service Award for my work with First Nations on-reserve residents who are more vulnerable to the threat of flooding due to climate change. Virtual sharing circles were used to gather opinions and experiences with flooding and insurance companies from 71 First Nation communities from coast to coast to coast..

Brantford

• To best prepare for a changing climate and the damage associated with extreme weather events, local communities or municipalities need to know what they can expect in the future.
• developed a transferable methodology using open-access downscaled GCM datasets with free NetCDF software to provide two rural communities in Ontario with projections of extreme climate indices.
• uploaded a series of tutorial YouTube clips to teach this methodology to stake-holders. The first of these clips… Show more To best prepare for a changing climate and the damage associated with extreme weather events.
• uploaded a series of tutorial YouTube clips to teach this methodology to stake-holders. The first of these clips is a climate modelling primer designed to help people who know a little bit or nothing at all about.
• Using the detailed methodology section, I wrote for the final report and the tutorials in this video series, other municipalities could potentially generate their own climate change analysis. Show less

Wilfrid Laurier University

Collaborated with two others to create a cross-disciplinary research team designed to study climate change and its impact on Canada’s maple syrup production. My continuing role as the GIS and earth science expert involves spatial analysis and developing models to project the effects of climate change on future sugar maple habitat and spring sap flow in.

Alberta, Canada

• In collaboration with Dr. Pivot and her team developed the curriculum for a unique interactive course in physical geography based on field trip excursions delivered and guided by a mobile app. My role was to develop.
• Built course content by travelling to each of the 16 base locations, and then, by researching the area, I found specific features that best illustrated curriculum… Show more In collaboration with Dr. Pivot and her team.
• Built course content by travelling to each of the 16 base locations, and then, by researching the area, I found specific features that best illustrated curriculum material. These became Stops where I’d then record GPS.
• I wrote detailed scripts for each Stop with description, explanations, and interactive directives to teach the students about the features and landscapes they were visiting (e.g. Reach out and touch the boulder in.
• The students would follow my field trip routes. At each Stop, the app would show video clips and the photographs that, along with the scripted voiceover, would teach them about what they were seeing and guide them.

Guelph

My PhD research focused on desertification, wind erosion and wind erosion modelling. I developed a wind erosion model (WE_DUST_EM) to identify areas most prone to wind erosion and dust emission. WE_DUST_EM uses GIS and Remotely Sensed data (satellite imagery and aerial photographs) as inputs and the output is then mapped in a GIS to visually represent.

Brantford/Waterloo

Introduction to Physical Geography, a first year course taught both in class and the online learning versions of this course. For this course I developed a delivered lectures and tutorials with hands on assignments. These assignments focused on map reading and interpretation, weather map and satellite image interpretation, and self-lead field hikes to make.

Waterloo, Ontario

Climatic change will affect forest ecosystems throughout the world but the impact of these effects will not be uniform and will vary by region. As such Geography Information Systems (GIS) are an important tool to project these impacts at a regional level. In this study regional climate change data (generated by the CanRCM4-AR5) are used to model the effect.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Redeveloped and updated the curriculum from a first-year physical geography correspondence course to create an online distance education course.
• Worked with a Distance Education Instructor to create an instructional design plan with end goals, content summary, evaluation methods and overarching course structure
• Learned the capabilities of their courseware’s tools that allowed me to expand my teaching by applying new learning technologies of time (like graded discussion groups, and… Show more Redeveloped and updated the.
• Learned the capabilities of their courseware’s tools that allowed me to expand my teaching by applying new learning technologies of time (like graded discussion groups, and online quizzes so the students could self.
• Built the course content and learning activities (like a self-guided field trip) to engage students
• Developed extra support material, like instructional videos, to teach necessary Excel skills needed for class assignments or demonstrational videos on how to measure streamflow.Taught the course for two semesters after.

Department Of Geography

As the physical geographer of our cross-disciplinary research group studying climate change and its impact on Canada's maple syrup industry I attained Adjunct Professor status. During this time I was co-supervisor for graduate students research projects and co-instructor for a directed study course at the graduate level (2010). Our application for the.

Development and implementation of a multifaceted research approach in collaboration with government agencies, conservation authorities, local farmers and aggregate and construction industries to identify the sources of atmospheric phosphorus within the Lake Simcoe Airshed. This work involved in situ data collection of dust emission data from various.

In-field project manager supervising field studies of wind erosion and dust emission and reporting to the principal investigator who was not on site. We had several research contracts and conducted wind tunnel based data collection in Nevada, Texas, New Mexico and Owens (dry) Lake, California. In preparation for this field work I hired research assistants.

KwaZulu-Natal

In collaboration with the Department of Hydrology at the University of Zululand designed a Decision Support System for the reallocation of water resources in post-apartheid South Africa. My role was to assess the availability of input data, the applicability and ultimately suitability of a hydrologic model for rapid deployment in African sites. During this.

Phd, Wind Erosion And Physical Geography

Wind Erosion in Sparsely Vegetated Rangelands • developed a computational wind erosion model (WE_DUST_EM) which uses GIS and remotely.

Physical Geography

: Hydrologic Modelling of the Mfuli Watershed, KwaZulu Natal South Africa

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) Honours, Physical Geography