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Fraser Taylor

Distinguished Research Professor

Phone:613-520-2600 x 8232
Email:fraser.taylor@carleton.ca
Office:B459 Loeb Building
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Presentations
Dr. Taylor has made over 300 presentations worldwide. Several of these were invited to keynote addresses. Some recent and upcoming presentations include:

  • Bani-Taha O., El Kouzi M., Arya, A., Taylor D. R. F., Educational Computer Games for Social Adjustment of Newcomer Children has just been accepted for presentation and later publication re: 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation Seville (Spain). 11th – 13th of November, 2019. https://iated.org/iceri/publications It is profiled in the following link: https://gradstudents.carleton.ca/2019/grad-research-helping-children-have-an-easier-time-when-moving-to-a-new-country/
  • Maribeth Murray, Shannon Christoffersen, Peter Pulsifer, David Arthurs, Jennifer Parrott, Christine Barnard, Alexandre Forest, Tim Papakyriakou, Steve Liang, Teresa Scassa, Scot Nickels, Fraser Taylor, Ellsworth LeDrew, Sheelagh Carpendale, Warwick Vincent, Claire Herbert, Byron Chu, Jennifer Sokol, Cameron Wilson and Claude Duguay. (2019). The Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability 50, in PDF3; paper accepted for presentation at Arctic Net.
  • Taylor, D. R. F. and Hayes, A. 2018. Nunaliit Atlas Framework and Digital Atlas Development at GCRC Presentation to Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Carleton University, Ottawa, On. October 12, 2018.
  • Hayes, A. 2018. Nunaliit Atlas Framework and Digital Atlas Development at GCRC Presentation to Work/Study Students, Carleton University, Ottawa, On. October 15, 2018
  • Hayes, A., Oikle, R. 2018. Nunaliit Atlas Framework Training/Presentation for Academics/Researchers from Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Quebec. Carleton University, Ottawa, On. October 22 – 24, 2018.
  • Taylor, D. R. F. and Hayes, A. 2018. Nunaliit Atlas Framework and Digital Atlas Development at GCRC. Presentation to University of Western Ontario Team, Carleton University, Ottawa, On. July 9, 2018.
  • Taylor, D. R. F. 2018. The Importance of Geoinformation and Mapping in the Age of Location. Presentation to Geography and Environmental Programs Directorate, INEGI National Statistics and Mapping Agency, Aguascalientes, Mexico. October 1, 2018.
  • Taylor, D. R. F. 2018. Geoinformation in the 21st Centre: Challenges and Opportunities for National Mapping and Statistical Agencies. Presentation to President and Senior Leadership, INEGI National Statistics and Mapping Agency, Aguascalientes, Mexico. October 2, 2018.
  • Taylor, D. R. F. and Hayes, A. 2018. Nunaliit Atlas Framework and Digital Atlas Development at GCRC. Presentation to Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Carleton University, Ottawa, On. October 12, 2018.
  • Taylor, D. R. F. (2018) Creating a Cybergartographic Atlas of the Bering Strait, Pan Arctic Options Annual Meeting, Boston, June 2018.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2017) Mapping the Bering Sea, Belmont Forum Pan-Arctic Options Annual Meeting, Moscow, Russia, June 2017.
  • Scassa,T., Taylor, D. R. F., Nickels, S. (2017) Towards a legal framework for the collection and sharing of Inuit Knowledge – Presentation to Arctic Net Conference Quebec City, December 2017.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2017) Arctic Governance Options, the importance of involvement of Indigenous Communities – Panel discussion, Public Forum and Webinar U. S. Embassy, Moscow June 2017.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2017) Critical Media and Big Data, Panel Presentation at Research Data Management & Portage Network, Carleton University, January 2017.
  • Arnold, S., Taylor, D. R. F., and Hayes, A. (June 2016) Geographic Information and Coastal Zone Management: An Example from Nunavut. Canadian Coastal Zone Management Association Conference. Toronto, Ontario.
  • Pulsifer, P. and Taylor, D. R. F., (June 2016). Creating a Cybercartographic Atlas of the Bering Strait for Pan-Arctic Options. Belmont Forum. Paris, France. Presented by Peter Pulsifer.
  • Scassa, T., Taylor, D. R. F., and Hayes, A. (2016). A Legal Framework for the Collection and Sharing Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Northern Communities, presented by Scassa, T. to the 9th Polar Law Symposium on the Role of Law in Polar Governance, Akureyri and Reykjavik, Iceland, 5-9 October, 2016.
  • Taylor D. R. F., (2016) Creating the Cybercartographic Atlas of the Arctic Ocean. Paper presented at: Coastal Zone Canada Conference, Toronto, ON.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2016) Creating a Cybercartographic Atlas of the Bering Strait for Pan-Arctic Options. Paper Presented by Peter Pulsifer on behalf of Dr. Fraser Taylor at: Belmont Forum; Paris, France.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2016). Challenges in Mapping Traditional Inuit Knowledge. ArcticNet, Winnipeg. Paper accepted but withdrawn in advance to attend DFO Research Consultation in Ottawa.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., and Scassa, T. (2016). Cybercartography and Traditional Inuit Knowledge: Some Legal and Ethical Issues. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2011). Cybercartography in the 21st Century in conversation with Alexander Wolodtschenko and Florian Hruby, Theoretical Cartography, Vol. 4, meta-carto-semiotics.org/index.php?pages=current-4, accessed February 24, 2012.
  • The Young Blood of Geomatics: First Person: Taylor, D. R. F., article about D. R. F. Taylor in Geospatial World, 1 June, 2011.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2009). “Time to Create Cyber Cooperation in Canadian Arctic”, The Hill Times, No. 1064, Monday, November 15, 2009, page 40. Also news@hilltimes.com accessed November 15, 2010.
  • Jackson, M.J.D., Schell D., and Taylor, D. R. F., (2009). Reinventing NSDI in India: A Place-based Technological Strategy to Respond to India’s Needs, Geospatial Today Market Report 2009, November, 124-127.
  • Jackson, M.J. D., Schell, D., and Taylor, D. R. F., (2009). The Evolution of Geospatial Technology Calls for Changes in Geospatial Research, Education and Government Management, Top story in Directions Magazine, April 6,2009. Accessed April 13, 2009.
  • Taylor, D. R. F., (2008). Global Map Specifications, article in Outreach Newsletter for ISO/TC 211, 2008.
  • Schell, D. and Taylor, D. R. F., (2008). The Science of Interoperability. Coordinates, Vol. 4, Issue 3, 18-20.

Graduate Supervisions

Dr. Taylor has supervised to completion over 200 graduate student theses in International Affairs, Geography and Human-Computer Interaction. Recent students include the following:

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Thumbadoo, Romola Vasantha
  • Pyne, Stephanie
  • Lauriault, Tracey
  • Brauen, Glenn
  • Laidler, Gita
  • Caquard, Sepastien
  • Jianqu, Yao
  • Deme, G.I
  • Pioro, Zygmunt
  • Kuklinski, Antoni
  • Drummond, Norman

Ph.D.
Thumbadoo, Romola Vasantha (2018, Geography): Ginawaydaganuc and The Circle of All Nation – The Remarkable Environmental Legacy of Elder William Commanda

Pyne, Stephanie (2013, Geography): Sound of the Drum, Energy of the Dance – Making the Lake Huron Treaty Atlas the Anishinaabe way

Lauriault, Tracey (2012, Geography): Data, Infrastructures and Geographic Imagination: Mapping Data Access Discourses in Canada

Brauen, H. Glenn (2011, Geography): Toward Interactive Audiovisual Cartography: Motivations, Design Strategies and Methods

Pulsifer, Peter L. (2008, Geography): An Ontological Exploration of Antarctic Environmental Governance: Towards a Model for Geographic Information Mediation

Mansy, Tamer (2008, Geography): The Role of Local People and Indigenous Knowledge in the Implementation of a Participatory Development Approach in Siwa Oasis, Egypt

Eddy, Brian (2006, Geography): The Use of Maps and Map Metaphors for Integration in Geography: A Case Study in Mapping Indicators of Sustainability and Wellbeing

Zhang, Aining (2000): The Role of Geomatics in Supporting Sustainability Policy Making

Mequanent, Getchew (1998): Capacity Building for Local Development: A Comparative Study of Formal and Informal Organization in Gondor, Northern Ethiopia.

Mackenzie, Fiona (1987 University of Ottawa): Land and Labour: Women and Men in Agricultural Change, Muranga’a District Kenya 1880-1984

MA
Wong, Jason (2018, MA Geography): Policy in the Peaks: Cybercartography and Traditional Ecological Practices to Diversify Pasture Policy-Making in Naryn Province, Krygyzstan

Erdemli, Mahmut (2018, MA Human Computer Interaction): Interaction Digital Mapping as a Park-planning Tool in the Creation for the Bouchet Forest Park in Gatineau Quebec

YiYi, Liu (2018 MCS, Human Computer Interaction): Disabled Gamers: Accessibility in Video Games

Mott, Troy (2017, MCS Human Computer Interaction): A Cognitive Dimensions of Notations Evaluation of the Gwich’in Place Names Atlas Interface

Oikle, Robert (2016, MSc Geography): Searching for the Past: Archaeological Research Using a Multi-Method Geomatics Approach

Omar Bani-Taha (2015, Human-Computer Interaction): Investigating the Potential of Tabletop Natural User Interfaces Tools in Improving the Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework

Salsibury, Laura (2015m Geography) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Three Dimensional Geovisualization Tools in Communicating Climate Change Impacts A PEI Case Study (co-supervisor)

Byam, Amelie (2013, Geography): Inuit Place Names, 2013.

Hayne, Kara (2013, Geography): Applying GIS to program performance measurement and evaluation: The case of children’s community-based public health promotion programs

Sophia Miah (2009, Geography): Improving Standards in Bahamian High Schools: Using Geographic Information Systems as a Pedagogical Tool

Munoz Gocern, Enrique (2006, Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática “Ing Jorge L. Tamayo”, A.C., CentroGeo, Mexico City), co-supervisor with Dra. Maria del Carmen Reyes Guerrero. El Papel de la Cibercartografia en la Elaboración de Políticas Públicas Territoriale

Wilson, Emily (2005, Geography): Gendered Geographies and Participatory Processes – Mapping Natural Resource Use with Wapichan Women in Southern Guyana