Assistant Professor
PhD, Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2015
Phone:
519-824-4120 ext. 53528
Email:
Office:
Hutt 131
DeVries, Ben
GEOG*2460 Analysis in Geography
GEOG*2420 The Earth from Space
GEOG*3480 GIS and Spatial Analysis
GEOG*4480 Applied Geomatics
My research is concerned with the remote sensing of ecosystem change across a variety of landscapes, including forests and aquatic ecosystems. I am recruiting up to three graduate students to start in the Fall 2023 semester to work on the following topics:
- Monitoring the dynamics of lakes and wetlands in the Canadian Arctic using Synthetic Aperture Radar (PhD or MSc)
- Mapping contemporary heathlands and disturbance histories in the Miawpukek Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area, Newfoundland (MSc with Dr. Faisal Moola)
- Remote sensing of insect defoliation in Ontario forests (MSc)
Applicants should have a background in GIS and/or Remote Sensing. Interested candidates are encouraged to send their updated CV, unofficial transcripts and a statement of interest mentioning one of the above projects to Dr. Ben DeVries (bdv@uoguelph.ca).
Graduate Students Supervised
| Name | Research | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Merchant, Michael | Research Interests: Wetland classification and monitoring using remote sensing, geospatial cloud computing, machine learning, and data fusion. | |
| M.Sc. | Shi, Amy | Mapping Eastern Hemlock in Ontario using GIS and remote sensing. | |
| M.Sc. | Wang, Yannan | TBD | |
| M.Sc. | White, Zane | Hydroclimatic risk indicators in southern Ontario using GIS and remote sensing | |
| Ph.D. | Yekeen, Shamsudeen | Geospatial Intelligence of the Environment, Hydrology, Climate Change Hazard Management, Oil Spill Remote sensing, and Land Use Landcover. | |
| M.Sc. | 2022 | Obadia, Mayah | Examining Intra- and Inter-annual Dynamics of Lakes of the Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories, using Sentinel-1 SAR Time Series. |