Building a Digital Atlas of the Pacific Northwest

Speaking of Maps: “Building a Digital Atlas of the Pacific Northwest” This event features Dr. Aquila Flower, who teaches physical geography and GIS at Western. Dr. Flower is helping build the Atlas of Pacific Northwest, an online clearinghouse for cross-border datasets. Her first addition to the Atlas uses census records from Washington and British Columbia to allow for seamless analysis of demographic change across the US-Canada border. Dr. Flower received a PhD in geography from the University of Oregon and a MS in geography from the University of Victoria. Her research focuses primarily on the complex, interactive effects of climate variability, human land use patterns and natural disturbances on forest ecosystems. This event is sponsored by Western Libraries, Huxley Spatial Institute and the Border Policy Research Institute and takes place in the Map Collection at Western Libraries (Wilson Library 170).