MFSA News
06.01.10 08:13 Age: 244 days
MFSA Award 2009
Joanna Merson is the inaugural recipient of the MFSA Supplemental Research Fellowship Award related to the Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Awards in Geographic Science delivered by the Association of American geographers (AAG).
Joanna is an Undergraduate Geomatics Student at the University of Victoria. She has linked computer science and geography while working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, where she developed process for converting police vehicle GPS receiver data into static maps and animations for use by non-GIS professionals.
During her stay in Lausanne, Joanna migrated the print atlas Le Valais: Cartoscopie d'un espace régional written by Micheline Cosinschi (UNIL) into an updatable thematic web atlas