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Sumas Prairie has recently received media coverage over a paper published yesterday in Frontiers of Conservation Science where UBC researchers propose to restore the prairie to Lake Sumas. The region suffered an extreme flooding event on November 16, 2021 that caused devastating livestock loss and property damage. Dr. Pickell will use Sumas Prairie as a case study for learning about essential hydrology tools in tomorrow's QGIS webinar. You can read the open access paper here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1380083/full

Join instructor Dr. Paul Pickell for the third webinar in the series, Essential Hydrology with QGIS, which will cover the following aspects of the Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) software:

• Importing and visualizing Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

• Calculating and interpreting terrain derivatives from a DEM including slope, aspect, and roughness

• Modelling water run-off to map wet areas using flow direction, flow accumulation and calculating topographic wetness index

• Exploring methods for automatically deriving stream segments and watersheds

Registrants will practice using QGIS software to derive data and information about terrain and water flow from raster-based digital elevation model data. We will apply a series of tools to show how much information can be extracted from a single DEM. Registrants will analyse and interpret the results for an agricultural area in British Columbia. This webinar is designed to introduce foundational topics in GIS for registrants who have never used QGIS before and have no prior experience with GIS, though attending the first webinar in the series is essential to understanding these concepts.

The Essential QGIS for Agrologists webinar series is designed to introduce professional agrologists to spatial data, analysis, and visualization with the popular free and open source QGIS software. You will gain hands-on experience through these interactive workshops by manipulating, analyzing and visualizing spatial data with your own computer. Through multiple case studies we will apply essential QGIS skills relevant to practicing agrology in British Columbia.

Dates and topics:

• May 13 6:00-7:30pm ($30) - Essential Mapping with QGIS. Missed out on this session? You can post-registration to view the recording so that you don't miss out on the basics of this session. link HERE

• May 29 6:00-7:30pm ($80) - Essential Suitability with QGIS link HERE

• June 5 6:00-7:30pm ($80) - Essential Hydrology with QGIS

• June 12 6:00-7:30pm ($80) - Essential Imagery with QGIS link HERE

• June 26 6:00-7:30pm ($80) - Essential LiDAR with QGIS link HERE

These are interactive webinars, so come prepared to follow along by installing the latest version of QGIS (3.36.2) onto your computer (Windows or Mac): https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html 

Dr. Paul Pickell is a spatial data scientist and Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia where he teaches geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing across multiple professional graduate programs. Dr. Pickell has formerly taught at Simon Fraser University and worked as a research scientist with the BC Ministry of Forests. He is also editor and author of the free textbook, Geomatics for Environmental Management: An Open Textbook for Students and Practitioners available at www.opengeomatics.ca. Dr. Pickell is Principal Agrologist at Cartogistics Consulting Ltd., where his areas of practice include Land Evaluation, Classification, Mapping, Conservation, and Management.

Please take a moment to review our cancellation policy HERE before registering for the event.