Research areas include GIS analysis, process customizations through python programming, and database design and management. Julie has a background in engineering and GIS. She is currently registered as a GIS Professional (GISP), and a Certified ArcGIS Desktop Professional. Julie has been with fRI Research since 1998.
The GIS program provides an exceptional level of GIS and data management support services for fRI Research.
The GIS Program is centralizing and maintaining the Grizzly Bear Program's massive spatial database.
This was a product for exploring west-central Alberta. The platform that it used was deprecated.
This project will improve our understanding of how forestry practice is affecting ungulates and how grizzly bears are responding.
This project will evaluate and mitigate industrial impacts on west-central Alberta Caribou herds.
Locating habitat and prioritizing restoration in west-central Alberta.
This is a GIS tool developed by the fRI Research Grizzly Bear Program that regenerates the spatial grizzly bear food models developed by Dr. Scott Nielsen.
This project will use new and existing data sets to produce tools for use in forest management planning related to grizzly bear and caribou habitat use.
Named in honor of the "father of forest hydrology in Western Canada," this project seeks to capture the value of long-term research and data sets.
This project will assist the oil and gas industry and land managers to better understanding the response of grizzly bears to pipelines.
Explore hundreds of historic points in Jasper National Park and the foothills.
The Forest History Program explores an overgrown, but not forgotten, episode in forestry.
Collecting the DNA from scat is a non-invasive method of tracking grizzly bear populations.
How are caribou affected by the roads and seismic lines criss-crossing their habitat?
Uncovering a piece of history.
As a result of significant in-flights of mountain pine beetles coming from British Columbia in 2006 and 2009, as well as subsequent local production, there are widely distributed pine dominated stands throughout Alberta that have been significantly affected by MPB-caused mortality.
The GIS Program provides the necessary supports and best practices for data management at fRI Research. This includes the coordination and standardization of data, applications and products.
The GIS Program provides support to fRI Research to help build tools, workflows, visualizations and datasets that respond to partners’ needs.
