Graduate Students- Rodolphe Devillers
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
PhD STUDENTS
Matthew Windle
Program: Biology, MUN
Start date: Apr. 2006
Supervisor: George Rose (MUN)
Committee members: Rodolphe Devillers and John Anderson (DFO)
Thesis title: Spatial analyses of northwest Atlantic ecosystem dynamics: impacts of fisheries, environment and climate change
Laura McFarlane-Tranquilla
Program: Cognitive and Behavioural Ecology, MUN
Start date: 2009
Supervisor: Bill Montevecchi (MUN)
Committee members: Greg Robertson (Environment Canada), April Hedd and Rodolphe Devillers (MUN)
Thesis title: Seabird Winter Ecology: Non-breeding Marine Areas, Habitat Features and Trophic Associations of Murres (Uria spp.) in Arctic and Eastern Canada
More detail: http://play.psych.mun.ca/~mont/people.html
Melinda Agapito
Program: Geography, MUN
Start date: Jan. 2009
Supervisors: Rodolphe Devillers and Evan Edinger (MUN)
Committee members: Mariano Koen-Alonso (DFO) and Ratana Chuenpagdee (MUN)
Thesis title: Optimal Design of Marine Protected Areas
CHONe Project Website
Kate Barley
Program: Biology, MUN
Start date: Sep. 2010
Supervisors: George Rose (MI)
Committee members: Rodolphe Devillers (MUN) and Steve Martell (UBC)
Thesis title: Fisheries closures in Ecosystem-based fisheries management
Anne Fontaine
Program: Oceanography, UQAR (Université du Québec à Rimouski)
Start date: 2010
Supervisors: TBD and Rodolphe Devillers (MUN)
Committee members: Cyril Kao (AgroParisTech)
Thesis title: The use of habitat surrogates to predict benthic communities along the eastern coast of Canada (Gulf of St Lawrence, Labrador Sea, Baffin Bay)
MSC STUDENTS
André Roy
Program: Geography, MUN
Start date: April2008
Supervisors: Trevor Bell (MUN) and John Anderson (DFO)
Committee member: Rodolphe Devillers (MUN)
Thesis title: Morphology and substrate arrangement of demersal capelin spawning ground
Paul Elliott
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Start date: April 2009
Supervisor: Rodolphe Devillers
Committee members: Trevor Bell (MUN) and Craig Brown (DFO)
Thesis title: Marine Habitat Mapping
Mallory Carpenter
Program: Geography, MUN
Supervisors: Trevor Bell and Evan Edinger (MUN)
Committee member: Rodolphe Devillers (MUN)
Thesis title: Benthic habitats of a sub-arctic fiard - the case study of Okak Bay, Labrador
René Enguehard
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Start date: September 2009
Supervisors: Rodolphe Devillers and Orland Hoeber (MUN)
Thesis title: Geovisualization of fishing vessels movement data in support of enforcement activities
Cassandra Lee
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Start date: September 2010
Supervisors: Rodolphe Devillers and Orland Hoeber (MUN)
Thesis title: Geovisualization of fisheries data
Vincent Lecours
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Start date: September 2011
Supervisors: Rodolphe Devillers and Evan Edinger (MUN)
Thesis title: High-resolution habitat mapping from ROV multibeam systems
PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS
Krista Jones
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Completion: 2011
Supervisors: Rodolphe Devillers and Yvan Bédard (U. Laval)
Committee member: Olaf Schroth (UBC)
Thesis title: Communicating perceived geospatial data quality of 3D objects in virtual globes
Position: Data Analyst, Provincial Aerospace
Andrew Cuff
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Completion: 2011
Supervisors: Rodolphe Devillers and John Anderson (DFO)
Committee member: Sam Bentley (Earth Sciences)
Thesis title: Dual-frequency Acoustic Seabed Classification on the Scotian Shelf, Canada
Position: GIS Analyst, C-CORE
Randal Greene
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Completion: 2010
Supervisors: Rodolphe Devillers and Joan Luther (CFS)
Committee member: Brian Eddy (CFS)
Thesis title: Addressing accessibility challenges of GIS-based multiple-criteria decision analysis for integrated land management: Case study in the Humber region of Newfoundand and Labrador, Canada
Position: Conservation representative, Nature Conservancy Canada (NL)
Amin Zargar
Program: MSc, Geography, MUN
Completion: 2009
Supervisor: Rodolphe Devillers
Committee members: Alvin Simms (MUN) and Gary Hunter (Australia)
Thesis title: An Operations-Based Approach to the Communication of Spatial Data Quality in GIS
Position: PhD student (UBC)
Valérie Carette
Program: MSc, Geomatics, Laval
Completion: 2008
Supervisor: Mir-Abolfazl Mostafavi (U. Laval)
Committee members: Rodolphe Devillers and George Rose (MUN)
Thesis title: Improvement of the geometric representation of fish aggregations in 2D and 3D to support the study of their spatio-temporal evolution
Position: GIS Analyst - DMR
Marie-Andrée Levesque
Program: MSc, Geomatics, Laval
Completion: 2008
Supervisor: Yvan Bédard (U. Laval)
Committee members: Marc Gervais (U. Laval) and Rodolphe Devillers
Thesis title: Approche formelle pour une meilleure identification et gestion des risques d'usages inappropriés des données géodécisionnelles
Position: GIS Analyst - CGI