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Robert D. Feick
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Officer
School of Planning
Contact Information:
Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 35493
Fax: 519-725-2827
Office: EV3 - 3237
Email: rdfeick(at)uwaterloo.ca
Personal Website: Visit website |
Degrees:
| Ph.D. |
Geography, Waterloo, Canada, 2000 |
| M.A. |
Geography, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1991 |
| B.A. |
Geography (Economics Minor), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, 1987 |
Research Interests:
Professor Feick's research focuses broadly on the application of spatial information technology to assist decision making and public participation in land management and planning. His current research centres on Web 2.0 GIS tools that facilitate citizen involvement in planning through spatially referenced forms of community dialogue, spatial decision aiding methods such as GIS-based multi-criteria analysis, and Web-based spatial data visualisation methods for assessing urban scale climate change impacts as well as adaptation and mitigation alternatives.
Research Grants/Projects:
- Strengthening the Local Climate Change Visioning Process for Community Decision-making (Deputy leader, 2009-2012)
- Funded by: Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE)
- Promoting sustainable communities through participatory spatial decision support (Project leader, 2005-2009)
- ECOGEO: Development of an Evaluation Model of Social and Economic Impacts for Geomatics (co-investigator, 2007-2009)
- Funded by: Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE)
- Developing interactive mechanisms for establishing community value based cultural heritage landscape conservation policies (co-investigator, 2005-2008)
- Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- Assessing spatial information technology for public participation in local land use planning (P.I. 2004-2007)
- Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- The Waterloo spatial decision support lab (2002-2006)
- Funded by: Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Contact Robert Feick for more information on research opportunities.
Graduate Student Supervision:
| |
# of students currently
supervising/co-supervising |
Total # of student
supervisions/co-supervisions |
| Masters |
3 |
13 |
| PhD |
3 |
4 |
Recent/Key Publications:
- Feick, R. 2010. “Spatial Multicriteria Evaluation”, in B. Wharf (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geography, Sage Publications. http://www.sage-ereference.com/geography/Article_n1071.html
- Hall, B., R. Chipeniuk, R. Feick, M. Leahy, and V. Deparday. 2010. Community-based production of geographic information using open source software and Web 2.0. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 24(5): 761-781.
- Feick, R. and V. Deparday. Evaluating selected visualisation methods for exploring VGI. Geomatica 64(4): 427-437.
- Genovese, E., G. Cotteret, S. Roche , C. Caron and R. Feick. “Evaluating the socio-economic impact of Geographic Information: A classification of the literature”, International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research 4: 218-238
- Hall, B., R. Chipeniuk, R. Feick, M. Leahy, and V. Deparday. (in press) Community-based production of geographic information using open source software and Web 2.0. International Journal of Geographic Information Science.
- Shipley, R. and R. Feick (2009). A practical approach for evaluating cultural heritage landscapes: Lessons from rural Ontario. Planning Practice and Research 24(4): 455-4694(4): 455-469
- Feick, R. (In Press) Spatial Multicriteria Evaluation, in B. Wharf (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geography, Sage.
- Suffling, R., A. Grant and R. Feick (2008) Modeling prescribed burns to serve as regional firebreaks to allow wildfire activity in protected areas, Forest Ecology and Management 256(11): 1815-1824.
- Feick, R, and B. Boots. (2005) Variable resolution spatial interpolation using the simple recursive point Voronoi diagram. Geographical Analysis. 37:225-243
- Feick, R. and B. Hall. (2004) A method for examining the spatial dimension of multi-criteria weight sensitivity. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 18(8): 815-840.
- Shipley, R., R. Feick, B. Hall, and R. Early.(2004) Evaluating Municipal Visioning: Comparing the Results of Five Visioning Exercises Conducted Between 1992 and 2001 in the Waterloo Region. Planning Practice and Research 19(4): 193 – 207.
- Nelson, T., B. Boots, M. Wulder, M. and R. Feick.(2004) Voronoi Methods for Aggregating Point Objects Extracted From High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery. GeoInformatica 8(2): 143-155.
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Courses Taught:
02/07/2012
