The transdisciplinary applied research milieu at LAGGISS has afforded the opportunity for graduate students to work with outside agencies, businesses, communities and corporations. The research that is taking place is novel and significant at a number of spatial and policy oriented scales. Here are some of the recent acoomplishments that have been recognized via awards to faculty and students of LAGGISS.
The Young researcher of the year award is given annually by the faculty of arts, university of ottawa to recognize outstanding research by a faculty member in the early stages of his or her career.
Director, M Sawada Recipient of the 2005 Julian M. Sciecz Award
The Julian M. Szeicz Award honours the memory and achievement of Dr. Julian M. Szeicz (1965-1998). The award is presented annually by the Canadian Association of Geographers in recognition of a significant achievement by a Canadian geographer at an early career stage.
This Award from the Association of American Geographers recognizes the outstanding career achievements of Dr. Wellar in contributing both practically and theoretically to the geography of transportation.
This Award recognizes a member of the University of Ottawa community who has demonstrated outstanding service to the University by sharing his or her expertise with the larger community through the media.
Award for Geography in the Service of Government or Business
Established in 1997 in recognition of the primary importance of excellence in geography in the service of government or business, the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) offers this award to someone who has carried out major work for or in the public or private sector. the recipient has distinguished himself or herself through the development and application of geographic techniques and tools used in the service of government or business
Zoran Reljic, second-place in 2005 International ENVI Challenge
This international award recognizes excellence in the application of RSI's image processing software ENVI. Mr. Reljic won this award for using ENVI to study the ecological integrity of Canada's National ParkS was considered a unique and interesting application. Other winners were from the UK, Australia and Thiland.
This award recognizes the high-scholarly achievements during the 2005-2005 academic year. The award was given to Mr. Reljic for his work on integrating geomatics with photorealistic 3D visualization.
Zoran Reljic, Barry Wellar Award for Outstanding Conference Presentation
This award was presented to Mr. Reljic on GIS Day on Nov. 16th 2005 for his CIG presentation on the use of photorealistic visualization and geomatics in communicating ecological integrity.
Melanie Zahab, PhD candidate in Geography, is pursuing studies in GIS applications in Classical Archaeology. Having attained her M.A. in traditional study of Classical Archaeology at the University of British Columbia, she spent two years at the Canadian Archaeological Institute in Athens, Greece as the Homer and Dorothy B. Thompson Fellow. While at the institute she pursued post-graduate study of Greek town planning, and in particular Greek archaeology of Albania through the British School at Athens.
MELANIe Zahab , Barry Wellar Award for Outstanding Methodological Achievements in Geomatics
This award was presented to MS. Zahab on GIS Day on Nov. 16th 2005 for her work in applying geomatics to classical archeology.
Daniel took the first place graduate student award and $2,500 for using geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze broadband wireless markets at a national scale. As part of the federal government’s plan to connect all Canadian homes, Cossette’s research will help determine the market potential for different broadband wireless technologies and which existing technologies could be profitably operated in rural or remote regions of Canada.
This award was presented to Mr. Cossette on GIS Day on Nov. 16th 2005 for HIS work in geomatics application development for broadband wireless telecommunications.
Samuel Herold, one of four National Scholarships from Geomatics Canada
This award was given to Mr. Herold for his academic excellence and innovative use of geomatics in disaster management. The award is meant "to encourage and support the research
related to a unique
geomatics project by a student who
is working towards their masters or
doctorate in a geomatics related
field" among other noble goals.
This award was presented to Mr. herold in November for HIS well written and significant paper and presentation on internet-based telegeoprocessing and analytical application development for disaster mapping.
This award was presented to Mr. herold on GIS Day on Nov. 16th 2005 for HIS well written and significant proposal on geomatics applications in disaster relief and mitigation.
Fourth-year student Ghassene Jerandi received the first-place undergraduate 
award of $3,000 for his project using GIS to analyze and plan new light-rail corridors in Ottawa under projected population changes. The social and physical factors considered were the employment projections for 2021 by Transportation Analysis Zones (TAZ), land use categories, and current road networks with respect to road hierarchy.
Geneviève Cool received the third-place undergraduate award and $2,000 for her work using GIS to plan the location of hiking trails in Pukaskawa National Park using a least cost path analysis.
The three recipients are students of the new geomatics program. They developed their research under the supervision of Professor Michael Sawada from the University of Ottawa’s Department of Geography.
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