Canadian Forest Service employee directory
Ian DeMerchant
Team Leader, Technological Services Group
Atlantic Forestry Centre
1350 Regent Street, P.O. Box 4000
Fredericton,
New Brunswick,
E3B 5P7
Tel.: (506) 429-5893
Profile
- Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 2002
Responsibilities:
- Project manager for the web applications in the National Invasive Alien Species Database (CanFIAS)
- Project manager for the National Forest Pest Strategy Information Management System
- Geographic Information Systems Lead for the Knowledge Synthesis Group of the Atlantic Forestry Centre
Areas of Knowledge:
- Geographic Information Systems
- Software development
- Forest modeling
Areas of Interest:
- Spatial modeling
- Web deployed databases and mapping
- Invasive alien species
Committees:
- National Forest Pest Strategy Information and Information Management Technical Advisory Group
Current Research Projects
- Canadian Forest Invasive Alien Species Database and Document Library (CanFIAS)
- Information Management Framework for the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers National Forest Pest Strategy
Education
- B.Sc. in Forestry (1992), University of New Brunswick
- Diploma in Geographic Information Systems (1993), College of Geographic Sciences, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia
- Diploma in Integrated Studies in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (1994), College of Geographic Sciences, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia