Pam MacQuarrie, MSc

Position: Associate Professor
Office: B248 N
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 403.440.6176
Fax: 403.440.6333
E-mail: pmacquarrie@mtroyal.ca

Instructor Profile:
I bring teaching and learning experience spanning over 35 years to the classroom, and draw on
knowledge from a broad base of physical and technical geography courses and applied research.
My goal is to help students achieve success in their chosen discipline, research project, or employment
through the use of industry-standard GIS software in Mapping, GIS and Remote Sensing courses.

Education, Teaching and Research Highlights:

Solar energy site selection/analysis, and a variety of other GIS, remote sensing and cartographic applications.

Applied Geomatics Research Group, Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia (2006-07): Optical, Lidar, Radar,
modeling, geoprocessing, scripting

Advanced Diploma of Geographic Information Systems, Centre of Geographic Sciences, Lawrencetown,
NS (2006): GIS, Remote Sensing, Database Design and Programming

Round-the-World Field School (2000): 6 countries in 6 weeks with 49 students

Professor, University of West Indies, Geography (1988-89): Intro Physical Geography, Air Photography,
Weather/Climate, Graduate Student supervision

Master of Science, Geography (Climatology/Hydrology), Calgary, AB (1988): Evapotranspiration of
Irrigated Wheat in Southern Alberta

Bachelor of Science, Geography, Calgary, AB (1984)