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Graduate Program in Spatial Analysis
Major Research Paper
The MSA program culminates in the submission and oral defense of a major research paper. Through the research paper, students demonstrate a critical understanding of the methodological and practical issues facing users of GIS and spatial analysis methods. The topic of the research paper can result from coursework, research with the student's supervisor, the practicum placement, or other motivations. Details on the research paper can be found in the School of Graduate Studies policies entitled, "Masters and PhD Policy and Procedures" and "Thesis Regulations".
The following table contains examples of the subjects of past research papers in the MSA program.
| Albarracin, Aura | 2006 | An Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of the Tree Species on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto |
| Al-Zarouni, Naeema | 2005 | Dubai Retail Market Structure and the Spatial Evolution of Shopping Centres |
| Anderson, Emily | 2007 | Perceiving the Core: The Spatial Dimensions of Consumer Behaviour and Attitudes Toward Toronto's Downtown Yonge District |
| Andrews, Laura | 2006 | Predicting Direct Mail Response of Financial Services Products in Toronto |
| Andrulis, Stephen | 2007 | Benefits and Limitations of Argument Mapping: The Example of the Ryerson Master Plan |
| Archambault, Marie-Claude | 2008 | Analysing Sediment Property Trends For Three Coastal Bays In Nova Scotia Using Kriging |
| Au-Yeung, Christopher | 2001 | Evaluation of the Application of Geovisualization in the Retail Sector: A Case Study of the GTA |
| Barrios Jr, Sergio | 2008 | Urban Sprawl and Neighbourhood Vitality in Toronto: A GIS and Remote Sensing Analysis |
| Bekele, Tsegaye | 2008 | Integrating Spatial And Non-Spatial Measures To Examine Accessibility To Family Physicians In Toronto |
| Bermingham, Philip | 2006 | Incorporating Spatial Proximity into Cluster Analysis |
| Biasiotto, Marco | 2004 | Change in Retail Structure in Canada: Creative Destruction? |
| Bird, Michelle | 2006 | Evaluating Community Engagement through Argumentation Maps: A Case Study of the "Queen West Triangle" |
| Blakemore, David | 2002 | Small Town Canada: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Out-Shopping and Retail Structure |
| Bourque, Sean | 2007 | Recent Changes in the Department Store System in Canada and Their Impacts on Shopping Centres, 1993-2005 |
| Bozheva, Alexandra | 2007 | Retail Development in Post-Socialist Megapolis: Saint-Petersburg |
| Calder, Lauren | 2002 | Impact of Youth on E-Commerce Trends in Canada |
| Cardenas, Sylvia | 2008 | Physical Activity and Sport Oriented Geodemography: A Case Study of the Greater Toronto Area |
| Charles, Andy | 2001 | Externalities in Shopping Centres: The Case of a Chain Store |
| Cheng, Willy | 2002 | >Site Selection Methodology for Automated Banking Machine Network: A Case Study of the Royal Bank of Canada |
| Closson, Michael | 2006 | >Global and Local Spatial Patterns in Bloc Quebecois Voting Support Between 1993 and 2006 |
| Dangwal, Manoj | 2004 | Structural and Spatial Changes in Ethnic Indian Commercial Activity in Toronto and Fringe Area, 1994-2004 |
| Daniel, Christopher | 2005 | A Comparison of Missing Values Estimation Methods for Average Household Income in Canadian Census Data |
| De Girolamo, Giovanna | 2008 | Determining the Factors that Influence Grade School Enrolment and Projecting Enrolment in Established, Mature Communities in York Region |
| Dietz, Stephen | 2001 | Canadian Shopping Centre Analyzer: Development of an Exploratory Tool for the Examination and Visualization of the Dynamics of Canadian Shopping Centres During the 1990s |
| Di Rocco, Andrea | 2006 | Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Death Due to Injury for the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area: the Role of Socio-Economic Status and Demographics |
| Drayton, Dexter | 2005 | A Spatial Examination of Traumatic Injuries Admitted to St. Michael's Hospital Trauma Centre 1994-2003 |
| Du, Baorong | 2005 | Urban Change Detection and Analysis int he Greater Toronto Area from 1972 to 2004 Using Remote Sensing and GIS |
| Duncan, Glenn | 2007 | A Redistricting Strategy for the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC |
| Dunker, Beau | 2004 | Spatial Variation in Bank Branch Performance |
| Escobar, Marco | 2006 | Socioeconomic Characteristics and Homicides: A Case Study in Medellin, Colombia |
| Esdon, Aaron | 2004 | Assessing the Contributing Factors in Serious Traffic Collisions for Durham Region Using Log-Linear Models and Spatial Analysis |
| Evans, Elspeth | 2007 | Quantifying the Influence of Regeneration and Redevelopment in Toronto's Kings Districts: 1996-2006 |
| Farber, Steven | 2004 | A Comparison of Localized Regression Models in an Hedonic House Price Context |
| Farrugia, Margaret | 2001 | An Assessment of Data Aggregation Effects on the Spatial Patterns of Banking Behaviours: A Case Study in the Toronto CMA |
| Finney, Kevin | 2004 | Utilizing Pansharpened LANDSAT 7 Imagery to Detect Urban Change in the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area: 1999-2002 |
| Florio, Michael | 2004 | Local Impact of Global Retailers in Toronto |
| Folliott, Jadah | 2005 | Evaluation of Approaches to Depicitng First Nations, Inupiat and Inuialuit Environmental Information in GIS Format |
| Fontaine, Katherine | 2005 | A Spatial Analysis of Supply and Demand of Educational Facilities in the Waterloo Region |
| Gerroir, Scott | 2001 | Risky Grounds: An Examination into the Spatial Nature of the Insurance Customer |
| Gill, Amrita | 2004 | Enhancing Immigrant Settlement Service Delivery through GIS |
| Goff, Katherine | 2008 | Market Penetration Analysis Using Spatial Modeling: A Lawn Care Company |
| Gomez, Gustavo | 2008 | Assessment of a Forest Disturbance Algorithm Using Optical Remote Sensing for the Western United States between 1990 and 2000 |
| Guarino, Sarah | 2005 | Bicycle Lanes and their Influence on Cyclist-Motor Vehicle Collisions in the City of Toronto |
| Harlow, Michael | 2003 | Urban Development Detection within the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority for the Period 1991 - 1999 using Landsat TM and ETM+ data |
| Harrington, Christopher | 2006 | GIS Application for Aquatic Barrier Mitigation in the Upper Thames River Watershed |
| Heppleston, Aaron | 2005 | Spatial Relations and Geographically Weighted Averaging in Multicriteria Decision-making: A Residential Real Estate Case Study |
| Holmes, Mark | 2008 | Geographic Information System Implementation as a Decision Support Tool for the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury |
| Hopgood, Cameron | 2005 | The Application of Performance Metrics to Business Improvement Areas: An Examination of the Downtown Yonge and Bloor-Yorkville BIA |
| Houston, Connor | 2005 | High Cost Neighbourhoods: A Perspective on the Health Care Cost of Unintentional Injuries |
| Jackson, Christine | 2005 | Modeling Market Penetration of Credit Line Customers: An Aid for Targeting Potential Customers |
| Jakubek, Daniel | 2002 | Predicting the Contamination between Sites of Sediment Core Measurement in Lake Ontario |
| JN-Francois, Sari | 2003 | Discount Food Retailing in the Toronto Area: A Comparison of the Location Strategies of Price Choppers, No Frills and Food Basics Between 1996 to 2001 |
| Kelsey, Brian | 2007 | Usability Analysis of Map-Centred Decision Support: An Application in Community Health Planning |
| Kendal, Don | 2002 | The Geodemographics of Population Health: A Case Study of Simcoe County, Ontario |
| Kingston, Jillian | 2004 | The Impact of Spatial Autocorrelation on Confidence Intervals In Group (Cluster) Sampling for Accuracy Assessment |
| Kulon, Sandra | 2004 | An Investigation of the Spatial Dependence of Mosquito Habitat and West Nile Virus Activity in the City of Toronto |
| Kumari, Jyothi | 2008 | Usability Analysis of a Participatory GIS for Environmental Planning: A Case Study for the Kawarthas |
| Kutna, Oksana | 2005 | A Hybrid Spectral Change Identification/Post-Classification Land Cover Change Analysis of the Hamilton Area |
| Lebovits, Mark | 2006 | Applying Geographically Segmented Markets to Retail Sales Forecasts |
| Lee, Michael | 2008 | Targeting Potential Grocery Customers In The Gta Using A Market Penetration Model |
| Liu, Weihua | 2003 | Exploration of Spatial Patterns of Resale Housing Activities in the GTA |
| Maaranen, Richard | 2001 | Spatial Competition and Retail Death: Dry Cleaners in Toronto |
| MacDonald, Michael | 2004 | Development of a Custom GIS Application for the Exploration and Analysis of Diatom Data |
| MacLeod, Daniela | 2006 | A GIS-Kriging Approach and Analysis of Historical Sediment Contamination in Lake Superior |
| Makarenko, Iryna | 2006 | Restaurant Sales Cannibalization Estimation: An Application of Spatial Interaction Modelling |
| Mangiardi, Angelo | 2007 | Quantifying the Spatial Association Between Gold Deposits and Continental Scale Lineaments Using a Weights of Evidence Analysis |
| Marshall, Sean | 2005 | A Study of the Spatial Distribution of Fringe Banks in the Greater Toronto Area |
| Maze, Amanda | 2004 | Analyzing Geographic Barriers to Mental Health Care Within the City of Toronto |
| Meng, Yuhong | 2005 | New Development and Spatial Changes of Chinese Commercial Activity in Toronto CMA |
| Menninga, Ingrid | 2007 | Scotiabank's Female Head Office Commuting Distances in Toronto 1952 and 1960 |
| Miller, Learie | 2004 | An Evaluation of the Applicability of Landscape Patch Analysis Using GIS to Evaluate the Centreville Creek Sub-watershed in Ontario |
| Miron, Peter | 2006 | On Suburban Retail Real Estate Valuation |
| Mitchell, Joshua | 2006 | Consumer Travel Patterns in the Greater Toronto Area |
| Moini, Mazdak | 2007 | Geographically Weighted Regression as a Tool in Estimating Auto Insurance Loss Cost |
| Montain, Jacqueline | 2001 | Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis into Public Health Applications |
| Morrison, Harold | 2008 | Land Cover Distribution and change in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1985-2005 |
| Neher, Laura | 2006 | Cable Television Services in Canada: A look at Market Penetration and Regional Differences in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver |
| Norwood, Todd | 2005 | Can Socio-economics and Spatial Dependence Predict Crime? |
| Onafrychuk, Craig | 2007 | Tracking Saturated Areas in the Landscape: A Topographic Approach |
| Ozuna, Fernando | 2005 | An Examination of the Geodemographic Element of the Location Strategy of Wal-Mart In the Federal District, Mexico |
| Panitch, Maxim | 2007 | Hard Spaces: A Geography of Homelessness in Ontario |
| Papas, Gary | 2008 | Comparing the Spatial (Mis)Match and Modelling Accessibility to Linguistically-Matched Family Physicians Among Immigrants in Toronto |
| Paudel, Kamal | 2008 | Urban Park Soil Restoration: Geostatistical Analysis Of A Naturalization Strategy For Kew Gardens Park, Toronto |
| Pinel, Etienne | 2005 | Comparative Analysis of Trade Areas Techniques for Shopping Centres Assessment |
| Podkoscielny, Joann | 2005 | Food for Thought: The Spatial Profiles of Restaurant Delivery Customers |
| Pong, Kenneth | 2008 | Sub-Ethnic Succession: Understanding the Spatial Evolution of Chinese Settlement in Toronto Between 1996 and 2006 |
| Radkhoshnoud, Nasim | 2002 | Spatial Patterns of HIV/Aids and Tuberculosis Disease within the African Continent |
| Rallis, Timothy J. | 2008 | Green Roof Performance Analysis Using High Resolution Spatial Data: Applications for Stormwater Modelling |
| Raos, Robert | 2006 | Explaining Variations in School Readiness: The Influence of Child Demographics, Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Neighbourhoods In A Spatial Regression Model |
| Ren, Wei | 2008 | Exploring The Spatial Expansion Strategies Of Canadian Wal-Mart Supercentres |
| Roisman, Deborah | 2007 | Modelling Spatial Accessibility to Primary Health Care Among Mainland Chinese Immigrants in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area |
| Ross, Kelly | 2004 | Spatial Lifestyle Correlates of Type II Diabetes in Toronto |
| Sanders, Cara | 2007 | A Comparison of the Socioeconomic Status and Housing Characteristics of Aboriginal, Immigrant and Other Canadians |
| Schreiber, Gregory | 2008 | Connecting Supply And Demand: Travel Behaviour And Market Segmentation In Profiling Power Retail Consumers |
| Schuster, Andrew | 2006 | Sales Forecasts Surface Modelling: A Paradigm Shift from Euclidean To Raster Space |
| Sheriff, Craig | 2003 | Spatial Analysis and Decision Support for Retail Porperty Management |
| Spagnolo, Anthony | 2004 | The Application of Store Segmentation and Sales Performance Modeling to Network Planning |
| Squirrell, Colin | 2007 | Landscape Extent Response of Adirondack Forest to the 1998 Ice Storm |
| Stobart, Alex | 2008 | Spatial Strategy and Growth of Western Retailers in China |
| Sutton, Darren | 2003 | A GIS-Based Glood Forecasting Model for the Duffins Creek Watershed, Ontario |
| Szyngiel, Robert | 2007 | The Study of the Obesogenicity of Canadian Communities Using GIS |
| Toleti, Brahma | 2008 | Urban Forest Soil Characteristics: A Geostatistical Analysis of Allan Gardens Park, Toronto, Canada |
| Tsuchiya, Rina | 2004 | A Spatial Analysis on the Effectiveness of ESL Services and Recent Chinese Immigrants in the Toronto CMA |
| Vandahl, Erin | 2008 | A Place for Urbanity in Retail Sales Forecasting |
| Veno, Bonnie | 2007 | A Comparative Study of Selected Crime Analysis Software: Crime Analysis Spatial Extension (CASE), Crimestat III and Rigel Analyst |
| Vuong, Quyen | 2001 | Exploration of Trade Area Models Case Study: ScotiaBank |
| Wilson, Jonathan | 2001 | The Impact of New Format Retailers on Shopping Centres: Toronto Area Case Study |
| Yee, Derek | 2008 | Neighbourhood Characterization for Pandemic Planning in Peel Region, Ontario |
| Yermakhanova, Olga | 2008 | The Effect of Spatial Association of Multiple Criteria on Clustering and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives |
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