Liz Sutherland

Professional Biography

I am a GIS Specialist on the Research and Scholarly Communications (RSC) team. I am an active leader in the Canadian GIS Community, founder of the London GIS Working Group, and host of the annual GIS Day Open House event held in Western Libraries' Map and Data Centre. 

I am an Administrator of Western’s ArcGIS organization and several research Open Data sites. I am a representative on OCUL's GeoCommunity and curator of geospatial datasets available on campus. I am the lead GIS researcher on the Northern Tornadoes Project and associated Canadian Severe Storms Lab, as well as collaborator on the Loyalist Migrations Project and the El Salvador Mapping Memory Project. 

In 2019, I was awarded the Western Staff International Exchange Program admission and visited Scottish Universities to promote Western Libraries and present on the Northern Tornadoes Project.

Education

• BSc Honours Spec., Geographic Information Sciences, Western University
• MLIS, Western University

Research Interests

I am most interested in connecting researchers on campus with GIS to provide insights into their data and projects, to promote access, and dissemination of research outputs. I am interested in researching open geospatial data, and using GIS as a tool for knowledge exchange, teaching, and research.

Future work includes continuing to establish Western Libraries Map and Data Centre as a premiere GIS research centre, showcasing the amazing research being done across campus using web-GIS tools.