Fraser Taylor
Professor
Director, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Cantre
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Clusters:
International affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
Fraser.Taylor@Carleton.Ca
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(613) 224-6133
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(613) 520-2600 ext. 8232
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Taylor is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Professor of International Affairs, Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton. In December 2021, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada He is recipient of the Killam Prize for the Social Sciences, Canada’s highest academic honour; t...
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Bio/Research
Taylor is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Professor of International Affairs, Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton. In December 2021, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada He is recipient of the Killam Prize for the Social Sciences, Canada’s highest academic honour; the Carl Mannerfelt Gold Award, the International Cartographic Association’s most prestigious acknowledgement and first presentation to a Canadian; and the 3M/Royal Canadian Geographic Society Award for Environmental Innovation. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Taylor is active in geospatial information management research and is a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Global Geospatial Information Management. He was President of the International Cartographic Association for two terms, President of the International Union for Surveys and Mapping, and Chair the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping for a decade. He was Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Association of African Studies for 15 years and received an Honorary Life Membership in the Association for his services to African scholarship.
He is recognized as one of the world’s leading cartographers, is a pioneer in the use of the computer in cartography and in the creation of digital atlases, and he introduced the concept of cybercartography; he has a strong background in international development, supporting the use of geographical information processing, cartography and cybercartography with local communities, governments and academic institutions across Canada, and in Africa, India, Denmark, Norway, China, Mexico and Brazil.
Taylor is widely published on both international development issues and cartography. He has published over 20 books, and he serves as General Editor of the Elsevier Series on Modern Cartography; his research is presented in over 80 book chapters, scholarly journals, conference proceedings, industry publication and media/press reports. Taylor works extensively with Indigenous communities (Inuit and First Nations) in the creation of cybercartographic atlases dealing with traditional and local knowledge and documenting research into the practice. He has published widely in this field as well. His books on Cybercartography are entitled Cybercartography: Theory and Practice and Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography: Applications and Indigenous Mapping. Two new volumes Further Development in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography: International Dimensions and Language Mapping and Cybercartography in a Reconciliation Community: Engaging Intersecting Perspectives were published In September and October of 2019.
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Taylor is active in geospatial information management research and is a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Global Geospatial Information Management. He was President of the International Cartographic Association for two terms, President of the International Union for Surveys and Mapping, and Chair the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping for a decade. He was Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Association of African Studies for 15 years and received an Honorary Life Membership in the Association for his services to African scholarship.
He is recognized as one of the world’s leading cartographers, is a pioneer in the use of the computer in cartography and in the creation of digital atlases, and he introduced the concept of cybercartography; he has a strong background in international development, supporting the use of geographical information processing, cartography and cybercartography with local communities, governments and academic institutions across Canada, and in Africa, India, Denmark, Norway, China, Mexico and Brazil.
Taylor is widely published on both international development issues and cartography. He has published over 20 books, and he serves as General Editor of the Elsevier Series on Modern Cartography; his research is presented in over 80 book chapters, scholarly journals, conference proceedings, industry publication and media/press reports. Taylor works extensively with Indigenous communities (Inuit and First Nations) in the creation of cybercartographic atlases dealing with traditional and local knowledge and documenting research into the practice. He has published widely in this field as well. His books on Cybercartography are entitled Cybercartography: Theory and Practice and Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography: Applications and Indigenous Mapping. Two new volumes Further Development in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography: International Dimensions and Language Mapping and Cybercartography in a Reconciliation Community: Engaging Intersecting Perspectives were published In September and October of 2019.
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