Summary
Jed Long is an Associate Professor of Geographic Information Science at Western University with 11 years of academic experience studying human and wildlife movement through GIS, GPS tracking, and spatial analysis. He teaches spatial analysis, GIS, and statistical methods using QGIS, ArcGIS, R, and Python, and his research blends ecological questions with rigorous computational methods. Trained with a PhD and MSc in Geography and an advanced diploma in GIS, he has held academic posts in the UK and Canada, bringing international perspective to movement ecology. His work is notable for integrating high-resolution tracking data with spatial-statistical modelling to reveal behaviorally meaningful patterns not apparent from maps alone.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography at University of Victoria
Adv. Dip., Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Adv. Dip., Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Centre of Geographic Sciences
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physical Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physical Sciences at University of Guelph