Rosaline Canessa

Associate professor, PhD Victoria

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Before joining the Geography department in 2003, Dr. Canessa worked as a marine environmental scientist in Scotland, the Caribbean and Canada. Her work related to planning and environmental impact assessment for integrated coastal management, offshore hydrocarbon development, fisheries, aquaculture, marine recreation and tourism and marine protected areas.

Through her Coastal and Ocean Resource Analysis Lab (CORAL), Dr. Canessa's research focuses on coastal resource management and the use of spatial technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and seascape visualization to support marine planning, particularly in collaborative settings. She works closely with First Nations, and provincial and federal government agencies responsible for managing coastal resources and activities. Past and current research includes collaborative use of Marxan for zoning marine protected areas, seascape visualization of Bowie Seamount Marine Protected Area, coastal community mapping and First Nations capacity building for coastal planning. Graduate students in CORAL have studied ecosystem-based management in shellfish aquaculture, chronic oil spills and surveillance, spatial modeling and characterisation of recreational boating, sea otter conservation and ecotourism, and fisheries reserves. She and her graduate students have published in Coastal Management, Marine Pollution Bulletin and Geomatica.

Dr. Canessa teaches Environment, Society and Sustainability, Introduction to the Geography of the Coastal Zone, Coastal and Marine Resources, Field Studies in Coastal and Marine Resources, Introduction to Geographical Information, Geographic Information Sciences and Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Sciences.

Dr. Canessa currently serves as the Vice-president Pacific Region of the Coastal Zone Canada Association and the as the Canadian representative on the CoastGIS Association.

September-December 2011
Geography 352: Introduction to the Geography of the Coastal Zone

Selected Publications

Gray, D., Canessa, R., Rollins, R., Keller, C.P., and Dearden, P. (Forthcoming). Incorporating recreational users into marine protected area planning: A study of recreational boating in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Environmental Management.

Joyce, A., and Canessa, R. (2009). Spatial and temporal changes in access rights to shellfish resources in British Columbia. Coastal Management, 37(6): 585-616.

Canessa, R. (2008). Seascape geovisualization for marine planning. Geomatica, 62(4): 375-392.

Serra-Sogas, N., O'Hara, P., Canessa, R., Keller, C.P., and Pelot, R. (2008). Visualization of spatial patterns and temporal trends for aerial surveillance of illegal oil discharges in western Canadian marine waters. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 56(5):825-833.

Canessa, R., Butler, M., Leblanc, C., Stewart, C., and Howes, D. (2007). Canadian practice and innovation in spatial information management for integrated coastal and ocean management. Coastal Management Journal, 35(1):105-142.

Canessa, R., Conley, K., and Smiley, B. (2003). Bowie Seamount Marine Protected Area: An ecosystem overview. Canadian Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 2461. 85 pp.

Dearden, P., and Canessa, R. (2009). Marine Protected Areas. In P. Dearden and R. Rollins (Eds.), Parks and Protected Areas in Canada – Planning and Management (pp. 403-431). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Serra-Sogas, N., O'Hara, P., Canessa, R., Bertazzon, S., and Gavrilova, M. (2008). Exploratory spatial analysis of illegal oil discharges detected off Canada's Pacific Coast. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5072: 81-95.

Marven, C., Canessa, R., and Keller, C.P. (2007). Exploratory spatial data analysis to support maritime search and rescue planning. In J. Li, S. Zlatanova, and A. Fabbri (Eds.), Geomatics Solutions for Disaster Management, Lecture Notes in Geoinformatics and Cartography (pp. 271-288). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Canessa, R., Geselbracht, L., Klein, C., Cameron, S., and Wilson, K. (2008). Using Marxan in multi-stakeholder planning processes. In J. Ardon, H. Possingham, and C. Klein (Eds.), Marxan Good Practices Manual (pp. 104-118). External review version; 17 May, 2008. Vancouver: Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association.

Cameron, S., Klein, C., Canessa, R., and Geselbracht, L. (2008). Addressing socio-economic objectives. In J. Ardon, H. Possingham, and C. Klein (Eds.), Marxan Good Practices Manual (pp. 47-53). External review version; 17 May, 2008. Vancouver: Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association.

Canessa, R., and Keller, C.P. (2003). User assessment of coastal spatial decision support systems. In D.R. Green and S.D. King (Eds.), Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems (pp. 437-449). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Canessa, R., and Keller, C.P. (1996). Information taxonomy and data requirements for coastal GIS to support coastal planning and management. In M. Heit, H. Dennison Parker, and A. Shortreid (Eds.), GIS Applications in Natural Resources 2 (pp. 102-109). Fort Collins, CO: GIS World.