Gillian Woolmer joined WCS Canada in early 2004 following three years at the WCS International Program headquarters in New York, where she held the position of GIS Analyst and Lab manager providing GIS support and training to WCS field scientists around the world. Gillian has collaborated on a diverse array of international conservation projects, including deforestation in Sumatra, Sudden Oak Death Syndrome in California, and mandrill habitat use in Gabon. She also played a major role in the mapping of the global Human Footprint, published in Bioscience in 2002.

With WCS Canada Gillian's research focus is on conservation planning in the Northern Appalachians,  leading the Human Footprint initiative and as an active member of the 2C1Forest Science Team. She is also focused on building capacity for spatial analysis using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) amongst conservation user communities, including NGO's and First Nation communities.

Gillian received her undergraduate and Masters degrees in Geology and Mineral Exploration with extensive field research ranging from the Highlands of Scotland and the mines of central Queensland, Australia to the Atacama desert of Northern Chile. Gillian later graduated with an Advanced Diploma in GIS from the Collage of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Nova Scotia and a Certificate in Conservation Biology from CERC at Columbia University.

Prior to her career in conservation with WCS Gillian spent four years working in a number of African countries, including South Africa, Ghana, Mali and Eritrea, as a computer geologist in the mineral exploration industry.

Gillian Woolmer joined WCS Canada in early 2004 following three years at the WCS International Program headquarters in New York, where she held the position of GIS Analyst and Lab manager providing GIS support and training to WCS field scientists around the world. Gillian has collaborated on a diverse array of international conservation projects, including deforestation in Sumatra, Sudden Oak Death Syndrome in California, and mandrill habitat use in Gabon. She also played a major role in the mapping of the global Human Footprint, published in Bioscience in 2002.

With WCS Canada Gillian's research focus is on conservation planning in the Northern Appalachians,  leading the Human Footprint initiative and as an active member of the 2C1Forest Science Team. She is also focused on building capacity for spatial analysis using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) amongst conservation user communities, including NGO's and First Nation communities.

Gillian received her undergraduate and Masters degrees in Geology and Mineral Exploration with extensive field research ranging from the Highlands of Scotland and the mines of central Queensland, Australia to the Atacama desert of Northern Chile. Gillian later graduated with an Advanced Diploma in GIS from the Collage of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Nova Scotia and a Certificate in Conservation Biology from CERC at Columbia University.

Prior to her career in conservation with WCS Gillian spent four years working in a number of African countries, including South Africa, Ghana, Mali and Eritrea, as a computer geologist in the mineral exploration industry.