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About Jamie
Jamie Blackley is Technical Lead at Licker Geospatial Consulting, based in East Vancouver with seven years of applied experience in geospatial analysis and remote sensing, specialising in spatially-informed climate vulnerability and risk-reduction work. Jamie has proven experience in marrying innovative technical methods development with creative design. His workflows are constructed around principles of transparency and reproducibility, and leverage modern EO toolchains and machine learning applications that scale feature extraction and pattern detection in space and time. His methods emphasise defensible analysis, uncertainty-aware interpretation, and validation against authoritative datasets. Jamie has built climate risk and vulnerability tools and remote sensing applications for health authorities, local governments, emergency managers, and decision-makers across Canada, including the Interior Health Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health climate vulnerability dashboards, award-winning extreme heat and multi-hazard assessments, Burnaby earthquake resilience strategy, TransLink, ReCover Initiative, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, and others.
A knowledge mobilisation specialist, Jamie focuses on getting analysis out of technical systems and into the hands of decision-makers. Jamie has recently presented his work at the Understanding Risk BC Climate Resilience Summit, TRCA's Extreme Heat Working Group, the BCCDC Environmental Health Services WG, and the IHS Symposium on Building Heat Ready Communities.
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