Dr. Su-Yin Tan is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Director of the Applied Geomatics Research Laboratory (AGRL). Her research interests are in the fields of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and spatial data analysis with applications in urban geography, crime, and public health, and climate change and environmental monitoring. She has spent substantial time living in the South Pacific and was raised in the small island state of Papua New Guinea.