Resilience Mapping Canada was founded in 2023 by Dr. Ryan Reynolds to engage more directly with Canadian communities and households seeking to better understand their current hazards and climate-related risks and explore how local and regional hazard risks are likely to change in the coming decades due to our changing climate.
In that time, we have been privileged to use our mapping and geospatial analysis skills on national, provincial, regional, and community-scale hazard risk assessments and climate adaptation plans across Canada from Vancouver’s North Shore to Cornwall, Ontario, and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories.
Most recently, we have focused on developing and improving our approach to identifying populations vulnerable to potential impacts from hazard- and climate-related risks, including coastal storm surge, flooding, extreme heat, landslides/debris flows, and earthquakes.
Ryan Reynolds, MGIS, Ph.D.
Principal Researcher / Developer
Dr. Reynolds’ research aims to help Canadian communities and households better understand, prepare for, and respond to local hazard risks. His work combines geospatial modelling and analysis, mapping, risk communication, and application development at national, provincial, regional, community, and neighbourhood scales.
Ryan holds a Master's in Geographic Information Systems (MGIS) and a Doctorate in Geography from the University of Calgary in Alberta and completed a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship with the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.