Christopher Scarpone, PhD, P.Ag.

Christopher Scarpone, PhD, P.Ag.

Université Laval

Environmental Monitoring Consultants (EMC)

Hi, I’m Christopher!

Interests

  • Urban Forestry
  • LiDAR and 3D Point Clouds
  • Geostatistics
  • Urban Ecology
  • Soil–Vegetation Interactions
  • Spatial Scale
  • App and Package Development
  • Data Science

Education

  • PhD in Environmental Applied Science and Management, 2017 - 2025

    Toronto Metropolitan University

  • MSc in Geography (Soil Science), 2012 - 2015

    Simon Fraser University

  • Master of Spatial Analysis (MSA), 2011 - 2012

    Toronto Metropolitan University

  • BA in Geographical Analysis, 2007 - 2011

    Toronto Metropolitan University

Skills

R

Expert

Python

Expert

SQL

Expert

GIS & Spatial Analysis

Expert

Front-End Development

Advanced

Back-End Development

Expert

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Université Laval

Sep 2025 – Present Québec City, Canada
Conducting research in urban forestry and environmental monitoring using airborne and mobile LiDAR. Focus areas include individual tree analysis, change detection, and the development of open-source analytical tools and applications for scalable forest monitoring.
 
 
 
 
 

Principal Environmental Scientist

Environmental Monitoring Consultants (EMC)

Mar 2024 – Present Canada
Founder and principal scientist providing LiDAR-driven environmental monitoring solutions for municipal, utility, and industry partners. Work includes tree inventories, change detection, spatial modeling, and development of reproducible data processing pipelines and software tools.
 
 
 
 
 

GIS Developer

BGC Engineering

Sep 2022 – Feb 2024 Canada
Developed geospatial workflows and analytical tools supporting engineering and environmental projects. Responsibilities included spatial data processing, automation, visualization, and integration of GIS with modeling and decision-support workflows.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Writing Consultant

Ryerson University – Student Life and Learning Support

Sep 2018 – Aug 2022 Toronto, Canada
Provided one-on-one writing support to graduate students, with a focus on theses, grant applications, and academic manuscripts, emphasizing clarity, structure, and scientific communication.
 
 
 
 
 

Sessional Instructor – EUS 402, CODG 212, GEO 141, GEO 110

Ryerson University

Sep 2017 – Aug 2021 Toronto, Canada
Developed course syllabi and instructional material, delivered lectures and labs, and administered assessments for courses in geostatistics, inferential statistics, GIS, and physical geography.

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