Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering

“It is satisfying to solve client problems with out-of-the-box solutions and some of the most advanced technologies available.”

George Wilcox, a 2010 graduate, has been able to travel worldwide with his UNB GGE education and experience. Wilcox explains it has “brought me to places in Canada that most people rarely get to see, from northern Baffin Island, Yukon, Newfoundland, and now to Ontario.” Wilcox’s adventure didn't stop in Canada; he also found himself working in western Africa and the Gulf of Mexico.

While working in the Yukon, Wilcox says he was “given the opportunity to support Indigenous communities with housing developments and securing land tenure that would allow them to borrow money against their homes and creating subdivisions that would accommodate new safe drinking water supplies piped directly from the water treatment plant rather than by truck and bottles.”

In Ontario, Wilcox has had the opportunity to work in “environmental remediation providing valuable geomatics solutions in support of eliminating contamination and preventing environmental disasters.” Wilcox has also supported the design and construction of public transportation developments across the Greater Toronto Area and in Ottawa. Wilcox states “some of these projects are the largest in Canada,” which he found very rewarding.

Wilcox and his company completed a UAV mapping project that collected data for a web-based interactive geospatial portal of the Seaton Reservoir and Pumping Station project in Pickering, Ontario.