Scott Mitchell is co-director of Carleton University's Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory in Ottawa, 
Canada, and an Assistant Professor in Carleton's Department of Geography and Environmental Studies.  
His research is directed at spatial analysis in support of environmental decision making, especially in 
agricultural and protected landscapes.  Open source geospatial software and open standards provide valuable 
tools to enable his group's work, as well as transparent and accessible means to develop and share new algorithms
and datasets. 
The lab's web site is http://www.glel.carleton.ca, and Scott can be reached at scott.mitchell at glel.carleton.ca.