We would like to announce the winners of the Student GIS Project Competition held on GIS Day at UW-Milwaukee, November 15, 2017
The Best Graduate Student/GIS Certificate Student Project
- 1st Place tie ($300): Sue Borchardt. “Variation of Groundwater Divides during Wet Years vs. Dry years in the Wolf River Basin, Northeastern Wisconsin.”
- 1st Place tie ($300): Yingbin Deng. “An improved spectral angle mapper to quickly map the fallen trees in San Juan area, Puerto Rico after the hurricane Maria.”
- 3rd Place ($100): James Amato. “Forest Fire Risk Assessment of the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests, California.”
Special thanks to our competition judges:
- Emily Champagne, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
- Brandon Tourtelotte, EagleView
- ChangShan Wu, UWM Department of Geography
- Lingqian Hu, UWM Department of Urban Planning
- Robert Schneider, UWM Department of Urban Planning
Students, please consider submitting a project to the competition for next year. Papers can be a research project or a class project done for class this fall or next spring.