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KU GIS Day 2012


Student Competition



Prizes

1st Place - $300 - Steve Foga

2nd Place TIE - $150 each - Chris Hensz and Emily Fekete

Best Undergraduate Presentation - $50 - Steven Walker


Judging Guidelines (PDF)

The following student papers were accepted for the 2012 Student Competition.

Name(s)
  
Title
 
L. Lynnette Dornak
Graduate Student,
Geography/Biodiversity Institute,
The University of Kansas 		  Distribution and spatiotemporal variability of breeding habitat in three grassland sparrows
 
Emily Fekete
Graduate Student,
Geography,
The University of Kansas 		  GIS Meets Social Media: Foursquare Check-ins and Economic Geography
 
 
Steve Foga
Graduate Student,
Geography,
The University of Kansas 		  Measuring Greenland Glacier Dynamics with Remotely Sensed Data
 
 
Chris Hensz
Graduate Student,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Biodiversity Institute,
The University of Kansas 		  Migration Resistance in the Arctic Tern (Sterna paridiseae)
 
 
Stephen D. Short
Graduate Student,
Quantitative Psychology,
The University of Kansas 		  Lies from the Pits of Hell? Examining Attitudes Toward and Knowledge of Evolution across the United States
 
Daniel Siegel
Undergraduate Student,
Environmental Studies,
The University of Kansas 		  Using a Zombie Apocalypse to Explore the Potential of GIS
 
Dan Rose
Undergraduate Student,
Geography,
The University of Kansas 		  The Geography of Wine
 
William Venable
Graduate Student,
Medicine
The University of Kansas 		  GIS Mapping as a Policy Tool in Support of Capacity Planning for the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, (KAMU)
 
Steven P. Walker
Undergraduate Student,
Business
Haskell University 		  Habitat Preferences for North Dakota Myotis Bats: Using Land Cover to Predict Distribution Patterns

Best Undergraduate
Presentation

 



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