2010 Student Competition Results Announced

URISA seeks to encourage students in a variety of academic settings and disciplines to write and publish papers and projects for the URISA membership and others in the spatial technologies industry. To promote this objective URISA has established a student competition. URISA is pleased to announce the results of its 2010 Student Competition. This year’s competition featured three tiers: Papers, Presentations and Posters.

Paper Category –

• First Place:
  Spatial Decompositions for Gravity and Shortest Path for Set Covering for Measuring Potential Accessibility to Emergency Service
  Submitted by: EunSu Lee - North Dakota State University
• Second Place:
  Geographic Characteristics of Resettled Refugee Populations in Worcester, MA, FFY09
  Submitted by: Nicholas Cuba - Clark University - Graduate School of Geography
• Third Place:
  Medical Services and Urban Traffic in Republican Beijing in Historical GIS Perspective: Between East and West
  Submitted by: Peiyao ZHANG - The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Presentation Category –

• First Place:
  A Quantitative Assessment of 2 and 4 feet Sea Level Rise on the Broward County, FL Landuse Using GIS
  Submitted by: Ugur Dagkilic - Florida Atlantic University
• Second Place:
  Improving Access to Public Data with Open-Source Technology
  Submitted by: Joe Tricarico - Rutgers University

Poster Category –

Winning Submission:

• Simulating a Tsunami Pedestrian Evacuation from Seaside, Oregon
  Submitted by: Lesley Bross and Jiunn-Der (Geoffrey) Duh - Geography, Portland State University

Honorable Mentions:

• PUBLIC RADIO SIGNAL COVERAGE
  Submitted by: Steven Hubbard - Asheville/Buncombe Technical School - Asheville, NC
• Application of Remotely Sensed Data in the Analysis  of the Hydrologic Variables: Case Study on the State of North Dakota
  Submitted by: Mohammad Reza Najafi, Zahra Kavianpour Isfahani, Caleb Dechant - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University

Read the winning submissions online:

•    Graduate Papers
•    Undergraduate Presentations
•    Community College Posters