Student Papers

URISA Student Papers

Student members of URISA may post their scholastic and research papers for comment and review. If you are a student member, send your paper to Education Manager Scott Grams at sgrams@urisa.org for posting. You will also need to complete a copyright release form.

2007 Student Paper Competition

The following papers were submitted as part of the first Annual Student Paper Competition.

1st Place:
Safaa Z. ALDwaik
Clark University 
Department of International Development, Community, and Environment 
Worcester, MA

The Corridor: Using GIS to Propose Satisfactory Transportation Paths between the West Bank and Gaza Strip

2nd Place:
Tomáš Václavík
Department of International Development, Community and Environment Clark University Worcester, MA

Identifying Trends in Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

3rd Place (tie):
Debarchana Ghosh 
University of Minnesota Department of Geography
Minneapolis, MN 

Robust Principal Component Analysis and Geographically Weighted Regression: Urbanization in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA)

Seth E. Spielman
Department of Geography 
SUNY-Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Social Area Analysis, Data Mining, and GIS

Other Submissions:

• Brian Thayer 
  Developing a Community Information System to Assist Neighborhood Revitalization Efforts: Case Study of the Harambee Community Milwaukee, WI
• Dawn M. Drake 
  Examining the Issue of Maldistribution of Physicians through GIS: A Case Study of Retina Specialists in the United States
• David Stubbs 
  The Evolution of Lower Manhattan
• Elzbieta Bialkowska-Jelinska 
  Improving the West Nile Virus Mosquito Surveillance Using GIS-Driven Mahalanobis Distance Statistics: A Case Study Shelby County Tennessee
• Hossein Mohammadi 
  Spatial Data Integratability and Interoperability in the Context of SDI
• Jianfeng Zhao  
  An Empirical Assessment of a Web-based PPGIS Prototype
• Kimberly Robinson 
  Inflation and the Small Business: Fighting Inflation
• Phyllis Thomas 
  The Influence of Collaboration on Social and Official Trust In Water Policy Decision Making
• Peter Wares  
  Capital Health: Forecasting Demand Beyond Population Growth Of Mri / Ct / Ultrasound
• Sylwia Dominika Feibelman 
  Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Infant Mortality: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infant Homicides between 1999 And 2003 In Shelby County, Tennessee
• Sungsoo Hwang 
  What makes Neighborhood Information Systems Effective?
• Sameer Sharma 
  Electronic Office Government:  From E-Governance To I-Government
• Yuriy Shubin 
  The Relief-City-Human System and Urban Planning