Competitions

Annual Student Competitions include:

Below are our 2023 Student Presentation Winners in Laredo. Congratulations to all!

Undergraduate Poster Award

First Place: Sage Lail - University of Oklahoma – “A Comparison of South Central Plains Capital Cities Sustainability Efforts with Respect to Health and Environmental Justice”

Graduate Poster Awards

First Place: Ehsan Foroutan - Oklahoma State University – “Assessing Heat Vulnerability in Philadelphia using Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis (GWPCA): A Geospatial Big Data-driven Approach”
Second Place: Lixiaona Yu - Oklahoma State University – “Beyond Conventional Proximity Metrics: Using Smartphone Mobility Data to Unveil Health Access Disparities”
Third Place: Michaelmary Chukwu - University of Arkansas – “Urban Park accessibility assessment using human mobility data: A systematic review”

Undergraduate Paper Awards

First Place Tie: Amelia Landry – University of Oklahoma - “An Organizational Geography of Anti-hunger Work in Central Oklahoma”
First Place Tie: Tyler Pursch – University of Texas at San Antonio – “Evaluating the Urban Heat Mitigation Potential of the San Antonio Cool Pavement Pilot”
Second Place: Lauren Carey – Tarleton State University – “Blazing New Trails: A GIS perspective on the anthropogenic factors affecting wildfire in the Pineywoods of Texas”
Third Place: Esmeralda Simpson – Tarleton State University – “Natural Gas Pipelines: A GIS Web-based Application for Identifying and Evaluating Effects of Natural Gas Pipelines in Erath County, Texas”

Graduate Paper Awards

First Place: Chad Ramos – Texas State University at San Marcos – “Neighborhood-Scale Wildfire Evacuation Vulnerability in Hays County, TX”
Second Place: Yanan Wu – University of Texas at Dallas – “Identify geographical environments influencing emergency response performance”
Third Place: Olivia VanBuskirk – University of Oklahoma – “Barriers to Climate Justice in Small-to-Medium-Sized Cities: A Case Study of Tulsa, Oklahoma”

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