Celebrating Faculty and Staff Achievements 2022–2023

This past academic year was once again packed with impressive work by our faculty and staff at the Center for Geospatial Analytics. Below is a sampling of the achievements of the Center’s faculty fellows, director and associate directors, research associates and scholars, staff and postdoctoral scholars since last July. Congratulations to all for your accomplishments!

Awards and Honors

• Faculty Fellow Marcelo Ardón was named a University Faculty Scholar. He also won an Outstanding Teaching Award from NC State.
• Faculty Fellow Caren Cooper was promoted to professor.
• Faculty Fellow Bethany Cutts won an Outstanding Extension and Engagement Award from NC State and named to the Academy of Outstanding Faculty in Extension and Engagement.
• Faculty Fellow Aaron Hipp was promoted to professor.
• Faculty Fellow Anders Huseth was named a University Faculty Scholar.
• Faculty Fellow Daniela Jones received an Honorable Mention in the Faculty & Staff Photography category of the NC State 2022 Envisioning Research Contest.
• Faculty Fellow Katie Martin won the Center’s Beacon Award
• Faculty Fellow Rob Scheller won an Outstanding Research Award from NC State.
• Associate Teaching Professor Stacy Supak won the Center’s Creativity in Teaching Award.
• An audio documentary co-created by Faculty Fellow Mirela Tulbure was honored with a science communication award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes. Tulbure also led the team that won the Center’s Collaboration & Innovation Award.
• Executive Assistant Lois Utt won the Center’s Advocate Award.
• Research Scholar John Vogler won the Center’s Gladys West Award.
• Faculty Fellow Jelena Vukomanovic was promoted to associate professor with tenure.
• Faculty Fellow Karl Wegmann won an Outstanding Teaching Award from NC State.

Popular Press and Speaking Engagements

• Research by Research Scholar Chris Jones, Science Communicator Megan Skrip, Postdoctoral Scholar Ben Seliger, Software Engineers Vaclav Petras and Anna Petrasova, and Director Ross Meentemeyer was covered by USA Today. Jones was further quoted in spotted lanternfly coverage by WRAL, NBC Lx, MSN, KRON, Patch and Food & Wine. 
• Research co-authored by Postdoctoral Scholar Jing-Huei Huang, Faculty Fellow Laura Tateosian and Associate Director of Social and Behavioral Science Applications Aaron Hipp was covered by Phys.org.
• Research by Faculty Fellow Anders Huseth was covered by the Soybean Research & Information Network, Phys.org, WUNC and AccuWeather.
• Research by Faculty Fellow Bethany Cutts was covered by Phys.org.
• Research Scholar Georgina Sanchez was quoted or interviewed for her flood risk expertise by CNN, Newsy’s “The Why,” Insurance Journal, CableFree TV, South Florida Sun Sentinel and The Maine Monitor.
• Research by Faculty Fellow Mirela Tulbure was covered by NASA Landsat Science.
• Research by Faculty Fellow Laura Tateosian, Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Ariel Saffer, former Research Scholar Chelsey Walden-Schreiner and Research Technologist Makiko Shukunobe was covered by Phys.org and Futurity.org.
• Research by Faculty Fellow Katie Martin was covered by Phys.org and AZoCleantech.
• Research by Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Xiaojie Gao and Faculty Fellow Josh Gray was covered by Tech Explorist, CTV News, PiPa News and Nature World News.
• Associate Director Aaron Hipp was an invited speaker for the Taylor Geospatial Institute’s TGI Seminar series at Saint Louis University.
• Faculty Fellow Jennifer Richmond-Bryant was interviewed by Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.).
• Associate Director Eric Money was interviewed for A Very Spatial podcast at the NC GIS Conference.
• Research by Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Kate Jones and Faculty Fellow Jelena Vukomanovic was covered by Phys.org.