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Whalen Dillon Receives Travel Award To Attend Landscape Ecology World Congress

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Photos of Anna Petrasova and Vaclav Petras

Sep 6, 2016

Ph.D. Students Anna Petrasova and Vaclav Petras Elected to the GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dr. Helena Mitasova, Associate Director of Geovisualization at the Center for Geospatial Analytics. Two Ph.D. students at the Center, Anna Petrasova and Vaclav…
A photo Laura Belica using pyranometers to measure solar radiation in a forest.

Aug 23, 2016

Laura Belica Awarded NC Wildlife Federation Conservation Leadership Grant

Center Ph.D. student Laura Belica (Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources) has been named the 2016 recipient of the NC Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Leadership award. The $2,500 grant is given…
A photo of Eric Money giving a presentation for students at the North Carolina State University Center for Geospatial Analytics Master of Geospatial Information Science and Technology orientation in fall 2016

Aug 16, 2016

Center Welcomes Record Number of Incoming MGIST Students at Fall Orientation

Last Friday, the Center community joined Associate Director of Professional Education Eric Money in welcoming over two dozen new students to the professional master’s program in Geospatial Information Science & Technology…
A photo of Lindsey Smart

Aug 10, 2016

Ph.D. Student Lindsey Smart Awarded $10,000 Fellowship to Study “Ghost Forests”

Center Ph.D. student Lindsey Smart has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship from NC Sea Grant / NC Space Grant to study the connection between rising sea levels and vegetation die-off…
A photo of Ashwin Shashidharan

Jul 21, 2016

Ashwin Shashidharan Wins Travel Award To Participate In CyberGIS’16 Conference

Center PhD Student Ashwin Shashidharan (Dept. of Computer Sciences) won an $800 travel award to attend the The Third International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science in Urbana, Illinois, on…

May 5, 2016

Brian Pickard Elected US Graduate Student Representative for US International Association of Landscape Ecology

At the 2016 US International Association of Landscape Ecology conference in Asheville, NC, Brian Pickard (FER and CGA PhD Student) was elected as the US graduate student representative for a two-year…

Oct 9, 2015

Ashwin Shashidharan Wins NSF Travel Grant To Attend ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Center PhD Student Ashwin Shashidharan (Dept. of Computer Sciences) was awarded an $800 NSF Student Travel Grant to attend the 23rd Annual ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information…
A photo of Devon Gaydos

Oct 1, 2015

Devon Gaydos Wins Travel Award To Attend National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center Research Workshop

Devon Gaydos (FER and CGA PhD student) was recently selected from among a pool of international applicants to attend SESYNC’s annual Socio-Environmental Synthesis Research Proposal Writing Workshop at the SESYNC research…
A photo of Jenny Holder

May 6, 2015

MGIST Student Jenny Holder Accepted To Prestigious NASA DEVELOP National Program

MGIST student Jenny Holder has been accepted to the national NASA DEVELOP Program for their summer 2015 term. This highly competitive program fosters an interdisciplinary research environment, where applied science research…
A photo of Dillon Whalen

Apr 13, 2015

Whalen Dillon Receives Travel Award To Attend Landscape Ecology World Congress

Center PhD student Whalen Dillon (Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources) has been selected to receive a $500 Student Travel Award sponsored by the US Regional International Association for Landscape Ecology…