Lightning Talk and Poster Award Winners

Congratulations to our 2024 winners! We are excited to celebrate you and your outstanding contributions to the field of GIS. 

Undergraduate award winners:

  • Lightning talk: Shrithik Sekar, Environmental and Ecological Engineering | “Nonpoint Source Pollution Analysis Using ArcGIS Pro”
  • Poster presentation: Andrew Thompson, Computer Science | “Evaluating the Use of LiDAR Traffic Data for Assessing Infrastructure”

Graduate award winners:

  • Lightning talk: Margaret Deahn, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | “How to (safely) land a robot on another planet: Mapping planetary missions from Venus to Mars”
  • Poster presentation: Adebola Esther Adeniji, Forestry and Natural Resources | “Modeling suitable habitat for the Near Threatened Cerulean Warbler in the contiguous United States using ArcGIS and MaxENT”

These winners were recognized at the conclusion of the 2024 conference. Each winner was also presented with a certificate and a $100 reward for their unique contributions to the field of GIS. 

Margaret Deahn, graduate lightning talk award winner
Shrithik Sekar, undergraduate lightning talk award winner
Adebola Esther Adeniji, graduate poster award winner
Andrew Thompson, undergraduate poster award winner