Student Competition

Student Presentation Competitions

ALL WLDAAG students presenting at the conference are eligible to participate in the Student Presentation Competition with cash awards and certificates for the top three Oral Paper and Poster presentations by undergraduate and graduate student’s category.

Student competition categories

• Doctoral or Master’s Poster: First ($100), second ($75), and third ($50) place
• Doctoral Oral Paper: First ($100), second ($75), and third ($50) place
• Master’s Oral Paper: First ($100), second ($75), and third ($50) place
• Undergraduate Poster: First ($100), second ($75), and third ($50) place
• Undergraduate Oral Paper: First ($100), second ($75), and third ($50) place

Register to attend the competition

When registering for the conference, students who are presenting their research will see a menu option to select whether or not they wish to participate in the competition, and if so then whether they are entering the paper or poster competition.

Date for the competition

Friday, October 25th  

General selection criteria

Each oral paper or poster presentation will be judged on organization, clarity of visual presentation, content, and significance.

 

AAG Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at a Regional Meeting

Graduate students who enter the WLDAAG Doctoral or Master’s Oral Paper presentation competition will be automatically considered for the AAG Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at a Regional Meeting (so you do NOT need to indicate whether you will participate in this award competition during registration). The prize for this award is $1,000 in funding to be used toward registration and travel costs for one person to attend the national 2020 AAG Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, April 6-10.

A successful candidate must

• Participate in the 2019 WLDAAG Doctoral or Master’s Oral Paper presentation competition
• Be a current student in a Master’s or Ph.D. program in the West Lakes AAG Division
• Be a current member of the AAG
• Present an Oral Paper topic that is recent and an original work completed by the student as primary and first author

 

2019 WLDAAG Awardees

Undergraduate Oral Paper Competition Awardees

• 1st place ($100): Alyson Dressman, DePaul University, “Families, Neighborhood Change, and Children’s Public Space in Cincinnati”​
• 2nd place ($75): Josie Mayers, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, “Thematic Representation in Minnesota's Official Highway Maps, 1936-2019”​
• 3rd place ($50): Alexis Sjullie, Central College, “International Hydro-politics: Allocation of Water Resources in the World”

Master’s Oral Paper Competition Awardees

• 1st place ($100): Steve Cardinal, University of Missouri – Columbia, “Changes at Treeline within the San Juan Mountains”​
• 2nd place ($75):
  • James Kaemmerer, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Using Map-based Questionnaires to Survey Pre-Migration Destination Preferences”​
  • Yared, Cortina Aguilera, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental UNAM (Mexico), “Terracing for soil restoration and drought adaptation in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, Mexico”​
• 3rd place ($50): Katelyn Miner, University of Northern Iowa, “Analyzing Perceptions of Citizen Science through International Learning Experiences”

Doctoral Oral Paper Competition Awardees

• 1st place ($100): Junghwan Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “How Neighborhood Effect Averaging May Affect Assessment of Individual Exposures to Air Pollution: A Study of Individual Ozone Exposures in Los Angeles”​
• 2nd place ($75): Chelsea L. Cervantes de Blois, University of Minnesota, “Visually Linking Azerbaijan’s Social Inequality & Environmental Vulnerability"​
• 3rd place ($50):
  • Chelsea L. Cervantes de Blois, University of Minnesota, “Where are “Human Rights” positioned within the Environment? A Closer Look at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)”​
  • Becca Nixon, Purdue University, “Value tradeoffs in adaptation decision-making along the Swat and Kabul Rivers of Pakistan”​
  • Onursal Erol, University of Chicago, “In-Transit: Women's Publics and Urban Transportation in Ottoman Istanbul”

Undergraduate Poster Competition Awardees

• 1st place ($100): Ethan Heick, DePaul University, “De-suburbanization of Cook County, Illinois Visualized Through  Historical Highway Traffic Patterns”​
• 2nd place ($75): Annette Galvez, DePaul University, “Disaster Capitalism: How Natural Disasters Displaced the Disenfranchised and Created Opportunity for Private Investors in the Cuauhtémoc delegation, Mexico City"​
• 3rd place ($50):
  • Delaney Klundt, DePaul University, “Can I GrowIt!?: Examining USDA Plant Hardiness Zones and their relevance through a mobile gardening application”​
  • Chelsey Sloan, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, “Collection & Initial Description of Sediment Core from Mud Lake in Jefferson County, WI”
  • Molly Larson, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, “Geography of Mental Health”

Doctoral or Master’s Poster Competition Awardees

• 1st place ($100):
  • Natalie G. Nunez, University of Northern Iowa, “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Supraglacial Streams on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2009-2017 using Remote Sensing”
  • Tanya Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Three-dimensional Flow Structure at Three Confluences with Different Planform Configurations at High Flow Stages”​
• 2nd place ($75):
  • Paula Carvalho de Castro, University of Northern Iowa, “GIS and Remote Sensing in Multi-Purpose Cadastre: Applications for Land and Building Taxation in Brazil”
  • Taylor Fox, University of Missouri, “Transculturation in Little Havana, Miami”​
• 3rd place ($50): Yiyi Zhang, University of Northern Iowa, “A conceptual agent-based model of farming households’ adaptation to winter storms”

AAG Council for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awardee

Junghwan Kim, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, “How Neighborhood Effect Averaging May Affect Assessment of Individual Exposures to Air Pollution: A Study of Individual Ozone Ex”

 

Information for All Awardees

The results of ALL Student Presentation Competitions and the AAG Council Award will be announced at the evening banquet on Friday, October 25th. 

To receive the cash awards which will be given by checks

• ALL awardees of Student Presentation Competitions should email their mailing addresses to the WLDAAG Co-Chair, Stacey Brown-Amilian, and she will contact the AAG National office to send you the check.
• The awardee of the AAG Council Award will receive a check of $1,000 as the reimbursement for his/her trip to attend the national 2020 AAG Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, April 6-10 to present his/her Oral Paper. After returning home from Denver, the awardee is required to make arrangement with the WLDAAG Co-Chair, Stacey Brown-Amilian, who will contact the AAG National office, to be reimbursed for expenses related to registering for and traveling to this AAG National Meeting.