Five Geography graduate students have been awarded Dangermond Travel Fellowships this year. The funds are used for students to present GIS related work at conferences and workshops, and the awards can range from $500 to $1,000.
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Ted Eckmann was awarded $1,000.00 to use towards presenting a paper relating to his dissertation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 19-24, 2009.
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Karl Grossner was awarded $545.00 to use towards his presentation of “An Ontology-driven Data Model of the 2008 US Presidential Election Cycle” at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009.
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Indy Hurt was awarded $600.00 to use towards the 2009 ESRI Education User Conference (EDUC) and 2009 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC) held concurrently in San Diego July 11th – 17th; Indy will present a pedagogical paper at the former conference.
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Ting Lei was awarded $545.00 to use towards the AAG 2009 conference in Las Vegas, where he will present his paper “Vector Assignment r-Interdiction Model.”
- Edward Pultar was awarded $500 to use towards presenting “Spatial Behaviour Integrating Multiple Network Levels” at the AAG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. His presentation is part of a paper session organized by alumnae Sarah Battersby and Scott Bell and chaired by former faculty member Sara Fabrikant.
Jack and Laura Dangermond are the co-founders and President and Executive Vice President, respectively, of the Environmental Systems Research Institute. ESRI is a major industrial supplier of software in the field of GIS. Jack Dangermond currently serves on the board of directors of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science at UCSB.
In a recent thank you letter to Jack and Laura Dangermond, our Chair, Oliver Chadwick, commented: “Your generosity re the annual Dangermond Travel Awards, the annual Dangermond Graduate Fellowship and Dangermond Undergraduate Scholarship Awards, and the annual Dangermond Lecturer Series – not to mention funding for periodic GIS workshops – has had a major impact on the Department over the past 10 years. The past decade has seen the Department grow in terms of its physical size, its academic quality, and the multidisciplinary scope of its impact on critical issues concerning the relation of man to his environment. Established gift funds such as yours are even more vital to the Department in these times of economic duress, and I’d like to make sure that you know how much we are beholding to you and to ESRI.” Amen!
