Multiple travel expense awards, donated by Jack and Laura Dangermond, are available to help graduate students present GIS related work at conferences/workshops. This year’s Fall 2009 recipients include:
- Micah Brachman for a trip to Torino, Italy, where he will present “Theoretical Framework for a Mobile Emergency Decision Support and Routing Application” at the Geomatics for Crisis Management 2010 Conference in February
- Shishi Liu for a presentation of a poster on “Monitoring Mediterranean Grassland Response to Changing Soil Moisture Using Webcam Images” at the Fall 2009 AGU meeting in San Francisco
- Drew Dara-Abrams for a presentation on using space syntax and other computational models of urban form to study human spatial cognition and travel patterns at the Space Syntax Symposium in Stockholm last June
- Ed Pultar for a presentation in the Location Based Social Networks (LBSN) Workshop at the 2009 ACM GIS Conference in Seattle, Washington, earlier this month, titled “A case for space: physical and virtual location requirements in the CouchSurfing social network”
- Karl Grossner for a trip to the Social Science History Association Conference and Workshop in Long Beach where he organized and presented in a panel discussion titled “Modeling Agency and Action in Historical GIS” as well as presenting a paper titled “Towards an Integrated Model of Human Activity for Spatial History”
Jack and Laura Dangermond are the co-founders and President and Executive Vice President respectively of 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. The Dangermonds also support the Jack & Laura Dangermond Graduate Fellowship and the Jack & Laura Dangermond Undergraduate Scholarship, awarded annually to a promising graduate and an undergraduate geography student studying GIS in the UCSB Department of Geography. In addition, they provide support for an internationally outstanding researcher in geographic information science to be invited to campus to speak and to share research in an annual public forum.
The Jack & Laura Dangermond Travel Award is offered twice per year (Fall and Spring). All grads are notified of the opportunity by the Student Programs Manager, and applications are forwarded to Professor Mike Goodchild who selects the recipients. This year, a cap of $600 was put on awards for domestic travel, and a cap of $1,000 was put on awards for international travel.
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