Eun-Hye (“Enki”) Yoo and Richard Middleton won first and second place, respectively, for their entries in the AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Student Paper Competition at the April 5-9 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Richard was awarded a cash prize for his paper, The p-Median Planning Problem , while Enki’s first place paper, Area-to-Point Kriging Prediction under Boundary Conditions, resulted in a cash prize as well as an invitation to submit her manuscript for publication in Geographical Analysis, subject to the standard review process of the journal.
There were 10 entries in the SAM field, and they were judged on the following criteria: (1) potential contribution to the use of mathematical models, statistical techniques, and other technological and computational approaches for analyzing spatial phenomena in any sub-field of geography; (2) appropriate and sound use of methodology; (3) originality; and (4) organization and written composition of the paper. The winners were announced at the SAM Specialty Group Business Meeting and at the AAG Awards Luncheon on April 9.
