Every year, there is one GIS Award granted to the most outstanding GIS Capstone Project.  The award is nominated by the advisor and evaluated by the research committee based on quality of research, originality, impact of research in GIT field, and communication of results.

           

 

       Dr. Yongqin Zhang led three MAS-GIT students to attend and give presentations on the 4th Mississippi Geospatial conference held at Long Beach, MS on Oct. 20-21. They gave the following presentations:

       Kory Iman and Yongqin Zhang, poster  “A Geospatial Method to Develop Infrastructure of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations”. The poster was awarded 1^st Place Student Poster Award with a $50 check. Congratulations to Kory Iman!

      Yongqin Zhang and Adrien Roth, oral presentation “Investigating the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Natural Gas Production and Vegetation Change through remote sensing”.  

      Aaron Francois and Yongqin Zhang, oral presentation “Determining Species of Greatest Conservation Need Occurrence in the Yazoo River Drainage, Mississippi”

      Christopher Phillips and Yongqin Zhang, oral presentation  “Study of the Zika Virus using Disease Mapping and Ecological Niche Models”

      2016 MAS-GIT student Chris Smith is awarded a 2016 Graduate Scholarship by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF).  The scholarship program is to recognize graduate student who contribute to the advancement of the geospatial tradecraft. He received $5,000 in recognition of achievements in academic and professional excellence

                     

2012 MAS graduate Wayne Drew Fioranelli won Herb Stout Award, the highest GIS local government award in North Carolina, for the innovative thinking in the Mobile311app project.

MAS 2013 graduate Shaun Stanton received a promotion with the boost of his MAS degree. Congratulations!

       Eight MAS students received the Master degree on December 14, 2013.  Congratulations!

        Ten MAS students received the Master degree on December 15, 2012.  Congratulations!

       2012 MAS graduate Jason Weick and Dr. Yongqin Zhang attended the Mississippi Academy of Science Annual Meeting in February, 2012.  Both of them gave presentations on their recent research work.   Jason presented a poster on his research "Assessment of in-season agricultural crop growth using field and airborne remote sensing measurements" and Dr. Zhang gave an oral presentation "Developing remote sensing methods to estimate short vegetation biophysical variables".      

2012 MAS graduate Nick Parish got a GIS Analyst job position in Washington D.C. after finishing his study at Delta State University.

      After finishing the degree requirements, Marjorie Evangelista was hired as an instructor of GIS classes at Brookhaven College, Texas.  She is now admitted to the Healthcare Graduate Certificate Program at University of Texas at Dallas, and in the process of applying for Ph.D. study to pursue her academia dream.  

      2012 MAS graduate Jason Weick got a new job of Data/Web manager at Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in September.  He has been working in the fields of remote sensing applications to agriculture and geospatial mapping.

      2012 MAS graduate Michael Maloney found a new job in Delta Electric Power Association as a GIS manager.

     2012 MAS student Amanda Santmyer received a new job at Sanders Agriculture (http://jsanders.com/) based in Cleveland, MS.  Amanda works at Optigrow Division (http://jsanders.com/services.html) using lidar and other remote sensing data to guide farmers regarding fertilizer, crop output, irrigation, etc.  Her job is to create standards of obtaining, storing, and formatting the data so each individual location has a uniform method of housing data.

Chief Warrant Officer Mitchel Dascent, Geospatial Engineering Technician with US Army, is currently in Afganistan for a mission.

      2012 MAS student Thomas (Toby) Sanford, (third from left in the picture below) is the GIS manager at the Golden Triangle Planning and Development District Inc.  He received National Association of Development Organizations Innovation Award.

As the GIS Manager for the Golden Triangle Planning and Development District, Inc., Thomas Sanford works for the County redistrict in Mississippi.  More reports on his work have been presented in Starkville Dailynews. More details at: starkvilledailynews1, starkvilledailynews2, starkvilledailynews3