Month: April 2024

Lab member Ryan Zhenqi Zhou receives both the 2024 Hugh Calkins Applied GIS Award and the 2024 Michael Trapasso Climate Impacts Award!

The Hugh Calkins Applied GIS Award is given annually to a graduate student from UB Geography, who best applies the principles that Dr. Calkins developed and taught for many years.

The Dr. L. Michael Trapasso award is given annually to a current graduate student from UB Geography in order to advance his/her research involving the use of meteorological or climatological data in the following year. For Ryan, he uses meteorological or climatological data to advance his research on winter storms and blizzards, and to help communities become more resilient during these disasters.

Congratulations, Ryan!!

Yingjie is extremely honored to receive the 2024 Emerging Scholar Award from the American Association of Geographer (AAG) Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group. This award “honors early- to mid-career scholars who have made significant contributions to education and research initiatives.”

Due to family care responsibilities (his second child was born a few weeks ago), Yingjie couldn’t travel to Hawaii to receive this award. Many thanks to UB PhD student Qingqing Chen who brought back the award plaque for him. Yingjie is extremely grateful for the great support from his mentors, colleagues, and students, and he looks forward to continuing contributing to GIScience, SAM, and beyond!