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Selected HERO publications, presentations, awards, and research papers are listed under these links. The names of Clark University students involved in HERO research are in bold print. |
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Awards and Honors
HERO Fellows at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2007
Kate Del Vecchio won 1st Place in the applied Geography Specialty Group's
Undergraduate Paper Competition (faculty advisor Colin Polsky)Joseph Fortier
won 1st Place in the Remote Sensing/Cartography & GIS Specialty Groups' Student
Illustrated Paper Competition (faculty advisor John Rogan)
Dawn Gedenberg and Nagraj Rao won 2nd Place in the Water Resources Specialty
Group's Undergraduate Illustrated Paper Competition (faculty advisor Colin
Polsky)
Troy Hill won 1st Place in the Applied Geography Specialty Group's Graduate
Paper Competition (faculty advisor Colin Polsky; Troy presenting his Clark BA
Honors Thesis paper that he completed last year)
Paula Kiviranta won 1st Place in the Glenda Laws Undergraduate Paper Award,
presented by the Urban Geography Specialty Group (this paper was not associated
with HERO, but Paula is a HERO Fellow working with John Rogan)
Clark University HERO Students and Faculty are Well Represented and
Recognized at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers
Assefa, Sarah,
Laura Merner,
Kate del Vecchio, and
Isaac Payano (HERO/NSF
REU-Polsky). 2006. Best student poster from the Water Resources Specialty Group
of the Association of American Geographers undergraduate poster competition.
Poster title: "Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability to Drought in the Ipswich River
Watershed, MA."
Connors, John
(HERO-Pontius). 2006. Second place in the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers in the Student Illustrated Paper Competition
(all other awards to doctoral students). Paper title: "Quantifying
Categorical Associations using Sub-pixel Mapping."
Hill, Troy (HERO-Polsky).
2006. Best student paper from the Water Resources Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers undergraduate paper competition. Paper
title: "Adaptation to Climate Variability in Central Massachusetts: A Focus on
Structure and Agency."
McCauley, Stephen (HERO
Graduate Research Assistant). 2006. National Science Foundation Doctoral
Dissertation Improvement Grant for project titled: "Species
Distribution Modeling Using Land-use Variables in Support of Habitat
Conservation for Reptiles and Amphibians." Professor Rogan is Co-PI.
Frazier, R.; T. Jones; and C. Lippitt (HERO-Rogan). 2004. John O'Connor Human-Environment Regional Observatory Fellowships.
Lippitt, C. (HERO-Rogan). 2004. First place in the Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Paper Competition III: Experiments and Error with his paper "A method to distinguish real landscape change from map error during map comparison," Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA.
Malizia, N. 2004. Travel grant to present a paper at the Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science at the University of Maryland, October 20-23, 2004.
Malizia, N. 2004. Awarded Highest Honors for his Senior Honors Thesis, "Effect of Category Aggregation on Measurement of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change." R.G. Pontius and S. Ratick, advisors.
Malizia, N. 2004. Finalist in the GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition for his paper "The effect of category aggregation on land-use and cover change measurement," Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA.
Versluis, A. 2004. Travel grant to present a poster at the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science at the University of Maryland, October 20-23, 2004.
High Honors for HERO - Commencement 2006
Clark awards “highest honors” to its graduating seniors rarely. This year, the
HERO program has three graduating seniors among the University's highest
achievers.
- Graduating with highest honors: John Connors (first reader Gil Pontius,
second reader John Rogan) and Troy Hill (first reader Colin Polsky, second
reader Rob Goble)
- Graduating with high honors: Ryan Frazier (first reader John Rogan,
second reader Gil Pontius)
- Graduating Phi Beta Kappa: Rebecca Alper, a HERO alumna. Rebecca
also won the Clark award for Outstanding Social Science Student and received
a Fulbright grant for study in Spain next year.
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