Harvard Students:

Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science 2008.

For students:

The deadline for the submittal of proposals is Friday, May 16, 2008, at 5:00 pm. Each submittal must consist of one digital copy on a .pdf format of your work (the text is limited to eight pages, not including graphics and images).

If you are thinking to submit your work forthe H.T. Fisher Prize, please send immediately a message to Lovison in order to avoid last minute delay that can prevent you to meet the deadline. (the submission is a two-step process where you need to be first registered.

To upload the document, please go to the Center for Geographic Analysis or here.

For guidelines please see: H. T. Fisher web site from Harvard Graduate School of Design

For Committee's members: please go to http://www.gis.harvard.edu or .

H.T.Fisher in GIS awardees 2006-2007:

Undergraduate Student category

Adam Sachs, an image taken from his submission entitled "Using Spatial Analysis to Establish a Relationship Between Hurricane Attributes and Damages",, part of his senior thesis presented to the Department of Economics and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Jaclyn Hatala, an image from a portion of her senior thesis entitled "Hyperspectral Spatial Analysis of Pathogen-Induced Mortality in Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem" ,in Environmental Science and Public Policy.

Graduate Student category

Corina Graif (PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology) for her submission entitled "Creative Class and Diversity: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Chicago Neighborhoods" , based on her Arts Masters thesis at Harvard.

Kevin Bunker(MUP candidate, Graduate School of Design) for his submission entitled "Evaluating Potential Sewer Extensions in Ipswich, Massachusetts".

For a detailed list of the awardees and their work, please see here.

For geospatial activities at Harvard University, please see Center for Geographic Analysis

For geospatial activities regarding interoperability and geospatial standards, please see Open Geospatial Consortium