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August 2015
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
ASPRS
NEWS
Bobbi Lenczowski
for her long-standing, selfless service to
the Society and for her continuing work as Secretary of the
ASPRS Board of Directors
Alan Mikuni, Rebecca Morton
and
Pierre le Roux
for
spearheading the highly-successful ASPRS UAS Technical
Demonstration and Symposium in Reno, Nevada, in October
2014.
R
egion
A
wards
Region of the Year
1st Place: Pacific South West Region; 2nd Place: Florida Re-
gion;
3rd Place: Heartland Region
Region Newsletter of the Year
Winner: Florida Region
Talbert Abrams Award
Grand Award Winner: Aaron E. Maxwell, Timothy A. Warner,
Michael P. Strager, and Mahesh Pal for “Combining RapidEye
Satellite Imagery and Lidar for Mapping of Mining and Mine
Reclamation,”
PE&RS
, 80 (2), 179-189.
S
cholarship
& A
cademic
A
wards
Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship
Winner: Mostafa Arastounia, doctoral candidate at the Uni-
versity of Calgary, Canada, Department of Geomatics Engi-
neering, with a specialization in feature recognition from 3-D
LIDAR.
Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship and the John
O. Behrens Institute for Land Information Memorial
Scholarship
Winner: Caitlin A. Ruby, from the University of Southern Mis-
sissippi, is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Geography with an
emphasis on Geographic Information Technologies and is on
track to receive her degree in May, 2015.
Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship
Winner: Nicholas Roberts, completing a PhD degree in Earth
Sciences at Simon Frazer University in British Columbia,
Canada.
The DigitalGlobe Foundation Award
Winner: Chunyuan Diao, PhD student in the Geography/Re-
mote Sensing Program at University of Buffalo, New York.
William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship and Paul R.
Wolf Memorial Scholarship
Winner: Benjamin Vander Jagt, a Ph.D. student in the Geo-
detic Science and Surveying Program at The Ohio State Uni-
versity in Columbus, Ohio.
International Educational Literature Award
Winner: University of Sierra Leone, Department of Geogra-
phy, the main provider for lecturing on Geoinformation, which
includes GIS, GPS, Photogrammetry, and Remote Sensing for
the disciplines of Geography, Biological Sciences, Geology, and
Civil Engineering.
The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship and
Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
Winner: Taylor J. Preece, pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree
in Geomatics Engineering, with a minor in mathematics, from
the California State University at Fresno in Fresno, California.
Ta Liang Memorial Award
Winner: Matthew Cross, a PhD. student in Civil Engineering
Systems at the University of Colorado, Denver specializing in
remote sensing and geographic information systems.
Z/I Imaging Scholarship
Winner: James Bialis, currently a Master’s student at Michi-
gan Technological University working in the field of Integrated
Geospatial Technology in Houghton, Michigan.
Conference Management Awards
2015 Recipient: Conference Director Alan Mikuni
2014 Recipient: Conference Director Jeffrey S. Lovin
Presidential Citations
Recipients: ASPRS Map Accuracy Standards Working Group:
Qassim Abdullah, David Maune, Douglas Smith and Hans
Karl Heidemann.
The Task Force on Streamlining the Governance and Man-
agement of ASPRS: Ryan Bowe, Ekaterina Fitos, and Douglas
Smith
Complete information on all of the above awards can be found
at:
Outstanding Technical Achievement
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ASPRS Awards
Region Website of the Year
1st Place: Western Great Lakes Region; 2nd Place: Rocky
Mountain Region; 3rd Place: Potomac Region
F
ord
B
artlett
M
embership
A
ward
The Ford Bartlett Membership Award is given to members
who sponsor ten or more new ASPRS Members in one calen-
dar year.
Recipients: Erik Brewster – Columbia River Region and Haluk
Cetin – Mid-South Region
Each recipient receives a hand-engrossed certificate and a one-
year membership in the Society.
