Student Award Winners:

Second place, Graduate paper contest: Rachel Applebaum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Spatial Manifestation and Trends of Cremation in Pennsylvania

Third place, Graduate paper contest: Kelsey Kilhoffer,  Shippensburg University, Establishing a Baseline Groundwater Chemistry Database for Evaluating Future Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) on Groundwater Quality in Bradford County, Pennsylvania

First place, Undergraduate paper contest: Anthony DiBiase,   Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, A Geographical and Sociological Study of Parking Patterns in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Second place, Undergraduate paper contest: Terri Hoover,  Shippensburg University, Consumption Geography in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Consignment Shops, Thrift Stores, and Firsthand Clothing Outlets in Relationship to U.S. Census Demographic

First Place, Graduate student poster/map contest: Carolynne Hultquist, The Pennsylvania State University, Machine Learning for Post-fire Burn Severity Assessment in Diseased Forests

Second Place, Graduate student poster/map contest: Carolyn Fish, The Pennsylvania State University, Are You Blind to Change? Evaluating the Influence of Change Blindness in Animated Choropleth Maps

First place, Undergraduate poster contest: Sam Jacobson, Salisbury University, Developing a Small Water Bodies (SWB) Geodatabase for Wicomico County

Second place, Undergraduate poster contest: Jack Swab, The Pennsylvania State University, Whose Hand is on the Tap? Examining the Political Structure of Water Providers in Harford County, Maryland 

        

PGS Award Winners:

Ruby S. and E Willard Miller Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Joseph Bencloski, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Distinguished Geographer Award: Dr. Petra Tschakert, Penn State University

(Presented by PGS Past President Jodi Vender, left)