California Geographical Society Student Award Winners 2013

List of the student award winners from the California Geographical Society 2013 Conference: DAVID LANTIS SCHOLARSHIPS Graduate Award ($500) Zia Salim, SDSU/UCSB Undergraduate Award ($400) Matthew Wigginton Conway, UC Santa Barbara BOBBE AND ROBERT CHRISTOPHERSON GEOSYSTEMS AWARD Graduate Award ($500): Veronica Roach, CSU, Fullerton Coastal sage scrub: A diminishing habitat in North Orange County, California Undergraduate Award ($500): Talisa Rodriguez, CSU Humboldt Primary succession and edge effects in a coastal dune habitat TOM MCKNIGHT PROFESSIONAL PAPER AWARDS Graduate Papers First Place ($150): Zia Salim, SDSU/UCSB Islands on an island: Urban and social geographies of gated communities in Bahrain Second Place ($125): Ali Hamdan, UCLA Where’s the state: Practices & policies of memory in Beirut, Lebanon Third Place ($100): Leaa Short, CSU Fullerton Trade, globalization, and production transition in the Louisiana crawfish industry Undergraduate Papers First Place ($150): Ryland Karlovich, CSU Humboldt Losing identity in England’s historic counties Second Place ($125): Chase Takajo, CSU Sonoma Sediment transportation throughout Copeland Creek Third Place ($100): Marissa Hultgren, CSU Stanislaus The geography of spies: Communism and American intelligence in World War II PROFESSIONAL PAPER CARTOGRAPHIC AWARDS First Place ($125): Amy Lippus, CSU Chico Penelope’s travels Second Place ($100): Katherine Willis, UCLA Conservation-based monitoring of landscape dynamics in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation area Third Place ($75): Garin Wally, CSU Chico South American viticulture JOE BEATON PROFESSIONAL POSTER AWARDS Graduate Posters First Place ($125): Sahoko Yui, UC Davis Oil palm expansion on deforested lands in the Amazon—too good to be true?: A case study in Para, Brazil Second Place ($100): Elizabeth Machado, CSU Stanislaus Transnational activities and its impact on the Azorean cultural landscape in Southeastern Massachusetts Third Place ($75): Jessica Medina, CSU Stanislaus Research and management of biodiversity hotspots: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands Undergraduate Posters First Place ($125): Chris Westover, CSU Sonoma Sonoma County oak hybridization Second Place ($100): Jennifer Campbell, CSU Sacramento The city of Sacramento’s resilience and recovery in the face of disaster from 1850–1880 Third Place ($75): Alyssa Caldwell, CSU Chico Geography of ownership and land fallowing decisions with rice farmers in Butte County, California (1984–2012) PROFESSIONAL DIGITALLY DISPLAYED CARTOGRAPHIC AWARDS First Place ($125): Michael Shensky, CSU Fullerton CSUF interactive campus web map Second Place ($100): Aldo Garcia, CSU Stanislaus Recreational bicycling: An interactive online map of bicycle trails along the Stanislaus River, Ripton, California Third Place ($75): Miles Ross, CSU Humboldt The geography of hate: Placing racist, sexist, homophobic sentiment in online social media STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS ($150) Crystal English, SDSU/UCSB Stephanie Redding, SDSU Dylan Thomas, UC Berkeley