Awards and Media

Awards

2022, Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) 50^th Annual Map Competition Award. Best in Show, and tie for Best Book or Atlas category. Title: Atlas of Yellowstone, Second Edition.

2020 Renewable Natural Resources Foundation Outstanding Achievement Award. Title: Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming Ungulates.

2019, Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS), Annual Map Competition “Best in Show” and “Best Atlas” Awards. Title: Wild Migrations.

2019, The Wildlife Society, Wildlife Publication Award for an Edited Book. Title: Wild Migrations.

2019, High Plains Book Award Finalist. Title: Wild Migrations.

2014, AAG Mountain Geography Specialty Group, Denali Recent Accomplishment Award, Association of American Geographers. Title: Atlas of Yellowstone.

2013, Wyoming State Historical Society, First Place Award in the Publications Reference Category. Title: Atlas of Yellowstone.

2012, Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) 40^th Annual Map Competition “Best in Show” Award. Title: Atlas of Yellowstone.

2012, Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics and also the PROSE Award in the Earth Sciences category. Title: Atlas of Yellowstone. Around the O, University of Oregon, Feb.7, 2013

2012, Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award with State of Oregon Department of Administrative Services: Title: Development of “iRaptor” – A Mobile Common Operating Picture iPad application. (Ken Kato, PI)

2011 Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award: Title: Developing mobile mapping/GIS applications that pushed the boundaries of integrating enterprise GIS with high quality cartographic design. (Ken Kato, PI)

2010, AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography. Association of American Geographers. (Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas, with Esther Jacobson-Tepfer)

2010, Cartography and Geographic Information Society 38^th Map Design Competition Book/Atlas category Honorable Mention. (Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas, with Esther Jacobson-Tepfer and Alethea Steingisser)

2006, American Society of Landscape Architectures and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Faculty Advisor “Award of Excellence in Research.”

2003, International Cartographic Association, “Award for Excellence in Cartography,” 21^st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, South Africa. (Atlas of Oregon, CD-ROM, with Erik Steiner)

2003, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), “Best in Show” and “Best of Category: Book and Atlas Division” (Atlas of Oregon, CD-ROM, with Erik Steiner).

2002, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), “Best in Show” and “Best of Category: Book and Atlas Division” (Atlas of Oregon, 2^nd Edition, with W. Loy, S. Allan, and A. Buckley).

2002, Benjamin Franklin Award, Category: Education/Teaching/Academic. Publishers Marketing Association. ” (Atlas of Oregon, 2^nd Edition, with William Loy, Stuart Allan, and Aileen Buckley).

1999, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) International Users Conference Awards: “Best of Show” and “Best Software Integration.” Mapping the University of Oregon Campus: Integration of GIS, Map Publishing, Facilities Mapping, and Architectural Design.

Articles

UO partners with state to improve tsunami evacuation planning (Around the O, August 2021)

UO geographers map out new conservation opportunities (Around the O, May 2021)

Alumna spotlight: Lauren Tierney (UO College of Arts and Sciences, April 2021)

Alumna spotlight: Rudy Omri (UO College of Arts and Sciences, April 2021)

One deer’s journey: An epic migration is revealed in new maps (Around the O, October 2019)

Experience the UO from your mobile device (University of Oregon website)

UOregon app at top of mapping world (Celebrating Champions, University of Oregon, Sept. 2011)

New on Campus? There’s an App for That. (Arc User, Winter 2011)

University of Oregon Uses ArcGIS API for iOS (Arc News, Winter 2010/2011)

Campus iPhone App Helps University of Oregon Students Negotiate Their Way around Campus (ArcWatch, Feb. 2011)

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