Heather
Francisco wins National Geographic Award in Mapping
Cartography
graduate student Heather Francisco has been awarded the prestigious
"Award in Mapping" from the National Geographic
Society and the AAG's Cartography Specialty Group. Awards
include $1200 cash, a world atlas, and an award certificate.
Francisco said of the map "Refugee Movements in Africa"
(shown at right): "This
map is a proportional symbol flow map showing refugee movements
in Africa. The
goals of the map are to spark interest in refugee issues and promote further
inquiry into the topic. The line-work with the arrows was the most challenging
and iterative process; I wanted the patterns to be evident and hot spots to
be noticeable without the viewer having to refer to the legend to understand
the pattern."
The Award
in Mapping from the NGS and CSG recognizes student
achievement and seeks to encourage student reserach in
the art, science, and technology of mapping in the cartographic
discipline or a related discipline, such as geographic
information systems, where there is a cartographic emphasis.
Congratulations, Heather ! The award at
will be officially announced at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers (AAG) in Chicago, Illinois, March 7-11, 2006.
Naughton wins Vilas award
Jamie Peck writes that Lisa Naughton, Associate Professor
of Geography, has been awarded a Vilas Associateship by the
Graduate School. The
award will provide two years of support for Lisa's work on
re-zoning efforts around rainforest parks,
including additional fieldwork in South America. A great achievement
for Lisa--since this competition is always a tough one--and great news
for the department, of course.
Congratulations, Lisa!
New campus map, new perspective
A
team of Department of Geography students worked last year to
completely re-design and coordinate production of the new UW-Madison
Visitor Map, shown at right.
The effort was the successful combination of a Geography 575
class project and student cartographers hired to complete the
draft. It follows the 1977 effort of cartography students who
created the previous campus map.
A
team of Department of Geography students worked last year to
completely re-design and coordinate production of the new UW-Madison
Visitor Map, shown at right. 