Clark Grad Student Wins “Summer Of Maps” Fellowship
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Azavea, an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, has announced that Tyler Dahlberg (GISDE ’14) is one of three students named winners of its second Summer of Maps. Inspired by the Google Summer of Code, Azavea Summer of Maps is a program that offers $5,000 stipends to student GIS analysts to perform pro bono geospatial data analysis projects for nonprofit organizations during the summer of 2013. Azavea received applications from students and nonprofits from across the United States.
Mapping + non-profits
Dahlberg will be working with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia on the analysis and visualization of bicycle activity in Philadelphia; and with the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger on the visualization of high-need residents and underserved areas in the city.
Like the first Summer of Maps in 2012, this year both national and regional nonprofit organizations applied with a wide array of potential spatial analysis projects that spanned domains as varied as arts and culture, environment, community and economic development, public health and food, elections and politics, transportation, and family services.
The majority of the student applications came from students at regional Philadelphia universities like Temple University, University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr, but a significant number were submitted from as far away as Middlebury College, Harvard University, The New School University, University of California Davis, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
From June to August, the fellows will:
- Work on a spatial analysis project that supports the social mission of two nonprofit organizations
- Work with Azavea mentors to improve their GIS and project-management skills
- Receive a monthly stipend
- Gain work experience implementing real-world GIS projects.
Tech that combines social and civic value
“The quality of the applications we received from both the nonprofit organizations and students was outstanding,” said Robert Cheetham, Azavea CEO and president. “Competition was fierce, which made it challenging for us to select winning organizations and students. What this showed us, though, is that a lot of nonprofits are asking very sophisticated spatial data analysis questions in support of their missions. I am very excited that Azavea will have a chance to work with these top students implementing projects with social and civic value.”
Dahlberg graduated from Iowa State University and currently works as research assistant for Professor Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger and as a writing tutor in the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark. He is primarily interested in GIS as it applies to issues of public health and environmental exposure, as well as water conservation issues. Prior to coming to Clark, he worked as a GIS analyst for the New York State Department of Health’s Center for Environmental Health, and for the NYSDOH Bureau for HIV/AIDS Epidemiology. Dahlberg recently won a Geller Grant from Clark University to travel to Uganda and perform GIS research on sustainable microgrid development in 2013.
Related Articles
- Clark Alumni Association Selects Arlington Teacher for OSEA
- Clark Prof. Co-Authors Book, Says ‘Coaching Makes Better Teachers’
- Clark’s 5th Annual Relay for Life Racing Toward a Cure
- Parents of 18-29 Year Olds Want Them Living At Home—Clark Poll
- Clark Applications Up an ‘Astounding’ 29 Percent
- Clark Students Present Policy Ideas to Conservation Society
- Don’t Miss: Renowned Scholar to Hold Foreign Policy Talk at Clark
- Clark First School in Mass to Commit to ‘Real Food’ Purchasing
- Clark To Host International Conference on Sustainable Consumption
- Israeli Scholar to Lecture at Clark on Final Days of Holocaust
- Clark Grad Student Wins “Summer Of Maps” Fellowship
- Clark University Students Hold Walk for Marathon Victims
- NEW: Clark Prof’s Next-Gen Science Exemplar Scores $200K NSF Grant
- Clark Hands Out Over 1,000 Degrees At Commencement
- Clark to Celebrate Earth Day with Go Green on the Green 2013
- NEW: Clark Prof. Receives $700K to Study Postpartum Depression
- Clark Named in Princeton Review’s Guide to Top ‘Green Colleges’
- Clark to Host Noted Author and Transgender Advocate
- NEW: EMILY’s List Puts Katherine Clark “On the List”
- Clark Prof Garners National Attention for Research on Gay Marriage
- Clark to Host Panels, Lecture on Global Change and Sustainability
- Nine Clark Undergraduates Receive Steinbrecher Fellowships
- Clark Prof Leads Study on Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise
- Clark to Host Sneak Peek of Wonder Woman Documentary
- Noted Southern Historian Karen L. Cox to Deliver Lecture at Clark
Follow us on Pinterest Google + Facebook Twitter See It Read It