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Awards

Through the generosity of Alumni and Supporters, we are now able to offer numerous Scholarships and Awards to deserving students in the Department of Geography and Environmental Resources. The SIU Foundation oversees these important donations to our department. Indeed, each year we now recognize outstanding majors; some have taken one or two courses, others have proven themselves over many semesters.

•	David and Carol Christensen Award for Undergraduate Research in Geography and Environmental Resources and Political Science
•	Gamma Theta Upsilon
•	David G. Arey Memorial
•	CDM (formerly Planning and Management Consultants, Ltd.) Student Awards
•	Geography Scholastic Achievement Award
•	Priscilla Anne Moulton Awards
•	Outstanding Students in Geography

In 1984, Dr. Dave Christensen retired from SIUC after teaching for decades about the need for a sustainable balance between what the Earth offers and demands put on the Earth by humans. With this award, Dr. Christensen hopes to encourage Geography students to focus on this critical relationship between the Earth and people.

Students must gather and analyze data or analyze and critique some program or strategy, at a local, medium or even a global scale, that looks toward achievement of a sustainable balance between the human family and the Earth.

TO APPLY:
Students must be a Major (undergraduate or graduate student) in Geography and Environmental Resources.

Individuals or small group should submit a brief 1-page proposal to their instructor that describes their project and poster:

research focus
link to sustainability and scale (noted above)
objectives
methodology

Finished projects will be judged prior to the annual spring "Poster Session" by a three-person departmental committee.

2008 - Daniel Flaherty, " ..........."
2007 - Kyle Johnson, Gavin Youngstrum, and Marcus Polancic, "Nitrate Levels in the Big Muddy River"
2006 - Aaron Goldsby, Jessica Korando, Mark Larsen, "Study of Economic Loss Due to Flooding in a Southern Illinois Township"

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Founded in 1928, GTU is an international honor society

in Geography. To date, more than 53,000 geographers have been inducted into the 220 chapters of GTU. The Purposes of GTU are:

To further professional interest in Geography by affording a common organization for those interested in the field.
To strengthen student and professional training through academic experiences in addition to those of the classroom and laboratory.
To advance the status of Geography as a cultural and practical discipline for study and investigation.
To encourage student research of high quality, and to promote an outlet for publication.
To create and administer funds for furthering graduate study and/or research in the field of Geography.

Membership is earned through superior scholarship; it is an honor, and a professional distinction. Academic standards are a must to gain entry:

3.0 GPA or better for all course work in last 60 hours, and
3.0 GPA or greater in at least nine (9) hours of Geography courses.

After years of inactivity, the Gamma Theta Upsilon chapter at SIUC was honored to initiate 19 new members on March 1, 2005. These students come from the Department of Geography and Environmental Resources undergraduate and graduate programs as well as from the Environmental Resources and Policy Ph.D. program.

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In 2001, we lost one of our distinguished professors. In his honor the David G. Arey Memorial Endowment Fund was established at the SIU Foundation to award Masters students with theses displaying creative thinking in natural resources and environmental problem solving.

Recipients are:

2008 - Mitchell Horrie, "Stakeholder Collaboration in Suburban Prairie Restoration: Three Case Studies from Cook County, Illinois," Leslie Duram, Advisor
2007 - Kara E. Scott, "Evaluating an Improved Algorithm for Segregating Large Geospatial Data," Tonny Oyana, Advisor
2006 - Poonthip Sirikulchayanon, "Assessing the Impacts of the 2004 Tsunami on Mangroves Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of Phang Nga, Thailand," Wanxiao Sun, Advisor
2005 - Michael Schultz, "Using Cloud to Ground Lightning as an Indicator of Debris Flow and Flash Flood Producing Storms in a Post Wildfire Environment," S. Jeffrey Underwood, Advisor
2004 - Emily D. Yates, "Recruitment of Three Non-native Invasive Plants into Fragmented Forests of Southern Illinois," Del Levia, Advisor
2003 - Bradley D. Larson, "A Spatial Decision Support System Capable of Applying Species-Specific Viability Parameters to National Gap Analysis Program Datasets," Raja Sengupta, Advisor
2002 - Reuben Heine, "Two New Automated Methods for Stream Channel Extraction Using Multivariate Channel Source Approximation," Christopher Lant, Advisor
2002 - Christina Ray, "Land Use Change in the Cypress Quadrangle, Illinois: 1807, 1938, and 1993," Leslie A. Duram, Advisor

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In 2004, the establishment of the CDM (formerly Planning and Management Consultants, Ltd) Scholarship Fund enabled us to award outstanding second-year Masters students:

Recipients are:

2008 - Sarah Johnson
2007 - Jessica Korando specializing in water resource management
2006 - Christiane Bohn for study in environmental management
2005 - Matthew Nelson for studying floodplain management related to flash floods in Texas.
2004 - Nathan Eidem for work on Nebraska water policy.
2004 - Shauna Bloom for research in agricultural policy.

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Each spring the Geography Scholastic Achievement Fund provides scholarships to an outstanding junior and an outstanding senior. Scholarships are awarded to selected undergraduate students who have declared Geography as their major and meet the following requirements:

Criteria of work completed at SIUC	Junior Award	Senior Award
Geography credit hours	9+	15+
Current overall grade point average	>3.00	>3.25
Current Geography grade point average	>3.00	>3.25
Recommendation of the Geography and Environmental Resources faculty

Many thanks to our alumni, family, and friends who have made the following awards possible:

	Junior Award	Senior Award
2008	Christine Prinz, Jessica Uramkin	Brian Palmer
2007	Robert Taylor, Pamela Venable	Rebecca Calliss, Daniel Smith
2006	Travis Milsap	Stanley Ezell
2005	Stanley Ezell	Nora Meyer
2004	Jack Millar	Gregory Gurbal
2003	William Platt	Rachael Gudgel
2002	Justin Beasley	Todd Evans
2001		Ryan Cummins
2000	Gregory Margenthaler	Heather Morris
1999	Mark Andreat	Anna Marie Nunamaker
1998		Blaine Ray

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Established in 1973, the Priscilla Anne Moulton Memorial Award acknowledges an Outstanding Senior as well as Outstanding Students each year. Priscilla Moulton, who was herself an outstanding major, died in an automobile accident in 1971. Priscilla's parents and friends, including Geography faculty, established a fund in her honor to defray the costs of research for graduate students, and to provide for recognition of undergraduate students.

Priscilla Anne Moulton Outstanding Seniors

2008 - Brian Palmer	2007 - Daniel E. Smith	2006 - Nora G. Meyer
2005 - Benjamin G. Miller	2004 - Rebecca C. DeCoster	2003 - Cary D. Lynch
2002 - Michelle Zuro	2001 - Sarah Smith	2000 - Anna Nunamaker
1999 - Blaine Ray	1998 - Christopher Hughes	1997 - Kelli Larson
1996 - Dennis Jeffra	1995 - Jill Rickbaugh	1994 - Karla Bergkoetter
1993 - Deborah Seifert	1992 - Frederick Requarth	1991 - Roger Huner
1990 - Edward Pettit	1989 - Ray Simpson	1988 - Carolyne Reeves
1987 - Eric Hein	1986 - Kristen Kilker	1985 - Christopher Hull
1984 - Steven LaSaine, Boniface Mills	1983 - Dale Conney	1982 - Nancy Kete
1981 - Roger Schenk, Jr.	1980 - Steven Werner	1979 - David Favero
1978 - Angela Chung	1977 - Claude Sehnert	1976 - Cathi Castelli
1975 - Edward Benfield	1974 - Andrew Fleming	1973 - Cheryl McCutcheon

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Each Spring semester we recognize students for their academic success and outstanding participation in the department.

2008 - Megan Baskerville, Sarah Heck, Chelsea Schroeder, Carissa Bedi, Aaron Seymour, Joshua Duncan, Juan Rivera, Rebecca Tally, Robert Taylor, Pamela Venable
2007 - Carissa Bedi, Aaron Seymour, Robert Taylor, Pamela Venable

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