Twice a year, students in the MS GIS and GEOINT programs present their capstone projects—the final hurdle on their way to earning their graduate degrees—at the MS Capstone Symposium. The capstone course is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in an independent research or design project. This year's cohort did an amazing job presenting these projects online and in-person to a record-breaking crowd!
On Nov. 14 and 16, students presented their projects applying GIS, spatial analysis, modeling, remote sensing, web app development and geospatial intelligence across a wide variety of topics and disciplines. The symposium was held both online through lightning talks and in-person as a poster session.
View recordings of the lightning talks here.
Students who presented at the Lightning Talks:
| Name | Captsone Title |
|---|---|
| Michael Adegbenro | Assessing Forest Cover Dynamics in Ukraine from 2000 to 2015 using Elevation Change |
| Nicholas Amodeo | Instability in West Africa: Analysis of Political Violence Migration in Mali and Burkina Faso |
| Megan Banaski | Enhancing Location-Based Social Network Recommendations with Spatial Analysis |
| Tyler Caruso | Urban Tree Canopy Assessment of Richmond, Virginia |
| Nadia De Almeida | The Relationship Between Land Cover and Wildfire Occurrences in the Brazilian Legal Amazon |
| Kaitlyn Harvey | Maryland’s Bridge Infrastructure Asset Management System |
| Stewart Douglas McBean | Geospatial Insights into Crisis: A GIS-Based Examination of Homelessness, Socioeconomic Disparities, and Crimes involving the Homeless Population in Los Angeles (2019, 2020, and 2022) |
| Claire Muhungi | Predictive Analysis of Urban Growth in Nakuru City |
| Patrick O'Brien | Weighted Raster-based Suitability Modeling for Wind Energy Site Selection |
| Michael Prihoda | Using Deep Learning and Synthetic Aperture Radar for UXO Detection |
| Harel Tanjong | The Effect of the Covid-19 Lockdown on Sectarian Violence in Northern Ireland |
Congratulations to all MS GIS and GEOINT Fall graduates on earning their degrees!
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