Graduate Students
Our students are bright, success-oriented achievers who bring a broad mixture of skills, experiences and interests. Some begin with little or no background in GIS. Others are already working in the field. MGIS students have undergraduate degrees from a variety of disciplinary areas including the humanities, social sciences and natural/physical sciences. Some of our students founded the GIS Student Organization (GISSO), which sponsors a GIS Day event in the fall and a job and career fair in the spring.
| Name | Previous Degree & Specialty |
|---|---|
| Cole Anderson Fall 2020 Full-time |
University of Minnesota, BS Geography Developing innovative, accessible spatial navigation tools; health equity analysis; social justice and racial equity |
| Brian Bagley Spring 2021 Full-time |
Texas A & M University, BS Geophysics; University of Minnesota, PhD Geophysics/Seismology CyberGIS; geocomputing and spatial analysis/modeling; spatial data science |
| Amber Benbow Fall 2019 Part-time |
University of Minnesota, BA English Environmental management; sustainability |
| Emily Cavazos Fall 2020 Full-time |
Macalester College, BA Biology Environmental conservation; water quality management; solar energy; environmental education and community engagement |
| Liang-Ting Chen Fall 2019 Full-time |
National Defense University (Taiwan), BEng Computer Science and Information Engineering Spatial analysis and web GIS |
| Ziying Cheng Fall 2019 Full-time |
Northwest A & F University (China), BS Geographic Information Science Geovisualization and GIS development |
| Nicole Dunn Fall 2019 Full-time |
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, BS Environmental Science Natural resource management and spatial analysis |
| Michael Felzan Spring 2020 Full-time |
Lawrence University, BA Geology & Environmental Science GIS and structural geology/environmental management |
| Maisong Francis Fall 2019 Full-time |
Gustavus Adolphus College, BA Biology and Environmental Studies Natural resource management and spatial analysis |
| Tom Glancy Fall 2020 Full-time |
University of Minnesota-Morris, BA Geology Environmental and water resources management; open source software and applications |
| Douglas Griep Spring 2020 Part-time |
University of St. Thomas, BA Economics; BS Business Admin-Real Estate Studies Geovisualization and cartography |
| Mary Heise Fall 2020 Full-time |
University of Minnesota-Duluth, BS Environmental Science Soils and agricultural landscape management; spatial modeling and analysis |
| Cecelia Issac Spring 2019 Full-time |
State University of New York at Albany, BA English and Chinese Studies Data science, immigration and refugee movement, crisis mapping, urban development |
| Lucas Laniel Fall 2019 Full-time |
St. Cloud State University, BA Geography Web cartography, spatial analysis and hydrologic modeling |
| Megan Marsolek Fall 2020 Full-time |
Concordia College-Moorhead, BA Mathematics & Art Natural resource management; climate change modeling and assessment |
| Marguerite Mills Spring 2019 Full-time |
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, BS Child Psychology Spatial analysis, cognitive science, social ecology and inequity |
| Adam Null Fall 2019 Full-time |
Ball State University, BS Geography Geocomputing, human ecology and GIS |
| Lucas Rosen Fall 2019 Full-time |
University of Wisconsin - River Falls, BS Conservation Conservation biology and spatial analysis |
| Carl Sones Spring 2020 Full-time |
University of Wisconsin - River Falls, BAS Geographic Information Science Spatial analysis and GIS development |
| Andrew Van Eps Fall 2019 Full-time |
Bethel University, BS Environmental Science Spatial analysis, natural resource management |
| Yijing Zhou Fall 2019 Full-time |
East China Normal University, BS Geographic Sciences Cartography; urban GIS |
| Rongxuan Zhu Fall 2020 Full-time |
University of Minnesota, BA Earth Science Geospatial data modeling and geodatabase design |