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.
Graduate Student Profiles
Jen Bays
Specialties
GIS; Remote Sensing; Data Analysis; Environmental Monitoring; Drone Mapping; Wildfire Monitoring
Elizabeth Curiskis
Specialties
GIS; Cartography; Urban Planning; Population and Migration Studies
Max Forsman
Specialties
GIS; Botanical Ecology; Wetland Science; Ecological Restoration; Environmental Permitting
Ellie Gunderson
Specialties
Mathematical Modeling; Numerical Analysis; Differential Equations
Cassie Hayes
Specialties
Archaeology; Anthropology; Cultural interpretation and interpretive landscapes; Heritage preservation; GIS for Good; Remote sensing
Amanda Hoffman
Specialties
Environmental geospatial analysis; Climate change; Data-driven decision-making; Sustainability
Max Kortebein
Specialties
Transportation, natural resources, and renewable energy applications of GIS
Ankila Kumari
Specialties
Spatial Analysis Integration; Geospatial Transportation; Spatial Programing, Data Integration.
Devin McGill
Specialties
Experience in all 3 phases of archaeological surveying, and technology for spatial data acquisition out in the field
Alaina Portoghese
Specialties
Environmental science, digital cartography, data visualization, GIS as a communication tool
Alexander Resig
Specialties
Intelligence Analysis; Map Design; GIS Applications in Law Enforcement and National/Homeland Security
Devin Rhoades
Specialties
Data Visualization; Environmental Policy; Climate Change Policy; Technology Policy; Data Hygiene; Remote Sensing; Geopolitics; Utilities, Utility Networks
James Smith
Specialties
Cartography; Urban Planning, Land Use, and Transportation; Public History; Public Communications; Climate Change
Kyle Smith
Specialties
Spatial Analysis for Urban Planning; Storytelling with GIS; Data Visualization & Decision-Making Support; Placemaking and Land Use
Irie Stein
Specialties
Graduate Minor: Earth Sciences; Remote Sensing, Geovisualization, Cartography, and Natural Resource Management; Climate change, cryosphere and polar sciences
Miles Sterner
Specialties
Geospatial programming, remote sensing, geology and environmental sciences
Erik Thomsen
Specialties
Environmental GIS; Watershed and water resources analysis; Land-use planning and environmental permitting; Trail planning and recreation GIS; Public lands and natural resource management; Cartography and spatial storytelling; Sustainability and environmental stewardship
Kiley Vlasak
Specialties
Remote Sensing; Imagery Analysis; Computer Science; Cultural Resource Preservation; Public Land-Use and Asset Management
