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 |
|---|---|
| Alysha Alloway Fall 2017 Full-time |
Macalester College, BA Geography/Classics Human-environment interaction; sustainability |
| Amber Benbow Fall 2019 Part-time |
University of Minnesota, BA English Environmental management; sustainability |
| Meric Birol Fall 2017 Full-time |
Karadeniz Technical University (Turkey), BS Geomatics Engineering Spatial analysis and modeling |
| Liang-Ting Chen Fall 2019 Full-time |
National Defense University (Taiwan), BEng Computer Science and Information Engineering Spatial analysis and web GIS |
| Zhuo Chen Fall 2018 Full-time |
Anhui University of Science & Technology, BS Natural Geography & Resource Environment GIS software development and spatial analysis |
| 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 |
| Maisong Francis Fall 2019 Full-time |
Gustavus Adolphus College, BA Biology and Environmental Studies Natural resource management and spatial analysis |
| Anders Hopkins Fall 2018 Full-time |
Luther College, BA Anthropology and Classics Spatial analysis and modeling, public health |
| Cecelia Issac Spring 2019 Part-time |
State University of New York at Albany, BA English and Chinese Studies Data science, immigration and refugee movement, crisis mapping, urban development |
| Brynn Johnson Spring 2017 Full-time |
University of Minnesota, BS Fisheries and Wildlife Wildlife management and environmental education |
| Sarah Jones Fall 2017 Part-time |
University of Minnesota, BFA Painting, Drawing and Printmaking Asset management and university services |
| Lucas Laniel Fall 2019 Full-time |
St. Cloud State University, BA Geography Web cartography, spatial analysis and hydrologic modeling |
| Xiaoran Li Fall 2018 Full-time |
Northwest A & F University, BS Geographic Information Science Environmental modeling, spatial analysis and statistics |
| Kuan-Jui Lin Fall 2018 Full-time |
Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, BEng Environmental Information & Engineering Web GIS and Services, spatial analysis and geovisualization |
| Megan Luick Fall 2018 Full-time |
Gustavus Adolphus College, BA Geology & Geography/GIS Hydrogeology, spatial analysis and modeling |
| 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 |
| Travis Ormsby Spring 2019 Full-time |
Grinnell College, BA Anthropology; University of St. Thomas, MA Education Spatial analysis and government policy |
| Young-Shin Park Fall 2018 Full-time |
Yonsei Unviersity, BS Computer Science and Industrial System Engineering; BS Nursing; Seoul National University, MPH, Health Care Management and Policy Spatial modeling and statistics, public health, geovisualization |
| Lucas Rosen Fall 2019 Full-time |
University of Wisconsin - River Falls, BS Conservation Conservation biology and spatial analysis |
| Emily Ruetz Fall 2018 Full-time |
University of Minnesota, BS Computer Science Geocomputing, big data analytics |
| Lauren Strug Fall 2017 Full-time |
Beloit College, BS Geology Environmental conservation, spatial analysis and modeling |
| Erik Thorkelson Spring 2018 Full-time |
Carthage College, BA Geography and Earth Science Spatial analysis, cartography |
| Andrew Van Eps Fall 2019 Full-time |
Bethel University, BS Environmental Science Spatial analysis, natural resource management |
| Hannah White Spring 2019 Full-time |
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, BS Wildlife Ecology Natural resources and wildlife conservation, spatial analysis |
| Yijing Zhou Fall 2019 Full-time |
East China Normal University, BS Geographic Sciences Cartography; urban GIS |