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.




Laure Briol
Specialties
Geospatial Transportation Modeling; Geovisualization and Design; Spatial Data Science and Optimization

Max Forsman
Specialties
GIS; Botanical Ecology; Wetland Science; Ecological Restoration; Environmental Permitting

Logan Gall
Specialties
Spatial Data Science; Data Engineering; Hardware Sensors & Devices; Statistics

Ellie Gunderson
Specialties
Mathematical Modeling; Numerical Analysis; Differential Equations



Amanda Hoffman
Specialties
Environmental geospatial analysis; Climate change; Data-driven decision-making; Sustainability





Ankila Kumari
Specialties
Spatial Analysis Integration; Geospatial Transportation; Spatial Programing, Data Integration.

Ben Landers
Specialties
Environmental Science, Geoscience, Data Visualization, Geospatial Modeling



Leah Rumon
Specialties
GIS for Local Government; Visualization & Cartography; Asset Management; Public Works Infrastructure

Lucy Sageser
Specialties
GIS, Public Lands Management, Habitat Restoration, Prescribed Burn and Wildfire Management

Nicole Schiller
Specialties
GIS applications for polar science, earth science and oceanography


Kyle Smith
Specialties
Spatial Analysis for Urban Planning; Storytelling with GIS; Data Visualization & Decision-Making Support; Placemaking and Land Use

Paulina Vergara Buitrago
Specialties
Environmental Studies; Remote Sensing; Human Geography

Cleo Young
Specialties
Remote sensing; Climate change; Water resource management; Science communication