International Sea Turtle Symposium with GAMErs write-up

Wan-Hwa Cheng awarded Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association  (APAPA) Central Florida Chapter Scholarship

Alexis Maldonado was selected as a recipient of the NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award. This will be awarded at the US-International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting in Anchorage, AK in May.

Alexis Maldonado was hired as an Environmental Scientist with Kleinfelder. She will be employing the skills she has focused on through her career at UCF, working on invasive species removal, as well as wetland mitigation and endangered species monitoring. We wish Alexis the best of luck on this new chapter in her life! Congratulations!

Dr. John Weishampel makes the cover of Optics & Photonics for a LiDAR and archaeology project he co-authored with Drs. Arlen and Diane Chase.

Stephanie Garvis was awarded an NCALM seed grant for her project: “Using shallow water bathymetric LiDAR data to characterize seagrass beds to parameterize storm surge and sea level rise models”.

Jhessye – Pedaling to the World Cup!

Stephanie Garvis taught the first-ever graduate-student-run class in the Biology department this semester. The goal of the class was to help students develop skills in GIS.

Christine Butterfield received a $2500 UCF LIFE grant for her research “Acoustic surveying of bat community diversity in relation to LiDAR-derived forest structure.”

GAMES lab awarded most original costume by Biology Department.