Tanya Petach Wins Fisher Prize

Please join us in congratulating EPS concentrator Tanya Petach who has been named a winner of the 2013 Fisher Prize for her project “Earth History in Death Valley”.  The goals of the Fisher Prize are to promulgate and reward geo-spatial work at Harvard University, across a wide range of disciplines and techniques, as this year’s winners demonstrate.  The Howard T. Fisher Prize for excellence in Geographic Information Science was established in 1999, by the Harvard University GIS User’s Group, to promote and reward student work in this broad and potentially interdisciplinary area, from both undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard University. Concerning Tanya’s project, the committee commented: “Visually pleasing well-organized analysis with appropriate scientific rigor…” and “…effective use of modeling three-dimensional structures from digital elevation data and field recordings.”  Great work Tanya!