Award Recipients

presented at the Awards Luncheon
March 26, 2003
Holiday Inn Worthington, Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Geospatial Applications Award for Agriculture and Natural Resources
Visual Image and Design Competition: GIS, Remote Sensing, Proximal Sensing, and Integrated Geospatial Methods
Honor Awards

David Crecelius Receives Ohio Geospatial Applications Award

The Ohio Geospatial Applications Award was presented to David Crecelius, Ohio Department of Natural Resources at the March 26, 2003, Ohio Geospatial Technology Conference Awards Luncheon. The award was presented on behalf of the Ohio Geospatial Technology Conference for Agriculture and Natural Resources awards committee. This first-ever award recognizes someone who contributes to the advancement and development of geospatial applications for agriculture and natural resources in Ohio.

David Crecelius is the Applications Administrator and GIS Coordinator for ODNR. He is responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing the implementation of ODNR's GIMS program. Bob Vertrees, OSU School of Natural Resources, presented the award at the luncheon.

David Crecelius (right), ODNR, receives the Ohio Geospatial Applications Award from Bob Vertrees, OSU School of Natural Resources.

Visual Image and Design Competition

Geographic Information Systems

1st Place
Targeting Lamprey Habitat Using GIS
Ann Marie Gorman, Joseph Koonce, Allan Chang, and Jessica White
Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University

2nd Place
Using a GIS Based Evaluation and Site Assessment Model in the Development of a Natural Resource Comprehensive Land Use Plan
Timothy DeWitt, Bennett and Williams Environmental Consultants, Inc., Tim Lawrence, Ohio State University Extension, and Lawrence Libby, The Ohio State University

3rd Place
Soil-based Agricultural Priority Modeling in Fulton County
Gavin Smith
University of Toledo

Honorable Mention

General Purpose GIS Layers Available from the Ohio Division of Geological Survey
Donovan Powers, Larry Wickstrom, Ernie Slucher, Mac Winford
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey

Initiating a County-wide Geographic Information System in Rural Ohio
Mark Mechling
Ohio State University Extension, Muskingum County

Remote Sensing

1st Place
The Effect of Spatial and Spectral Resolutions on Vegetation Indices
Shiue-Shian Lin and Carolyn Merry
Department of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, The Ohio State University

2nd Place
Comparison of SeaWiFS with in situ data for Lake Erie
Raghavendra Mupparthy and Carolyn Merry
Department of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, The Ohio State University

3rd Place
Adam J. DeMars and Kevin Czajkowski
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo

Honorable Mention
Challenges and Limitations in Using Remote Sensing to Delineate Wetlands in Northwest Ohio
Patrick Lawrence, Michelle Grigore, Matt Horvat, Kevin Czajkowski, Nathan Torbick
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo

Proximal Sensing

1st Place
Improvement in Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations by Co-Kriging of Soil Cation Exchange Capacity With Electrical Conductivity
Nathan Wright
Geophyta, Inc.

2nd Place
Comparison of Three Near-Surface Geophysical Methods Used Agriculturally to Map Soil Electrical Conductivity
Barry Allred, Reza Ehsani, and Jeffrey Daniels
USDA - Agricultural Research Service and Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University

Integrated Geospatial Methods

1st Place
Geospatial Technology in Support of Agroecosystems Management
Deana Hudgins, Jason Parker, and Krishna Prasad
Agroecosystems Management Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University

2nd Place
Scouting and Decision Making in Precision Agriculture
Jeff Boyer, Phil Walker, and Steve Hawkins
Davis-Purdue Ag Center, Purdue University

3rd Place
Application of Remote Sensing and GIS on Agricultural Non-point Soil Erosion Modeling
Xin Hu, Carolyn Merry, and T.H. Wu
Department of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, The Ohio State University

Honor Awards

• All Ohio Chapter of Soil and Water Conservation Society
  
• Davey Resource Group
  
• Environmental Systems Research Institute, ESRI
  
• GeoVantage
  
• GRASS
  
• Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program
  
• United States Geological Survey
  
• WorldFX

Awards presented on behalf of the Ohio Geospatial Technology Conference for Agriculture and Natural Resources Planning Committee.