Coline Dony wins Best Master’s Thesis award from TGSG of the AAG

In an email to the TGSG members… I am pleased to announce our award winners for 2014. Like last year we had a number of high- quality nominations/applications and they were difficult to distinguish. The Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG) board members carefully evaluated each nomination and the following individuals are awarded in the upcoming AAG conference in Tampa, Florida:

The Master’s student competition award also ended in a tie between Colin Dony of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Daniel Schleith of Florida State University. Colin receives this award for his thesis entitled “Using GIS to determine travel impedance to hospitals for infants with spina bifida in Florida, 1998-2007,” was supervised by Dr. Eric Delmelle. Daniel receives this award for his thesis entitled “Investigating spatially disaggregate commuting for workers with different incomes in Leon County, Florida,” was supervised by Dr. Mark Horner.