Awards & Recognition

Twenty-Fourth Annual Texas GIS Forum (2014)

Playa Wetlands Geodatabase and Web Mapping Application

by Lucia Barbato and Kevin Mulligan

Map won First Place in the Map Competition sponsored by the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) in Austin, TX.

Thirty-Third Annual ESRI International User Conference (2013)

Projected Usable Lifetime of the Ogallala Aquifer

by Lucia Barbato, Kevin Mulligan, and Santosh Seshadri

Map won Third Place in the Best Use of ESRI Basemap in the map gallery competition.

Twenty-Third Annual Texas GIS Forum (2013)

Analysis of U.S. Drought Contitions 2000-2012

by Iana Rufino, Lucia Barbato, Kevin Mulligan, and Santosh Seshadri

Map won First Place in the Map Competition sponsored by the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) in Austin, TX.

Seventeenth Annual Texas GIS Forum (2007)

Mapping the Southern Ogallala Aquifer in Texas, Saturated Thickness Change 1990 - 2004

by Lucia Barbato, Kevin Mulligan, Ken Rainwater and Ada Warren

Map won First Place in the Map Competition sponsored by the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) in Austin, TX.

Twenty-Seventh Annual ESRI International User Conference (2007)

Brian's World - The Way to my DQ

by Brian Mulligan

Map won Third Place in the Best Student Presentation K-12 in the map gallery competition.

Twenty-Sixth Annual ESRI International User Conference (2006)

Special Achievement in GIS

The GISCorps is a program of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.  The organization is composed of GIS professionals who volunteer their services for short term projects involving support for humanitarian relief, community development, local capacity building, health and education.

Lucia Barbato (front row fourth from left) receives a Special Achievement in GIS award for her volunteer work with the GISCorps during Hurricane Katrina.  Others in the photograph include Shoreh Elhami (front row center) co-founder of the GISCorps and Jack Dangermond (second row third from left) president of ESRI.

Twenty-Fifth Annual ESRI International User Conference (2005)

A Unified Model of Phylogeography

Twenty-Fourth Annual ESRI International User Conference (2004)

Digital Atlas of New Mexico Counties

by Kevin Mulligan, Lucia Barbato, Rob DeBaca, James B. Speer, and Kiran Masapari

The atlas won Second Place for Best Cartographic Design – Map Series or Atlas-In-House in the Map Gallery competition.

Fourteenth Annual Texas GIS Forum (2004)

The Llano Estacado

by Kevin R. Mulligan

Map won First Place in the Map Competition sponsored by the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) in Austin, TX.

Twenty-Third Annual ESRI International User Conference (2003)

High Resolution Mapping with Ground-Based LIDAR, White Sands, New Mexico