RAC Presents & Sponsors the Student Poster Competition at LARSGIS 2024 Conference

The annual (Louisiana Remote sensing and GIS Workshop (LARSGIS) was held in Mandeville, LA on April 9-11, 2024.

Members of the RAC team were invited to present the following sessions:

1. Providing an Inside Look into the World of Geospatial Technologies Through Recruitment of Prospective Geoscience Majors, Courtney A. Poirier Chicola and Rodney B. Yantis, NASA/UL Lafayette, Regional Application Center, Lafayette, LA

2. STELLA and Beyond, Bree Landry and Billy Poirier, NASA/UL Lafayette Regional Application Center, Lafayette, LA

View the full agenda - https://larsgis.org/agenda/

The RAC also sponsored the student poster competition awards at the conference presented by Brent Yantis, RAC Director.

Students were encouraged to submit posters depicting their work from class projects, thesis or dissertation work, or individual research.

Thank you to all the students for sharing!

Winners:

1st Place ($200) - Weighted Overlay Analysis for the Spatial Distribution of Microplastic Pollution in Soils in Nacogdoches, Texas

Kirsten Garza, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

2nd Place ($100) - Sediment Dynamics of Louisiana's Barataria Basin Using Sentinel-2 Data and Deep
Learning Approach
Chisom Okwuchi Emeghiebo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA

3rd Place ($50) - Monitoring Change Detection in an Urban Area with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Victoria Williams, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX