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Canadian Cartographic Association Best Student Paper / Presentation
An award of $250 is given for the best student paper/presentation presented at the CCA annual conference.
A submission may be co-authored by a faculty member, but the student must have actively participated in the research and have sole responsibility for delivering the paper/presentation.
The entries will be judged by a three person panel including the chair of the CCA Cartographic Education Special Interest Group. Judging will be based on the content and structure of the work and the quality of the presentation. The judges may also take into account the extent of the student’s involvement in the research on which the paper is based, and his or her status (i.e. undergraduate or graduate) and year level.
All student presentations included at the annual CCA conference are automatically entered for the competition.
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Recent Award Recipients
2024 Canadian Cartographic Association Annual Conference, University of Toronto Scarborough
The judges awarded one prize.
- Allison Oki, University of Toronto, “The Scarborough Greenway: Building an Outstanding Off-road Trail Network”
Carto 2023 Joint Annual Conference of Canadian Cartographic Association and Canadian Association of Map Libraries and Archives, University of Calgary
The judges awarded one prize along with an honourable mention.
- Ayomide Fatogun, University of Winnipeg, “A spatial analysis of Moose distributions in Manitoba”
- Honourable mention — Nick Field, University of Toronto, “Alternative Historical GIS Approaches to Sir Aurel Stein’s 1918-1922 Maps of Northwestern China”
2021 Canadian Cartographic Association Annual Conference, Online Conference
Two awards for Best Student Presentations from the Annual Conference held online in May 2021.
- Shane Doddridge, University of Victoria, “Navigating Theory in Toponymy: Approaching Indigenous Place Names in the Chilcotin Region of Canada”
- Julia Conzon, Carleton University, “Towards Co-Producing Web-Based Geospatial Technologies: A Proposal for Clyde River, Nunavut”