Student Travel Awards

Student Travel Awards - AAG 2024

The Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers welcomes applications for the annual Student Travel Awards. The SAM specialty group will offer a travel stipend of $250 per awardee to graduate students who plan to travel and present in-person at the AAG Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI in April 2024.

To apply, please fill out this form. You will require the following information to complete your application:

  1. A PIN associated with your AAG registration and/or paper/poster abstract submission
  2. Abstract of your paper/poster
  3. Details demonstrating how you plan to use the travel award
  4. Document supporting proof of active membership to the SAM specialty group

Please note that we are only able to provide travel support to students who are active members of the SAM specialty group and have not already secured travel funding from any other specialty group.

The deadline to apply for the travel award is November 11th, 2023.
Please email to Bing Zhou (spgbarrett@tamu.edu) in case of any questions.


Past Winners

2023

    • Kejin Wang (LSU)
    • Mengya Xu (USC)
    • Rongxiang Su (UCSB)
    • Binbin Lin (TAMU)
    • Kyusik Kim (FSU)
    • Sabina Bhandari (U of Connecticut)

2022

    • Binbin Lin (Texas A&M)
    • Changzhen Wang (LSU)
    • Gyoorie Kim (Univ. of Toronto, Mississauga)
    • Jingyi Xiao (UCSB)
    • Jiuying Han (Univ. of Utah)
    • Leonardo Calzada (Rutgers University)
    • Providence Adu (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
    • Seonga Cho (UCSB)
    • Weiying Lin (Texas A&M)
    • Yu Lan (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
    • Yue Lin (Ohio State University)

2021

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Chenxiao Guo (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
    • Binbin Lin (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University)
    • Ruowei Liu (Department of Geography, University of Georgia)
    • Mingzheng Yang (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University)

2020

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Connor Donegan (University of Texas at Dallas)
    • Wataru Morioka (Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    • Yaxuang Zhang (University of Minnesota)

2019

  • Ph.D. Category
    • James Gaboardi (Department of Geography, Florida State University)
    • Paul Jung (Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
    • Nastaran Pourebrahim (Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
    • Honorable mention: Jarnardan Mainali (Portland State University)
  • M.A./M.S. Category
    • Yunlei Liang (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    • Anna Shadrova (Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga)

2018

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Alexander Hohl (Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
    • Jialin Li (Department of Geography, The Ohio State University)
    • Xiaojun Pu (Department of Geography, University of Texas-Dallas)
    • Diane BenBella (Department of Geography, University of Connecticut)
  • M.A./M.S. Category
    • Spencer Elford (Department of Geography, University of Toronto- Mississauga)
    • Katelyn Michelson (Department of Geography, Portland State University)
    • Samuel Owusu-Agyemang (Department of Geography, University of Toledo)
    • Karl Chastko (Department of Geography, University of Toronto)

2017

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Yoo-Mon Park (Department of Geography & Geographic Science, University of Illinois)
    • Young-Long Kim (Department of Geography, Clark University)
  • M.A./M.S. Category
    • Collin Branton (Department of Geography, University of Waterloo)
    • Hongyu Zhang (Department of Geography, Western University)

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