Map Contest

We are excited to announce that the Advanced Environmental Geomatics class has returned from the NJDEP Map Contest in Trenton with three map awards. The team had ten members: Vanessa Beuschel, Philip Bosco, Angela Gorczyca, Peter Hugger, Maura McShane, Emmanuel Ndiema, Dennis Quinlan, Matthew Vitullo, Kaitlyn Walsh, and Michael Yaffe. Their map of the Spatial Dimensions of the Revoloutionary War in New Jersey captured hundreds of events and places that are an important part of New Jersey's history. You might want to note that the above map is a draft and not final. We'll try to update it and give it a more permanent web home in the coming days.

The awards they brought home were:

• 1st Place Best Newbie
• 2nd Place Most Unique
• 2nd Place Best Overall (Non-NJDEP)

And as an added but fitting twist, they won them at the War Memorial. But the story of the data may prove to be more interesting than the map. We'll have to save that for another day.