Student Prizes

List of recipients of iEMSs student awards

2014

Student best presentation awards:

Jon Herman – Balancing robustneess to future uncertainty between cooperating regional water utilities
Tommaso Stella – Reimplementation and reuse of the Canegro model
Lu Wang – Modelling of CO2 solubility in salty aqueous solutions at geological sequestration condition

Commendations

Samuel Rivera
Hugo Thierry
Bharathi Murali
Gennadii Donchyts
Javier Gonzalez
Danlu Guo

Best poster:

Mehrmet B. Ercan, University of South Carolina, USA, A Python Tool for Multi-Gage Calibration of SWAT Models using the NSGA-II Algorithm
Honglan Shi, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea, Understanding of Nonlinear Environmental Processes Using Chemometric Driven Model with Time Difference Concept
Shaun Livingston, BYU, USA, How about ‘PINTEREST’ for water data and models?

2012

Student best presentation awards

Niklaus Lehmann (ETH Zürich), for the presentation of the paper “Adapting towards climate change: A whole-farm approach” co-authored with Robert Finger
Gunnar Dressler (UFZ Leipzig) for the paper ” Mobility – a panacea for pastoralism? An ecological-economic model- ling approach” co-authored with Birgit Müller and Karin Frank
Joseph Kasprzyk (Penn State, USA) for the paper “Many-Objective Robust Decision Making for Water Supply Portfolio Planning Under Deep Uncertainty” co-authored with Shanthi Nataraj, Patrick Reed, and Robert Lempert

2010
- Student best paper awards
  - Stefano Balbi – A spatial agent-based model to explore scenarios of adaptation to climate change in an alpine tourism destination
  - Lyubomir Halachev – Analysis of the economic sustainability of companies in the water sector
  - Gert Everaert – Development of data-driven models for the assessment of macroinvertebrates in rivers in Flanders
  - Anna Cord – Remote sensing time series for modelling invasive species distribution: a case study of Tamarix spp. in the US and Mexico
- Student commendations
  - Serena Chen – Bayesian network for modelling habitat suitability of an endangered species
  - Simon Hood – A novel model calibration technique through application of machine learning association rules
  - Ioan Ferencik – On site environmental modelling and monitoring: the Nordic scenario in HYDROSYS project
  - Anas Altartouri – Spatiotemporal modelling of the spread of common reed on the Finnish coast
  - Monica Carvalho – Modelling a simple trigeneration system: environmental costs
  - Levis Gill – An interactive visual decision support tool for sustainable urban river corridor management
  - Javier Holguin Gonzalez – Modelling the ecological impact of discharged urban waters upon receiving aquatic ecosystems. A tropical lowland river case study: city Cali and the Cauca river in Colombia
  - Sidney Pendelberry – A taguchi-based method for assessing data center sustainability
  - Yi-Liang Kuo – Unexpected Side-effects of Winter Feeding: Learning from Mahalanobis Distances Factor Analysis in the case of red-crowned Cranes in Hokkaido, Japan
2008
- Student prizes
  - Javier Murillo – Improving waste water treatment quality through an auction-based management of discharges
- Student commendations
  - Ilias Pechlivanidis – The significance of spatial variability of rainfall on runoff
  - Tatiana Filatova – An agent-based model for explaining land market mechanisms for coastal zone management
  - Marta Terrado – Coupling empirical and deterministic models to assess surface water contamination.
2006
- Student prizes
  - Jakin Ravalico, University of Adelaide, Australia
  - Ans Mouton, University of Ghent, Belgium
- Student commendations
  - Lance Besaw, USA
  - Vimal Sharma, Canada
  - Octavio Sequeiros, USA
  - Judith Janssen, The Netherlands
2004
- Student prizes
  - Ioannis Athanasiadis (integrated systems)
  - Bernardo Veiga (socioeconomic systems)
  - Bjorn Reineking (general systems)
- Student commendations
  - Panomsak Promburon (socio-economic systems)
  - Karina Rinke (integrated systems)
  - Jean-Michel Medoc (integrated systems)
  - Hazel Parry (natural systems)
  - Angelo Doglioni (natural systems)
2002
- Student prizes
  - Felix Chan, Australia (socio-economic systems)
  - David Marechal, Great Britain (natural systems)
  - Giorgio Corani, Italy (general systems)
- Student commendations
  - Kai Brassel (socio-economic systems)
  - Suhejla Hoti (socio-economic systems)
  - Eva Trasforini (general systems)
  - Christopher Pettit (general systems)
  - Elmar Kriegler (natural systems)
  - Michaela Saisana (natural systems)