GEEMaP enrolls third trainee cohort in 2013

The University of Iowa’s Geoinformatics for Environmental Energy Modeling and Prediction program welcomed six new graduate students this fall, for a current cohort of thirteen. GEEMaP is in its third year of existence and encompasses seven departments, three colleges and eighteen faculty members.

GEEMaP students apply advanced computational methods to environmental concerns. Topics currently being researched include heat and flood vulnerability of urban populations and watershed evaluation. Three of the students have developed open-source software that significantly speeds up analysis of large environmental datasets. 

GEEMaP is one of over 120 nationwide Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship programs funded by the National Science Foundation. University departments GEEMaP draws from include Geographic and Sustainability Sciences, Industrial Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Statistics and Biostatistics.

GEEMaP is accepting applications. Find more information about GEEMaP at http://www.geemap.stat.uiowa.edu.