08/31/2026
Our next summer story is from Eileen Mburu, M.S. in Geosciences. Eileen won first place in the 2026 Georgia Geospatial Association Virtual Map Competition! Later in the summer, she traveled to San Diego to participate in the ESRI User Conference as a Student Assistant. Her winning GGA map, "The Geography of Climate Change Discourse in the United State: Public Perceptions from Twitter (2015-2019)" was featured in the conference's Interactive Map Gallery! She was able to engaged with the latest GIS technology at the world's largest geospatial gathering and connect with GIS practitioners and researchers leading in the field. You can see her map here: https://map-competition-2026-gageospatial.hub.arcgis.com/