{"id":9014,"date":"2016-12-06T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:17:41","slug":"announcing-the-winners-of-esris-new-global-content-challenge","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/announcing-the-winners-of-esris-new-global-content-challenge","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Winners of Esri\u2019s New Global Content Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esri\u2019s new <em><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/go.esri.com\/content-challenge\"><b>Global Content Challenge<\/b><\/a><\/em> contest, engaging students all over the world, is proud to announce the winners! With the power of Esri content at their disposal, students told their own compelling scientific stories using the Esri Story Map Journal app. Entrants used their own geographic analyses, visualizations, predictive models, and more to explore a variety of scientific themes.<br \/>\nThe contest was open from August to November and Esri was happy to receive ~550 registrations from students in nearly 60 countries, with 70 actual submissions. A distinguished international panel of judges chose projects that best exemplified the spirit of the contest: unleashing the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esri.com%2F%7E%2Fmedia%2FCFE65820F184417B912550C5D03FC83E\" target=\"_blank\">Esri\u2019s Living Atlas of the World content<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/12\/GlobalContentChallenge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/12\/GlobalContentChallenge1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>Winners were judged in the three categories of Land, Ocean, and Population:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">LAND<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First<\/strong> place ($10,000):  <strong>Sara Lubkin<\/strong>, N. Virginia Community College, USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2fsLccQ\" target=\"_blank\">What Can Beetles Tell Us About Past Climates?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Second <\/strong>place ($5,000): <strong>Karl Chastko<\/strong>, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcmaster.maps.arcgis.com%2Fapps%2FMapJournal%2Findex.html%3Fappid%3D28d844f881954189964efe73111c4825\" target=\"_blank\">Food, Water and 7 Billion People: Improving Water Efficiency in Agriculture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Third<\/strong> place ($2,000): <strong>Kayla Wong<\/strong>, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2fz8kEw\" target=\"_blank\">Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential Based on Soil Properties<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong> (Esri swag): <strong>Danielle Derrick<\/strong>, Carleton University, Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdaniellederrick.maps.arcgis.com%2Fapps%2FMapJournal%2Findex.html%3Fappid%3D08fa2f5c142a47eb934c75585390296f\" target=\"_blank\">A Race for Survival: The Future of Tiger Conservation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">OCEAN<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First<\/strong> place ($10,000):  <strong>Alicea Zelesny<\/strong>, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2e3P8yY\" target=\"_blank\">Antarctica &#8211; The Southerly Extreme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Second <\/strong>place ($5,000): <strong>Julia Portmann<\/strong>, Washington College, Maryland, USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2elxSsD\" target=\"_blank\">Attack of the Blobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Third<\/strong> place ($2,000): <strong>Kevin Yang<\/strong>, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcmaster.maps.arcgis.com%2Fapps%2FMapJournal%2Findex.html%3Fappid%3Da950b89e832a4108889d1437f1433a51\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Change in Earth&#8217;s Polar Regions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong> (Esri swag): <strong>Maggi Klug,<\/strong> University of Alabama-Huntsville, USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arcgis.com%2Fapps%2FMapJournal%2Findex.html%3Fappid%3D46ccdb3b7df2467f91e81a57b5c41248\" target=\"_blank\">Devastating Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Florida<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">POPULATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First<\/strong> place ($10,000): <strong>Claudia Caceres<\/strong>, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2eDZZgm\" target=\"_blank\">Analyzing the Relationship between Climate Change and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Second <\/strong>place ($5,000): <strong>Michael Kirchin<\/strong>, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2eCtIf2\" target=\"_blank\">The American People<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Third<\/strong> place ($2,000): <strong>Spencer Elford<\/strong>, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2fqGVoj\" target=\"_blank\">Concrete Jungle: Urban Expansion and the Rise of the Megacity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong> (Esri swag): <strong>Kathryn Kulbicki<\/strong>, George Mason University, Virginia, USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F2eJ173W\" target=\"_blank\">Child Welfare in the News August 1, 2016 &#8211; October 31, 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong> (Esri swag): <strong>Christopher Koido-Bunt<\/strong>, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcmaster.maps.arcgis.com%2Fapps%2FMapJournal%2Findex.html%3Fappid%3D7590ff79ae5241eba6cdcf0ff36dfd4d\" target=\"_blank\">Volcanic Hazard Risk in East and South East Asia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will be featuring these Story Map Journal apps at the 2017 Esri Federal GIS Conference, the 2017 Esri Education GIS Conference and other events, as well as in various social media outlets.<br \/>\nCongratulations, and a huge thanks to all who participated. We hope to see you again next year!<br \/>\nLearn more about the Global Content Challenge today at <a href=\"http:\/\/go.esri.com\/content-challenge\">esri.com\/content-challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[279192,275862,276562,275952,275982],"tags":[278912,1451,275902,276812,280562,172902,276822,138062,1811,279242],"class_list":["post-9014","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-development","category-industry-focus","category-storytelling-maps","category-technology","category-vision","tag-arcgis-content","tag-citizen-engagement","tag-climate-science","tag-dawn-wright","tag-ecological-land-units","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-oceans","tag-science","tag-story-maps","tag-world-population"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Announcing the Winners of Esri\u2019s New Global Content Challenge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/announcing-the-winners-of-esris-new-global-content-challenge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Announcing the Winners of Esri\u2019s New Global Content Challenge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Esri\u2019s new Global Content Challenge contest, engaging students all over the world, is proud to announce the winners! 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