2022
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Orlando, Florida
2021
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
at ASFPM Virtual Conference
2020
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
at ASFPM Virtual Conference
2019
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Cleveland, Ohio
First Prize Winner:
Disaster Exposure and Mitigation: The Impact of Major and Minor Flood Events on Population Loss, by Nora Louise Schwaller and Jordan Branham, PhD Students at the University of North Carolina, Department of City and Regional Planning.
Second Prize Winner:
A Win-Lose Situation for Floodplain Buyouts: Exploring the Impacts on Participants in the State of Illinois, by Jasmine Patricia Thomas, University of Illinois, Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
2018
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Phoenix, Arizona
First Prize Winner:
The Case for a Floodplain Enhancement Rating System: Has the time come for an ASFPM accreditation program?, by John MacDougall, Pamela Reber, Evan Stewart and Paul St. Louis from University of Washington-Seattle
Second Prize Winner:
Who Knows What Comes Tomorrow: A Case Study of Resilience in Boulder County, Colorado, by Simone Domingue, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology from University of Colorado-Boulder
2017
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Kansas City, Missouri
First Prize Winner:
Exploring the Concept of Cumulative, Probabilistic Flood Hazard Maps, by Maryellen Hearn from Technical University of Dresden, Erasmus Mundus Flood Risk Management Master
Second Prize Winner:
After the Flood: Exercising Best Practices in Property Acquisition Programs and Open Space Projects, by Ashton Rohmer from the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Third Prize Winner:
Quantifying the Future Flood Impact and Damages in the Chesapeake Bay Regions Due to Storm Surge, Sea Level Rise and Marsh Migration, by Ali Mohammad Rezaie from Civil Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University
2016
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Grand Rapids, Michigan
First Prize Winner:
Large Scale High Resolution Flood Inundation Mapping in Real Time, by Adnan Rajib from the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University
Second Prize Winner:
Evaluating Risks of Dam-Reservoir Systems Based on Rare Event Simulation, by Qianli Deng, a student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland-College Park
Third Prize Winner:
Assessing Sediment Accumulation in Reservoirs Behind Dams in the Lake Erie Watershed from Past to Present, by Fatemeh Alighalenbabakhani, a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University-Detroit
2015
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Atlanta, Georgia
First Prize Winner:
Developing Flood Loss Curve for City of Sacramento, Md Nowfel Mahmud Bhuyian
Second Prize Winner:
Salmon Refuge: The Endangered Species Act and FEMA’s NFIP, Patrick Johnson
Third Prize Winner:
Mitigating Calgary, Alberta’s Vulnerability to Flooding, Adnya Sarasmita
2014
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Seattle, Washington
First Prize Winner:
Bioretention Research and Demonstration Project, Grant Livingston
Second Prize Winner:
Preventing Flood Damage to Businesses in Historic Downtown Snoqualmie, WA, Kristen Vitro
Third Prize Winner:
Mitigating Total Flood Impacts through Intentional Flooding in Agricultural Land along the Lower Nooksack River, Francesca White
2013
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Hartford, Connecticut
First Prize Winner:
Flood Resistance to Flood Resilience: Mapping our Water Systems Below to Understand how to Shape Our Land Above, Kendra FitzRandolph
Second Prize Winner:
Fish and Floods: Implementation of the 2008 Biological Opinion on the National Flood Insurance Program in Washington State, Meg Olson
2012
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
San Antonio, Texas
First Prize Winner:
Risk Analysis and Damage Assessment for Flood Prone Areas in Washington DC, Arian Lessani
Second Prize Winner:
Historic Levees and Cultural Resource Management in South Jersey, Jesse Lattig and Marshall Tidwell
2011
Collegiate Student Paper Competition Finalist
Louisville, Kentucky
First Prize Winner:
Uncertainty Analysis in Flood Inundation Mapping, Younghun Jung
Second Prize Winner:
The Effect of Land-cover Changes on Lag Time in the Banklick Creek Watershed, KY, Katelyn Toebbe
Third Prize Winner:
Project Safe Haven: Vertical Evacuation Opportunities on the Washington Coast, Jeana C. Wiser