37th ANNUAL NJDEP GIS MAPPING CONTEST WINNERS

2025 MAPPING CONTEST AWARDS
April 9, 2025

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NJDEP GIS Lifetime Achievement Award:

Edward Apalinski

14th Annual Gail Carter Science Award Winners
Lillian Cole & Abigal Jones
Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES)

Influence of Land Development on Marsh Soil Dynamics in Barnegat Bay, NJ

 

Category

Winner

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ANALYTIC METHODS AND RESULTS

1st

Libby Witham,
Molly VanWieren,
Brian Henderson,
Kevin Blythe,
Patrick Woerner
NJDEP

New Jersey Landscape Project

2nd

Stephanie Rodriguez
NJDEP


Sedimentary Facies Map of Brooklyn and Queens: Uncovering Ancient Drainage Systems

 

DASHBOARD

1st

Merrilee Torres
County of Burlington, NJ

Burlington County, NJ – Public Recreational Bathing Water Testing

 

EDUCATIONAL MAP
(INSTRUCTIONAL
PRESENTATION)

1st

Sammar Parham
NJDEP

Transforming Historical Coastal Imagery into Map Layers

 

MAP SERIES
or
ATLAS

1st

Vincent Viera
County of Hudson


Making Safer Streets – Developing Focus Corridors for a Vision Zero Safety Action Plan

2nd

Zachary Schagrin
NJDEP

Karst Features of the New Jersey Part of the Easton Quadrangle

MOST INNOVATIVE

1st

Stephanie Ladas
Somerset County GIS Services

Somerset County Services Locator

2nd

Edward Apalinski
NJDEP

Nacote Creek Drainage Basin

REFERENCE MAP

1st

Kevin Burkman
NJDEP

The Canyonlands of Moab, Utah

2nd

Stephanie Brody
NJDEP/Columbia University

The Oldest Continually Operating Taverns/Inns in Each County

STORY MAP

1st

Benjamin Brower
Ocean County

Mapping the Imagined Past: The Pinelands Jetport

2nd

Andrew Garcia
NJDEP

Watershed Restoration Projects in New Jersey

STUDENT MAP

1st

Lillian Boyd,
Hannah-Mae Manlulu
Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES)

Mapping and Analyzing Regions with High Lanternfly Populations in New Jersey

2nd

Lillian Cole,
Abigal Jones
Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES)

Influence of Land Development on Marsh Soil Dynamics in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey

THEMATIC MAP

1st

William Smith
NJDEP

The New Jersey Pinelands

2nd

Kevin Blythe
NJDEP

New Jersey Freshwater Fishing Explorer

BEST
CARTOGRAPHIC
DESIGN

1st

William Smith
NJDEP

The New Jersey Pinelands