Entries Open for Esri’s Global Content Challenge! Deadline: 11 November 2016

Entries are open for Esri’s Global Content Challenge for undergraduate or graduate students at colleges or universities, as well as high school students enrolled in an Advanced Placement Human Geography or Environmental Science course.

Themes

• Studies of ecological diversity, rarity, and evolutionary isolation, including where the most diverse landscapes/seascapes are in proximity to protected areas
• Design and networking of protected areas both terrestrial and marine to guide conservation, refugia and preservation planning
• Assessment of ecosystem services such as carbon storage, soil formation
• Analysis of climate change impacts to ecosystems (and other impacts such as fire, invasive species, land use, etc.)
• Implementations of fisheries management or ecosystem based management in territorial seas
• Assessment of risks, such as the impacts of environmental degradation on species habitats or on vulnerable human populations
• Impacts of extreme heat and severe weather
• Consequences of wildfires and floods
• Increases in vector-borne or water-borne diseases
• Tailoring education and/or risk communication to targeted populations
• Theme of applicant’s choice! Themes are not limited to choices above.

Prizes

• First Place: First Prize: $$10,000 or software equivalent
• Second Place: $5,000 or software equivalent
• Third Place: $2,000 or software equivalent

Eligibility Criteria

• This Contest is open to all undergraduate or graduate students at colleges or universities, as well as high school students enrolled in an Advanced Placement Human Geography or Environmental Science course, except for individuals who are residents of Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Crimea; Syria; province of Quebec, Canada; and where prohibited by national, state, provincial, or any other governmental laws or regulations.
• Employees of Sponsor, Sponsor’s international distributors, its affiliates or sister companies, and its respective employees, including those individuals who were former employees within the last six (6) months prior to the announcement date of the Contest, and the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) as well as household members of each such employee or person are not eligible to enter

How to Apply

To enter this contest, applicant must complete and submit an entry form given on the website.

Eligible Countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Crimea, Syria, province of Quebec, Canada.

For more information, please visit Esri’s Global Content Challenge.