Crisis Informatics Blog

The ISCRAM2008 Mike Meleshkin Award for Best PhD student paper went to the 'crisis informatics' PhD students team (Amanda L. Hughes, Sophia B. Liu and Sarah E. Vieweg) at Colorado University at Boulder. This group contributed no less than three excellent papers.

The Mike Meleshkin award for best ISCRAM Conference PhD student paper has been instituted in honor of our former co-worker, friend and Emergency Response Information Systems scholar Dr. Mikhail ‘Mike’ Meleshkin who passed away on April 18th, 2004. The award includes $500 and a free conference registration for ISCRAM2009.

Receiving the award at ISCRAM2008. In photo from left to right: Sophia Liu, Amanda Hughes, Sarah Vieweg, and Jonas Landgren (award chair).

The award winning papers include the following:

Hughes, Amanda, Leysia Palen, Jeanette Sutton, Sophia Liu, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). “Site-Seeing” in Disaster: An Examination of On-Line Social Convergence. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference,
Washington, DC.

Liu, Sophia, Leysia Palen, Jeanette Sutton, Amanda Hughes, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). In Search of the Bigger Picture: The Emergent Role of On-Line Photo Sharing in Times of Disaster. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.

Vieweg, Sarah, Leysia Palen, Sophia Liu, Amanda Hughes, and Jeannette Sutton (2008). Collective Intelligence in Disaster: Examination of the Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.