1st Place Winner

Ellen Platts

Ellen is a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on the intersections of cultural heritage and sustainable development, particularly in the context of climate change. Her poster featured her work building a public website highlighting new ways to communicate information about climate change to potential tourists at World Heritage Sites around the world. Providing information on climate communication, sustainability practices, and climate-related consequences of travel to World Heritage Sites, the website aims to mobilize the heritage traveler to take action regarding the critical challenge of climate change. The website can be viewed here.

Honorable Mentions

Ellyn Cardon

Laura Stelson

Laura Stelson is a Ph.D. candidate in the programs for Anthropology and Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment at Penn State University. She earned her Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of Bonn (Germany) and has spent much of the last ten years doing extensive work on archaeological projects in Germany, Central America, and throughout the western United States. Her research interests include seeking creative approaches in digital archaeology that make cultural resources both tangible and accessible to public audiences as well as the reconstruction of past environments and the ways that people interacted with them.