awards
Along with 26 other distinguished scholars and researchers, Sol Hsiang was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Carnegie Corporation,
This generous award will support research efforts on using machine learning to categorize historical airplane photos of Caribbean islands and assemble remote sensing data prior to Landsat technology.
Congratulations to Sol and the Aerial Photos team!
Congratulations to Jonathan Proctor, who has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association for 2020!
His dissertation, The Value of Light: Crop Response to Optical Scattering and Generalizable Earth Observation, examines the spectral distribution, directionality, and quantity of sunlight in association with human activity, lending insights into agriculture and productivity.
The first Quartz Chart of the Year award was given to a figure made by the Economist to depict findings in our research paper on the economic costs of large scale environmental disasters.
Hsiang, Burke & Miguel (Science, 2013) was listed by Discover magazine as one of the top 100 findings in 2013 from across all sciences.
Solomon Hsiang was recognized by the American Geophysical Union for "significant contributions in the application and use of the Earth and space sciences to solve societal problems." See the award citation by Michael Oppenheimer.