MAS-GIS student Cameron Boehme is awarded full doctoral fellowship

Cameron Boehme, who’s working this year on a Masters of Advanced Studies in Geographic Information Systems, entered the program with hopes to continue his studies by pursuing a doctorate in Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation at Brigham Young University.

Brigham Young University has just informed Boehme that he’ll be funded by a High Impact Doctoral Research Assistantship, with $30,000 annual funding for 3 years and $20,000 per year for each additional year that he’s working on his doctorate.  This funding will supplement $20,000 yearly funding already provided by Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources to support Boehme's research.

Boehme earned both the assistantship and state grant based on his plans to study disturbance thresholds in aspen regeneration. Geospatial analysis of interactions between fire, aspen, and wildlife will be a large portion of this project. “I am certainly excited, and grateful for the knowledge I have gained in the MAS-GIS program that has propelled me into this PhD,” he says.