Fisher Prize Award Winners 2026

Entries to the 2026 Fisher Prize competition were of extremely high quality, making the decision a very tough one for the judges. Here are the results: 

2026 Fisher Prize Winner, Undergraduate Category: Matthew Scott Tan for the entry “Salt, fat, acid, distance: Seeing how culinary resemblance exceeds what geographic distance predicts”. Judges comments included “This was a cohesive, highly creative project that used a range of relevant data and analyses. This project demonstrated how spatial analysis can be used to find patterns that otherwise would not be apparent.” View the award winning story map.

2026 Fisher Prize Co-Winner, Graduate Category: Kyungmin Kim for the entry “Terrain And Signal: Mapping The Landscape Of Communication Infrastructure in Seoul, Korea”. Judges comments included “Well laid out bi-variate mapping at multiple scales, effectively converting raster data to district levels. Outstanding job using cartography within a poster format to clearly communicate the analysis using minimal text.” View the award winning poster.

2026 Fisher Prize Co-Winner, Graduate Category: Caroline Tangoren for the entry “Ecological Risk Factors for Oropouche Fever: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis of the 2024-2025 Oropouche Outbreak in Ceará, Brazil.” Judges comments included “A combination of physical and human data appropriately analyzed and presented with the perfect amount of narrative, maps, and charts. This project demonstrates how remote sensing techniques combined with field collected data can be a powerful way to shed light on how a disease such as Oropouche fever affects different populations in Ceará state, Brazil.” View the award winning story map.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks for all that participated!