Student Funding Opportunities

TennesseeView provides several funding opportunities for Tennessee students, including:

TennesseeView Fellowships

$500 for Your Remote Sensing Project!

The TennesseeView Fellowships aim to provide support, encouragement, and resources to students in Tennessee who are interested in pursuing a career in geospatial data science and remote sensing. These fellowships also aim to increase the awareness of geospatial technology in STEM education and workforce development.

Eligibility: 

  • Must be a current undergraduate, graduate, or post-baccalaureate student in a college or university in the state of Tennessee.
  • Open to students from any discipline.
  • Must have good academic standing.
  • Working on a project that utilizes remote sensing and Earth observation, with a requirement to present at the TNView webinar before September 2025.
  • Must not have previously received the TNView fellowship.

Application Checklist: 

  • Full name
  • Current undergraduate or graduate status
  • Department and university
  • Phone number and email address
  • Name and email address of faculty advisor.
  • A cover letter of no more than 2 pages that clearly identifies the problem, its significance, the planned approach, and a stakeholder (e.g. a state agency, a community organization, a school or university, etc.). 
  • Your resume or CV.

Number of Awards:

  • Graduate students: 3 fellowships available.
  • Undergraduate students: 3 fellowships available.

Application Deadline: April 25,  2025

Please submit your application at https://tiny.utk.edu/tnview-apply. 

Student Award Competitions

The remote sensing competition awards at the TNGIC Annual Conference are comprised of one first-place award valued at $300, two second-place awards valued at $200 each, and three third-place awards valued at $100 each. 

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

$20/hr for working on remote sensing projects!

Eligibility: 

  • Must be a current undergraduate at the University of Tennessee.
  • Open to students from any discipline.
  • Must have good academic standing.
  • Interested in geospatial data science and remote sensing.

Please contact Dr. Qiusheng Wu at tnview@utk.edu.

Student Research Webinar 2025

Date: Friday, September, 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET)
Location: Online via Zoom

Registration: https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSCRMeAcTK2l_sj2kHGBEw 


Agenda
Time: 10:00-10:20 AM
Presenter: Stephanie Anyanwu
Affiliation: Tennessee State University
Title: Effects of no-till and conventional tillage practices on wheat canopy cover and greenness using drone data

Time: 10:20-10:40 AM
Presenter: Dryver Finch
Affiliation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Title: Flood Flights: Hog-Spot Analysis: Monitoring the Fiends of the Smokies 

Time: 10:40-11:00 AM
Presenter: Samantha Turley
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Title: The Frame and the Foto: Fieldwork and laboratory methods towards a quantitative masonry typology in the Colca Valley, Peru

Time: 11:00-11:20 AM
Presenter: Madison Kibbe
Affiliation: Tennessee Technological University
Title: Geospatial Assessment of Water Insecurity in Tennessee: Integrating Demographic, Resource Access, and Hazard Data

Time: 11:20-11:40 AM
Presenter: Grace Sandidge
Affiliation: Middle Tennessee State University
Title: Assessment of Sinkhole Flooding Conditions in Murfreesboro, TN Using Dove Satellite Imaging, Hydrograph and Precipitation Data, ArcGIS, and LiDAR Elevation

Time: 11:40-12:00 PM
Presenter: Ella Saunders
Affiliation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Title: Integrating Remote Sensing, LiDAR, and Field Methods to Assess Flood-driven Stream Impacts in the Cataloochee Valley Following Hurricane Helene