The paper, “Spatial modeling of road network development, population pressure and
biophysical properties of upland crop and forest conversions in Lop Buri
province, Thailand, 1989-2006.” by former Ph.D. student Dr. Risa Patarasuk
and Dr. Tim Fik was named runner up by the Singapore Journal of Tropical
Geography for its best paper of 2013. Risa is now a her second year as a
post-doc research associate in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State
University.