Kevin Burkman 
Geographic Information Systems Analyst 

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Volume 40: Publication of “Watersheds of Sourland Mountain”

 

NJDEP 36th Annual Mapping Contest, 2024: Best Cartographic Design Award for “Barnard Station and the Underground Railroad”

 

NJDEP 35th Annual Mapping Contest, 2023: Best Cartographic Design Award & Best Educational Map, for “Watersheds of Sourland Mountain”

 

NJDEP 35th Annual Mapping Contest, 2023: Best Best Map or Atlas Series, for “Sourland Region Hiking Atlas” 

 

NJDEP 34th Annual Mapping Contest, 2022: Best Educational Map for “African American History of the Sourland Mountain Region”

 

NJDEP 34th Annual Mapping Contest, 2022: Best Story Map and Best Cartographic Design Award for “Geography of a Lynching: The Crooked Death of Zacharias Walker”

 

 "If These Stones Could Talk", 2018: Published paper book written by Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum founding members Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills. My map, “African American History of the Sourland Mountain Region”, was highlighted in the book.

 

Montgomery Township Environmental Award/Landowner of the Year, 2021: Awarded by Montgomery Township, Environmental Commission, this honor acknowledged the extensive native plant restoration I have accomplished on our property in Skillman, NJ.

 

Preservation Action Foundation, 2015: Advocacy Scholar Award for "The American Civil War and the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area: A Stand for Historic Land Preservation" (October 2014). This paper was written as a graduate student, and submitted to the Preservation Action Foundation, as part of their Advocacy Week, March 2015, in Washington D.C. The paper earned me a place in the New Jersey NHP delegation.

 

Sourland Conservancy Volunteer of the Year, 2014: Award for several GIS projects focused on land preservation analysis. 

 

Bloustein Journal of Planning and Public Policy, 2014: “John Wesley Powell and the Arid Empire of the American West”.  This paper was written as a graduate student, for my History of Planning studies, and was later published in the journal.

 

Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy/Wayne Soojian Scholarship in Planning, 2014:  $2,000 award to an outstanding second-year graduate student. 

 

New Jersey Future Blog Article, June 25, 2014: “Placing Economic Value on Natural Systems”. Article focuses on the 6th annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference and the importance of placing  economic value on ecosystems. 

 

New Jersey Future Blog Article, July 24, 2014: “Bell Labs Redevelopment a Sign of the Future”. Highlights of a conference which focused on the redevelopment of the famous Holmdel Bell Labs facility, as well as the challenges faced when attempting to repurpose the many outdated office campuses scattered across the suburbia.