VIRGINIA
TECH GRADUATE STUDENT
RECEIVES FIRST PLACE AWARD
BLACKSBURG,
August 5, 2002 - Virginia
Tech's forestry graduate
student, Beccy Forest
Musy, was awarded first
place in the student poster
competition at the Fourth
Annual Virginia Tech "GIS
and Remote Sensing"
Symposium. Musy, a Golden
Key national honor society
scholar, is the daughter
of Bertrand and Mary Lee
Forest of West Melbourne,
Fla.
Musy, a Phi Beta Kappa
member, has also been
awarded the Mutual of
Omaha Wild Kingdom Scholarship
and the Tropical Ecology
Scholarship. While working
on her M.S. degree in
Virginia Tech's College
of Natural Resources,
Musy was vice president
of the student chapter
of Habitat for Humanity,
as well as a local hospital
volunteer visitor, an
Adopt-A-River volunteer,
and a Foal Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit volunteer. When
Musy was not volunteering,
she spent her time participating
in club volleyball and
basketball.
Musy has participated
in a bat research project
in Panama, as well as
assisted with sting ray
research in Florida. Her
current research interests
include satellite image
processing for land use
clarification and coral
reef remote sensing. The
forestry graduate received
a B.A. in zoology from
the University of Florida.
Musy is currently working
at Questerra, Inc. in
Charlottesville, Va.,
performing image processing
and programming for the
spatial information management
company. She hopes to
eventually work towards
a doctoral degree.
