New lab members: Sam Blanchard, Lina Cao
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 4:32PM Welcome to two new lab members: Sam Blanchard and Lina Cao.
Sam Blanchard
Sam joined us from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University where he received a B.A. in Geography and a M.A. in Geographic Information Science specializing in urban geography, land use / land cover change analysis, modeling, and mapping and geomorphic change analysis. He has worked for Clark Labs for Cartographic Technologies and Geographic Analysis, the Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) Massachusetts Forest Monitoring Program, and the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region (SYPR) Project in environmental disturbance and forest monitoring. He is currently working on our new CITRIS funded groundwater project and the Delta project.
Lina Cao
Lina joined us from the Geography Department at University of Utah where she conducted her dissertation work on anthropogenic habitat disturbance effect on hantavirus dynamics in deer mice using remote sensing,GIS, and a spatially explicit agent-based model. She received M.A. in Geography at San Diego State University where she worked on mapping and updating undocumented immigrant trails along the U.S.-Mexico border using airborne digital multispectral Imagery. She is interested in spatial epidemiology, spatial database, remote sensing and GIS applications.She is currently working on Our Space project.