AAG

Evan A. Ellicott, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2009, Research
Assistant Professor – land cover and land use change, fire
ecology, remote sensing
William Emanuel, PhD, Oklahoma State University, 1975, Research
Professor – global carbon cycle, terrestrial processes, landcover/land
use changes
Kuishuang Feng, Ph.D., University of Leeds, 2011, Research Assistant
Professor – sustainable consumption and production, human
dimensions of global change
Min Feng, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008, Research
Assistant Professor – ecosystem services and hydrological
modeling with intensive data and computation, geo-spatial based
environment model development and integration
Belen Franch, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor – surface albedo,
atmospheric correction in the solar spectrum, agricultural
monitoring
Louis Giglio, Ph.D., U. of Maryland, 2006, Research Associate
Professor – global fire monitoring and fire emissions, remote
sensing, and satellite direct broadcast applications
Samuel N. Goward,* Ph.D., Indiana State, 1979, Research/Emeritus
Professor – remote sensing, climatology, numerical analysis,
modeling
Pierre Guillevic, Ph.D., Paul Sabatier University, 1999, Research
Associate Professor – earth surface properties, ecosystem, hydro
processes
Tao He, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Research Assistant Professor
– land surface energy budget, data fusion on satellite products
Michelle Hofton,* Ph.D., Durham University, 1995, Research
Associate Professor – topographical measurements and
applications
Chengquan Huang,* Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1999, Research
Professor – land cover, land cover change, vegetation modeling,
image analysis
Roberto César Izaurralde,* Ph.D., Kansas State, 1985, Research
Professor – soil organic matter dynamics and greenhouse gases
in agricultural systems, ecosystem response to climatic change
Mengxue Li, Ph.D., Wuhan University of Technology, 2009, Research
Associate Professor and Director of International Programs –
data and government policy, land cover/land use change,
international S & T Cooperation in Earth Observation Area
Janet Nackoney, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2012, Research
Assistant Professor – conservation land-use planning, habitat
fragmentation, land use/land cover change and deforestation
monitoring, food security
Jyoteshwar Nagol, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2011, Research
Assistant Professor – remote sensing of vegetation dynamics,
agriculture and irrigation, near surface remote sensing using
small UAVs
Peter Potapov*, Ph.D., Russian Academy of Science, 2005, Research
Associate Professor – forest mapping and monitoring, optical
remote sensing
Stephen Prince,* Ph.D., University of Lancaster, 1971,
Research/Emeritus Professor – biogeography, remote sensing,
dryland ecohydrology and plant functional properties at regional
to global scales
Ritvik Sahajpal, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2014, Assistant
Research Professor – geostatistics, multivariate analysis,
machine learning
Wilfrid Schroeder, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2008, Research
Associate Professor – remote sensing of active fires, biomass
burning emissions modeling, land cover/land use change in
Amazonia, remotes sensing using UAVs
Fernando Sedano, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2008, Research Assistant
Professor – remote sending sensor integration at medium spatial
resolution, forest degradation in African tropical woodlands,
forest fire dynamics in boreal ecosystems
Joseph Sexton, Ph.D., Duke University, 2009, Research Assistant
Professor – spatio-temporal ecosystem dynamics, sustainable
ecosystem management
Sergii Skakun, Ph.D., Space Research Institute Ukraine, 2005,
Assistant Research Professor – agriculture monitoring, remote
sensing
Guoqing Sun*, Ph.D., University of California, 1990, Research
Professor – remote sensing of environment, back-scatter
modeling, image processing, forest ecosystems
John Townshend* Ph.D., University College London, 1971,
Research/Emeritus Professor – land cover dynamics, remote
sensing, information systems
Krishna Prasad Vadrevu*, Ph.D., Osmania University, 2000,
Research Associate Professor – ecology, remote sensing, spatial
analysis
Dongdong Wang*, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2009, Research
Assistant Professor – remote sensing, spatial analysis
Alyssa Whitcraft, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2014, Research
Assistant Professor – agriculture, monitoring and mapping of
global agriculture characteristics and processes
Feng Zhao, Ph.D., Boston University, 2010, Research Assistant
Professor – LiDAR remote sensing, forest disturbance and
regrowth, terrestrial carbon cycle, wetland studies
Maosheng Zhao, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001,
Research Assistant Professor – using satellite data and
ecosystem models to quantify carbon, water and energy fluxes
between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere and their
changes
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS:
Ben DeVries, PhD, Wageningen University, 2015 – Landsat, Sentinel,
land-cover changes, time series, surface water, eco dynamics
Katelyn Dolan, PhD, University of Maryland, 2015 – forest-carbon
mapping/monitoring, lidar tech, field data and modeling
Junchuan Fan, M.S., University of Iowa, 2015 – geospatial semantics
Wenli Huang, PhD, University of Maryland, 2015 – active remote
sensing of forests, satellite monitoring of water
Huiran Jin, Ph.D., State University of New York, 2013 – GIS, Land
cover/land use classification and biomass estimation
Curtis Jones, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2013 – modeling
biogeochemical cycling within agricultural systems
Do-Hyung Kim, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2015
Wenjian Ni, Ph.D., Institute of Remote Sensing Applications Chinese
Academy of Sciences, 2009 – SAR and Lidar data processing,
algorithms for exploring estimation of parameters of forest
structure, earth system science
Patricia Oliva, Ph.D., University of Alcala, 2010 – active fire
detection, burned area mapping, post-fire effects assessment
Khaldoun Rishmawi, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2013 – land
degradation, biophysics, vegetation dynamics, remote sensing
Xiaopeng Song, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2015 – satellite
monitoring of land cover/land use change, deforestation,
urbanization
Hao Tang, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2015 – characterizing 3D
dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems using lidar remote sensing
platforms
Svetlana Turubanova, Ph.D., Russian Academy of Science, 2002 –
forest ecology, remote sensing
Alexandra Tyukavina, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2015 – remote
sensing, forest cover change, carbon dynamics
Lei Wang, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009, Research
Associate – urbanization and global environment change, global
forest loss
Feng Robin Zhao, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2015 – landscape
succession simulation, carbon modeling, forest inventory,
growth modeling
FACULTY SPECIALISTS:
Bernard Adusei, M.S., University of South Dakota, 2006
Alice Alstatt, M.S., University of Nevada, 1994
Brian Barker, M.A., University of Maryland, 2012
Saurabh Channan, M.S., Johns Hopkins, 2004
Casper Chung, M.A., University of Maryland
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