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Dr. Michael E. McClain
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington 1996
Dr. McClain's interests lie in integrated watershed analysis and
anagement. His research is focused in the headwater basins of the
Amazon, where dynamic processes of human development threaten to
irreversibly damage some of Earth's most unique land and aquatic
ecosystems. Dr. McClain and his students apply combined field, laboratory,
remote sensing, and computer modeling techniques to illuminate natural
hydrological and biogeochemical processes. Knowledge of these processes
is then factored into resource management programs in order to build
more sustainable human communities. Dr. McClain teaches these concepts
and techniques at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
http://www.fiu.edu/~mcclainm/
Dean Whitman
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993
A.B. University of California, Berkeley, 1984
Because of its geographic location and burgeoning population, the
state of Florida is vulnerable to a wide range of environmental
hazards. Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS)
technology provide exciting new tools for studying, understanding,
and mitigating these hazards. Whitman and colleagues are involved
in several areas of research related to these hazards. These include:
using airborne laser topographic mapping (ALTM) to assess shoreline
impact of storms and to map precise topography in coastal areas
susceptible to hurricane storm surge; the use of Landsat TM imagery
to study landuse changes in Florida; and the use of remotely sensed
data sets and GIS to study the factors related to the formation
of sinkholes in central and northern Florida.
http://www.fiu.edu/org/geology/faculty/whitman/
Fang Zhao, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Associate Director
Lehman Center for Transportation Research
Dr. Zhao received her B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1982 from Beijing
Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China; and M.S.
and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in
1987 and 1991, respectively. Dr. Zhao has since been teaching at
the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International
University.
Dr. Zhao specializes in computer applications to civil engineering
problems, including particularly transportation problems. Her research
has covered geographic information system (GIS), engineering databases,
visualization techniques, transportation planning, transit planning
and operations, new transit technologies, artificial neural networks,
knowledge-based expert systems, optimization techniques, data analysis,
and system modeling. She is a nationally recognized expert on GIS-T,
especially on temporal GIS applications in transportation. Temporal
GIS is a GIS that is capable of handling temporal information in
addition to spatial and attribute data. One example of temporal
GIS application is to maintain past, present, and future roadway
network, including roadway alignments, attributes, and future improvement
projects. Dr. Zhao has published a number of articles in Transportation
Research Record, GIS-T Symposium Proceedings, and other conference
proceedings.
Dr. Zhao is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering,
Women's Transportation Seminar, Association of Chinese Professionals
in GIS, and North Americas Chinese Overseas Transportation Association.
She serves on the TRB New Technologies and Systems Committee and
ASCE Database and Information Technology Committee.
Dr. Zhao offers the following courses: GIS Applications in Civil
and Environmental, GIS Applied Project, Advanced GIS, Expert Systems
in Civil Engineering, and Structural Analysis.
http://www.eng.fiu.edu/ce/faculty/fang_zhao.htm |
