Experience

Alabama A&M University

• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Professor

  • Jan 2001 - Present

  I currently serve as Chair of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. I have served as major adviser and graduated five Ph.D., six MS students and also served on over thirty thesis and dissertation committees. Currently, I serve as a major adviser on two Ph.D. dissertation research. I also teach the following undergraduate/graduate courses: 1. Remote Sensing of Environment I and II 2. Quantitative Approach to Remote Sensing 3. Introduction to GIS 4. Advanced Principles of GIS 5. GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modeling. Research Projects: 1. Co-PI of NSF-CREST grants (Center for Forestry Ecosystem Assessment 2004 -2009 and 2010-2018), $10,000,000, 2. Co-Investigator USDA-NIFA grant (Urbanization and loss of prime agricultural land in north Alabama region: A GIS Based Study), $500,000. 3. PI of USDA-NIFA project to establish a “Geospatial Education and Research Center (GERC) to Strengthen Environmental and Natural Sciences Program”, ($600,000) 4. PI of USDA-NIFA National Integrated Water Quality Program, (Cumulative effects of drought and urbanization on the Flint River watershed), $573,000 5. PI of USDA-NIFA “Integration of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in developing geospatial database for the Management of Winfred Thomas Agriculture Station”, $270,00 My main research focus is on land-use land-cover change detection and modeling; environmental quality assessment using satellite and aerial remote sensing and GIS techniques within a human ecological theoretical framework. Other research interests include modeling of the impacts of climate change on agricultural and forest ecosystems, the implications of scale and scaling in remote sensing and modeling analyses, and human-environment interactions with main focus of identifying new methods of utilizing remotely sensed data to improve land resource management. Show less