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Department Newsletter 2009

 


Department Events

 

Department Announcements

 

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate John Sulik, whose article entitled “Feature Extraction for Darfur: Geospatial Applications in the Documentation of Human Rights Abuses” is accepted for publication in the International Journal of Remote Sensing. John is the leading author, and his co-author Dr. Scott Edwards is from Amnesty International, USA (November 2009)

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate John Sulik who gave an Ignite Talk at the first International Conference on Crisis Mapping
http://www.crisismappers.net/video/iccm-2009-crisis-mapping-1 (November 2009)

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Derek Morgan for having his article "A Visual Time Geographic Approach to Crime Event Profiling" accepted in Crime Mapping: A Journal of Practice and Research(October 2009)

Congratulations to Charles Layman to having his paper entitled "Comparing methods for measuring excess commuting and jobs-housing balance: An empirical analysis of land use changes" accepted for presentation at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
Also of note, FSU geography Alum Michael Widener (M.S. 2009) had his paper entitled "Modeling hurricane disaster relief distribution with a hierarchical capacitated-median model" accepted for presentation at the same TRB meeting(October 2009)

Congratulations to Libin Zhou for being the lead author for the recently accepted article by Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS): Training Algorithm Performance for Image Classification by Neural Networks. PE&RS is a leading academic journal in remote sensing(September 2009)

Congratulations to Kelsey Scheitlin, Jill Malmstadt, and Robert Hodges for their authorship of a paper that will appear in the Journal of Geophysical Research entitled "Towards Increased Utilization of Historical Hurricane Chronologies". The lead author is Kelsey and JGR is an ISI journal with an ISI impact factor of 5.57 (September 2009)

 

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