News & Updates

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Heng Cai has been appointed Associate Editor of Tourism Geographies , a high-impact, peer-reviewed...

The GIResilience Lab had a blast at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) held in Detroit, Michigan....

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Heng Cai has been awarded a $660,000 NASA grant for a three-year project titled "HeatSMART:...

We are delighted to share that Ph.D. student Palash Chandra Das won the Jeanne X. Kasperson Student Paper Award , sponsored by the...

Dr. Heng Cai, the director of our GIResilience Lab, has recently joined the editorial board of Humanities & Social Sciences...

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Heng Cai has been selected as one of the seven Early-Career Research Fellows for the 2024-2026...

An article led by Hao entitled " Unveiling community adaptations to extreme heat events using mobile phone location data " was recently...

The lab members had a wonderful time at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2024 conference hosted in Honolulu, HI in April....

Ph.D. student Hao Tian has won Second Place in the Honors Student Paper Competition of Geographic Information Science and Systems (GISS)...

At the AGU fall meeting 2023, Dr.Heng Cai presented an invited talk title 'Disaster Resilience Measurement and Modeling through...

In November 2023, Hao Tian attended the TxGIS Day and delivered an oral presentation. The topic is "Unveiling Human Mobility Dynamics...

Welcome our new members! Nazmoon Nahar Sumiya and Palash Chandra Das joined the GeoResilience research group starting August 2023 as...

On October 9-10, 2023, Ph.D. student Hao Tian from GIResilience Lab attended the Urban Climate Solutions Workshop at Texas A&M University...

The GIResilience Lab has recently been funded by National Science Foundation for a new project titled "Collaborative Research: HNDS-I:...

Hao Tian joined the GeoResilience research group starting May 2023 as a Ph.D. student. Hao earned his Master's degree from Sun Yat-sen...

Dr. Heng Cai was invited to deliver a presentation as part of the 'GIS and Natural Hazards' education webinar serie on April 28, 2023....

Dr. Heng Cai delivered an invited talk on how geospatial data science can be used to plan for a more sustainable future as part of the...

Dr. Heng Cai presented the work on 'Compounding effects of natural hazards and pandemics: a case study of winter storm Uri and Covid-19...

Dr. Heng Cai co-chaired one session, titled 'Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction' in AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago. The session...

Dr. Cai delivered a lightning talk at the research incubator events hosted by the North American Alliance of Hazards and Disasters...

Dr. Cai published an article on incorporating neighborhood size effect into coastal land loss modeling. This article belongs to the...

The special issue "Human-Environment Interactions Research Using Remote Sensing" edited by Dr. Cai and her collaborators, Dr. Nina Lam...

Dr. Heng Cai contributed a new entry 'AM-04 Overlay' for the UCGIS GIS&T Body of Knowledge to illustrate the basic concept of Overlay and...

Dr. Heng Cai received the TAMIDS Data Science Course Development Program Award to develop a cutting-edge GIS course 'Geospatial Data...