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New NSF funded project on human dynamics and disaster resilience
The GIResilience Lab has recently been funded by National Science Foundation for a new project titled "Collaborative Research: HNDS-I:...
Aug 15, 2023


Ph.D. student Hao Tian joined the research group
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...
May 12, 2023


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


Invited talk at Smart Cities Consortium Talk Series at UT Austin
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...
Apr 8, 2023


AAG2023 @ Denver, CO
Dr. Heng Cai presented the work on 'Compounding effects of natural hazards and pandemics: a case study of winter storm Uri and Covid-19...
Mar 27, 2023


AGU Fall Meeting 2022 at Chicago
Dr. Heng Cai co-chaired one session, titled 'Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction' in AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago. The session...
Dec 9, 2022


Lightning talk at NAAHDRI Incubator Events
Dr. Cai delivered a lightning talk at the research incubator events hosted by the North American Alliance of Hazards and Disasters...
Nov 11, 2022


New paper published on Journal of Geographical Systems
Dr. Cai published an article on incorporating neighborhood size effect into coastal land loss modeling. This article belongs to the...
Sep 1, 2022


Special Issue 'Human-Environment Interactions Research Using Remote Sensing'
The special issue "Human-Environment Interactions Research Using Remote Sensing" edited by Dr. Cai and her collaborators, Dr. Nina Lam...
Jul 1, 2022


New Entry published on GIS&T Body of Knowledge
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...
Apr 10, 2022


New Award: 2022 DATA SCIENCE COURSE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AWARDS
Dr. Heng Cai received the TAMIDS Data Science Course Development Program Award to develop a cutting-edge GIS course 'Geospatial Data...
Apr 7, 2022
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