Zhang
Receives Award
Dr.
Robin Zhang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences,
has won the "Best Ph.D. Thesis" prize awarded by the Canadian
Remote Sensing Society. The award was recently announced at the national
meeting of that organization in Montreal, Canada. The thesis entitled,
"Spatial, Spectral and Temporal Analysis of Urban Landscape Dynamics
Using Optical Satellite Data" was completed in 2002. The award considers
dissertations written throughout Canada.
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Dr
Zhang's appointment at Murray State University began in August of 2003 after
being employed at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. She
received her Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 2002, an M.Sc.
from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese
Academy of Sciences in 1995 and a B.Sc. in geography from Nanjing University
in 1992. Her major areas of interest are information extraction from remotely
sensed data and remote sensing and GIS analysis of urban environments. She
is currently teaching in those and other areas in the Department of Geosciences. |
