21 Dr. Yuting Zhou taught three courses during the last academic year: Digital Tools for Environmental Problem-Solving (Spring and Fall), Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (Fall), and Advanced GIS: Resource Management Applications (Spring). Dr. Zhou continued his role as PI for OklahomaView and Co-Director of the Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (CARS). This year, Dr. Zhou and the CARS Coordinator, Ms. Jing Wang, are using remote sensing to show the impacts of climate and human activities on agriculture and natural resources in Oklahoma, including red cedar encroachment, wildfire, tornado, intensive logging, large-scale irrigation, and oil and gas operations. Dr. Zhou is working with two undergraduate students to study the socioeconomic impacts of drought in Oklahoma with funding from the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Under Dr. Zhou’s guidance, Ph.D. student Wenqi Liu has published two papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Zhou also published another paper on the impacts of climate and management practices on vegetation phenology, which was featured as the cover article in Remote Sensing. Dr. Zhou plans to recruit another Ph.D. student for a newly funded project focusing on remote sensing of vegetation and fuels using machine learning algorithms.
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