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5 August, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Peifeng Ma, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK effective Aug 1, 2022.

Congratulations also to Prof. Zihan Kan, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK effective Aug 1, 2022.

 

7 July, 2022

Pleased to announce that Prof. Mei-Po Kwan and Prof. Peifeng Ma have just been awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) in the 2022-23 exercise. Congratulations!

KWAN, Mei Po, ISEIS, The Environmental Determinants of Mental Health: A Study Using Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) (GRF, HK$1,201,378)

MA, Peifeng, ISEIS, Deep learning-based radar remote sensing of land subsidence in deltaic metropolitan regions for sustainable development (GRF, $743,635)

 

8 June, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, Director of ISEIS, has been awarded the 2022 James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, which is the highest honor bestowed by the Applied Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).

 

5 May, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Jiannan Cai on receiving a 3-year RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is a prestigious fellowship awarded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong to support young researchers in building up and developing their research careers. The competition is intense and less than 10 awardees from all disciplines are selected each year to CUHK.

 

3 May, 2022

Professor Kwan will be the speaker in “Advancing Women Academics in Leadership” webinar

 

22 April, 2022

Using GIScience to Combat COVID-19 and Keep People Healthy

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22 April, 2022

Using GIScience to Combat COVID-19 and Keep People Healthy

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22 April, 2022

Prof. Gang Li (李剛) from Sun Yat-Sen University will present us a seminar.

 

8 April, 2022

Prof. Sanwei He (贺三维) from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China will present us a seminar .

 

25 March, 2022

Prof. Li He from Xi’an Jiaotong University will present a seminar. The topic is Understanding urban crime using mobile phone data and street view imagery.

 

11 March, 2022

Dr. Ru Xu will be the speaker of the seminar. The topic is 基于卫星观测的全球森林对云量的影响

 

4 March, 2022

Prof. Xiaolin Zhu will be the speaker of the seminar. The topic is Monitoring cities from space during the nighttime

 

18 February, 2022

Dr Jian Lin will be the speaker of the seminar. The topic is Urban Forestry for Sustainable Communities: Evidence from New York City

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