Nina S. Lam, Ph.D.,
Professor, Chair
Abbreviated vita of Dr. Lam in pdf
EDUCATION:
1977-80 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (U.W.O.) Ph.D. in Geography
1976-77 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario M.Sc. in Geography
1971-75 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (C.U.H.K) - B.S.Sc. in Geography
Research Interests:
- Geographic information science
- Remote sensing of environment
- Spatial analysis and modeling
- Environment and public health
- Specific topics: fractals, wavelets, HIV/AIDS diffusion, cancers and spatial data mining, decision making under uncertainty, land use/land cover change detection
Appointments:
2006-pres Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University
1999-01 Program Director, Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation
1997-06 Richard J. Russell Louisiana Studies Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
1994-97 Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
1991-97 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Louisiana State University
1985-94 Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
1980-85 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio State University
Awards, Lectureships, or Prizes:
2006 LSU Distinguished Faculty Award
2004 Outstanding Contributions in Remote Sensing Award, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (AAG)
2003 Keynote Speaker, Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group, AAG, March 6.
2002 Prominent Overseas Scholar, University of Hong Kong, Sept. 14-21.
2002-04 External Examiner, Master and Postgraduate Diploma in GIS, U. of Hong Kong
2002 Keynote Speaker, GIS Specialty Group, AAG, March 21.
1997- Named as Richard J. Russell Louisiana Studies Distinguished Professor
1984 The Andrew McNally Award. (To honor the best paper published in The American Cartographer in 1983.)
Refereed Publicationa since 2003:
Zhou, G.Y. and Lam, N.S.-N. (accepted). Reducing edge effects in the classification of high-resolution imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
Myint, S., Mesev, V., and Lam, N.S.-N. (accepted). Urban textural analysis from remote sensor data: lacunarity measurements based on the differential box counting method. Geographical Analysis.
Vinnakota, S. and Lam, N.S.-N. 2006. Socioeconomic inequality of cancer mortality in the United States: a spatial data mining approach. International Journal of Health Geographics 5:9.
Ju, W., Lam, N.S.-N., and Chen, J. 2006. Application of Kohonen self-organizing map for urban structure analysis. Proceedings of IEEE Granular Computing (refereed).
Ridd, M., and others. 2006. Documenting dynamics of human settlements, Chapter 10. Remote Sensing of Human Settlements. Manual of Remote Sensing, Vol. 4, John Wiley & Sons. (Lam was one of the authors).
Myint, S.W. and Lam, N.S.-N. 2005. A study of lacunarity-based texture analysis approaches to improve urban image classification. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems 29: 501-523.
Zhou, G.Y. and Lam N.S.-N. 2005. A comparison of fractal dimension estimators based on multiple surface generation algorithms. Computers & Geosciences 31:1260-1269.
Myint, S.W. and Lam, N.S.-N. 2005. Examining lacunarity approaches in comparison with fractal and spatial autocorrelation techniques for urban mapping. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 71(8):927-937.
Emerson, C.W., Lam, N.S.-N., and Quattrochi, D.A. 2005. A comparison of local variance, fractal dimension, and Moran’s I as aids to multispectral image classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26(8): 1575-1588.
Lam, N.S.-N., Catts, D., McMaster, R., Quattrochi, D., and Brown, D. 2004. Scale. In A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science, R. McMaster and L. Usery, eds., Chapter 4, pp. 93-128. Bacon Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Myint, S.W., Lam, N.S.-N., and Tyler, J.M. 2004. Wavelet for urban spatial feature discrimination: comparisons with fractals, spatial autocorrelation, and spatial co-occurrence approaches. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 70(8):803-812.
Lam, N.S.-N., Emerson, C., and Quattrochi, D. 2004. Quantitative spatial analysis of remotely sensed imagery. In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, D.G. Janelle, B. Warf, and K. Hansen, eds., pp. 559-564. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Ozdenerol, E. and Lam, N.S.-N. 2004. Detecting Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, D.G. Janelle, B. Warf, and K. Hansen, eds., pp. 75-80. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Lam, N.S.-N. 2004. Fractals and scale in environmental assessment and monitoring. In Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method, E. Sheppard and R. McMaster, eds., Chapter 1. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
External Research Grants Since 2003 (as PI or Co-PI):
2005-06 Lam, N.S.-N., Campanella, R., and Pace, K. Decision-making among businesses in post-catastrophe uncertainty: How economic geographies re-form in New Orleans. National Science Foundation. $110,626. 10/15/05-10/15/06.
2006-11 Liu, K.B., Bentley, S., Lam, N.S.-N. and others. Paleotempestology of the Caribbean Region: A multi-proxy, multi-site study of the spatial and temporal variability of Caribbean hurricane activity. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). $620,000. 04/01/06-04/01/11.
2006-07 Lam, N.S.-N. and Zhou, G. Detecting the social-economic conditions of urban neighborhoods through a combined methodology of wavelet transform and artificial neural networks. National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant. $7,142. 03/01/06-03/01/07.
2004 Lam, N.S.-N. An integrated spatial data mining system for change and anomaly detection for decision support and risk assessment. Louisiana Board of Regents. $19,890. 05/04-06/05.
2001-04 Emerson, C.W., Quattrochi, D.A., and Lam, N.S.-N. Fractal and geostatistical metadata for monitoring global change using remote sensing imagery. NASA Intelligent Systems solicitation. $519,761. LSU portion: $153,391.
Theses/Dissertations Directed as Major Professor (numbers only):
PhD: 11
MS: 14
Master of Engineering Sciences (As Co-chair): 3
Master of Natural Sciences MNS (non-thesis): 2
Professional Service Since 2003 (Selected listing only):
Editorship of Journals or Other Learned Publications:
2005- Editorial Board, The Professional Geographer
2000- Editorial Board, Annals of the American Association of Geographers
1996- Associate Editor, Geographic Information Sciences
1996- Editorial Board, Cartography and Geographic Information Science
1992- Editorial Board, Geographical Analysis
Office Held / Advisory Panels in Federal Organizations:
2006 NSF Review Panel, Hydrologic Observatories
2006-08 National Research Council (NRC) - Mapping Science Committee
2005-06 NRC committee on Contributions of Remote Sensing for Decisions about Human Welfare
2004 NSF Review Panel, Human Social Dynamics (Infrastructure)
2003 Strategic Planning meeting, NSF Geography and Regional Science Program
2003 NSF Review Panel, Pre-proposal for Science and Technology Centers
Program Review:
2006 External Program Reviewer, Dept. of Geography, U. of Minnesota
2005 External Program Reviewer, Dept. of Geography, U. of Buffalo
2003 External Program Reviewer, Dept. of Geography, U. of Connecticut
Offices Held in Professional Societies:
2004-06 President-Elect, President, and Past President, University Consortium on Geographic Information Sciences (UCGIS)
2004-06 Awards Committee, AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group
For more information please email: nlam@lsu.edu
