Look forward to presentations at upcoming AAG meetings
American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2023 Annual Meeting is approaching. All the members from GEAR Lab will deliver at least one...
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Joynal Abedin Received Graduate Student Affinity Group (GSAG) Research and Support Awards
Joynal Abedin, a Ph.D. student from GEAR Lab, received the Graduate Student Affinity Group (GSAG) Research and Support Awards. This year,...
Joynal Abedin Received 2023 AAG Research Grants
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) provides research grants to support research and fieldwork (Website Link:...
A New Publication from GEAR Lab in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
An article led by Dr. Lei Zou entitled "Social Media for Emergency Rescue: An Analysis of Rescue Requests on Twitter during Hurricane...
GEAR Lab Members Attended AGU 2022
Ph.D. students Mingzheng Yang and Debayan Mandal attended the Annal Meeting of the American Geophysics Union (AGU) in December, 2022, in...
Binbin Lin was selected as the finalist of the GISS-SG Student Honors Paper Competition of AAG 2023
Binbin Lin, a second-year Ph.D. student in GEAR Lab, was selected as the finalist in the GISS-SG (Geographic Information Science and...
Joynal Abedin and Tarik Jamil Received Jeanne X. Kasperson Award at the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting
Joynal Abedin, a Ph.D. student from GEAR Lab, and Tarik Jamil, a master's student from GEAR Lab, received the AAG Hazards, Risk, and...
Binbin Lin delivered a poster presentation at the Conference on Advances in Data Science
In October 2022, Binbin Lin from GEAR lab delivered a poster presentation at the Conference on Advances in Data Science, and the topic...
Binbin Lin won first place at the TxGIS day Graduate Student Research Competition
In November 2022, Binbin Lin attended the TxGIS day and delivered an oral presentation. The topic is "Sensing the Pulse of the Pandemic:...
Dr.Zou, Binbin Lin, Bing Zhou, and Debayan Mandal Presented at the Autocarto in November 2022
In November 2022, four team members from GEAR Lab delivered presentations at Autocarto conference. Dr.Zou delivered an oral presentation...
Dr.Zou and Binbin Lin Presented at the CPGIS Conference in August 2022
In August 2022, Dr.Zou successfully hosted a session"Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction", and delivered an oral presentation...
Congratulations on Moxuan Li's Master's Degree
Gear Lab Member Mr. Moxuan Li has successfully completed a master's degree in geography this summer. Congratulations! Moxuan Li started...
Tarik Jamil Brown Presented at the Natural Hazard Conference
On July 14, 2022, Mr. Tarik Jamil Brown from the GEAR Lab successfully delivered an oral presentation on "Marginalized Natural Hazard...
Dr. Zou Has Been Appointed the Vice-Chair of the ICA Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling
Recently, Dr. Lei Zou from GEAR Lab was appointed the vice-chair of the Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling (GAM) in the...
Four Short Articles Accepted for Oral Presentations at AutoCarto 2022
Four short articles led by GEAR Lab members have been accepted for oral presentations at AutoCarto 2022. Congratulations! The AutoCarto...
Dr. Zou Leads a Special Issue on "Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction"
To promote the advances in leveraging novel data in disaster research and applications, Dr. Zou initiates and leads a special issue in...
Moxuan Li Successfully Defended His MSc Thesis
On June 15th, Moxuan Li, a Master's student from the GEAR Lab, successfully defended his MS thesis "Geographical Disparities of Flash...
Dr. Zou Joins the Editorial Board of IJDE
Dr. Lei Zou from GEAR Lab is invited to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE), a world-leading...
GEAR Lab Received Two Seed Grants
Recently, GEAR Lab received two collaborative seed grants from Texas A&M University. In the first project, we will collaborate with PI...
Dr. Zou Moderated a Panel Session at UCGIS
The UCGIS 2022 Symposium was held in Syracuse, NY, on June 6-10. Dr. Zou from GEAR Lab attended the UCGIS 2022 and moderated a panel...
Ph.D. Student Bing Zhou gives Presentation in Texas Sea Grant Workshop in Weslaco
Gear Lab member, Bing Zhou, was invited by the Texas Sea Grant as one of the representatives from University to present on resources,...
VictimFinder Research Led by Ph.D. Student Bing Zhou is Published by CEUS
A VictimFinder research led by Gear Lab member Mr. Bing Zhou, a first-year Ph.D. student, is recently published by the Computer,...
Ph.D. Student Binbin Lin is Awarded Excellent Research from the Department of Geography
Congratulations! Gear Lab Ph.D. student, Miss. Binbin Lin, is the winner of the Department of Geography Graduate Student Excellence in...
Dr. Zou has been elected as a CaGIS Board of Director Member
Dr. Lei Zou has been elected as a Cartography and GIS Board of Director Member starting Spring 2022! Dr. Zou will be a member of the...
Covid-19 Research Led by Ph.D. Student Binbin Lin is Accepted by IJDE
A Covid-19 research led by Gear Lab member Ms. Binbin Lin, a first-year Ph.D. student, is recently accepted by the International Journal...
Ph.D. Student Mr. Bing Zhou is Awarded 2021 CaGIS Scholarship
Gear Lab Ph.D. student, Mr. Bing Zhou, is awarded the 2021 CaGIS Scholarship! Congratulations! The CaGIS Scholarship gives awards to...
GEAR Lab is Selected for the PRISE Award to Enhance Resilience through Big Data and AI
Gear Lab is awarded a new research PRISE grant to enhance resilience in vulnerable communities through geospatial big data and AI....
GEAR Lab receives 2022 Data Science Course Development Program Award from TAMIDS
Dr. Heng Cai and Dr. Lei Zou have recently received awards from the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science for developing a cutting-edge GIS...
GEAR Lab's Presentations at AAG 2022!
A huge shout out to all the GEAR Lab members who have presented their respective research in this AAG 2022! These seminar recordings are...
GEAR Lab proposed advanced-level workshop selected for the AAG2022 Virtual Summer Series
The AAG2022 Virtual Summer series will feature advanced-level workshops, a seminar series, a post-graduation essentials series, graduate...
Three new articles published on J of Geographic Systems, Remote Sensing, GIST Body of Knowledge
The GEAR Lab have recently published three journal articles. Overlay Heng Cai The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of...
Dr. Zou's invited talk in LSGI Series: Emerging Topic in Geospatial and Urban Science
On Feb 11th, Dr. Zou was invited to give a talk titled "Active Hope in the Changing World: Geospatial Approaches to Enhancing Disaster...
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