Remote Sensing Institute at Michigan Tech

Open to all juniors, seniors and grad students!
Visitors to lectures are welcome!

UN 4000 Remote Sensing Seminar Series

1 credit class CRN# 82289 Fall Semester 2002

Every Monday 4 pm Dow Building room 610

Purpose of the class:

This is a class built around an interdisciplinary seminar series on Remote Sensing topics. It is meant to give an introduction to this rapidly developing research field for our students. It is meant for students in the Minor program in Remote Sensing, which can be taken by majors in at least 9 departments. It is also of possible interest to graduate and undergraduate students interested in remote sensing and related topics.

The theme of this fall's class is: Transdisciplinary Environmental Hazards Research

The class grade is determined by attendance and participation. There are no exams or written assignments.

The class coordinator is Prof William Rose, Geological Engineering (307 Dow; 487-2367; raman@mtu.edu)

Schedule of Dates, Speakers and Topics (tentative!):

Sept 9	Monitoring of Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico, 1994 to Present	Dr Hugo Delgado Granados, UNAM Mexico
Sept 16	Remote Sensing of Volcanic Clouds, an overview of hazard mitigation efforts through remote sensing	Dr William I Rose, Geological Engineering and Sciences
Sept 23	SO₂ emissions to the atmosphere from active volcanoes in northern Central America, 1999-2002	Lizzette Rodriguez, Ph D Candidate, Geology
Sept 30	Volcanoes of the Central Andes, a field and remote sensing perspective	Dr Jose Viramonte, Universidad de Salta, Argentina
Oct 7	Remote sensing and modeling studies of 1991 Pinatubo eruption, largest of the 20^th century	Song Guo, Ph D candidate, Computational Science & Engineering
Oct 14	Thermal infrared remote sensing of active volcanoes	Dr Andrew Harris, University of Hawaii
Oct 21	A Photophysiological Model of Photosynthesis	Dr Tiffany A Moisan, Laboratory of Hydrospheric Processes, NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Oct 28	Current activity at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii	Adam Durant, Ph D student, Geology
Nov 4	GIS development at Santiaguito/Santa Maria , Guatemala	Elly Bunzendahl, MS candidate, Environmental Engineering
Nov11	Recent advances in satellite and ground-based measurements of sulfur dioxide	Dr Matthew Watson, Geological Engineering and Sciences
Nov 18	Computational Modeling of granular geophysical flows	Sebastien Dartevelle, Ph D Candidate in Geology
Dec 2	Volcanic Hazards of Atitlan Volcanoes, Guatemala	Janelle Byman, Ph D Candidate, Geology

Refreshments and questions by attendees are part of each session.

Last Updated: November 11, 2002

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