Advisory Board and Editors Spatial & Geographic Information Science
Andrew Tredennick
I am a quantitative ecologist interested in ecological forecasting and the stability of populations, communities, and ecosystems. I have expertise in statistical analyses of ecological systems, population modeling, and the analysis of remote sensing data to address environmental problems.
Gregory M Verutes
Gregg Verutes is a biogeographer currently supporting Blue Forest Conservation's data management, visualization, and reporting systems. He specializes in blending the fields of conservation and technology to empower planners, managers, and analysts who are passionate about protecting the multitude of benefits flowing from ecosystems to people. He has previously worked for the National Geographic Society, Audubon Society, World Wildlife Fund, and Stanford University. Gregg received his Ph.D. in Marine Science & Technology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, a M.Sc. in Geographic Information Science from San Diego State University, and B.Sc. in Policy Analysis & Management from Cornell University.
Jingzhe Wang
Jingzhe Wang received his Ph. D in Cartography and Geographic Information System from Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China, in 2019. He is now working as a research associate at MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area, Shenzhen University. His research interests focus on Earth observation and remote sensing, spectral modeling, quantitative estimation of soil properties, digital soil mapping, GIS, spatial analysis, and environmental sustainability. He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed international journals in these related research areas and has served as a reviewer for many journals and conferences including Remote Sensing of Environment, Ecological Indicators, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
Qiang Wang
Qiang Wang received a Ph.D in Environmental Science from the Chinese Academy of Science in 2009, was an Associate Professor (2010) at the Qingdao Institute Of Bioenergy & Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, and a Professor (2011-16) at Xinjiang Ecology And Geography Institute, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, and then moved to China University of Petroleum (2016-2022). His research focuses on energy-environment-health issues through multidisciplinary research methods
Through clever use of time series statistical models (e.g., joint regression models, variable intercept models, variable coefficient models), high-precision combined forecasting models (e.g. gray forecasting and neural network models combined forecasting models), multilateral input-output models, decomposition models (e.g. index decomposition method, structural decomposition method), Dr. Wang has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers (corresponding author) in high profile English journals.
These papers have been cited over 8,800 (Google Scholar)/ 7,100(Scopus)/ 6,200 (WoS) times by October 2022. 19 papers are selected as global ESI 0.1% Hot Papers, and 36 papers are selected as global ESI 1% Highly Cited Papers that perform in the top 1%. Dr. Wang’s h index is 53 (Google Scholar)/ 49(Scopus)/ 46 (WoS).
Lei Wang
Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. Research interests include Geocomputation, GeoAI, Remote Sensing of water, Spectroscopic analyses, and mapping flood hazards.
Christopher John Webster
Prof. Chris Webster is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, and leads the HKUrbanLab. He has degrees in urban planning, computer science, economics and economic geography and is a leading urban theorist and spatial economic modeller. He has published over 150 scholarly papers on the idea of spontaneous urban order and received over US$20M grants for research and teaching and learning projects.
His research interests includes leading HKU’s Healthy High Density Cities research group to establish systematic evidence for the relationship between urban configuration (planned and spontaneous) and individual health.
He is a strong supporter of the discipline of Urban Science, believing that much (but by no means all) urban social science of the 20th century did not deliver on its claims and that advances in big data, sensing technology and computing power, are leading to a new engagement between urban decision makers and scientists. The 20th century urban scholars' reliance on small numbers, descriptive case studies, rudimentary analytics, cross-sectional designs and subjective measurements from social surveys are giving way to a more mature phase of urban science, with large-N panel studies, quasi and RCT designs, temporally and spatially fine-grained units of analysis, and a high degree of inter-disciplinarity. Professor Webster's hope is that an increasing number of Urban Science studies will appear in widely-read public science journals.
Louise Willemen
Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation, of University of Twente, the Netherlands.PhD in spatial modelling from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.Worked before @ Bioversity International in Colombia, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy, Cornell University in the USA.Current roles: Coordinating Lead Author of the Land Degradation and Restoration assessment of IPBES, Chair of the Steering Committee of Ecosystem Services Partnership, and editorial work for several journals. Ecosystem services and rural development researcher. Current research includes RS-based ecosystem service mapping and monitoring, impact assessments of integrated restoration, and prioritization of investments in land degradation neutrality actions.
Matthew D Wilson
Matthew (Matt) Wilson is a Professor in Spatial Information and Director of the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is a surface water hydrologist and geographical information scientist with specialisations including flood risk, surface water dynamics, water resources, remote sensing, numerical model development, uncertainty analysis and the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change. Previous research has included the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on flood risk and water resources in the Caribbean and the analysis of surface water hydrodynamics on a 300 km reach of the Amazon River in Brazil. In New Zealand, his current research includes leading the uncertainty theme for a national scale flood risk assessment, the creation of a digital twin for flood resilience, and the creation of algorithms for processing of novel airborne GNSS reflectometry measurements for estimation of soil water content.
Le Yu
Associate Professor in the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University.
Research interests include global land-use and land-cover change mapping, modeling and application; global cropland mapping and uncertainty analysis.
Jianjun Zhang
Professor at the School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing).
I work on land use and sustainability, ecological modeling, land economics and regional planning, low-carbon land use and ecosystem services in human disturbance zones, urban management. The focus of my current research has been expanded to green infrastructures, ecologic economics and heat island effects related with land use.
Haikun Zhao
I am a full Professor in the College of Atmospheric Science at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), China. I received my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from NUIST in 2012. I have been working on tropical cyclones and climate change, seasonal and intra-seasonal tropical cyclone forecasts since 2007. I have published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Nature Communications, Journal of Climate, and Geophysical Research Letters.
Matteo Zucchetta
Matteo Zucchetta obtained his PhD thesis entitled "Habitat distribution models for the management of fishery and conservation concern species in lagoon environment” at the University Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy). He has previously covered the position of researcher University Ca’ Foscari Venice (Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics) and at the National Centre for Coastal Zone Protection and Characterization, Marine Climatology and for Operational Oceanography of the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). Since 2020 he is a researcher of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy. His work was carried out in the framework of different EU and Italian projects, and his main research topics are: 1) analysis of the spatial distribution of plant and animal species in coastal and transitional water bodies; 2) Community ecology in transitional water ecosystems; 3) Use of fish fauna assemblages as indicators of ecosystem ecological status; 4) Ecological models for food webs analysis; 5) Climate changes effects on aquatic ecosystems.