Dr. Yu Sun
Assistant Professor
Physical Geography
Institute for Environmental and Spatial Analysis
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Sun likes sports, traveling, and outdoor activities.Education Ph.D., Geography, University of Cincinnati, 2014 M.A., Geography, University of Cincinnati, 2009 B.S., Geoinformatics, Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China, 2006
Research Interest
GIS, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Modeling, Human-Environment Interactions, Watershed Modeling and Sustainable Water Resource Management, Land Use/Cover Change, Climate Change, Regional Planning, Population and Public Health, Civil Engineering and Surveying
Publications
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Tong, S. T. Y., Y. Sun, T. Ranatunga, J. He, and Y. J. Yang. 2011. Predicting plausible impacts of sets of climate and land use change scenarios on water resources. Applied Geography 32: 477-489
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Tong, S. T. Y., Y. Sun, and Y. J. Yang. 2012. Generating a future land use change scenario with a modified population-coupled Markov cellular automata model. Journal of Environmental Informatics 19(2):108-119
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Sun, Y., S. T. Y. Tong, M. Fang, and Y. J. Yang. 2013. Exploring the effects of population growth on future land use change at the Las Vegas Wash watershed: an integrated approach of geospatial modeling and analytics. Environment, Development and Sustainability 15: 1495-1515
