Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS

Dr. Guoquan Wang

Dr. Guoquan Wang
Executive Editor
Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Houston, USA

Biography

09/2011----Present: Assistant Professor 08/2006— 08/2011: Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, PR. (Tenured on July 1, 2011) 07/2004—07/2006: Research Associate, Applied Geophysical Science Laboratories, College of Arts and Sciences, North Carolina A&T State University, NC. 01/2004—06/2004: Visiting Research Scholar, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), University of New York at Buffalo, NY. 06/2001—12/2003: Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Geophysics, Department of Geosciences, University of Munich, Germany.

Research Interest

(1) Coastal hazards (e.g., faulting, subsidence, wetland loss) in the Gulf Coast area (2) Caribbean neotectonics (3) GPS seismology, strong earthquake ground motion (4) Applications of GPS and LIDAR technologies in natural hazards studies (5) Geological hazard risk analysis and mitigation (6) Field and structural monitoring and instrumentation (7) Numerical modeling---Numerical 3D simulation (e.g., Parallel Super-Computer Numerical Simulation, MPI and Finite Difference Method)