Nina Lam, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair

1002R Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Department of Environmental Sciences
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA  70803

E-mail: nlam@lsu.edu        
Phone: (225) 578-3030 or -6197
Fax:        (225) 578-4286

Abbreviated vita of Dr. Lam in pdf

Education:

Ph.D. (1980), M.S. (1976), Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada
B.S.Sc. (1975), Geography, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Academic Positions Held:

2006-            Professor (Chair since 2007), Environmental Sciences, LSU
2007-            Adjunct Professor, Dept. Oceanography & Coastal Science, LSU
2006-            Adjunct Professor, Dept. Geography & Anthropology, LSU
1997-06        R.J. Russell Louisiana Studies Professor, Geography and Anthropology, LSU
1999-01        Program Director, NSF – Geography and Regional Science
1994-97        Professor, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, LSU
1991-97        Adjunct faculty, Dept. of Epidemiology & Community Health, LSU
1985-94        Associate Professor, Geography and Anthropology, LSU
1980-85        Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, Ohio State U

 

Ten Most Significant Publications:

Book:
 
Lam NSN, De Cola L, eds. 1993. Fractals in Geography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. 308p. (Reprinted by Blackburn Press in 2002).

Refereed Articles:

Vinnakota S, Lam, NSN. 2006. Socioeconomic inequality of cancer mortality in the United States: a spatial data mining approach. International Journal of Health Geographics 5:9.
Lam NSN, Qiu HL, Quattrochi DA, Emerson CW. 2002. An evaluation of fractal methods for characterizing image complexity. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 29(1):25-35.
Read JM, Lam NSN. 2002. Spatial methods for characterizing land-cover changes for the tropics. International Journal of Remote Sensing 23(12):2457-2474.
Lam NSN, Liu KB. 1996. Use of space-filling curves in generating a national rural sampling frame for HIV/AIDS research. The Professional Geographer 48(3):321-332.
Lam NSN, Liu K B. 1994. Spread of AIDS in rural America, 1982-1990. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 7:485-490.
Lam NSN, Quattrochi DA. 1992. On the issues of scale, resolution, and fractal analysis in the Mapping Sciences. The Professional Geographer 44(1):89-99.
Lam NSN. 1990. Description and measurement of Landsat-TM images using fractals. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 56(2):187-195.
Lam NSN. 1986. Geographical patterns of cancer mortality in China. Social Science and Medicine 23(3):241-247.
Lam NSN. 1983. Spatial interpolation methods: A review. The American Cartographer 10(2):129-149.

Current Grants as PI only (See Appendix for Five-Year List):

2008-09	Lam NSN, Liang W. Doctoral Dissertation Research: An integrated Agent-Based Microsimulation Model for Hurricane Evacuation in New Orleans. NSF. $7,809. 03/15/08 – 09/15/09.
2007-10	Lam NSN, Pace K, LeSage J, and Campanella R. Collaborative Research: Modeling business return amid post-disaster uncertainties: New Orleans after Katrina. NSF. Award Total: $622,412. LSU portion: $356,474. 11/01/07-10/31/10.
2007-08	Lam NSN, Ju W. Doctoral Dissertation Research: A genetic Bayesian approach for texture-aided urban land use/cover classification. National Science Foundation. $11,816. 07/01/07-01/31/09.

Courses Taught

ENVS 4149	Design of Environmental Management Systems
ENVS 7050	Spatial Modeling of Environmental Data
ENVS 7950	Special Topics in Environmental Sciences
GEOG 4045	Environmental Remote Sensing
GEOG 4047	Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 4049	Advanced Computer Cartography
GEOG 7973	Advanced Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 7935	Quantitative Methods for Geographical Analysis

Theses/Dissertations Directed and Completed as Major Professor (numbers only):

Geography: 11 PhD and 14 M.S.
M.S. in Engineering Sciences (As Co-chair): 3
M.S. in Environmental Sciences: 1
Currently serving as major professor of 8 PhDs and 3 M.S. students in both Geography and Environmental Sciences.

Honors and Scholarships:

2008	LSU Rainmaker (one of the year’s top 100 research and creative faculty at LSU)
2006	LSU Distinguished Faculty Award
2004	Outstanding Contributions in Remote Sensing Award, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Remote Sensing Specialty Group
2003	Keynote speaker, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling Group
2002	Prominent Overseas Scholar, University of Hong Kong
2002	Keynote speaker, AAG GIS Specialty group
1984	The Andrew McNally Award. (To honor the best paper published by the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping in 1983)

Synergistic Activities:

1997-	Associate Editor, Geographical Information Science; Editorial boards of these journals: Geographical Analysis,Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Cartography and GIS, The Professional Geographer
2002-08	Member of three National Research Council (NRC) Committees, six NSF Review Panels, two NIH Review Panels, and one NASA Review Panel
2005	President, University Consortium on Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
1996-07	External program reviews (UC Riverside; U Connecticut, U Buffalo, U Minnesota)