Zhe Zhu

Associate Professor

Education:

• 2013 PhD in Geography, Boston University
• 2006 BE in Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Wuhan University

Appointments:

• 2023 – present Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, UConn
• 2023 – present Consultant, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
• 2022 – 2023 Consultant, Wildfire.org
• 2019 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment, Univeristy of Connecticut, CT
• 2016 – 2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 2016 – 2018 Faculty Associate, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 2016 – 2018 Faculty Associate, Center for Geospatial Technology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 2014 – 2016 Land Change Scientist, Contractor to USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD
• 2013 – 2014 Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA

Professional Activities:

• 2023 – Member, NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Science Team
• 2022.09 – Volume Editor, Remote Sensing Data Processing and Analysis Methodology, Comprehensive Remote Sensing (Book), Second Edition, Elsevier.
• 2022.08 – Guest Editor, Remote Sensing of Environment, Special Issue
• 2022.08 – Interim Editor in Chief, Remote Sensing of Environment
• 2022.07 – Editorial Board, Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science
• 2022 – Associate Editor, Journal of Remote Sensing
• 2022 – Guest Editor, Journal of Remote Sensing, Special Issue
• 2021 – Member, NASA Black Marble Science Team
• 2021 – Timeseries Application Session Chair, ARD21 Satellite Data Interoperability Workshop
• 2021 – Author, Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCAS)
• 2021 – Founding Director, CATALYST and UConn Center of Excellence
• 2019 – Founding Director, Global Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory
• 2019 – Associate Editor, Science of Remote Sensing
• 2019 – Editorial Board, Remote Sensing
• 2018-2023 Member, USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team
• 2018 – Associate Editor, Remote Sensing of Environment
• 2018-2021 Member, Science Interface Panel, USGS EROS CalVal Center of Excellence
• 2017 – Editorial Board, PeerJ
• 2014 – Member, American Geographical Union
• 2019-2020 Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special Issue
• 2018-2021 Chair, American Geographical Union (AGU), San Francisco and New Orleans
• 2018 Chair and Organizer, Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, New Orleans
• 2017-2018 Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special Issue
• 2017-2018 Guest Editor, Forests, Special Issue
• 2017-2018 Associate Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences
• 2017 Chair and Organizer, Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, Boston
• 2014-2019 Member, Association of American Geographers

Awards:

• 2020-2023 Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers
• 2021 AAUP Excellence Awards – Excellence in Research & Creativity: Early Career
• 2016 Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Remote Sensing of Environment
• 2007-2008 Presidential University Graduate Fellowships, Boston University, Boston

Research Interests:

Remote Sensing; Global Environmental Change, Land Cover and Land Use Change; Disaster and Hazard Monitoring; Time Series Analysis; Machine Learning; Biodiversity Conservation; Climate Change