-------- Original Message -------- Subject: graduate study at California State University, Long Beach Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:46:38 -0700 From: Christine M. Rodrigue, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] CC: [log in to unmask] The Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, is accepting Fall 2007 applications for its master's degree program until 25 June. Our department has a strong program in the geospatial techniques, including GIS, remote sensing, cartography, and spatial statistics, which may appeal to advanced undergraduates who have recently realized they would like to go to graduate school this fall. We would very much appreciate your bringing our program to the attention of such students. For more information about our graduate program and the application process, please download http://www.csulb.edu/geography/geomaf07.doc. The department itself is described at http://www.csulb.edu/geography/ . Our program is quite affordable, even for out-of-State students, and we also offer a limited number of student assistantships and internships, as well as a competitively awarded out-of-State surcharge waiver. Graduates of our program are nearly all employed in geography-related professional, managerial, and technical positions (94% of them), and four of our graduate alumni have been accepted into Ph.D. programs in the last two years. Among our faculty is Suzanne Wechsler, who does work on uncertainty in digital elevation models and how it impacts parameters derived from them, such as flood estimation and non-point water pollution concentrations. She is the author, with Charles Kroll of SUNY, of "Quantifying DEM uncertainty and its effect on topographic parameters," which appeared in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing in late 2006. The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing recently announced that it was the recipient of the 2007 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographical Information Systems. Paul Laris works with remote sensing in an innovating triangulation of Landsat imagery and on-the-ground interviewing and participant observation of firesetting decision-making in Mali's savannas. A recent article of his, "Managing a burned mosaic: A landscape-scale human ecological model of savanna fires," has appeared in Linking People with Nature: Lessons from Savannas and Dry Forests, ed. Jayalaxshmi Mistry and Andrea Berardi. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. Frank Gossette does GIS work in urban planning and economic geography contexts. With one of our recent graduate alumnae, Valerie Müller, he published "Satellites, Census, and the quality of life," in Geo-Spatial Technologies in Urban Environments, ed. R.J. Jensen, J. Gatrell, and D. McLean. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2005. James Woods is a cartographer interested in wildfire mapping. He manages our GIS, cartography, and remote sensing labs. With Roger Peng and Frederick Paik, he is the author of "A space-time conditional intensity model for evaluating a wildfire hazard index" in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, March, 2005. Christopher Lee works with remote sensing in geomorphological and biogeographical applications. He brought a NASA Regional Earth Science Applications Center to our department, with all its imagery and equipment. He is presently co-ordinating two educational programs that train students in intelligence applications of GIS and remote sensing. Thank you for your time. Chrys Rodrigue, Chair, Geography @ "The Beach"