The UTC student scholars and the titles of their research studies are:
Undergraduates
- Braxton Anzalone, “Evaluating the performance of remote-sensing technologies to study the concentration of suspended sediment in the Tennessee River”
- William Bordash, “Mapping the characteristics of volcanic eruptions in the Galapagos Islands”
- Hannah Bowman, “Mapping the potential locations of chert in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky”
- Shelby Campbell, “Investigating the impact of forest fires on the glaciers of Mount Baker, Washington”
- Shelby Campbell, “Investigation of urban heat-island impact in the city of Chattanooga”
- Abigail Faxon, “Estimation of water quality in the Tennessee River and South Chickamauga Creek”
- Matthew Mollica, “Spatio-temporal analysis of snowpack in the Rocky Mountains”
Graduate students
- Connor Firat, “Investigating the potential of satellite-produced imagery to study the concentration of suspended sediment in the Tennessee River”
- Sean Jones, “Studying effect of ground water depletion on vegetation in the Mississippi Delta”
- William Stuart, “Mapping the changes in tree coverage in the city of Chattanooga”
Nine students—six undergraduates—at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have been chosen to present their scholarly research at a national conference.
While it’s not every day that undergraduates conduct published research, this occasion is the first that any students from UTC have been invited to present at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing annual meeting, which is being held virtually from March 21-25.
“Attending this conference provides the students with the opportunity to gain experience of presenting research to different professionals in this discipline,” said Assistant Professor Azad Hossain of the Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science.
Photogrammetry and remote sensing use aerial photographs and satellite imagery to study different aspects of Earth’s physical environments, Hossain explained. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a technology involved in photogrammetry.
Literally, we can study anything that we can see on Earth surface, including land use and land cover change, urban growth, flooding, landslides and many other important aspects/issues,” Hossain said.
“In my class, I usually bring the example of Google Earth to explain photogrammetry and remote sensing. NASA has several earth observations satellites such as Landsat that has been acquiring satellite imagery for the entire globe every 16 days since 1972.”
Attending the conference and interacting with others will help the students more clearly define their intended careers or further education, Hossain said.
“It also provides them with the opportunity to see the research conducted by other students and GIS and Remote Sensing professionals,” he said. “With this skill they will be better prepared for developing careers as geospatial professionals or going to graduate schools.”
