Students

Dajun Dai  dljt@siu.edu

• Peking University, P. R. China
  Research Interests: Artifical Intelligence in GIS, spatial Decission Support System, GIS and Environmental Modeling
   

Dan Vaughn dvaughn@siu.edu

• Sharon,PA (as well as Beaumont, TX, & Hilo, HI)
  Research Interests: Environmental Sciences, Sustainable Development/Practices, Philosophy of Science, Organic Geochemistry
  URL: http://www.science.siu.edu/geology/people/students/vaughn.htm
   

David Close dclose@siu.edu

• South-central Kentucky (Mammoth Cave Region)
  Research Interests: Urban and community forestry, ecology, GIS applications in ecology, geospatial statistics.
  Current Work: I am currently the Community Forestry Coordinator for the southern 36 counties of Illinois. I work with the nearly 300 municipalities of the region providing technical assistance to community leaders. I facilitate training workshops on topics such as Risk Tree Assessment, Proper Pruning Techniques, Proper Tree Planting, Chainsaw Safety, Use, and Maintenance, Insect and Disease and their Management, and How to Avoid Construction Damage to Trees.
  URL: http://www.siu.edu/~forestry/urbanfor/ (Urban and Community Forestry for Southern Illinois)
   

Kristine Schachel  krisstar@hotmail.com

• ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS
  Research Interests: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
  Education: Environmental Policy specialization, Bachelor's (1998) and Master's (2000) degrees both in Geography from SIUC. [Associates' in Earth Science from Black Hawk College 1996]
  Current Work: Executive Director of Keep Carbondale Beautiful, Inc. since August 2001 (A local non-profit affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. Promotes litter prevention, recycling, and community beautification.)
  Contact info: 529-4148 or keepcb@midwest.net
   

Marian Brown marianb@pso.siu.edu
 

Mike Most mtmost@midwest.net

• Boise, Idaho
  Research Interests: Airport Environmental Issues
  Current Work: The effects of social dynamics on the NEPA/EIS process as related to airport capacity enhancements.
   

Mykola Shcherbaniuk mykola@siu.edu

• Chernivtsi, UKRAINE
  Research Interests: Integration of GIS (ArcView, ArcInfo) with Remote Sensing, Spatial Decision Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Modeling, Statistics
  Current Work: Part-time research on tight coupling ArcView with Linear Program using Avenue script. Advisors Dr. Raja Sengupta and Dr. Christopher Lant. Software used ArcView, ArcInfo, ArcMap, Erdas, and Idrisi; ANOVA, ANCOVA, multiple and logistic regression, with SAS.
   

Qing Bai qingbai@siu.edu

• China
  Research Interests: Integration of GIS and RS; GeoDatabases; PSS (Planning Support System)
   

Reuben Heine  rheine@siu.edu
 

Richard Boniak richboiniak@prodigy.net
 

Scott Nolte snolte@siu.edu

• Iuka, IL That's about 25 miles Northeast of Mt. Vernon, IL
  Research Interests: I'm very much interested in plant physiology and herbicide physiology.
  Current Work: My current work involves the evaluation of corn and tobacco lines expressing a foreign gene and determining their equivalence to non-GMOs. These plants have displayed complex metabolic changes compared to non-transformed plants and other GMOs. To fully exploit the beneficial attributes of this technology the specific effects of the foreign gene on plant metabolic functions needs to be better understood. Experiments evaluating whole plant tolerance to phosphinothricin allow us to use the phenotypic response to gain better insight to the function of the gene.
   

Salah H. Jaber shjaber@siu.edu

• Jordan
  Research Interests: Remote Sensing and GIS
   

Xiaoying Yang xiaoying_y@yahoo.com

• China
  Research Interests: Water Demand Management
  Current Work: I am currently taking part in the research on water use patterns in the united states from 1950 to 1995. The basic aim of the project is to develop multiple regression models on model water use in residential, industrial, agricultural, and thermoelectric sectors.
   

Yong Huang yongh@siu.edu

• P. R. China
  Research Interests: Water Resources Hydrology, Water Resources management, Environmental Management
  Current Work: Hydropower generation has benefited humans, but there are also negative impacts to the river system. A comparative study will be done to find a better way to minimize the negative impacts by management measures.