Affiliated Member /
Visiting Scholar
Prof. Nina LAM Siu-Ngan
RESEARCH PROJECTS
(Since 2012 as the PI or a co-PI, in U.S. dollars)
- Lam NSN, Lee K. 2023. Collaborative Research: HNDS-I: A cyberinfrastructure for multiscale human dynamics and resilience (HDR) research. National Science Foundation #2318203. $496,988. 09/01/2023-08/31/2026. (This project is a collaboration with Texas A&M University, University of South Florida, and Saint Louis University. Total project amount is: $1.1 million. LSU is the lead institution).
- Lam NSN, Bui L, de Jesus Crespo R. 2023. Collaborative Research: RII Track-2 FEC: RURAL CONFLUENCE: Communities and academic partners uniting to drive discovery and build capacity for climate resilience. National Science Foundation #2316367. $1,121,341. 08/01/2023-07/31/2027. (This project is a collaboration with Oklahoma State University and University of Nebraska. The total project amount is $6 million. Oklahoma State University is the lead institution.)
- Lee K, Lam NSN. 2020. RAPID: Investigating public health and social information disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic. National Science Foundation #2032745. $232,000. 06/15/2020-05/31/2023.
- Sun MX, Lam NSN. 2019. AI-DCL: EAGER: Fairness-aware Informatics System for Enhancing Disaster Resilience. National Science Foundation #1927513. $300,000. 09/01/2019-08/31/2022.
- Jafari D, Lam NSN. 2019. RAPID: Collaborative research: Data mining and fusion between unmanned aerial systems and social media technologies to improve emergency operations. National Science Foundation #1945787. $106,000. 10/01/2019-09/30/2021
- Lam NSN, Meyer M, Park SJ, Reams M, Yang SW, Lee KS. 2018. RAPID: The changing roles of social media in disaster resilience: The case of Hurricane Harvey. National Science Foundation #1762600. $199,989. 01/01/2018-12/31/2019.
- Lam NSN, Meyer M, Park SJ, Reams M, Yang SW, Lee KS. 2016. IBSS-L: Understanding social and geographical disparities in disaster resilience through the use of social media. National Science Foundation #1620451. $834,585. 09/01/2016-08/31/2021.
- Lam NSN, Qiang Y. 2015. A synthesis of resilience measurement methods and indices. Louisiana Sea Grant. $49,940. 01/15/2015-01/15/2017.
- Lam NSN, Reams M, Rohli R. 2014. Community resilience to drought hazard: An analysis of drought exposure, impacts, and adaptations in south-central United States. U. S. Geological Survey. $254,485. 09/01/2014-08/31/2016.
- Qiang Y, Lam NSN. Using CyberGIS to model the coupled natural and human dynamics in a vulnerable coastal system. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. $6,400. 08/2014-08/2015.
- Twilley R, Bentley S, Chen Q, Lam NSN, Xu K. 2014. Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Changes in actual and perceived coastal flood risks due to river management strategies. National Science Foundation, #1427389. $1,600,000 (Total award), $1,097,704 (LSU portion). 09/01/2014-08/31/2019.
- Reams M, Lam NSN. 2014. Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) 2017 Master Plan update: Coastal community resilience program development and assessment. $99,561. 04/01/2014 – 04/01/2015
- Reams M, Lam NSN. 2013. Applying insights from resilience theory to encourage “co-producing safety” in the Netherlands. Subaward from Hz University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. $100,000. 04/2013-10/2014.
- Lam NSN, Liu KB, Reams MA, Rivera-Monroy V, Xu YJ. Pace K. Dismukes D. 2012. CNH: Coupled natural-human dynamics in a vulnerable coastal system. National Science Foundation, #1212112. $1,499,935. 09/01/12-08/31/18.
- Liu KB, Lam NSN, Bentley S. 2012. Addendum to Paleotempestology of the Caribbean Region: A multi-proxy, multi-site study of the spatial and temporal variability of Caribbean hurricane activity. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). $299,902. 03/01/12-10/01/15.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
* Refers to the students/post-doc of whom I was/am major advisor/sponsor.
Books:
Quattrochi DA, Wentz E, Lam NSN, Emerson CW. Eds. 2017. Scale in Remote Sensing and GIScience Applications. New York: Routledge. 401p.
Lam NSN and De Cola L, eds. 1993. Fractals in Geography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. 308p.
Contributed Books/Special Journal Issues:
Lam NSN, Cai H, Zou L. Eds. 2022. Human-Environmental Interactions Research Using Remote Sensing. A Special Issue in Remote Sensing. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI.
Xu YJ, Lam NSN, Liu KB. Eds. 2018. Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System. London: MDPI. (Collected articles from the special issue published in Water).
Articles in Refereed Journals:
- Lam NSN, Meyer M, Reams M, Yang S, Lee K, *Zou L, *Mihunov V, *Wang K, Kirby R, *Cai H. 2023. Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies. International Journal of Digital Earth. (forthcoming).
- *Mihunov V, *Wang K, *Wang Z, Lam NSN, Sun M. 2023. Social media and volunteer rescue requests prediction with Random Forest and algorithm bias detection: a case of Hurricane Harvey. Environmental Research Communications 5, 065013. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acde35.
- *Wang K, Lam NSN, *Mihunov V. 2023. Correlating Twitter use with disaster resilience at two spatial scales: A case study of Hurricane Sandy. Annals of GIS. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2023.2165545
- *Wang Z, Lam NSN, Sun M, Huang X, Shang J, *Zou L, Wu Y, *Mihunov V. 2022. A machine learning approach for detecting rescue requests from social media. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 11(11), 570; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11110570
- Hoque MUL, Lee, K, Beyer JL, Curran SR, Gonser KS, Lam NSN, *Mihunov VV, *Wang K. 2022. Analyzing tweeting patterns and public engagement on Twitter during the recognition period of the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of two U.S. states. IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 72879-72894. DOI: 0.1109/ACCESS.2022.3189670
- *Cai H, Lam NSN, *Zou L. 2022. Incorporating neighborhood scale effects into land loss modeling using semivariograms. Journal of Geographical Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-021-00372-4 .
- *Mihunov VV, Lam NSN. 2020. Modeling the dynamics of drought resilience in South-Central United States using a Bayesian network. Applied Geography. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102224
- *Cai H, Lam NSN, *Qiang Y, *Zou L, *Correll R, *Mihunov V. 2018. A synthesis of disaster resilience measurement methods and indices. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.07.015.
- *Cai H, Lam NSN, *Zou L, *Qiang Y. 2018. Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian network. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(5):1260-1279. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1421896.
- *Li K, Lam NSN. 2018. Geographically weighted elastic net: A variable-selection and modeling method under the spatially nonstationary condition. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(6):1582-1600. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2018.1425129
- *Li K, Lam NSN. 2018. A spatial dynamic model of population changes in a vulnerable coastal environment. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(4): 685-710. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2017.1407415.
- Lam NSN, Reams M, *Li K, *Li C, *Mata L. 2016. Measuring community resilience to coastal hazards along the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Natural Hazards Review 17(1):04015013.
- *Liang W, Lam NSN, *Qin X, *Ju W. 2015. A two-level agent-based model for hurricane evacuation in New Orleans. Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency Management. ISSN (Online) 1547-7355, ISSN (Print) 2194-6361, DOI: 10.1515.jhsem-2014-0057, March 2015.
- *Qiang Y, Lam NSN. 2015. Modeling land use and land cover changes in a vulnerable coastal region using artificial neural networks and cellular automata. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 187:57. doi 10.1007/s10661-015-4298-8.
- Lam NSN, *Arenas H, Pace RK, LeSage JP, *Campanella R. 2012. Predictors of Business Return in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. PLoS One 7(10): e47935. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.004793.
- Lam NSN. 2012. Geospatial methods for reducing uncertainties in environmental health risk assessment: challenges and opportunities. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(5):942-950.
- *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, Liu K B. 1994. Spread of AIDS in rural America, 1982-1990. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 7:485-490.
- 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.
- Liu KB, Lam NSN. 1985. Paleovegetational reconstruction based on modern and fossil pollen data: An application of discriminant analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75(1):115-130.
- Lam NSN. 1983. Spatial interpolation methods: A review. The American Cartographer 10(2):129-149.
- Goodchild MF, Lam NSN. 1980. Areal interpolation: A variant of the traditional spatial problem. GeoProcessing 1:297- 312.
Teaching Fields
- Design of Environmental Management Systems – A GIS Approach
- Spatial Modeling of Environmental Data
Research interests
- Geographic information science
- Remote sensing
- Spatial modeling
- Disease to disaster
Services/ Posts
Service to federal agencies —
- NSF Committee of Visitors (2019) to review the programs within the Social, Behavioral, and Economics Sciences Directorate/Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (SBE/BCS)
- Over 30 review panels and study committees for NAS, NSF, NIH, NASA, and EPA
- Member, NOAA Science Advisory Board – Environmental Information System Working Group (NOAA-SAB-EISWG) (2023-2026)
Service to professional organizations —
- President-Elect, President, and Past President, University Consortium on Geographic Information Sciences (UCGIS) 2004-2006
Service to academic institutions in the U.S. and HK —
- External program reviewer for seven universities — University of California-Riverside, University of Connecticut, University of Buffalo, University of Minnesota, University of Georgia, Pennsylvania State University, University of Iowa (Geoinformatics for Energy and Environment Modeling and Prediction) Program
- External examiner, Master and Postgraduate Diploma in GIS, University of Hong Kong (2002-2005)
- Panel member (2008-2014), Standing Review Board (2019-present), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Government, China
Teaching and Training —
- Supervised PhD (20), MS Thesis (31), and Post-doc (9)
Awards
2023 Research Award, University Consortium on Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
2020 Fellow, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2016 Fellow, University Consortium on Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
2016 The Inaugural Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award, UCGIS
2011 Outstanding Faculty Research Award, School of the Coast & Environment, LSU
2010 LSU Distinguished Research Master
2008 LSU Rainmaker (Top 100 research and creative faculty at LSU)
2006 LSU Distinguished Faculty Award
2004 Outstanding Contributions in Remote Sensing Award, AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group
1984 The Andrew McNally Best Paper Award.
