CURRICULUM VITAE OF SAMUEL ADU-PRAH

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE OF SAMUEL ADU-PRAH I. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION A. Lecturer GIS Lab Director-Environmental GIS & Advanced Geospatial Analysis Labs Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Geography and Environmental Resources B. Office Address: 1000 Faner Drive MC 4514, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Tel: II. EDUCATION Master of Science (MS), Technology Education majoring in Computer Networking, Alcorn State University, Alcorn, MS Master of Philosophy (MPHIL), Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing, Cambridge University, United Kingdom 1998 Bachelor of Arts-Honors (B.A Hons), Geography and Resource Development University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana 1993 III. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Lecturer/Lab Director, Department of Geography and Environmental Resources, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, August 2006 Present Reviewer, American Journal of Public Health, July Present Instructor, Spatial Technologies (Remote Sensing, GIS and Global Positioning Systems), Alcorn State University, April 2001 August 2006 Certified CompTIA Network+ Professional, December 2005 Researcher, Mississippi River Research Center- Alcorn State University, May 2003 August GIS & Remote Sensing Applications Specialist, Center for Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Services (CERSGIS) University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. Nov May 2000 GIS & Remote Sensing Data Analyst, Remote Sensing Applications Unit University of Ghana, Legon, September1994- September Graduate Research Assistant, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra IV. RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY A. Interests and Specialties: Remote Sensing of the Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Geographic data mining and knowledge discovery 1

2 B. Current Project: Clustering Approaches and Visual Analytics in Geographic Data Mining with special reference to High Dimensional datasets C. Grants Applied for: Visualization and spatiotemporal analysis of obesity using novel computational and data mining techniques- American Heart Association: Resubmission- January 20, 2009 D. Grants Received: Co-PI USDA CSREES Capacity Building Grant Building Human Capacity and Enhancing Watershed Research at Alcorn Sate University 10/1/04 10/1/07- $ PI NASA Grant Enhancing and Increasing Geographic and Earth Science Education for K-12 Educators in South Western Mississippi 08/1/05 09/15/06- $150, E. Honors and Awards: 1 st Place Ph.D. Student Paper Competition- Association of American Geographers (AAG) West Lakes Division Annual Meeting 2010 Selected as Participant to Annual Meeting - Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Meeting, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Summer Member - Epsilon PI Tau (The International Honor Society for Professions in Technology)- GAMMA SIGMA CHAPTER Alcorn State University: From 04/2005-Present Selected as Participant to SPACE workshop: GIS and Spatial Modeling for Undergraduate Social Science Curriculum, Columbus, Ohio July 10-15, 2005 Selected as Participant Proposal Writing and Participatory Research Conference: A workshop for Faculty and Graduate Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Serving Institutions, White Oak Plantation Yulee, Florida July 30 Aug 1, 2004 Selected as Participant NSF Workshop/Short Course in Sensor Science and Technology: Doctoral Capacity Building Program, Department of Physics, Alabama A&M University. June 8 June 12, ODA (British Government) and President's Scholarship for Ghana (1997) Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Society (1998) Scholarship to attend a workshop- Image processing and Poster Development National Remote Sensing Center, Farnborough, United Kingdom July

3 F. Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings: Adu-Prah, S. and Oyana, T Analysis of geographic clusters and disparities in childhood and adolescent obesity in the United States, Paper presentation-aag 2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vagas, NV Wang, G., Oyana, T. and Adu-Prah, S A Methodology for Mapping and Uncertainty Analysis of Forest Carbon by Combining Image and National Forest Inventory and Analysis Data Paper presented by Guangxing Wang in American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, April 28- May 2, 2008 Portland, Oregon. Adu-Prah, S., Young, D., Johnson, A.B., and Mayfield, R., Integrating Geospatial and Temporal Data for Water Quality Monitoring in Southwest Mississippi.. Proceedings in 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment-Saint Petersburg, June 2005, Russian Federation Adu-Prah, S. and Ofori Sarpong, E. Ecological region mapping of Ghana using NOAA-AVHRR NDVI Data. Proceedings in 28 th International Conference in Remote Sensing of the Environment-Cape Town, March, 2000 South Africa Adu-Prah, S Assessment of Image processing techniques using Optical and SAR data for Mangrove Forest Mapping in the Volta Estuary, Ghana. Proceedings in 28 th International Conference in Remote Sensing of the Environment-Cape Town 2000, South Africa G. Other: Landscape visualisation using digital elevation model data derived from interpolation and stereo matching. Geographical Information Systems Application in Environmental Impact Assessment for aggregate mineral extraction Willingham/Over area. Fluorescence Techniques in Remote Sensing Assessment of Vegetation status. Adu-Prah, S. (ODA Bulletin United Kingdom, Technical Report 1997) Lower Volta mangrove Project: Remote Sensing Component. 3

4 V. PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS Book Adu-Prah, S, Contributor (GIS/GPS): In Duram, L.A Encyclopedia of Organic, Sustainable and Local Food. Praeger: ABC/CLIO. Santa Barabara, CA and Oxford, England, 440 pages Adu-Prah, S., Opoku-Duah, S., & Kankam Yeboah, K. (2000). Thermal remote sensing data for estimating evapotranspiration on a Regional Scale (A conceptual approach). Journal of Applied Science and Technology [Online], 5(1). pp Wang G, Oyana TJ, Zhang M, Adu-Prah, S, Zeng S, Lin H, Se J Mapping and Uncertainty analysis of forest carbon by combining National Forest Inventory Data and Satellite Images. Forest Ecology and Management. VI. TEACHING EXPERIENCE A. DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING OF NEW COURSES a. Geog 310I: Digital Earth: Geospatial Techniques b. Geog 417: GIS Programming and Customization c. Geog 419: Enterprise GIS Planning and Implementation B. Teaching Interests and Specialties: Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Sciences, Quantitative Geography and Computational Geography C. Other: Committee member 3 graduate dissertations VII. UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE A. Department Committees: Member- Department Outreach and Advising Group, Department of Geography and Environmental Resources, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Member- Curriculum Review Committee, Department of Advanced Technologies- Alcorn State University Member- Research Committee, Department of Advanced Technologies- Alcorn State University Member- Recruitment and Retention, Department of Advanced Technologies- Alcorn State University B. College and University Committees and Councils: 4

5 Expert The Global Chicago Center of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs VIII. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE A. Membership in Professional Associations: Member- The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Member- CompTIA Network+ Certified Professional Association Member - Soil and Water Conservation Society IX. COMMUNITY SERVICE Soccer Coach- Grade 3 and 4 levels, Carbondale, Illinois. 5