Department of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University (LSU) Address: 2281 Energy, Coast & Environmental Bldg., LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Telephone: +1 (573) 256-9706 Email: lzou4@lsu.edu Website: www.rsgis.envs.lsu.edu/lzou RESEARCH INTERESTS Geographic information sciences (GIScience) Natural hazards and disaster resilience Coupled natural-human system Spatial big data analysis and modeling Social media data mining Climate change & global warming Water color remote sensing EDUCATION 2014-2017 Ph.D., Environmental Science, Louisiana State University Advisor: Prof. Nina Lam Dissertation: Mining social media data for improved understanding of disaster resilience 2010-2013 M.S., Geographic Information Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Advisor: Prof. Bing Zhang Thesis: Applications of optical and polarized remote sensing in inland turbid water 2006-2010 B.E., Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Thesis: A comparative study of satellite orbit fitting methods APPOINTMENTS 2017-present Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University 2014-2017 Research Assistant, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University 2010-2013 Research Assistant, Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2008-2010 Assistant Undergraduate Coordinator, School of Remote Sensing & Information Engineering, Wuhan University PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Software Remote Sensing/GIS: ArcGIS for Desktop & Server, QGIS, GeoDa, ICAMS, ENVI, Erdas Imagine Statistics: Tableau, SPSS, R, Origin, Matlab, Office Database: MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite Page 1 6
Programming Python: ArcPy, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, NLTK, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, geocoder APIs: ArcGIS Online, Open Street Map, Google, Twitter Other Languages: R, C++, HTML, JavaScript, Matlab Spatial Data Analysis Methods: Liner regression, logistic regression, elastic net, random forest, k-means clustering, factor analysis, principal component analysis (PCA), discriminant analysis, association analysis, support vector machine, artificial neural network (ANN), genetic algorithm, deep learning, Geostatistics, interpolation, fractal analysis, geographic weighted regression Applications: Disaster resilience assessment, population dynamics, land use/cover change analysis, natural language processing, subsidence estimation, sedimentation and accretion rates Social Media Data Mining Methods: Frequency analysis, geocoding, sentiment analysis, content analysis, network analysis Applications: Emergency management, disaster resilience analysis, public discussion and attitude monitoring, urban planning Spatial Modeling Methods: Bayesian networks, cellular automata, agent-based modeling Applications: Urban growth, population migration, and land loss simulation Big Data Analytics Methods: High-performance computing, parallel programming Applications: Spatial big data collection, processing, analyzing, and modeling PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Publications 15. Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., Li, K., Cai, H., Zou, L., and Mihunov, V. Extending Resilience Assessment to Dynamic System Modeling: Perspectives on Human Dynamics and Climate Change Research. Journal of Coastal Research (In Revision). 14. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H. and Qiang Y. 2018. Mining Twitter data for improved understanding of disaster resilience. Annals of the American Association of Geographers (Accepted). DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1421897. 13. Lam, N.S.N., Cheng, W.J., Zou, L., and Cai, H. 2018. Effects of Landscape Fragmentation on Land Loss. Remote Sensing of Environment (Accepted). 12. Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L. and Qiang Y. 2018. Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian network. Annals of the American Association of Geographers (Accepted). 11. Mihunov, V., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Rohli, R.V., Bushra, N., Reams, M.A., and Argote, J.E. 2017. Community resilience to drought hazard in South-central United States. Annals of the American Page 2 6
Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1372177. 10. Qiang, Y., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H. and Zou, L. 2017. Changes in exposure to flood hazards in the United States. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(6):1-19. 9. Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y. and Li, K. 2016. Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Water, 8(2):46. 8. Rohli, R.V., Bushra, N., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Mihunov, V., Reams, M.A. and Argote, J.E. 2016. Drought indices as drought predictors in the south-central USA. Natural Hazards, 83(3):1567-1582. 7. Shen, Q., Li, J., Zhang, B., Wu, Y., Zou, L. and Wu T. 2016. Analyzing spectral characteristics of water involving in-situ multi-angle polarized reflectance and extraction of water-leaving radiance. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 36(10):3269-3273. 6. Zou, L., Kent, J., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. and Li, K. 2015. Evaluating land subsidence rates and their implications for land loss in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Water, 8(1):10. 5. Li, K., Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., Zou, L. and Cai, H. 2015. A cyberinfrastructure for community resilience assessment and visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 42(sup1):34-39. 4. Zhang, F., Zhang, B., Li, J., Shen, Q., Wu, Y., Wang, G., Zou, L. and Wang, S. 2014. Validation of a synthetic chlorophyll index for remote estimates of chlorophyll-a in a turbid hypereutrophic lake. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(1):289-305. 3. Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J., Shen, Q., Zhang, F. and Wang, G.L. 2014. A study on retrieval algorithm of black water aggregation in Taihu Lake based on HJ-1 satellite images. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 17(1):012100. IOP Publishing. 2. Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J., Song, Y., Shen, Q. and Li, L. 2012, July. A comparative analysis of the transmittance method between using integrating sphere and filter holders for measuring light absorption by aquatic particles. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International. 2567-2570. Ieee. 1. Li, J., Zhang, B., Shen, Q., Zou, L. and Li, L., 2012, July. Monitoring water quality of Lake Taihu from HJ-CCD data using empirical models. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International. 812-815. Ieee. Book Chapter Zhang, B., Li, J.S., Wang, Q., and Shen, Q. 2012. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Inland Water. Chapter 3: Measurement of Optical Spectral Properties in Inland Water. Science Press, China (Zou, L. wrote the first draft). In Preparation (to be submitted to the target journal by March 2018) 4. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. and Cai, H. Detecting the neighborhood scale in coupled natural-human dynamics modeling. International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences. Page 3 6
3. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. and Cai, H. The changing roles of social media in disaster resilience. International Journal of Digital Earth. 2. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. and Cai, H. Predicting community resilience to Hurricane Sandy through Twitter. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 1. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Reams, M.A., and Kirby, R. Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in Zeeland, the Netherlands. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks 2. Zou, L. 2017. Achieving a sustainable society in the Big Data era. Seminar at the Geography Colloquium, Department of Geography, Kansas State University. 1. Zou, L. 2017. Big Data streams for emergency management during natural hazards. Seminar at The GIScience Club, Louisiana State University. Conference Presentations 18. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H. 2017. Leveraging social media data to understand disaster resilience: a case study of Hurricane Isaac. 2017 Annual Meetings of American Geophysics Union, New Orleans, LA. (Poster). 17. Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., *Zou, L. 2017. A coupled natural-human system modeling of the land loss probability in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysics Union, New Orleans, LA. (*Presenter) 16. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2017. Visualizing social media data for improved understanding of disaster resilience. International Cartographic Conference 2017, Washington D.C. 15. Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y. 2017. Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian Network. International Cartographic Conference 2017, Washington D.C. 14. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2017. Mining Twitter data for improved understanding of disaster resilience. 2017 International Symposium on Location-based Social Media and Tracking Data (LSMTD), Washington D.C. 13. Liu, K.B., Bianchette, T.A., Zou, L., Qiang, Y., Lam, N.S.N. 2017. Contribution of recent hurricanes to wetland sedimentation in coastal Louisiana. 2017 European Geosciences Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria. 12. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. 2017. Utilizing social media data to understand and enhance disaster resilience. 2017 College of the Coast and Environment Annual Graduate Student Symposium at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Finalist. 11. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2017. Mining Twitter data for improved understanding of Page 4 6
disaster resilience. 2017 Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA. 10. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2016. Social sensing coastal resilience to disasters through Twitter. Louisiana Sea Grant s Coastal Connections Competition, Baton Rouge, LA. Finalist. 9. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2016. Social sensing of disaster resilience through Twitter: a case study of Hurricane Sandy. 3 rd International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science, Urbana, IL. (Poster). 8. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., Li, K. 2016. Impacts of hurricane Katrina on population dynamics in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA. 7. Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y., Li, K. 2016. Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. 2016 Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. 6. Qiang, Y., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Cai, H., Li, K. 2016. Modeling long-term human dynamics in response to natural hazard using remote sensing data. 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA. 5. Mihunov, V., Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. 2016. Community resilience to drought hazard in South-Central U.S. 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA. 4. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., Li, K. 2015. A genetic algorithm calibrated cellular automata modeling of urban growth in the East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL. 3. Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H. 2014. Assessment of community resilience to drought hazards in Texas and Louisiana. 30 th Louisiana Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop, New Orleans, LA. (Poster) 2. Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L. 2014. Predicting the resiliency of the east coast counties after Hurricane Sandy. 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL. 1. Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J.S., Shen, Q. 2012. A study on retrieval algorithm of Black Water Aggregation in Taihu Lake by HJ-1 satellite data. 12 th National Symposium of Case II Water Color Remote Sensing, Guangzhou, China. GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS 2017 Spring/Summer Dissertation Year Assistantship Grant, Louisiana State University, $12,600. 2017 Travel Fund for the 28 th International Cartographic Conference, U. S. National Committee, $1,000. 2017 Travel Fund for the Community Earth System Modeling (CESM) Workshop 2017, National Center for Atmospheric Research, $800. 2016 Graduate Dean s Summer Research Stipend Grant, Louisiana State University, $4,000. Page 5 6
2016 CyberGIS 16 Travel Award for the 3 rd International CyberGIS Conference, National Academy of Sciences, $800. 2016 Graduate Student Travel Fund for 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Louisiana State University, $200. 2015 Graduate Student Travel Fund for 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Louisiana State University, $280. 2014 Community Resilience Inference Measurement App is awarded as Featured Apps in ESRI Climate Resilience App Challenge 2014 and Top 10 Apps in ESRI Global Disaster Resilience App Challenge 2014. http://www.rsgis.envs.lsu.edu/climateapp2014/. Role: major developer. 2012 Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. 2011 Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. 2007 Excellent Student Scholarship, Wuhan University, China, $200. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Guest Lectures 2017 Geospatial Big Data analytics in environmental management, ENVS4149: Design of Environmental Management Systems, Louisiana State University. 2017 Geospatial Big Data analysis, ENVS7050: Spatial Modeling of Environmental Data, Louisiana State University. Teaching Assistant 2016-17 Teaching Assistant & Lab Instructor, Louisiana State University, ENVS4149: Design of Environmental Management Systems-A GIS Approach (20 students per semester). ACADEMIC SERVICES 2017-present, Research Agenda Committee Member, Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, International Cartographic Association. 2017-present, Founder, The GIScience Club@LSU, a student organization for advancing education and research communication in geographic information sciences, remote sensing and spatial analysis at Louisiana State University. Invited reviews Science of the Total Environment PeerJ Cogent Engineering Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International 2016 International Conference on Water Resource and Environment Page 6 6