42 Queens Court West Chalmette, Louisiana 70043 Email: rochon.gilbert@gmail.com Cell: (334) 421-9881 July 13, 2016 Dr. Daniel D. Reneau, Jr. Interim President University of Louisiana System Claiborne Building 1201 North Third Street, Suite 7-300 Baton Rouge, LA 70802 ULSPresident@la.gov Dear Dr. Reneau: I am honored and pleased to accept the nomination of Dr. Allen Lee Sessoms, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies, to serve Grambling State University as GSU’s 11th President. As you may be aware, I initially applied for the position of President at Grambling in January of 2015 and subsequently went through the lengthy national search and vetting process to emerge as one of two finalists for the Grambling Presidency. It never occurred to me that the opportunity to contribute my professional experience, academic preparation and commitment to serve Grambling in this key leadership position would again present itself in the foreseeable future. In the interim, although well aware of the challenges and exigencies that await Grambling’s next president, my capabilities and my desire to make a long-term commitment to build upon Grambling’s rich history and to optimally advance Grambling to the full extent of its capabilities, have not diminished. Currently, I am a Senior Consultant with MSF Global Solutions, LLC in New Orleans. My current projects in that capacity include development of a non-profit NGO for technology-driven applications for regional and international sustainable development initiatives. Additionally, I am preparing a presentation on Pan-African Biogenic and Anthropogenic Disaster Resilience to be delivered at the upcoming 11th Conference of the African Association for Remote Sensing of Environment Conference (AARSE 2016), to be held in Kampala, Uganda. My other recently invited presentations include a keynote address at the University of Virginia in April, 2016, entitled “Africans and the African Diaspora in Higher Education,” and an invited lecture at the University of Mississippi in November, 2015, entitled “Global Education and Diversity in U.S. Higher Education.” I also serve on the Advisory Board of the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT, which, inter alia, provides free prostate cancer surgery for the uninsured. My memberships include: Senior Member – Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers-IEEE, Member- Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society- GRSS, African Association for Remote Sensing of Environment–AARSE, and the Society for College and University Planning – SCUP. Together with Dr. Thierno Thiam, I am co-authoring a book on African Sustainable Development and the Role of Emerging Technologies. I previously served for two years on the President’s Council at the University of New Orleans and on the Board of Directors of Eastern National – a non-profit partner of the National Park Service. I also had the honor of serving as the Chair of the Council of 1890 Universities (i.e. the collectivity of nineteen Historically Black Landgrant Universities, designated under the 2nd Morrill Act of 1890), as well as to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) and various presidential committees of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO).

I have recently submitted the final report to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace, under a multi-year grant, as the NATO country Project Director (NPD) for the Mediterranean Dialog Earth Observatory (MDEO), http://www.mdeo-project.com/partDir_en.html , which has just installed two real-time earth-observing satellite remote sensing groundstations at partnering universities in Morocco: Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tangier and Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, for the purpose of facilitating early warning and mitigation of an array of biogenic and anthropogenic disasters (e.g. storms, flooding, drought, forest fires, oil and hazardous chemical spills), as well as vector-borne epidemics, by remotely identifying and in situ mitigating infectious disease vector habitat.

My academic preparation includes the Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Health Services Administration from Yale University’s School of Medicine and the Bachelor’s degree in English from Xavier University of Louisiana. My senior experience in higher education includes three years as President and University Professor at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama; eight years as Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research and Engagement at Purdue University – West Lafayette, Indiana; and eighteen years at Dillard University – New Orleans, as Director of the Urban Studies & Public Policy Institute and later Chair, when the Institute at Dillard evolved to Departmental status. While at Dillard, I received tenure as an Associate Professor and ultimately was appointed to a Conrad Hilton Endowed Professorship.

Throughout my eighteen year service at Dillard, I held successive joint appointments, initially on the adjunct faculty with Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Dept. of Health Systems Management, followed by service as the Equal Opportunity Officer with NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, as Geographer with the USDA Forest Service, as Physical Scientist with the US Naval Oceanographic Office and, under Northrop Grumman/Logicon sub-contracts, as University Affiliates Coordinator with the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Office’s Programming Environment and Training (PET) Program. In that capacity, I facilitated access to the U.S. Dept. of Defense Supercomputers for eleven universities’ high performance computing research initiatives. In collaboration with my counterparts, we established joint 3/2 BA/MS degree programs between Dillard University and Columbia University in City Planning, with the New School for Social Research in Planning and with the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook in Coastal Oceanography.

Subsequent to my service at Dillard, I was employed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),

where I served as a Research Community Planner-Remote Sensing and ultimately as Research Team Leader – Landuse & Hydrology for the EPA’s National Risk Management Research Lab (NRMRL), Sustainable Technologies Division, Sustainable Environments Branch, in Cincinnati, Ohio. While at EPA, I received EPA’s Superior Achievement Award and held joint appointments during Fall Semesters as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati, College of Urban Planning and during the Spring Semesters at Miami University of Ohio’s Interdisciplinary Studies program.

During my eight years at Purdue University, as Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research and

Engagement at Purdue’s flagship campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, which had an enrollment of 30,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students and an additional 30,000 students on its regional campuses in Ft. Wayne, Calumet, Westville and Indianapolis, I was able to secure funding to establish the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory, https://www.itap.purdue.edu/pto/contact.html , as its first Director, serve as founding co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Terrestrial Observation, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jto/ , direct the IndianaView Consortium https://www.indianaview.org/, a division of the USGS-funded AmericaView - a collectivity of universities and agencies that shared archival geospatial data, serve on multiple doctoral dissertation and master’s theses committees, on the Mann eEnterprise Building Committee, hold several departmental courtesy faculty appointments (i.e. Departments of Agronomy, of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences), enabling me to serve on dissertation committees and supervise interdisciplinary teams of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers for various contracts, and contribute to journal and book chapter publications and conference presentations. I also taught courses for the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree programs at Purdue-West Lafayette and at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI).

From 2010-2013, I served as President and University Professor at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama,

with an operating budget of $145 million, during which time the University experienced growth in enrollment from

2,800 to 3,100, first year retention from 71% to 77%, endowment increase from $105 million to $122 million,

scholarships, research grants and sponsored programs from $42 million to $47.6 million, prior to federal sequestration,

$75 million in capital projects on Tuskegee University’s 5,000 contiguous acre campus, environmental sustainability and

power infrastructure greening improvement in partnership with Chevron, further internationalization through

formalization of study abroad opportunities and training contracts with Brazil in Veterinary Medicine and with Egypt in

Geospatial Information Systems (GIS). We also partnered with USDA, Wal-Mart and Whole Foods to establish a food

processing, packaging and labeling plant in Selma, AL, which significantly increased the return on investment for local

farmers.

Major grants received by Tuskegee University during my tenure included $9.9 million from NSF to enhance STEM

education in middle schools throughout the region and $8.2 million from USAID, with Prof. Nosa Egiebor, as PI, now at

the University of Mississippi, to enhance hydrological infrastructure in Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria.

For each year of my presidency, Tuskegee University was ranked #1 in research expenditures by Washington Monthly,

among all 350+ Baccalaureate Colleges in the USA. Centers of Excellence were designated by the National Science

Foundation (NSF) for Research on Nanobiomaterials and by the NSA for Information Assurance. Tuskegee University also

emerged as the #1 producer of African-American Ph.D.’s in Material Science and Engineering. We also had strong Army,

Navy/Marine and Air Force ROTC Programs, following in the tradition of the Tuskegee Airmen. I had the honor of serving

as the Chair of the Council of 1890 Universities, the collectivity of nineteen Historically Black Landgrant Universities,

designated under the 2nd Morrill Act of 1890, as well as to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of Public

and Land Grant Universities (APLU) and various presidential committees of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and

the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO).

In addition to my serving on SACS COC accreditation off-site review committees for other universities, we

received SACS approval at Tuskegee University for twelve new undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and

achieved accreditation reaffirmation from ABET for all Engineering degree programs, including Aero-Space Engineering,

and AASCB Accreditation reaffirmation for Tuskegee’s Andrew Brimmer College of Business and Information Technology.

Our Nursing Program maintained 100% pass rate on the NCLEX for each year of my presidency and the inherited ACOTE

probationary status for Occupational Therapy was ultimately fully resolved.

I have been fortunate to have secured NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowships with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

and NASA Stennis Space Center, a NASA/JOVE Fellowship at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), a United Nations University

(UNU) Fellowship for research in Sudan, a Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change

Unit in the UK, a Visiting Assignment at the International Institute for Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico, a residency at the

UNU International Food & Nutrition Policy and Planning Program at MIT, collaborative research opportunities with the

Russian Academy of Sciences in Siberia and two Fulbright Senior Specialist-Environmental Science/Environmental

Technology assignments in Thailand, where I was appointed to an Adjunct Professorship at Mae Fah Luang University in

Chiang Rai, facilitating my service on their students’ dissertation committees.

I have had opportunities to deliver conference presentations and related training and project engagements in

fifteen countries in Africa, thirteen countries in Asia, twelve countries in Europe, and in the Western Hemisphere in

Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and throughout the USA. I also served on the User Working Group for

NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), on the Technology Advisory Committee for South Africa’s

Center for High Performance Computing in Cape Town and on the Science Review Team for the Arctic Region

Supercomputer Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

My brothers and I virtually grew up on an HBCU campus, since our mother supervised the Chemistry

Department Laboratories and Stockroom at Xavier University of Louisiana for thirty-two years. As a direct result of the

legacy of the accessibility and affordability of HBCUs, our own son and daughter are 5th generation college graduates and

have now completed Medical School. Accordingly, my vocation is facilitate the sustainability of HBCUs within a

contemporary highly dynamic and sometimes hostile environment and to adequately and successfully prepare HBCU

students for leadership roles within the global economy.

I deeply resonate with the foresight of Lewis Adams in securing the funding to invite Booker T. Washington to

establish what was to become Tuskegee University and with the vision of Booker T. Washington to commission the son-

in-law of Lewis Adams, Charles P. Adams, to initiate and serve as founder of what was to emerge as Grambling State

University. While reverencing the past accomplishments, we must now contend with a challenging present. The impact

of budget cuts on institutions of higher learning in States like Louisiana, Arizona, Wisconsin and Illinois has been

devastating. It is ineluctable that Grambling State University, in particular, maps out a strategy that provides greater

resilience to fiscal and political vicissitudes. Such a strategy must include strong advocacy with the Board of Supervisors,

Board of Regents, Office of the Governor, the LA Legislature, the LA Congressional Delegation and the array of Federal

Agencies. The strategy must also include a comprehensive capital campaign that significantly grows the endowment,

enhances graduate & undergraduate scholarships, increases enrollment and retention, encourages and facilitates

research & innovation, provides for robust faculty and staff development, fully embraces the engagement of alumni,

safeguards existing academic programs, resurrects popular majors such as Nursing, welcomes diversity and

internationalization, cherishes the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences and the professions, incorporates advanced

instructional & research technologies, addresses deferred maintenance, extends Grambling’s national and global brand

and aggressively seeks both intellectual excellence and athletic preeminence.

As an Urban and Regional Planner, I further recognize the necessity for the University serving a vital role in

establishing, maintaining and improving town/gown relations and in collaborating on mutually beneficial sustainable

economic development initiatives, intellectual property protection, technology commercialization and job creation.

Moreover, I have a deep appreciation of and experience with forming targeted collaborations and partnerships with

other academic institutions, foundations, private corporations, government agencies and multi-lateral institutions, so as

to achieve objectives that would be difficult to accomplish in isolation. In addition to my curriculum vitae and reference

list herewith provided, I would be pleased to submit additional documentation and references, as needed. I can be

available for teleconferences, interviews and presentations, at your convenience. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Gilbert L. Rochon, III, Ph.D., MPH

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CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: GILBERT L. ROCHON, III, PH.D, MPH ADDRESS: 42 Queens Court W.

Chalmette, LA 70043-1047 PHONE: Email:

(334) 421-9881 rochon.gilbert@gmail.com

EDUCATION: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT): (1976- Ph.D. (1999) Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.

Concentrations: Planning Support Systems; International Development & Regional Planning

Scientific Visualization of Multi-Temporal Remotely-Sensed Data for Monitoring Drought-Related Famine Conditions: Nutritional, Socio-Economic & Climatic Vulnerability in Nutrition Planning, Urban & Regional Planning in Developing Countries, International Management.

(1974-1976) YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health: Master of Public Health (MPH) degree, received in June, 1976. Concentration: Health Services Administration. Thesis: Boundary Management Issues in a Drug Addiction Triage Facility.

(1966-1968) XAVIER UNIVERSITY of LA, New Orleans, LA: B.A., English, 1969.

CURRENT ENGAGEMENTS: -Senior Consultant, MSF Global Solutions, LLC New Orleans, LA Current Projects include establishment of an NGO for applied technological solutions to regional and international development projects and preparation of a presentation for the African Association for Remote Sensing of Environment (AARSE) Conference in Kampala, Uganda on Pan-African Biogenic & Anthropogenic Disaster Resilience. -Co-Authoring book on African Sustainable Development and the Role of Emerging Technologies

EXPERIENCE: 1/2014- Present

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-Advisory Board, Curtis Robinson Institute for Health Equity- St. Francis Hospital Hartford, CT -IEEE Senior Member (Institute for Electrical Engineering & Electronics)

-Member, IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) -Member, African Association for Remote Sensing of Environment -Member, Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)

11/2013-12/2015 - -Board of Directors, Eastern National, Inc. -Final Report Submitted: - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace- Brussels, Belgium: Gilbert Rochon: NATO country Project Director- (NPD) Chaker El Amrani: Partner country Project Director- (PPD) Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO) Project: Real-Time Remote Sensing for Early Warning of Disasters & Epidemics Receiving Stations established at two universities in Morocco: i.e. Al Akhawayn University-Ifrane and Abdelmalek Essaâdi University-Tangier

11/2010-10/2013 TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY, Tuskegee, AL - President and University Professor

During my three year tenure as President of Tuskegee University: Enrollment increased from 2,800 to over 3,100. The endowment rose from $105 million to $122 million. The average HS CGPA of entering Freshmen rose from 3.1 to 3.24. The SAT average score of entering Freshmen increased from 901 to 923. Tuskegee U. was ranked #1 in Research Expenditures among all 353

Baccalaureate Colleges in the USA by Washington Monthly for each of the past three years (2011-2013).

Research grants & sponsored programs increased from $42 million to $47.6 million, prior to sequestration.

SACS COC accredited 12 new undergrad & grad. degree programs ABET reaffirmed accreditation for all Engineering degree programs for the

maximum 6 yr. period to 9/30/2019. AACSB reaffirmed accreditation for the Andrew Brimmer College of Business

& Information Science AVMA conducted its site visit for reaffirmation of accreditation for the College

of Veterinary Medicine

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1st year retention rates increased from 71% to 77% Major renovation projects completed included the $30 million+ 92,000 sq. ft.

student center, two residence halls and two apartment complexes. A new science building was constructed, the first in 80 years, and work begun

on a $42 million large and small animal veterinary teaching hospital and on an agricultural sustainability center.

Tuskegee U. was designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the NSA for 2012-2017.

Tuskegee U. was designated by NSF as a Center of Excellence in Research on Nanobiomaterials

TU has emerged as the #1 producer of African-Science and Engineering

The Health Disparities Institute for Research & Education (HDIRE) was established at Tuskegee University and its first Director appointed.

Numerous MOUs were completed with universities in Senegal, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Brazil, India and Bangladesh.

On-line and blended courses were introduced in 2013 and an array of graduate and undergraduate distance learning degree programs was scheduled to be initiated in Fall, 2014.

Tuskegee U. was ranked 2nd among 17 colleges & universities in Alabama by the College Database as Most Affordable/Best Return on Investment, based upon the average starting salaries of graduates http://www.onlinecollegesdatabase.org/onlinecolleges-in-alabama/#high-starting-salary-colleges-Alabama

I served as PI for the Research Centers for Minority Institutions (RCMI) grant and as Project Coordinator for a NATO Science for Peace grant to establish real-time satellite remote sensing groundstations at partnering universities in Morocco, for early warning of natural disasters and epidemics, through monitoring infectious disease vector habitat.

Tuskegee University received an unmodified/unqualified/clean audit each year. With an annual operating budget of approximately $145 million, we raised $70

million thus far, towards the Capital Campaign goal of $250 million by June 30, 2017.

The 2012 SIAC championship was won in football by the TU Golden Tigers and SIAC season championships were won in basketball and tennis in 2012.

The Strategic Plan 2013-2023 was completed and the Master Plan for 2013-2028 was initiated.

As a result of the early warning and tutorial program for Freshmen, 87%-95% of students failing a course at midterm of their 1st semester, achieved passing

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grades by the end of the course and TU experienced a record number of honor students.

TU was lead for a $9.9 million NSF grant to improve STEM education in middle schools, incorporating nanotechnology & 3D scientific visualization in 6th, 7th and 8th grade classrooms.

TU was lead on an $8.2 million USAID grant to improve hydrological infrastructure in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, and Nigeria.

We succeeded in introducing a bill under consideration by Congress to repatriate 65 of the 300 acres donated to the Federal Government

nd president, Robert Russa Moton, ninety years ago, to establish a VA Hospital for Black Veterans returning from World War I. The bill is supported by the entire Alabama Congressional delegation, and several veterans groups. TU would then have 20 building structures to support its expanding graduate degree programs.

A partnership was developed with Chevron to upgrade, modernize and green the s

with 100 buildings. A broadband project was initiated to exponentially increase bandwidth on

campus and connect TU to the nearest gigapop in Atlanta, so as to enable national and international distance learning.

Two groundstations, for real-time earth-observing remote sensing geostationary & polar orbiting satellites, were purchased from Seaspace, Inc., which will allow regional multi-sensor data acquisition and near-real-time data product development for time critical events.

TU was lead on a USDA funded Black Belt small farmer fruit & vegetable food processing, packaging and labeling plant in Selma, AL, in partnership with Wal-Mart and Whole Foods.

We achieved contract compliance in transfer of the microfiche of the Booker T. Washington papers from the archives, which had been delayed for decades.

2/02/02- 10/31/10 PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP)

-Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research & Engagement -Director, Purdue Terrestrial Observatory (PTO) - a real-time satellite ground station for interdisciplinary multi-sensor remote sensing. -Senior Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing; -Courtesy Professor, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Dept. of Agronomy, and Dept. of Agricultural & Biological Engineering; -Special Appointment, Graduate School Faculty, Forestry & Natural Resources -Project Director, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace

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-Time Remote Sensing for Early Warning & Mitigation of Disasters and Kandilli Observatory (Turkey). Subsequently, the project

has been relocated to Morocco. Report in 2015). -Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Terrestrial Observation http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jto/index.html -Co-PI, National Geospatial Agency (NGA) NURI grant, in collaboration with the

-Time Predictive Model for Mosquito-Borne -Director, Purdue Research Opportunities Program (PROP) -Director, IndianaView Consortium (Member: AmericaView-USGS) -Dissertation/Thesis Committees at Purdue: ABE, FNR, EAS, Agronomy

Prior Appointments at Purdue University: (2/2002-6/2010) -Interim Director, Lab. for Applications of Remote Sensing- LARS (9/04-1/06) -Faculty Advisor, Black Graduate Association (BGA) (9/04-6/06) -Coalesce Committee, Purdue Climate Change Research Center -Building Committee, Mann eEnterprise Building, Discovery Park -Faculty Advisory Council-Purdue Cytometry for Life (C4L) -Visiting Faculty, Environmental Health, Purdue University, with the Master of Public Health degree program, (Spring, 2008). -Co-Investigator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Sub-contract with IUPUI Polis Center (May, 2008-September, 2008) The project produced 100 year flood zone maps for 800+ counties in the USA,

-MH modeling software. -Fulbright Committee 2009.

9/00-2/02 U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), Office of Research & Development (ORD), National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), Sustainable Technologies Division, Sustainable Environments Branch, Cincinnati, OH

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-Research Community Planner-Remote Sensing (GS13- 0020) -Research Team Leader, Land Use & Hydrology Research

Integration-Co- Midwestern Watersheds and its Potential for Reducing Nutrient, Sediment, and Pathogen Export to Downstream Ecosystems, Assisted by High Resolution Satellite & Aerial Imagery

-Recipient: EPA Superior Achievement Award -EPA Representative: Inter-Agency Planning Team (i.e. EPA, USDA, Forest Service, State Department, USAID, etc.) World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, Sept. 2002 11/82-12/00 DILLARD UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, LA:

-Tenured Associate Professor - Director & ultimately, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed

Professorship, Urban Studies & Public Policy Institute -Principal Investigator, Remote Sensing & GIS Lab, securing grants and contracts exceeding $2 million in support of research, training, cyberinfrastructure development, endowed professorships and student research assistantships. -Established BA/MS 3/2 degree programs in collaboration with counterparts at Columbia University (City Planning), New School for Social Research (Planning) and State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook (Coastal Oceanography)

NOTE: Throughout my tenure with Dillard University, I held a succession of joint appointments, beginning with an adjunct faculty appointment with in Health Systems Management, followed by appointments as Equal

Cent Southern Research Station in New Orleans, as Physical Scientist with the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office in Mississippi, and as University Affiliates Coordinator, under Northrop Grumman sub-contracts, with the DOD High Performance Program.

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2/79-11/82 OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, CITY OF BOSTON, DEPT. OF HEALTH & HOSPITALS: - Coordinator, Planning & Evaluation Unit

9/77-1/79 Director - DORCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH CENTER Boston State Hospital, Boston Massachusetts.

9/76-8/77 CONNECTICUT MENTAL HEALTH CENTER. Drug Dependence Unit, New Haven, Connecticut. - Coordinator, Screening & Evaluation

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS:

Honorary Member, Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of Agriculture, Tuskegee University Chapter, 2013

Toussaint T. Tilton, MD Award for Outstanding Leadership, Central Alabama Veterans Health Services, Feb., 2013 Fulbright Senior Specialist Environmental Science- Environmental Technology. Assignment: Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Management, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand (June 22, 2010-July 20, 2010 and previously May 5, 2006-June 5, 2006). Superior Achievement Award, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH,2002. Visiting Scientist, EPA/NAFEO Faculty Research Fellow, National Risk Management Research Lab (NRMRL), Sustainable Technology Division, Cincinnati, OH, Summer, 2000 Research Fellow, International Nutrition Foundation (INF), Boston, MA, Spring, 1999. Visiting Faculty Fellow. University of Oxford ECU (Environmental Change Unit), Oxford, UK, Summer, 1997 UNCF/Andrew Mellon Environmental Careers Awareness Program (ECAP) grant. UNCF and the Ecological Society of America. Summer, 1997. Supported travel to Oxford & ESA conference in San Antonio, TX for self and two student researchers.

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NASA/JOVE Faculty Research Fellow, 1993-1996 Summer 1993: NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPGroup. Pasadena, CA. Summers 1994 & 95: Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia, Russia, in collaboration w/ the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dwight David Eisenhower Faculty Fellow, 1995 U.S. Dept. of Transportation, for participation in the URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Assoc.) Conference in San Antonio, TX, July, 1995.

UNCF/Andrew Mellon Doctoral Fellow, 1991/92 Faculty Research Fellow, USDA Forest Service International Institute for Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Summers, 1991 & 1992. NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow: -John C. Stennis Space Center, Summer, 1990 -Goddard Space Flight Center, Summer, 1989 Fellowships for Research in Sudan: (Residence: 3 months 1981/82 & 3 months 1984) -United Nations University (UNU) Fellow, 1981 -Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellow, 1981/82

EDITORIALS:

st Anniversary of Remote Sensing: Overcoming Limitations, Establishing Relationships, Reviewing Systems, Refining Models & Clarifying pp. 3-4. Gilbert L. Rochon, ChriTerrestrial Observation. Vol. 2, Issue 1, Winter 2010, Article 2, pp. 3-5. Gilbert L. Rochon & Chris Johannsen. E Remote Sensing from the Traditional Sciences to the Social Sciences and from National 1, Issue 2, Winter 2009, Article 2, pp. 3-5.

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2. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2008

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Climatology and Long- Encyclopedia of Natural Resources; Wang, Y.Q., Editor; Taylor & Francis: New York, 2014; pp. 992 998. Gilbert L. Rochon, Chaker El Amrani, Tajjeddine Rachidi, Tarek E Ghazawi, Gamal El Afandi, Joseph Essamuah-Quansah, Souleymane Fall, Gülay

-time access to orbital optical sensors for disaster early warning: A NATO science for peace sponsored partnership of universities Vol. 3, Issue 5, p. 56. OMICS Publishing Group. ISSN 2161-0398. Scientific Track Abstracts http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0398.S1.002 G

Reimaging Democratic Societies: A New Era of Personal and Social Responsibility; Editors: Ira Harkavy, Sjur Bergan and -871-7537-3. http://book.coe.int, 2/7/2013.

Piotr Jankowski, Barry Solomon, et al., editors. Encyclopedia of Geography, (pp. 2425-2429). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Reference Project, six volume set, September, 2010, 3,560 pages. ISBN: 9781412956970 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412939591.n980 http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230922. http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/geography/n980.xml?rskey=rFj8AJ&row=1 Gilbert L. Rochon, Joseph E. Quansah, Souleymane Fall, Bereket Araya, Larry L. Biehl, Thierno Thiam, Sohaib Ghani, Lova Rakotomalala, Hildred S. Rochon, Angel Torres Valcarcel, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo, Jinha Jung, Darion Grant, Wonkook

-Pullen and Mark W. Patterson, Eds. Geotechnologies & the Environment, Part IV Human Health & the Environment, Chapter 11, pp. 187-210, NY: Springer, 2010. Gilbert L. Rochon, Larry Biehl, Darion Grant, Souleymane Fall, Thierno Thiam, Bereket Araya, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo, Jinha Jung, Sohaib Ghani, Madgy Abdel Wahab, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Gülay Altay, Okan Ersoy,

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Liotta, W.G. Kepner, J.M. Lancaster and D.A. Mouat, Eds. Achieving Environmental Security: Ecosystems Services & Human Welfare. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, August, 2010.

al of Terrestrial Observation. Vol. 2 Issue 2, Article 5, pp. 24-44. Spring, 2010, Purdue University Press. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jto/vol2/iss2/art5 Gilbert Rochon, Dev. Niyogi, Souleymane Fall, Joseph E. Quansah, Larry Biehl, Bereket Araya, Chetan Maringanti, Angel Torres Valcarcel, Lova Rakotomalala, Hildred S. Rochon, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo & Thierno Thiam. (2010)

Governmental Transfer of Sustainable Technology to Developing Countries. Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy. Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 19-30, February, 2010. Special Issue on Best Management Practices for Technology Transfer to Industry. Invited submission. 4/28/09 ISSN 1618-954X(Print) 1618-95558 (online). Eds., Antonio Martins & Teresa Mata, Springer: DOI 10.1007/s10098-009-0218-3. http://www.springerlink.com/content/103074/? Content+Status=Accepted&sort=p_OnlineDate&sortorder=desc&v=expanded Souleymane Fall, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Dev Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke Sr. and

United Sates (1979-2005). International Journal of Climatology. Vol. 30, Issue 13, 15 November 2010, Pages 2045-2054. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2094 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123275386/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

-Based Technologies and High Performance Technologies and Environmental Policy. Vol. 11, No. 3/ Sept. 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10098-009-0254-z. http://www.springerlink.com/content/667949r21p2r9343/ Souleymane Fall, Dev Niyogi, Alexander Gluhovsky, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Eugenia

Impacts of land use land cover on temperature trends over the continental United States: Assessment using the North American

Vol. 30, Issue 13, 15 November 2010, Pages 1980-1993. Published online in Wiley InterScience DOI 10.1002/joc.1996 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122572433/abstract Gilbert L. Rochon, Dev Niyogi, Alok Chatturvedi, Krishna Madhavan, Raj

Multisensor Remote Sensing Datasets and Coupled Models for Disaster

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-100, in Shailesh Nayak & Sisi Zlatanova, Eds., Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters. Heidelberg: Springer, 2008. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-79259-8_5 http://www.springerlink.com/content/n5540231621v2136/? p=feb9f09dbe1c4b2eb07a0fe2b84be038&pi=4 Govindaraju, R., B. Engel, D. Ebert, B. Fossum, M. Huber, C. Jafvert, V. Merwade, D. Niyogi, L. Oliver, S. Prabhakar, G. Rochon, C. Song, L. Zhao (2008) "A Vision of Cyberinfrastructure for End-to-End Environmental Explorations (C4E4)" Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. American Society of Civil Engineers DOI 10.1061/(ASCE) 1084-0699(2009)14:1(53), 14(1), pp. 53-64.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Loring F. Nies, Chad T. Jafvert, Julie A. Stuart, Rabi H. Mohtar, Joseph Q No. 1, pp. 38-48. Springer Verlag (2006). [Originally presented to the NATO CCMS Annual Meeting, May 2-6, 2004, Budapest, Hungary.] Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris Johannsen, David Landgrebe, Bernard Engel, Jonathan Harbor, Sarada Technological Choices for Sustainability. Berlin, Heidelberg & NY: Springer-Verlag Publishers, 2004, [Originally presented at the NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division, Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) Technological Choices for Sustainability Maribor, Slovenia Oct. 12-17, 2002, Poster Session.] Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris Johannsen, David Landgrebe, Bernard Engel, Jonathan

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and Environmental Policy, Vol. 5, Nos. 2/3, pp. 310-316. Springer-Verlag, August, 2003.

Gerard Begni, Editor, Observing our Environment from Space: New Solutions for a New Millennium. Lisse, The Netherlands: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2002. Rochon, Gilbert L. and William Cibula, "Establishing a Protocol for Global Positioning in Tropical Forest Environments," Remote Sensing for Tropical Forest Assessment (Evaluacion de Bosques Tropicales Utilizando la

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Tecnica Telesensorial) proceedings of a USDA Forest Service/U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Workshop. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 7-11, 1991, A. Gillespie, editor, USDA FS General Technical Report SO-113. Nov. 1994. Van Deusen, Paul C., Gregory A. Reams, Margaret S. Devall, Gilbert L. Rochon and Tommy R. Dell, "Study Turns Up Ancient Cypress Trees," Forests and People, 3rd Quarter, 1993, pp. 24-27. Rochon, Gilbert L., Paul C. Van Deusen, Margaret S. Devall and Gregory Reams, "Remote Sensing of Old Growth Cypress for Global Change Research," Earth Observation Magazine, Apr.1993, pp.32-35. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Dillard University Studies Global Change," ERDAS Monitor, Atlanta Georgia, February, 1993. PRESENTATIONS: Gilbert Rochon, Marseyas Fernandez, Thierno Thiam, Joseph Essamuah-Quansah, Souleymane Fall, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Chaker El Amrani, Tajje-eddine Rachidi, Subhas Sikdar, Gülay Altay, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Mohamed Magdy Abdel Wahab, Nosa Egiebor and Chadia Affane Aji. TOWARD PAN-AFRICAN DISASTER RESILIENCE: Potential Collaborative Extension of the

Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO) Model to Support Biogenic and Anthropogenic Disaster Resilience, Early warning, Mitigation and Recovery for Vulnerable at the 11th International Conference of the African Association for Remote Sensing of Environment (AARSE). Kampala, Uganda, 24-28 October, 2016. Chaker El Amrani, Gilbert L. Rochon, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Joe Piskor, Gülay Altay, Tajeddine Rachidi. MONITORING IN

-9), Valladolid, Spain, June 21-24, 2016.

AFRICANS AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Conversations in the Commonwealth Conference, Office of African-American Affairs, Luther Porter Jackson Black Male Initiative (BMI), Charlottesville, VA April 1, 2016.

GLOBAL EDUCATION AND DIVERSITY IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATIONEngagement, International Education Week. Oxford, Mississippi. November 11, 2015. Gilbert Rochon, Chaker El Amrani, Tajje-eddine Rachidi, Gülay Altay, Tarek El Ghazawi, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Mohammed A. Mohammed, Joseph Essamuah-Quansah, Souleymane Fall and Chadia Affane- The role of the NATO Science for Peace supported Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO), based in Morocco, in addressing Early Warning of Disasters, including those associated with Meteorological and Climatic Change

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Events, and the anticipated corSymposium on Weather and Climate Extremes, Food Security and Biodiversity (ISCEFS), Sponsored by George Mason University, Global Environment and National Resource Institute (http://genri.gmu.edu/), the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to be held in Washington, DC, Oct. 20-24, 2014. Invited presentation-Session 5-Food, Water & Energy in Africa http://www.iscefs.org/

Gilbert Rochon, Chaker El Amrani, Tajje-eddine Rachidi, Gülay Altay, Tarek El Ghazawi, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Mohammed A. Mohammed, Joseph Essamuah-Quansah, Souleymane Fall and Chadia Affane- -Time Access to Orbital Optical Sensors for Disaster Early Warning: NATO Science for Peace Sponsored Partnership of Universities in Morocco, Turkey and the USA. The OMICS Group OPTICS 2013: International Conference and Exhibition on Lasers, Optics and Photonics. Oct. 07-09, 2013. San Antonio, Texas. C. El Amrani, G.L. Rochon, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Melbourne, Australia, 21-26, July, 2013. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721228 Publication Year: 2013, Page(s): 600-603.

th Central Alabama Veterans Health Services, Tuskegee, AL 2/12/2013. Gilbert Rochon, Nosa O. Egiebor, Thierno Thiam, Gamal Salah El Afandi and Ben Oni. Engineering (2IE). Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Dec., 2012. (Delivered by Prof. Nosa O. Egiebor) El Amrani, C.; Rochon, G.L.; El-Ghazawi, T.; Altay, G.; -time urban remote sensing initiative in the Mediterranean region for early warning and mitigation of Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350855 Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): 2782 2785.

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(APLU) 125th Annual Meeting, Joint Session: Council of 1890 Universities and Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence (CADE). Denver, Colorado, Feb. 11-13, 2012. Gilbert L. Rochon, Larry Biehl, Okan Ersoy, Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gamal El Afandi, Gülay Altay, Mohamed Shokr, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Mohamed A. Mohamed; Darion Grant, Souleymane Fall, Thierno Thiam, Joseph Quansah, Angel Torres Valcarcel, Bereket Araya, Bertin H. Mbongo, Jinha Jung, Wonkook Kim, Derrick Kearney,

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Abdur Rahman M. Maud, Acushla Antony, Magda Galloza, Bala Murugan Gnanasekaran, Benjamin M. Weiss & Sensing and the Implications for Sustainable Development & Metropolitan

-Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Urban Environment, 1st International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization. Hong Kong, China, 15-17 December, 2010.

g Hotel and Conference Center, Tuskegee, Alabama, October 16, 2010. Gilbert L. Rochon, Larry Biehl, Jinha Jung, Wonkook Kim, Abdur Rahman

Distribution of Data from Earth Observing Satellites: The Purdue Terrestrial Contributions of Remote Sensing to Public Safety & Natural Resource Preservation. Turtle Bay, Hawaii, August 2-3, 2010. Hampapuram Ramapriyan, Gilbert L. Rochon, Erich Franz Stocker, Ruth Duerr, Robert Rank, Stefano Nativi. (2010 Advances in Spatial Data

Presentation, Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee (DAD TC) Invited Session: Data System Technologies for Improving Data Access and Usability - Challenges and Solutions, Honolulu, HI 7/25-30, 2010. IEEE IGARSS, Proceedings of, pp. 1980-1983. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653074 Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): 1980 - 1983 Gilbert L. Rochon, Larry Biehl, Wonkook Kim, Abdur Rahman M. Maud, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo, Jinha Jung, Souleymane Fall, Joseph E. Quansah, Thierno Thiam, Benjamin Weiss and Oluwatoba Omotilewa. (2010) "Earth Observing Satellites for Environmental Monitoring & Assessment: Availability, Acquisition, Analysis & Application of Archival and Real-Time Remotely Sensed Data." International Conference on Disaster Risks and Climate Change: Technological and Managerial Opportunities & Challenges for the Greater Mekong Sub-Region. Mae Fah Luang University, Natural Resources & Environmental Monitoring Center (NREMC) & School of IT, in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), MRC, DDPM, Water Resources Dept., National Park Dept., Purdue University and Fulbright-Thailand. Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 10-12, 2010

Lecture. Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, July 5, 2010.

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Spatial Data Infrastructure to Support Disaster Mitigation & Sustainable Natural ar, Naresuan University, Faculty of Agriculture,

Natural Resources & Environment, Phitsanulok, Thailand, 7/5/2010.

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Co-Sponsored by Fulbright-Thailand, the Natural Resources and Environmental Management Center (NREMC), Department of Information Technology and the School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 6/28/2010.

Infrastructure: Implications for the Greater Mekong Sub- Workshop Co-Sponsored by Fulbright-Thailand, the Natural Resources and Environmental Management Center (NREMC), Department of Information Technology and the School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, June 29, 2010. Gilbert L. Rochon, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo, Larry Biehl, Jinha Jung, Souleymane Fall, Joseph E. Quansah, Bereket Araya, Abdur Rahman Maud, Wonkook Kim, Darion Grant and Thierno Thiam Heterogeneous Data for Improved Identification & Sustainable Mitigation of Infectious Disease Vector Habitat and for Assessment of Vulnerability to Vector- Borne, Water- -Egypt Workshop on Space Technology and Geo-information for Sustainable Development, Cairo, Egypt 14-17 June, 2010. Gilbert L. Rochon, Abdul Rahman M. Maud, Wonkook Kim, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo and Larry Biehl, "Earth Observing Satellites and Remote Sensing's Relevance to African Sustainable Development." Sudan Studies Association. 29th Annual Conference. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, May 28-30, 2010.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Wonkook Kim, Abdur Rahman M. Maud and Larry Biehl.

Climate Change Workshop. Embassy of Italy in the USA. Washington, DC. May 14, 2010.

-Time Data Access & Near-Real-Time -Off Workshop for the National Geospatial Intelligence

Agency (HGA) University Research Initiatives (NURI) Project: Real-Time Predictive Framework for Mosquito-Borne Diseases. Cedar Falls, IA, University of Northern Iowa, May 6, 2010.

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Gilbert L. Rochon, Mohamed Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Gülay Altay, Okan Ersoy, Mohammed Shokr, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Tarek El Ghazawi, Belal Elleithy, Larry Biehl, Darion Grant, Souleymane Fall, Bereket Araya, Bertin Mbongo, Thierno Thiam, Sohaib Ghani and Jinha Jung Infrastructure for Real-Time Remote Sensing Applications to Mitigate Biogenic and Anth7-9, 2009, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Gilbert L. Rochon, Okan Ersoy, Larry L. Biehl, Gülay Altay, Mohamed Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Tarek El Ghazawi, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Mohammed Shokr, Darion Grant, Bereket Araya, Souleymane Fall, Abdur Rahman Mohamed Maud, Thierno Thiam, Jinha Jung, Joseph Quansah, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo, Wonkook Kim and Sohaib Ghani.

-Time Multi-Sensor Satellite Data in a High Performance Computing Environment: Case Studies from the NATO Science for Peace funded Kamal Ewida Earth Observatory in Egypt, the Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY)-Africa and the US Geological Survey (USGS) supported AmePresentation at IEEE Sensors Conference, Oct. 25-28, 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand Altay, G. ; Ersoy, O. ; Wahab, M.A. ; El Afandi, G. ; Shokr, M. ; El Ghazawi, T. ; Mohamed, M.A. ; Eleithy, B. ; El-Magd, I.A. ; Biehl, L. ; Grant, D. ; Rochon, G. ;

-time satellite remote sensing infrastructure to support disaster mitigation: A NATO Science for Peace collaboration project with Research

2009. RAST '09. 4th International Conference. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/RAST.2009.5158192 Publication Year: 2009, Page(s): 18 22, Istanbul, Turkey.

Gilbert Rochon, Larry Biehl, Jinha Jung, Joseph E. Quansah, Thierno Thiam, Bereket Araya, Bertin H. Mbongo, Wonkook Kim, Abdur Rahman M.

Sensing & High Performance Computing Technologies for Sustainable

iew, Inc. Fall Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Oct. 6-8, 2009. Rochon, G.L. ; Araya, B. ; Biehl, L.L. ; Grant, D. ; Ersoy, O. ; Quansah, J. ; Altay, G. ; Wahab, M. ; El Afandi, G.S. ; El Ghazawi, T. ; Mohamed, M.A. ; Shokr, M. ;

ition, analysis and distribution of real-time multisensor satellite data, in a high performance computing environment, for disaster mitigation applications: Case studies from the NATO science for peace funded Kamal Ewida Earth Observatory in Egypt, the Electronic Geophysical Year

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(eGY)-Africa and the US Geological Survey supported AmericaView , 2009 IEEE Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398522 Publication Year: 2009, Page(s): 1020 - 1025 IEEE Conference Publications. Rochon, G. ; Wahab, M.A. ; El Afandi, G.S. ; Altay, G. ; Ersoy, O. ; Song, X.C. ; Zhao, L. ; Niyogi, D. ; Biehl, L. ; Grant, D. ; Elleithy, B. ; Shokr, M. ; Mohamed,

NATO supported real-time remote sensing receiving station being established in Egypt with HPC-enabled near-real-time data products for mitigation of environmental & public IGARSS 2009 Vol: 4 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417599 Pub. Year: 2009, Page(s): IV-53IV-56 Gilbert L. Rochon, Larry Biehl, Darion Grant, Souleymane Fall, Thierno Thiam, Bereket Araya, Bertin Hilaire Mbongo, Jinha Jung, Sohaib Ghani, Madgy Abdel Wahab, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Gülay Altay, Okan Ersoy, Angel Torres

-Time Remote Sensing in support of Advanced Research Workshop (ARW): Achieving Environmental Security: Ecosystems Security and Human Welfare, Pell Center for International Relations & Public Policy. Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, July 5-10, 2009 Gilbert Rochon, M. Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gamal Salah El Afandi, Gülay Altay, Okan Ersoy, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Mohamed A. Mohamed &

Sustainable Development: The NATO Science for Peace Partnership involving Egypt,

1, 2009. G. Rochon, M.M.A. Wahab, G.S. El Afandi, Gülay Altay, O. Ersoy, M. Shokr, T. El

Environmental Climate Research Institute (ECRI). Al-Kanater Al-Khayreia, Egypt, April 9, 2009 G. Rochon, M.A. Wahab, G.S. El Afandi, Gülay Altay, O. Ersoy, M. A. Mohamed & M. Shokr & T. El Ghazawi, Bereket Araya, Souleymane Fall, Darion Grant, Jinha Jung, Sohaib Ghani and Bertin Hilaire Mbongo.

of Remote Al Azhar University. Faculty of Science (Males), Department of Meteorology & Astronomy. Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, April 8, 2009. G. Rochon, M.M.A. Wahab, G.S. El Afandi, Gülay Altay, O. Ersoy, M. A. Mohamed &

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Response Applications of Remote Sensing World Health Organization (WHO)/Emergency & Humanitarian Action (EHA). Regional Office, Cairo, Egypt, April 8, 2009.

) - National, Regional & National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Conference. Seoul, Korea, Oct. 8-10, 2008. Gilbert L. Rochon, M. Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gamal El Afandi, Ado Dan-Isa, Happy Sithole, Khomotso Kganyago, Souleymane Fall, Joseph E. Quansah, Bereket Araya, Chetan Maringanti, Cliff Robinson, Kaiem L. Frink and Jean Pierre Applications of Remote Sensing & High Performance Computing for Sustainable African

0. Session: WE4.110. IEEE IGARSS, Boston, MA, Hynes Convention Center, July 9, 2008. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779428 Pub. Year: 2008, Page(s): III - 636 - III - 639 IEEE Conference Publications Guofan Shao, Jie Shan, Ejaz Hussain, KyoHyouk Kim, Lina Tang, Larry Biehl, Chris Johannsen, Kaiem Frink, Cliff Robinson, Jean Pierre Antelo,

IEEE IGARSS Special Poster Session on Recent Disasters. Boston, MA, June 6-11, 2008. Gilbert Rochon, M. Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gülay Altay, Gamal El Afandi,

-Time Remote Sensing for Early Warning and Mitigation of DisastNATO Science for Peace (SfP) Expert Panel on Environmental Security. Brussels, Belgium: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Headquarters, June 2, 2008. Gilbert Rochon, Larry Biehl, Joseph Quansah, Souleymane Fall, Bereket Araya, Chetan Maringanti, Derrick Kearney, Parr Durr, Jessica Daw, Hildred

-Based Technologies & Lafayette,

Indiana: Purdue University, May 12, 2008. Gilbert L. Rochon, Magdy Wahab, Gülay Altay, Gamal El Afandi, Okan Ersoy and Planning Grant in Collaboration with Egypt, Turkey Pilot Study on Clean Technologies and Processes, Final Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 4-9, 2008. Gilbert L. Rochon, Lefteri Tsoukalas, Chris Johannsen, Joseph Quansah,

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Larry Biehl, Derrick Kearney, Souleymane Fall, Chetan Maringanti, Bereket Araya, Cliff Robinson, Vasanthy Kolluri, Jinha Jung, Parr Durr, Jessica Daw and William Symposium, NATO Pilot Study on Clean Technologies & Processes. Berlin, Germany, May 4-9, 2008. Gilbert Rochon, Larry Biehl, Souleymane Fall, Bereket Araya, Chetan

ces (EAS) Freshman Seminar, College of Science, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, April 22, 2008.

th annual presentation to Basic Medical

Sciences (BMS) 509-International Veterinary Medicine, (Prof. A. Nour), Purdue University, School of Veterinary Medicine, West Lafayette, IN, March 27, 2008. Gilbert Rochon, Larry Biehl, Chetan Maringanti, Souleymane Fall, Cliff Robinson, Bereket Araya, JEgyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) & Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO), Cairo, Egypt, March 16, 2008.

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Day 2007, Indiana University, Herman B. Wells Library, Bloomington, IN, Nov. 14, 2007.

DisasLibrary Third Symposium on Culture and Technology: Moving African Communities Toward a Position of Strength, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Nov. 3, 2007. Gilbert Rochon. "Poverty & Vulnerability: Disaster Mitigation and Infectious Disease Vector Habitat Identification facilitated by Satellite Remote Sensing." Wabash Area Lifelong Learning Association (WALLA). Morton Center, West Lafayette, IN, October 24, 2007.

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Volumes: Real-Luncheon. Purdue University, Computer Research Institute (CRI), ITaP RCAC and Cyber Center. West Lafayette, IN, October 5, 2007.

Assessment of the Application of Space Technologies to Forecasting and Hazard e on

by the Thailand Commission on Higher Education. Mae Fah Luang University Chiang Rai, Thailand September 20-22, 2007. Gilbert Rochon, Butare Rukundo, Joseph Quansah and Mohamed A.

Workshop. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Sept. 16-18, 2007

Terra Nostra: The Potential for Research Center, Barcelona, Spain, July 25, 2007. Joseph E. Quansah, Gilbert L. Rochon, Kwamena K. Quagraine, Steve Amisah, Mucai Muchiri and

Electronics (IEEE) International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007. IEEE Proceedings No. 1-4244-1212-9/07. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423034 Publication Year: 2007, Page(s): 1255 - 1259 IEEE Conference Publications.

presented for HRH Princess Ncengencenge Dlamini and

HRH Prince Lethuthando Dlamini of the Kingdom of Swaziland. Purdue University, Gerald D. & Edna E. Mann Hall Conference Room, West Lafayette, Indiana, July 20 2007. Gilbert L. Rochon, Okan K. Ersoy, Larry Biehl, Joseph E. Quansah and

Remotely-Security, Pilot Study on Clean Technologies Processes Annual Meeting. Porto, Portugal, May 5-9, 2007.

University, BMS 509. International Veterinary Medicine (Prof. Abdelfatah Nour),

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West Lafayette, IN. April 19, 2007. Previous presentations on this topic given at BMS 509 in 2004, 2005 & 2006

Applications for Multi-Sector Sustainable Development in Niger Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Center of Excellence/Imo State Environmental Protection Agency. Owerri, Nigeria. March 16, 2007.

(C4L) CD4 Di -Sponsors: Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories, ICYT, Parker Life Sciences, Wealthy Consults and convoy of Hope International. Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria, March 14, 2007.

, GIS & GPS in Support of Public Health &

Real- Commentaries on Provincial,

District and Sub-District priority problems and initiatives. Training Workshop for Academic Research Network in Upper Northern Thailand. Co-Sponsored by

s Ministry of Education and the University of Chiang Mai, Faculty of Economics, on location in Uttradit, Thaton, Mae Hiya, Mae Phoon, and Maeai Districts, Thailand, Feb. 18- March 4, 2007. Akilah Martin, Rabi Mohtar, Bernie Engel, Brian French and Gilbert Rochon.

Improve Decision-Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), St. Joseph, Michigan, www.asabe.org Paper No. 068002, 2006 ASABE Annual Meeting. Govindaraju, R., B. Engel, D. Ebert, B. Fossum, M. Huber, C. Jafvert, V. Merwade, D. Niyogi, L. Oliver, S. Prabhakar, G. Rochon, C. Song, L. Zhao, "Cyberinfrastructure for End-to-End Environmental Explorations (C4E4)", poster presented at the Joint Workshop for WATERS Network Test Beds and CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems, Austin, TX, November 15-17, 2006. Dev Niyogi, Gilbert L. Rochon, Krishna Madhavan, Rajarathinam Arangarasan, UC Mohanty, Alok Chaturvedi, Maruti Ram Ponaganti, Larry Biehl, Joseph E. Quansah, Hussam Nour, Aisha Chini Reed, Hsin-I Chang, and Anil Kumar . "Modeling, Visualization and Fusion of Archival Data to support Disaster Mitigation." Geo-Informatics for Disaster Management (Gi4DM 2). Sept. 25-26, 2006, Goa, India. Gilbert L. Rochon, Dev Niyogi, Krishna Madhavan, Rajarathinam

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Arangarasan, Alok Chaturvedi, Maruti Ram Ponaganti, UC Mohanty, Larry Biehl, Joseph E. Quansah, Hussam Nour, Aisha Chini Reed, Hsin-I Chang, and Anil Kumar. 'Toward Intelligent and Sustainable Archiving of Geo-Spatial Data," International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ISPRS) International Symposium on Geospatial Databases for Sustainable Development. Sept. 27-30, 2006, Goa, India. Gilbert L. Rochon, Krishna Madhavan, Dev Niyogi and Rajarathinam Arangarasan. "Interdisciplinary Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing." Goa University, September 28, 2006, Goa, India. GL Rochon, Carol Xiaohui Song, Lan Zhao, Dev Niyogi, Derrick S. Kearney and Jie Shan. "Supporting Interdisciplinary e-Science through Real-Time Remote Sensing & High Performance Computing in a High Bandwidth Environment," 20th International CODATA Conference. Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society. Oct. 23-25, 2006, Beijing, China.

Modeling & Response. National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Sept. 7-8, 2006. GL Rochon, J. Paul Robinson, Carol Xiaohui Song, Lan Zhao, Dev Niyogi and Derrick S. Kearney. "Remote and Proximal Sensing in Support of Disaster Mitigation and Sustainable Development," Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Remote Sensing Ground Station (RSGS), Beijing, China, Oct. 24, 2006. GL Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Dev Niyogi, Melba M. Crawford, J. Paul Robinson, Souleymane Fall, Joseph E. Quansah, Larry Biehl, Jie Shan, Carol Xiaohui Song, Derrick S. Kearney, Lan Zhao and Amy Neuenschwander. "Integration of Real-Time and Archival Remote Sensing with High Performance Computing & Dynamic Modeling to Support Disaster Mitigation." African Association for Remote Sensing of Environment (AARSE), Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2006. GL Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Dev Niyogi, Melba M. Crawford, J. Paul Robinson, Souleymane Fall, Joseph E. Quansah, Larry Biehl, Jie Shan, Carol Xiaohui Song, Derrick S. Kearney, Lan Zhao and Amy Neuenschwander. 'In Situ Monitoring, Satellite Remote Sensing, Proximal Sensing & High Performance Computing to Facilitate Sustainability and Disaster Preparedness." Cairo University, Aerospace Studies Department, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 2, 2006. GL Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Dev Niyogi, Melba M. Crawford, J. Paul

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Robinson, Souleymane Fall, Joseph E. Quansah, Larry Biehl, Jie Shan, Carol Xiaohui Song, Derrick S. Kearney, Lan Zhao and Amy Neuenschwander. "Multidisciplinary Research Enabled by Real-time and Archival Remote Sensing and High Performance Computing to Support Environmental Sustainability and Disaster Mitigation." Al Azhar University, Departments of Astronomy and Meteorology, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 4, 2006. GiDisaster Mitigation and Environmental Sustainability, University, Bangkok Thailand, June 2, 2006.

l-Time Satellite 1, 2006.

-Boundary Management and Eco- Collaborative Research & Training Initiatives; The Role of Bi-lateral, Multi-

-note addresses presented as an invited Fulbright Senior

Specialist-Environmental Sciences at the Innovative Approaches to Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM): Spatial Technologies Perspectives for Thailand and the GMS [Greater Mekong Sub-Region] Seminar. Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, May 23-24, 2006.

-Sectoral Institute (ASTIN), Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey, May 11, 2006.

Groundstations to Support Global Science: Toward a Distributed Shared Spatial Data Archive & Grid Access to Near-Real-Treaty Organization (NATO) Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society (CCMS) Pilot Study on Clean Products & Processes Annual Meeting. Istanbul, Turkey, May 5-12, 2006. Gilbert L. Rochon, Hildred Sarah Rochon & Joseph E. Quansah. The Role of Technology in Facilitating a Coalition between Conventional Medical Practitioners and Indigenous Healers in the Struggle against HIV/AIDS in Africa. Invited Presentation at the Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge. Accra, Ghana, March, 2006. Gilbert L. Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed and J. Paul Robinson. Remote

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Sensing Applications within a High Bandwidth and High Performance Computing Environment. International Conference on Peace, Development & Reconstruction. Islamic Network for Engineering & Technology (ISNET). Khartoum, Sudan. October, 2005. Gilbert L. Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Tsefaye Woldai, Joseph Quansah, Victor Taylor, Tommy Coleman, Yaw Twumasi and Hussam Nour. Remote Sensing and Sustainable Development in Sudan: Post Armed Conflict Reconstruction. Remote Sensing Authority of Sudan. International Conference on Peace, Development & Reconstruction. Islamic Network for Engineering & Technology (ISNET). Khartoum, Sudan. October, 2005.

-Time Satellite Remote Sensing in Support of Environmental Sustainability within NATO Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society (CCMS) Pilot Study on Clean Products & Processes Phase II, June 17-15, 2005, Ålesund, Norway

Recent Advances in Space Technology (RAST 2005): Space in the Service of Society, Istanbul, Turkey, June 9-11, 2005.

Gilbert L. -Cosponsors: University of Antananarivo and U.S. Embassy. Antananarivo, Madagascar, May, 2005. Gilbert L. Rochon, J. Quansah, M. Mohamed, Y. Twumasi, T. Coleman, V. Taylor, C. Luther, C. Johannsen and D. Landgrebe. -Real-Time Satellite Data Acquisition and Analysis and Distribution of Geoinformation in Support of African

(UN ECA) Committee for Development Information (CODI IV) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April, 2005. Presentation for BMS 509 International Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine. West Lafayette, IN. March 30, 2006. Gilbert Rochon1, Budhendra L. Bhaduri2, Gordon Wells3, Bernard A. Engel1, Larry Biehl1, Joseph Essamuah-Quansah1, Sebastien Goasguen1, and Krishna P.C. Madhavan1 ng Among Multiple Ground Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland, March 7-11, 2005. 1Purdue University, 2US DOE Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), 3University of Texas at Austin

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Societies (IUMRS) International Conference on Advanced Materials, Workshop on Nanotechnology Networking and International Cooperation, Presented in Yokohama, Japan, October 8-12, 2003. Gilbert Rochon, David Landgrebe, Chris Johannsen, Sarada Majumder and

Real-Time Remote Sensing for Time-Presented at the International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE 2003) Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 8-12, 2003. Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris Johannsen, David Landgrebe, Bernard Enge Intergenerational Prudent Resource Management in Africa: The Contributions of Remote Sensing & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2003). Presented in Toulouse, France, July, 2003. Gilbert Rochon, Chris Johannsen, Steve Mayo, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Sarada

State of the Planet Conference, General Assembly of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG 2003). Presented in Sapporo, Japan, June 30-July 11, 2003.

of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, International Veterinary Medicine, BMS-509, April 17, 2003.

Gilbert L. Rochon. Greater Lafayette Information Technology Society (GLITS). Purdue Technology Park, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 1, 2003.

ty Series, Stewart Center, March 4, 2003. Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris Johannsen, David Landgrebe,

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Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris Johannsen, David Landgrebe, Bernard Engel, Jonathan Harbor, Sarada Majumder and Larry Biehl.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Scientific and

Environmental Affairs Division, Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) Technological Choices for Sustainability Maribor, Slovenia Oct. 12-17, 2002, Poster Session. The paper was subsequently published in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, Springer Verlag Publisher.

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International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. April 3-12, 2002. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Environmental Solutions, Awareness and Outreach Conference, University of Cincinnati, College of Applied Science, September 13, 2001 Gilbert L. Rochon, F. Bernard Daniel, David Szlag and Carla Chifos

Management and Food Se Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Symposium Observing our Environment from Space: New Solutions for a New Millennium. Marne-la-Vale, France, May 19-21, 2001

cation of Riparian Landcover, Utilizing Remotely Sensed Data, GIS and GPS: The Little Miami River (NRMRL), Andrew Breidenbach Research Center, Cincinnati, OH, August 2, 2000.

Technology Division Seminar Series. National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 9, 2000. Gilbert L. Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Sidney J. Fauria and Marseyas

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Gilbert L. Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Sidney J. Fauria and Marseyas Visualization of Remotely-Sensed

Data in Support of Spatial and Temporal Analysis: Case Studies, Constraints & Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct., 1999. Gilbert L. Roc Performance Computing, Remote Sensing and Visualization Technologies at Aquarium Education Center, April 21, 1999. G. L. Rochon and

sponsored Global Rainforest/Boreal Forest Mapping (GRFM/GBFM) Program. InSAR Meeting, European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Ispra, Italy, November, 1998.

Faculty Development, Environmental Justice Workshop. Paine College, Augusta, Georgia, March, 1998. Mason, Michael, Gilbert L. Rochon, Morris Singletary, Robert Carrier,

Rochon, Gilbert L.; Luong, Phu Vin; Costolo, J. Houston; Ruby, G.; Goon, Ludwig A.

-dimensional visualization of oceanographic data: A case study of the Gulf Proceedings, OCEANS '97, 2 (787). Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/OCEANS.1997.624167 Halifax, Nova Scotia. Publication Year: 1997, Vol. 2, Page 1209. IEEE Conference Publications Mason, Michael, Gilbert L. Rochon, Craigston Webb, Quincy Jones and Gwinyayi

te Management: Routing & Scheduling to

Annual Meeting, Poster Session, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug.11-14, 1997 Kravipin, V.F., Bui Ta Long, Nguyen Minh Nam, Nguyen Xuan Minh, Gilbert

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L. Rochon and David R. Hicks. System of Survey and Simulation for Air Pollution over Large Industrial Regions. Proceedings of the International Association of Science and Technology Development (IASTD), August 1997, Singapore.

ic Visualization of Drought-Related Famine Conditions in Sudan: An Approach to Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Remotely-Sensed Multi-

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February, 1997. Gi Workshop on Application of Information Technology to the Problem of Environmental Monitoring. Presented in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, December 17-23, 1996. Vladimir Krapivin, Gilbert L. Rochon & David R. Hicks. "A Global Simulation Model as a Method for Estimating the Role of Urban Areas in Global Change," Proceedings of ECOINFORMA '96, sponsored by ERIM, Lake Buena Vista, FL, Nov., 1996. Gilbert L. Rochon, L. F. Borodin, Vladimir F. Krapivin and David R. Hicks. "Application of GIMS Technology to the Study of the Aral-Caspian System." Presented as an interactive poster session at ECOINFORMA '96, sponsored by ERIM, Epcot Science & Technology Center, Lake Buena Vista, FL, 1996. Vladimir F. Krapivin, L. P. Vilkova, Gilbert L. Rochon and David R. Hicks. "Model Estimation of the Role of Urban Areas in Global CO2 Dynamics," Proceedings of ECOINFORMA '96, sponsored by ERIM, Epcot Science & Technology Center, Lake Buena Vista, FL, Nov., 1996. Rochon, G.L., Vladimir Krapivin, Morgan Watson, Sidney Fauria, Francis Y. Tsang and of the Vietnamese/South China Sea Coastal HoChiMinh City Conference on Mechanics. Sept. 24-25, 1996 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Sponsored by the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the National Center for Natural Science & Technology of Vietnam. Krapivin, V. F., Simulation Model as a Method for Estimating the Role of Regional Areas in

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Second Ho Chi Minh City Conference on Mechanics, Sept. 24-25, 1996 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, sponsored by the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the National Center for Natural Science & Technology of Vietnam. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Urban Ecosystems and Global Change: Deployment of Remote Sensing & GIS Monitoring Infrastructure," International Geographical Union (IGU) Conference, Moscow State University, Russia and post-conference research expedition to Irkutsk & Ulan Ude, Eastern Siberia. August 14-2, 1995 Rochon, Gilbert L. "Food Security, Public Health and Sustainable Development: Participation of U.S. Agencies and the United Nations in Remote Sensing & GIS in Africa," GIS IN GOVERNMENT: The Federal Perspective, 1994 - Proceedings of the First Federal Geographic Technology Conference. Sept. 26-28, 1994, Washington, DC. GIS World Books, 1995. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Tiered Usage of Multi-Temporal Landsat TM and MSS and NOAA AVHRR for Monitoring Drought, Desertification, Deforestation and Famine Conditions in Sudan," presented at the Fifth Global Warming International Conference and Exposition, San Francisco, CA, April 4-7, 1994. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Vegetated Areas in Sudan, Using Remote Sensing and GIS: Implications for Famine Warning and for Deforestation Assessment," presented at the International Symposium, Problems of Ecoinformatics, sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, The Moscow Science and Engineering A. S. Popov Society for Radio, Electronics and Communication, Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics and Institute for Ecoinformatics Problems, Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, Russia, 14-18 December, 1992. Kelley, John J., Gilbert L. Rochon, O.A. Novoselova, V. Krapivin and F.A. Mkrtchyan, "Toward Global Geo/Eco-Information Monitoring." Published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium, Problems of Ecoinformatics, Zvenigorod, Russia, Dec. 14-18, 1992. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Deployment of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and NASA's Calibrated Airborne Multispectral Scanner (CAMS) for Research on Tropical Forest Ecosystems," presentation at the conference, Integrating Forest Data Over Time and Space, Canberra, Australia, Jan.12-17, 1992, sponsored by the IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations). Rochon, Gilbert L. "Remote Sensing Applications for Tropical Forest Research within NASA and the USDA Forest Service's International Institute for Tropical Forestry,"

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National Workshop on Minority Participation in Forestry and Forestry Related Sciences (MINFORS). Huntsville, AL Nov., 1991. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Toward Development of a Global Urban Spatial Database," presentation at the invitation of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Engineering Ecology '91, Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, USSR, co-sponsored by the Academy's Institute for Radio Engineering and Electronics and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences' Institute for Ecoinformatics Problems, Oct., 1991. Rochon, Gilbert L., "Applying Spaced-Based Technologies to the Protection of Terrestrial Ecosystems," presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., 1991. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Archival Surface Data Availability in the Gulf-South Region, of Relevance to NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Interdisciplinary Research and Sensor Teams," abstract in James Miller and Armond Joyce, eds. NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Research Projects. Hattiesburg, MS: University of Southern Mississippi, 1990. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Identification of an Appropriate GIS Package for Integration with NASA's LAS Image Analysis Software," Abstract in the University of Maryland, the 1989 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA RECON 91n25939 Issue 17, p. 2884, Category 82, NTIS. Greenbelt, MD, 1989. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Specification of Parameters for Development of a Spatial Database for Drought Monitoring and Famine Early Warning in the African Sahel," Abstract in University of Maryland, The 1989 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA RECON 91N25938, Issue 17, P. 2883, Category 82, NTIS. Greenbelt, MD, 1989. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Preparing Undergraduates for Research and Teaching Careers," presented at a workshop sponsored by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Spellman College, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 1988. Rochon, Gilbert L. "Is Graduate School for You?" presented at the Black Collegian Magazine's Going Places Seminar, Xavier University, Sept. 1988. Aultman, Kathryn and Gilbert Rochon, "Hazardous Chemicals, Computer Technology and Public Policy," A course module sponsored by the Sloan Foundation and the Georgia Institute of Technology, under the Resourceful Exchange: Technology and the Liberal Arts Program. Atlanta: Georgia Tech, 1986. Gilbert Rochon, "Summation of the Conference on North-South Trade: The Latin American Connection," held in New Orleans, 1985, published in the Proceedings of the Council on Religion and International Affairs, New York: CRIA, 1985.

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Gilbert L. Rochon, "Development of a Hazardous Chemical and Oil Spill Information System and a Waterway Management Information System," Joint Meetings of the Marine Safety Society and the Delta Safety Society. New Orleans, LA: October, 1986. Gilbert L. Rochon, Presentations on "Investment in Food Production in Sudan," and on "Disaster Planning and Emergency Management Using the PC/FOCUS Data Base Management Software and Interactive Laser Video Mapping," North Carolina A&T University, International Agricultural Programs and the Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Greensboro, NC, 1986. Gilbert L. Rochon, "The Role of African Nations Within the United Nations," Black History Month Lecture Series, Southern University in New Orleans, sponsored by the SUNO Division of the Social Sciences, 1985. Gilbert L. Rochon, "The Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Letter on the Role of the United States Economy," Respondent, The First H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Lecture Series, New Orleans, LA: Loyola Univ., 1985. Gilbert L. Rochon, "The Status of Black Transportation Workers," Annual Meeting of the New Orleans Association of Retired Pullman Porters, 1984. Gilbert L. Rochon, Respondent to Dr. Eamon Kelley, President, Tulane University, on "The Future of the New Orleans Environment: Air, Water and Health." Symposium on the Future of New Orleans, Sponsored by the New Orleans Consortium for Urban Service and Policy Research, Holy Cross College, New Orleans, LA, 1984. Gilbert L. Rochon, "Nutritional Deficiency in the Third World Countries," UNICEF Pavilion. Louisiana World Exposition, (1984 World's Fair), New Orleans, LA.