YANG HONG (洪 阳), PhD

Professor
School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences

Adjunct Faculty
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

Dr. Yang Hong is currently professor of hydro-meteorology-climatology and remote sensing in the School of Civil Engineering & Environmental Sciences and in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. Previously, he was a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Post-doc researcher at University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Hong is currently the Director of Hydrometeorology and RemOte Sensing Laboratory (HyDROS Lab: http://hydro.ou.edu) at the National Weather Center, Norman OK. Dr. Hong’s areas of research span the wide range of hydrology-meteorology-climatology, with particular interest in bridging the gap among the water-weather-climate-human systems across scales in space and time. He has developed and taught class topics such as remote sensing retrieval and applications, advanced hydrologic modeling, climate change and natural hazards, engineering survey/measurement and statistics, land surface modeling and data assimilation systems for hydrological cycle and water systems under a changing climate.

Dr. Hong has served on several international and national committees, review panels, and editorial board of several journals. He was Chair of the AGU Hydrology-Precipitation Technical Committee from 2008-2012. He is recipient of the 2008 Group Achievement Award from the NASA Headquarter. Dr. Hong received a PhD Major in Hydrology and Water Resources and Ph.D. Minor in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis from the University of Arizona (2003) and an M.S. (1999) in Environmental Sciences and a B.S. (1996) in Geosciences from the Peking (Beijing) University, China.

My CV (updated 04/2012)

      RESEARCH INTERESTS

Radar/Satellite Remote Sensing of Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, Soil Moisture, and Streamflow.

Hydro-sciences, Hydrometeorology, Hydroclimatology, Water Cycle, and Climate Change/Variability.

Digital Image Analysis, Clustering, Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial Analysis, Geoinformatics.

Natural Hazard and Disaster Monitoring, Prediction, Mitigation, Preventation, Water Resources Engineerng.

Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Sustainability, Optimization and Decision Support Modeling

      TEACHING INTERESTS

CEES 5020 REMOTE SENSING of HYDROLOGY, 2008/2009/2011/2012 SPRING (Every other year)

ENGR 4510 APPLIED HYDROLOGY AND HYDRAULICS (team-teach with Drs. Vieux and Kollar), 2008 FALL.

ENGR/CEES 5020 CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS, 2008/2010 FALL (Every other year)

CEES 3334, MEASUREMENTS, 2009/2010/2011/2012 SPRING

CEES 5020 COMPUTATIONAL HYDROLOGY, 2009/2011 FALL (Every other year)

      EDUCATION BACKGROUND

B.S. Earth Sciences, Peking (Beijing) University, 1996

M.S. Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 1999

Ph.D. Hydrology and Water Resources, College of Engineering, University of Arizona, 2003

Ph.D. Minor, Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, University of Arizona, 2003

      CONTACT INFORMATION

E-MAIL: yanghong@ou.edu

PHONE: (405)325-3644

Official Address: School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences,
                                      The University of Oklahoma, 202 W. Boyd ST,
                                      Carson Engineering Center, Room 334, Norman, OK 73019

Office and Maling Address: National Weather Center, ARRC Suite 4610 Room 4614,
                                   120 David L. Boren Blvd., Norman, OK 73072 USA