136. Oct. 16, 2008. Mr. Mark Schnur will defense his thesis (flyer). You are welcomed to attend.

135. Sept. 11 2008, Space Grant Internship opportunity (flyer and application).

134. Sept. 2008, Dr. Ahmet Tekeli, a scientist from Turkish State Meteorological Services, accepted our postdoc position funded by a NASA project and will join the LRSG within a couple of months. Congratulations!!

133. June-July 2008, Phd student Cicek visited Turkey and Switzerland, and attended three workshops and conferences. June 2-6 attended the EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) conference at Istanbul, Turkey; June 29-July 4 attended ISSI (International Space Science Institute) workshop at Bern, Switzerland and presented a paper "The remote sensing of sea ice during SIMBA07"; and July 6-10 attended CCGW (Global Conference of Global Warming) conference at Istanbul, Turkey and presented a paper "Sea ice in climate change from space".

132. July 25, 2008. Our "gap layers" paper published in the GRL, was the editor's choice for the June issue's cover page, and is highlighted by the Environmentalresearchweb at UK.

131. July 8-11, 2008. Ackley attended the SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) meeting at St. Petersburg, Russia and gave 5 presentations.

130. June-July 2008, Xie visited China for collaborative research, presentation and conference. June 9-15 at Lanzhou University (link), June 15-18 at China University of Geoscience Wuhan (link), June 18-21 at East China Inst. of Technology (link), June 30-July 2 at 2008 International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications Beijing (link), Xie chaired a session of Sensors and Systems.

129. May 8, 2008. PhD scholarship and Postdoc positions are available in the LRSG lab (see announcement).

128. Apr 27-May 2, 2008. Xie attended the NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystem Joint Science Workshop and presented (with G. Liu and J. McClelland) a team-resulted poster for the NASA's IDS project (#NNX07AL79G), at U. Maryland Inn and Conference Center.

127. Apr 23, 2008. Misti Thueson successfully defended her thesis entitled "Exploring high-albedo event craters in the near-polar permanent ice cap of Mars". Her thesis committee are Drs. Hongjie Xie (chair), Steve Ackley, and Rupali Datta. Congratulation to Ms. Thueson!

126. Apr 15-19, 2008. Wang attended and presented one paper at the AAG Annual meeting, Boston, MA.

125. Apr 13-18, 2008. Ackley attended and presented 3 papers at the EGU General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria.

124. Apr 4-9, 2008. Lewis and Weissling with colleagues from UTSA Mechanical Engineering joined the Barrow, Alaska field experiments for sea ice thickness detection organized by U. Alaska Fairbanks. The UTSA team is supported by the UTSA Collaborative Research Seed Grant Program (PI Nowak, Co-PI Ackley).

123. Apr 9, 2008. Our proposal (PI Ackley, Co-PI Xie) entitled "Antarctic sea ice thickness from space: validating estimates from the laser and radar satellite altimeters with ship-based measurements" (2008-2011, ~$600,000) is selected for funding by NASA Cryosphere program. One postdoc and one PhD student will be supported. This is a great news to LRSG. Congratulations!!!

122. Mar 27, 2008. Xianwei Wang successfully defended his dissertation (flyer). His supervising committee are Drs. Hongjie Xie (chair), Richard French, Hatim Sharif, Kyle Murray, and Jerome Keating. Congratulation to Dr. Wang, the first PhD student graduated from the LRSG!

121. Mar 14, 2008. Xie gave a presentation at the UTSA Environmental Science and Engineering graduate seminar, entitled Precipitation Mapping: Methods and Accuracy.

120. Mar 10-14, 2008. LRSG (Xie, Lu, Zeng) attended the 39th LPSC conference, in Houston, Texas and presented 2 papers.

119. Feb 10-13, 2008. Ackley was invited to attend the NSF-funded Oden Southern Ocean Workshop at Lejondals Slott, Sweden (final report).

118. Feb 8, 2008. The 2nd MORE Science Colloquium held at the LRSG lab (SB2.01.02). It was a great success! Xianwei organized and hosted the conference. Congratulations!!

117. Jan 2008. "UTSA" in the snow from UTSA Today.

116. Dec, 2007. UTSA/LRSG joined to the partnerships between polar communities of China and the U.S.. Congratulations!!

115. Dec 10-14, 2007. LRSG group (Austin, Penny, Newfel, Beibei, Blake, Xianwei, Burcu, Mike, Zuxun, Steve, and Hongjie) attended and presented 10 papers in the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Xie (with Dr. T. Markus of NASA) chaired a session C23B: Sea Ice IV: Snow on Sea Ice.

114. Dec 7, 2007. Burcu Cicek defended her dissertation proposal entitled Estimation of Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness from Surface and Space Borne Altimetry, and passed. congratulations!

113. Nov 16, 2007. ASPRS UTSA Chapter and LRSG exhibited our geospatial related works to hundreds of San Antonio school kids at the San Antonio GIS Day - Student Day. PhD student Burcu Cicek lead the effort with helps from Newfel Mazari and Penny Wagner.

112. Nov 2007. Welcome the SIMBA group came back home safely and successfully, for a 2-months field work on the Antarctic sea ice!

111. Oct 2007. LRSG scientists with Antarctic sea ice (pdf)

110. Sep 28, 2007. Xie gave a presentation at the UTSA Environmental Science and Engineering graduate seminar, entitled Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice: from Land Surface, to Southern Ocean (Antarctic), and to the Mars.

109. Sep 26, 2007. ASPRS UTSA Student Chapter established in May 2007 and launched its own website today. UTSA remote sensing and GIS folks have our own organization and website now! Congratulations!

108. Sep 12, 2007. Dr. Minqiang Zhu informed that National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) approved his proposal entitled "Mars Express/OMEGA surface spectra retrieve methods and mineral detection" for which he started the study in LRSG as a visiting professor, together with Drs. Xie and Guan (a former postdoc in LRSG). Both are collaborators for the 3-year project (2008-2010). Congratulations! 

107. Sep 11, 2007. Visiting/exchange students Yang Gao and Xiaodong Huang, sponsored by Chinese Fellowship Committee, arrived UTSA for one or two years of study/research focusing on remote sensing and GIS. Welcome!

106. Sep 7, 2007. 1st and  2nd sets of photos from the Antarctic trip (sent by Penny from Palmer Station).

105. Aug 21-Sep 10, 2007. Graduate student Lisha Zhou from SUNY-Stony Brook visiting LRSG to learn processing NEXRAD precipitation data.

104. Aug 26-Nov 3, 2007. LRSG scientists (Penny, Bev, Blake, Mike, and Steve) deployed to Antarctic for the SIMBA project, funded by NSF.

103. Aug 23, 2007. Anderson, Ackley, and UTSA's Antarctic trip on San Antonio Express News.

102. Aug 22, 2007. Anderson, Ackley and UTSA's Antarctic program on KENS5 TV News.

101. Aug 18, 2007. The LRSG group held the 3rd annual picnic. Xianwei organized the picnic activity. 

100. Aug 16, 2007. Ackley, Anderson and LRSG Antarctic program on UTSAToday.

99. Aug 13-17, 2007. Xie attended the CSIG 2007 (Geoinformatics) workshop at the San Diego Supercomp. Center, UCSD, sponsored by NSF.

98. July 26, 2007. A fall AGU session "snow on sea ice: measurements, processes, and impacts" proposed by Xie and Markus is accepted. Congratulations!

97. July 26-31, 2007. LRSG group (Jordan, Yu, Xie) attended the MORE science field trip led by Dr. Lance Lambert. It was a great trip!

96. July 9-13, 2007. Xie presented a paper in the 7th International Conf. on Mars, Pasadena, CA.

95. July 2-13, 2007. Cicek attended the International Sea-Ice Summer School, Svalbard, Norway.

94. June 2007. Xie awarded a grant from TexasView Remote Sensing Consortium to develop an algori. for MODIS data processing. Congratulations!

93. June 2007. Cicek and her Antarctic study cited in "Zooming in on Climate Change" of the Imaging NOTES magazine.

92. June 27-29, 2007. Xie was invited by NASA (via a travel fund) to attend the ICESAT-II workshop in Washington DC.

91, June 18, 2007. Mike Lewis defended his dissertation proposal and passed. congratulations!

90, June 13-16, 2007. Professor Zuji Qiang visited UTSA  and gave a series of talks about using satellite thermal infrared anomalies for earthquake predictions. it was great! (pdf)

89, May 30, 2007. LRSG scientists and the ODEN Antarctic trip highlights in the front page and feature article of UTSA magazine Sombrilla (article)

88. May, 2007. LRSG (PI Ackley) received a supplemental fund for participating the Antarctic ODEN Expedition in December 2006. Congratulations!

87. May 7-11, 2007. Wang attended the ASPRS annual meeting in Tampa, FL. He presented one paper and was a moderator for the session Water Resource Mapping.

86. May 3, 2007. Xie awarded a two-year grant from Texas Space Grant Consortium's New Investigations Program (TSGC NIP) to study the Martian surface composition and H2O and CO2 cycles. Congratulations!

85. May  2007. Cicek received a travel award from IEEE IGARSS 07 to present a paper in Barcelona, Spain, in July. Congratulations!

84. May 2007. Wagner received scholarships from South Texas GSA and George R. Pinkley award for a field camp course in summer. Congratulations!

83. April. 2007. LRSG (Cicek and Xie) awarded three IKONOS images (value $8,141) from GeoEye Foundation to study Antarctic sea ice and Mt. Erebus volcano. Congratulations!

82. April, 2007. UTSA/LRSG's Antarctic project (PI Ackley) highlighted in the IPY Overview of the National Academy of Sciences.

81. April, 2007. Xie will give a talk on 'Global warming from Antarctic to San Antonio' to 2007 Certified GO GREEN ExpoWorkshopCinema, May 18&19 at Live Oak Civic Center, San Antonio, TX.

80. April, 2007. LRSG scientists (Cicek, Ackley, Xie) on TV program talk about global warming from Antarctic to San Antonio  (air time 1:30 pm April 15, May 13 and June 3 on Time Warner Cable Education Channel 98)

79. Apr. 6, 2007. Xie gave a invited talk "Statistic Evaluation of the Improved NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates Using Rain Gauge Measurements" in the Department of Management Science and Statistics seminar series at UTSA.

78. Mar. 28, 2007. Our inaugural provost lecturer Dr. Jerome Nriagu is on UTSAToday.

77. Mar. 25-30, 2007. LRSG group (Saunders, Wagner, Cicek, Lewis, Ackley) attended the Gordon conference- Polar Marine Science in Ventura, CA and presented 5 papers.

76. Mar. 11-16, 2007. LRSG group (Wagner, Thueson, Yue, Zeng, Xie) attended the 38th LPSC in Houston, Texas and presented 6 papers. 

75. Feb, 2007. Prof. Ackley interviewed by Ms. Ute Kaden's student Megan Hernandez from Homer Hanna HS, Brownsville, TX.

74. Feb 13, 2007. LRSG scientists on UTSA Today news.

73. Feb 8, 2007. UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic on national media. (pdf)

72. Feb. 3, 2007. LRSG scientists on San Antonio Express News: Earth's Protection is melting away. (pdf)

71. Jan. 2007. NASA project entitled "Using satellite data and fully coupled regional hydrologic, ecological and atmospheric models to study complex coastal environmental processes" has been approved for funding by NASA IDS Program. Dr. Xie is one of the 6 PIs for the project led by Dr. Zong-Liang Yang at UT Austin (media). Congratulations!!!

70. Jan. 15-18, 2007. LRSG group (Wang, Blake, Cicek, Sharif, and Xie) attended and presented papers in the 87th AMS annual meeting in San Antonio, TX.  Sharif and Xie chaired two sections in the meeting.

69. Jan. 12, 2007. ODEN passing through sea ice during the expedition (video 1 and video 2)

68. Jan. 11, 2007. Turkish women conquer Antarctic on Turkish Daily News. Check out the video when she was shaking a Turkish flag on the fast ice of McMurdo Sound.

67. Jan.10, 2007. A series of photos took during the Antarctic Expedition posted (events and/or time based order)  for reviewing. High resolution photos can be requested.

66. Dec. 20, 2006. A sea ice observation 101 reported from Polartrec by Mr. Allan Miller, A teacher onboard ODEN.

65. Dec, 2006. UTSA on NSF media release:  Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year. More photos about the expedition on Polartrec.com.

64. Dec. 11-15, 2006. LRSG group (Ackley, Lewis, Weissling, Zeng) attended and presented 4 papers at the AGU fall meeting at the San Francisco, CA. Ackley served as a co-convener for session "Marine Cryosphere VI: Exploration with AUVs, ROVs, and Other Unmanned Technologies". 

63. Dec.8-30, 2006. LRSG (Xie and Cicek) went to Antarctica funded by a NSF grant (PI Steve Ackley), together with Ute Kaden, a high school teacher at Brownsville, TX, we will do sea ice study. See a website about the trip and Antarctic developed by Ute. List of the participants to the cruise. 

62. Nov. 29, 2006. Mr. Zongyu Yue, a PhD student from China University of Geoscience (Beijing) arrive our lab for a half year visit to learn remote sensing and its application on Moon and Mars. Welcome!!

61. Nov 17, 2006. The first MORE colloquium successfully held. PhD student Burcu Cicek organized it.

60. Nov 15, 2006. LRSG group exhibited our geospatial related works to hundreds of San Antonio school kids at the San Antonio GIS Day - Student Day. PhD student Xianwei Wang lead the LRSG effort.

59. Nov 13, 2006. Xie gave a invited talk entitled "remote sensing in hydrology: several case studies" at the graduate seminar of TAMUK-CREST center.

58. Nov 6, 2006. EES Department announced the McNutt Scholarship, application due day Nov 27, 2006

57. Nov 6-10, 2006. LRSG group (Cicek, Wang, and Xie) attended and presented two papers at the ASPRS/MAPPS fall meeting in San Antonio, TX. Cicek won the second place in student paper competition of ASPRS Mid-South Region. Congratulations!!!

56. Nov 2-3, 2006. Texas Space Grant Consotium annual meeting at the SwRI, Xie presented the works of LRSG Mars group.  

55. Oct 22-24, 2006. LRSG group (Xie, Zeng, Wagner) attended the workshop on Martian Sulfates as Recorders of Atmospheric-Fluid-Rock Interactions. Xie gave a poster presentation.

54. Oct. 10, 2006. Application (due 2/2/2007) for graduate student (master) scholarship is available at the Center for Water Research.

53. Sept 16, 2006. The LRSG group held the 2nd annual picnic as well as farewell party for Huade and Minqiang's leaving USA. Blake organized the picnic activity. 

52. August 21, 2006. Mr. Blake Weissling defended his dissertation proposal and passed. Congratulations!!!

51. June-August, 2006. LRSG hosted 3 undergraduate students supported by the MORE Science program to do summer researches. They are Melissa Quinones, Penelope Wagner, and Carrie Benson under supervisions of Dr. Guan, Zhu, and Xie, respectively. All of them are doing great job

50. June-August, 2006. LRSG supported a COOP PhD student Mr. Chaojun Fan of the Washington State U. (under the Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch's supervision) to work with LRSG researchers on Remote Sensing on Martian applications.

49. July 31-August 4, Cicek attended and gave a talk on the IEEE IGARSS annual meeting, Denver, CO.

48. July 23-29, 2006. Cicek was invited by Dr. Jay Zwally, the project scientist for the NASA's ICESat mission, to visit NASA and discuss the possible collaboration. Dr. Zwally agrees to be on Cicek's dissertation committee.

47. July 24-26, 2006. Xie attended the West Pacific Geophysic Meeting at Beijing, China and Gave a talk about remote sensing application to the Northern Xinjiang, China region.

46. July 2006, Xie meet with Dr. Danping Yang and others at the China University of Geosciences at Beijing (CUGB) and discussed a collaborative project for the support of the  Chinese "Moon Exploration Program". CUGB is supporting a PhD student to  LRSG for a half year visiting to learn remote sensing application on Mars and Planetary Science.

45. July 16-23, 2006. Invited by Dr. Tianggang Liang, Xie visited the College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology at Lanzhou University gave four lectures and had many discussions on the NSFC project we are worked together and possible new projects and proposals in the future.

44. July 11, 2006. Xie gave a presentation to scientists at the National Key Lab of Remote Sensing at Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing, China, where Xie studied and worked for about 10 years before came to USA. Possible collaboration was discussed.

43. July 5-7, 2006. LRSG group (Ackley, Lewis, Cicek) attended and presented 3 papers at the International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Ackley severed as a co-chair for this workshop.

42. May 23-26, 2006. LRSG group (Guan, Zhu, and Xie) attended and presented 6 papers at the 2006 AGU Joint Assembly at Boltimore, ML. Xie served as a co-convener for the Precipitation of Remote Sensing session (H23C).

41. May 1-5, 2006. PhD students Blake and Xianwei attended and presented two papers at the ASPRS Annual Conference at Neno, NV.  Blake served as a moderator for the Watershed Monitoring I Session. Xianwei served as a moderator for the Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Measurement session.

40. April, 2006. Prof. Ackley joins the EES Dept., in particularly, he will work with the LRSG group and will advise graduate students and postdocs. He is a great assert to UTSA and brings 30 years research experiences of Antarctica sea ice. His reputation will lift our research into a brand new level towards Tier 1 research university. Welcome and Congratulations!!!

39. April 25, 2006. Ms. Lani Cabico defended her thesis and passed. She will be the first graduated student of LRSG. Congratulations!!!

38. April 14, 2006. Xie gave a invited seminar talk entitled "LRSG at UTSA and preliminary research results on remote sensing of vegetation, hydrology, and Mars" at the TxGISCi and D. of Geography of the TSU San Marcos.

37. April, 2006. PhD candidate Wang offered a summer intern by the USGS AmericanView program to work on a project entitled "Student Internships In Earth Observation Forest Monitoring Science" at the GIScCE in Brookings SD. Congratulations!!!

36. March 2006. Mr. Newfels Mazari offered a CWR gradaute Research Assistantship for 2 years to design and install high dense raingauge network and calibrate/validate NEXRAD rainfall. Congratulations!!!

35. March 23, 2006. Mr. Xianwei Wang defended his dissertation proposal and passed. Congratulations!!!

34. March 2006. PhD student Burcu Cicek awarded a travel grant stipend to present two papers at the Annual IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Denver, CO.  Congratulations!!!

33. March 13-17, 2006. Xie, Zhu, and Guan presented 3 papers at the 37th LPSC meeting at the Huston, Texas.

32. March 7-11, 2006. PhD student Xianwei Wang presented a paper at the Annual AAG meeting at Chicago, IL

31. February 23-25, 2006. Xie and Zhu attended NEON planning meeting at the Biology Station of U of Oklahoma.

30. January 23, 2006. LRSG group (Xie, Zhu, Guan, Wang) and Hatim Sharif visited the National Weather Service at New Braunfels. Sharif and Xie gave two presentations of their works on NEXRAD.

29. January 17, 2006. Xie gave a presentation of "Remote sensing: present and developing UTSA capabilities" to the USGS office at San Antonio.

28. January 2006. PhD student Mr. Chaojun Fan of the Washington State U. visited LRSG for 2.5 weeks to learn Remote Sensing and its Martian applications.

27. Decemeber 2005, CWR Graduate Research Assistantship Available.

26. Novemeber 17, 2005. PhD student Burcu Cicek awarded a 18th Global Change Graduate Scholarship to attend the 86th AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA (1/29-2/2, 2006). Congratulations!!!

25. November 2-3, 2005. LRSG group (Xie and Zhu) attended the 14th MEPAG meeting at Monrovia, CA. This meeting focused on recent Mars missions and discoveries, and future plan.  

24. October 24-28, 2005. Huade Guan (through John Wilson) presented a paper at the 32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology at Albuquerque, NM.

23. October 23-27, 2005. Blake Weissling presented a paper at the Pecora 16 Remote Sensing Conference at Sioux Falls, SD.

22. October 10-11, 2005. LRSG group (Drs. Xie, Guan, and Zhu) attended the NEON Region 11 (Texas and Oklahoma) planning meeting at the Aquarena Springs Center of San Marcos, Texas.

21. October 4-6, 2005, LRSG group (Cabico, Wang, Zhu, Guan, and Xie) attended the 20th Biennial Workshop on Remote Sensing for Resource Assessment at Weslaco, Texas. Cabico, Wang, and Xie presented three papers at the workshop.

20. September 2005, Killer Katrina from space satellite imagery.

19. August 2005, "Heat Island" of San Antonio downtown area detected by MODIS (Aqua) temperature product.

18. August 2005, Drs. Alyson Ponomarenko (PI) and Hongjie Xie (Co-PI) received a U.S. Department of Education grant titled "Minority Opportunities for Research Experience in Earth Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio (MORE Science at UTSA)". Congratulations!!!

17. August 2005, Postdoc Huade Guan graduated from New Mexico Tech and visiting professor Minqiang Zhu from East China Institute of Technology will join LRSG in this fall. Welcome!!!

16. May 2005, Blake Weissling got a graduate fellowship from Texas Space Grant Consortium. Congratulations!!!

15. April 2005, Dr. Hongjie Xie received a TexasView Remote Sensing Consortium Research Award. Congratulations!!!

14. April 1-2, 2005. Three students: Lani Cabico, Selene Fernandez, and Sandra Ytuarte presented three research papers in the South-Central Section GSA meeting, San Antonio, TX.

13. March 14-18, 2005, Selene Fernandez presented "Understanding the Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris using THEMIS imagery" in the 36th LPSC meeting, Houston, TX.

12. March 14-16, 2005, Kunle Owojori presented "Landsat image-based LULC changes of San Antonio, Texas using advanced atmospheric correction and object-oriented image analysis approaches" in the 5th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Tempe, AZ.

11. February 2005, Postdoc position available.

10. January 9-13, 2005, Dr. Hongjie Xie presented "Rainfall climatology of the monsoon season in New Mexcio" in the 85th AMS annual meeting, San Diego, CA.

9. January 2005, India Ocean Tsunami from Space Remote Sensing (links 1 and 2).

8. December, 2004, Dr. Hongjie Xie received a UTSA faculty research award (2005). Congratulations!!!

7. December 13-17, 2004, Dr. Hongjie Xie presented "Evaluation of MODIS snow-cover products with constraints from stremflow and SNOTEL data" in the AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, CA.

5. November 2004, Jayar Griffith got and started his internship at the San Antonio River Authority. Congratulations!!!

4. November 23, 2004, Dr. Hongjie Xie presented "Precipitation of proposed Texas hydrological observatory" in the Texas HO working grouping meeting, Austin, Texas.

3. November 10-13, 2004, Kunle Owojori got the Third Best Graduate Paper at the ASPRS regional conference, Nacogdoches, TX  for his oral presentation of " Land cover change associated with the growth of Nacogdoches and Lufkin, Texas from 1984-2002". Congratulations!!!

2. October 8, 2004, Dr. Hongjie Xie presented "Remote sensing and its future" in UTSA Environmental Science and Engineering PhD Program Seminar.

1. September 29, 2004. Dr. Hongjie Xie presented "Improving NEXRAD rainfall estimates for flood prediction and water quality modeling" in the SARA water quality focus group meeting, San Antonio, TX.