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Geography Colloquium: Crisis and Environmental Change in Bangladesh: A Remote Sensing Approach


Speaker: Mehedy Hassan

PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida

Thursday, April 8, 2021

2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)

Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube

University of Florida

All are welcome to attend.

Mehedy Hassan is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the University of Florida. His research interests include the use of remote sensing and GIS techniques to study and model land use and land cover change, with applications in disaster mapping, environmental decision analysis, landscape ecology, and urban development.

Mehedy aims to develop effective and efficient methods of providing spatial information and evidence to support data-driven decision-making on environmental change and rational uses of ecological resources for sustainable development. Mehedy previously earned a MSc in Geo-informatics from the University of Seoul and a MS and BSc in Geography and Environment from the University of Dhaka.

For more information, email Dr. Tim Fik at fik@ufl.edu