Assistant Instructional Professor
Affiliate faculty, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Center for Remote Sensing
Focus Areas
- Focus Area 1: Earth System Science
- Focus Area 3: Places, Networks, & Flows
- Focus Area 6: Sustainability & Global Environmental Change
- Focus Area 7: Geospatial Analysis & Techniques
Areas of Specialization
- GIScience
- Geomorphology
- Geomorphometry
- LiDAR
- Remote Sensing
- Hydrology
- Water Resources
- Sustainability Science
- Climate Change
- Renewable Energy
- Urban Studies
Educational Background
- PhD in Geography, 2020
- M.A. in Geography, 2012
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, 2007
- B.A. in Geography, 2007
In My Own Words
M. Anwar Sounny-Slitine is a geographer, civil engineer, and information technologist. Sounny-Slitine focuses his research and course offerings on the integration of physical and social sciences towards advancing sustainability. He is interested in how science can inform policy and applying what is learned in a GIS laboratory to the field.
Recent Publications
Latrubesse, E. M., Park, E., Ramonell, C., Sounny-Slitine, M. A., & Cafaro, E. (2023). The Chaco Megafans, South America. In J. Wilkinson & Y. Gunnell (Eds.), Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars. Cambridge University Press.
Sounny-Slitine, M. A., Tasker, K. A., Doubleday, K. F., Polk, M.F., Knight, B.R., & Schneider C. (2015) On Making and Becoming a Graduate. The Southwestern Geographer (18) C1-C3.
Rudow, J. and Sounny -Slitine, M.A. (2014) The use of video blogs for instruction of GIS and other digital geographic methods. Journal of Geography 114(4).
Hudson, P.F., Sounny -Slitine, M.A., & LaFevor, M. (2013) A new longitudinal approach to assess hydrologic connectivity: Embanked floodplain inundation along the lower Mississippi River. Hydrological Processes 27 (15), 2187-2196.
Long, J., Sounny-Slitine, M. A., Castles, K., Curran, J., Glaser, H., Hoyer, E., Moore, W., Morse, L., O’Hara, M., & Parafina, B. (2013). Toward an applied methodology for price comparison studies of farmers’ markets and competing retailers at the local scale. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.