Associate Professor
Email: Wenge.Ni-Meister@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5321
Fax: 212-772-5268
Office: 1029 HN
Personal homepage: http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~wenge/

Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065

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Biography:

Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister received a B.S. and MS in meteorology/climatology from China in 1992 and a M.S. in micrometeorology from University of Connecticut in 1994 and a PhD degree in remote sensing in 1997. Before she joined Hunter College as an assistant professor in 2003, she worked at the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a research scientist. Her main research interests are how biophysical and biogeochemical processes influence and control terrestrial water, energy and carbon cycles through model development and the integration of models and satellite remote sensing data through data assimilation. She particularly interested in finding out the role of heterogeneous vegetation structure and radiation environment in vegetation canopy on the terrestrial carbon and hydrological cycles. She has published more than 20 peer reviewed journal articles. She has bee recipient of numerous research grants from NASA.

Education:

Ph.D.	1997	Boston University (Remote Sensing)
M.S.	1994	The University of Connecticut (Land-Atmosphere Interactions)
M.S.	1992	Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China (Climatology)
B.A.	1988	Nanjing Institute of Meterology, P.R. China (Meteorology)

Research Interests:

1. To understand the role of heterogeneous vegetation structure on terrestrial water, energy and carbon cycles.
2. Mapping large scale vegetation structure/above ground biomass from lidar and multianular remote sensing data for better understand the global carbon budget
3. Data assimilation – integrating remote sensing data and physical models to better understand surface biogeochemical and biophysical processes.
4. Developing method to directly retrieve water quality parameters over coastal regions from remote sensing data
5. Mapping the relationship between urban structure and urban climate using a remote sensing based approach

Find more on her research projects: http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~wenge/research.html

Courses Taught:

• GTECH 321/712, EES75200 -- Remote Sensing of Enviornment
          Taught in Fall 2003, 2004 Fall, 2006 Fall

• GTECH322/713. EES753 – Advanced Digital Image Processing
          Taught in Spring 2005

• PGEOG332/701.52, EES745 – Hydrology
          Taught in Fall 2005

• PGEOG 313 – Biogeography
          Taught in Spring 2004 and Spring 2006

Students:
Current Graduate Student Advisees:

• Shihyan Lee (PhD candidate at CUNY Graduate Center)

Past Graduate Student Advisees:

• Atsushi Tomita (PhD candidate at CUNY Graduate Center)
• Anuradha Swatantran (PhD candidate, currently at the University of Maryland)
• Eliza Bradley (PhD candidate, currently at the University of California at Santa Barbara)
• XiXi Chen (MS, currently at MIT)
• Robert Weiner (MS currently a civil engineer at New York City Department of Environmental Protection)

Curriculum Vitae