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Gilbert L. Rochon

Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research & Engagement, ITaP

Chief Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)

Director, Purdue Terrestrial Observatory, Purdue University

rochon@purdue.edu



Professional Preparation:

|Xavier University, New Orleans, LA |English |B.A. 1969 |

|Yale Univ. School of Medicine/Public Health |Health Services Administration |M.P.H. 1976 |

|Massachusetts Institute of Technology |Planning Support Systems; International Development & |Ph.D. 1999 |

|(MIT) Dept. of Urban Studies & Planning |Regional Planning | |

Appointments:

2006-present Adjunct Professor, Natural Resources & Environmental Management, Mae Fah Luang University

Fulbright Senior Specialist-Environmental Science/Environ. Technology, Chiang Rai, Thailand

2005-present Chief Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), Purdue University

|2004&2005-summer |Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Public Health-Environmental Health Sciences, Indiana University Medical School, Indiana |

| |University–Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) |

|2002-present |Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research & Engagement, Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP); Director, Purdue |

| |Terrestrial Observatory; Courtesy Professor: Purdue University, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Dept. of Agronomy, |

| |Dept. of Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Editor, Journal of Terrestrial Observation; Director, IndianaView Consortium|

|2000-02 |Research Community Planner- Remote Sensing & subsequently, Research Team Leader, Landuse & Hydrology, U. S. Environmental |

| |Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research & Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL). Recipient, |

| |EPA Superior Achievement Award. EPA ORD Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio |

|Fall 2001 |Adjunct Professor, University of Cincinnati, School of Planning, College of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning. |

| |Cincinnati, OH |

|1982-2000 |Chair/Director, Urban Studies & Public Policy Institute, Tenured Associate Professor & appointment to Conrad N. Hilton |

| |Endowed Professorship, Dillard University, & Principal Investigator – Remote Sensing & GIS Laboratory, New Orleans, LA |

|1997-99 |University Affiliates Coordinator, Programming Environment & Training (PET) Program, DOD High Performance Computing |

| |Modernization Program, under Northrop Grumman/Logicon Sub-contracts, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS |

|1996-97 |Physical Scientist, DOD US Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), under Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement (IPA), |

| |Stennis Space Center, MS |

|1992-96 |Geographer/Remote Sensing & GIS Research Scientist. USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, Institute for |

| |Quantitative Studies, New Orleans, LA |

|1990-92 |EO Officer, NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi |

|1986-87 |Lecturer, Tulane University, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, |

|& 1983-84 |Department of Health Systems Management. |

|1979-82 |Coordinator, Planning & Evaluation Unit, Office of Environmental Affairs, City of Boston, Dept. of Health & Hospitals, |

| |Boston, MA |

Selected relevant publications:

Rochon, G. L., D. Szlag, F.B. Daniel and C. Chifos. “Remote Sensing Applications for Sustainable Watershed Management and Food Security,” in Gerard Begni, editor. Observing Our Environment from Space: New Solutions for a New Millennium. Lisse, The Netherlands: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2002.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris Johannsen, David Landgrebe, Bernard Engel, Jonathan Harbor, Sarada Majumder and Larry Biehl, “Remote Sensing for Monitoring Sustainability,” in Subhas K. Sikdar, Peter Glavič and Ravi Jain, Editors. Technological Choices for Sustainability. Berlin, Heidelberg & NY: Springer-Verlag Publishers, 2004.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Loring F. Nies, Chad T. Jafvert, Julie A. Stuart, Rabi H. Mohtar, Joseph Quansah and Akilah Martin. “Education in Sustainable Production in U.S. Universities”. 2nd Meeting North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society (CCMS) Pilot Study – Phase II – Clean Products & Processes. Budapest, Hungary, May 2-6, 2004. Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy, Springer-Verlag, February, 2006.

Gilbert Rochon, Budhendra L. Bhaduri, Gordon Wells, Bernard A. Engel1, Larry Biehl, Joseph Essamuah Quansah, Sebastien Goasguen, and Krishna P.C. Madhavan “Collaborative Remote Sensing Among Multiple Ground Stations in a High Bandwidth Environment.” Presented at ASPRS 2005, American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland, March 7-11, 2005

Virgil L. Sharpton & Gilbert L. Rochon. Invited presentation, “Archival and Real-Time Satellite Remote Sensing in Support of Environmental Sustainability within NATO Countries: Toward NATO View,” North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society (CCMS) Pilot Study on Clean Products & Processes Phase II, June 17-15, 2005, Alesund, Norway.

Dev Niyogi, Melba M. Crawford, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Gilbert L. Rochon, Joseph E. Quansah, Amy Neuenschwander and Soulemane Fall. Integration of Real-Time and Archival Remote Sensing with Dynamic Modeling to Support Flood Disaster Mitigation in Africa. Submitted for Presentation at the 3rd African Association for Remote Sensing of Environment (AARSE) Conference, Cairo Egypt, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2006

Gilbert L. Rochon. Remote Sensing for Infectious Disease Mapping and Vector Habitat Monitoring. Invited and accepted for presentation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Access Grid Workshop on Infectious Disease Informatics. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (UIUC), September 8, 2006.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Dev Niyogi, U.C. Mohanty, Alok Chaturvedi, Raj Arangarasan, Krishna Madhavan, Maruti Ram Ponaganti, Larry Biehl, Joseph E. Quansah, Hsin-I Chang, Anil Kumar, Aisha Chini Reed and Hussam Nour MODELING, VISUALIZATION & FUSION OF ARCHIVAL AND REAL-TIME MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE DATA, SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA AND IN SITU DATA IN SUPPORT OF DISASTER MITIGATION. 2nd International Symposium on Geo-Information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM), September 25-26, 2006, to be held in Goa, India.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Dev Niyogi, Alok Chaturvedi, U.C. Mohanty , Larry Biehl, Joseph E. Quansah, Krishna Madhavan, Rajarathinam Arangarasan, Maruti Ram Ponaganti, Hussam Nour, Aisha Chini Reed, Anil Kumar and Hsin-I Chang TOWARD INTELLIGENT AND SUSTAINABLE ARCHIVING OF GEO-SPATIAL DATA. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ISPRS) International Symposium on Geospatial Databases for Sustainable development, to be held Sept. 27-30, 2006 in Goa, India.

Gilbert L. Rochon. “Satellite Remote Sensing Research & Education in Support of Disaster Mitigation and Environmental Sustainability,” Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand, June 2, 2006.

Gilbert L. Rochon. “Interdisciplinary Utility of Archival and Real-Time Satellite Remote Sensing,” Kasetsart University, School of Forestry, Bangkok, Thailand, June 1, 2006.

Gilbert L. Rochon. “Spatial Technologies as Tools for Trans-Boundary Management and Eco-System Monitoring,” “Collaborative Research & Training Initiatives; The Role of Bi-lateral, Multi-lateral & NGO Resources,” “NREM: Natural Resources & Environmental Management Case Studies,” “Universities & Sustainable NREM.” Four key-note addresses presented as an invited Fulbright Senior Specialist-Environmental Sciences at the Innovative Approaches to Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM): Spatial Technologies Perspectives for Thailand and the GMS [Greater Mekong Sub-Region] Seminar. Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, May 23-24, 2006.

Gilbert L. Rochon. “Satellite Remote Sensing Supporting Multi-Sectoral Sustainable Development,” Invited Presentation, Aeronautical & Space Technology Institute (ASTIN), Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey, May 11, 2006.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Virgil Sharpton & Okan Ersoy. “Networking Satellite Groundstations to Support Global Science: Toward a Distributed Shared Spatial Data Archive & Grid Access to Near-Real-Time Remote Sensing Data.” North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society (CCMS) Pilot Study on Clean Products & Processes Annual Meeting. Istanbul, Turkey, May 5-12, 2006.

Gilbert L. Rochon, Hildred Sarah Rochon & Joseph E. Quansah. The Role of Technology in Facilitating a Coalition Between Conventional Medical Practitioners and Indigenous Healers in the Struggle Against HIV/AIDS in Africa. Invited Presentation at the Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge. Accra, Ghana, March, 2006.

Other selected publications: Rochon, G.L., C. Johannsen, D. Landgrebe, B. Engel, J. Harbor, S. Majumder and L. Biehl. “Remote Sensing as a Tool for Achieving and Monitoring Progress Toward Sustainability,” Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy, Vol. 5, Nos. 2/3, Springer-Verlag, August, 2003.

Gilbert Rochon, Budhendra L. Bhaduri, Gordan Wells, David Maidment, Thomas Urban, Larry Biehl and Rajarathinam Arangarasan. “TERAGRID: Urban Flood Modeling,” SC2004, High Performance Computing, Networking & Storage Conference, Exhibitors’ Forum- Purdue Univ./Notre Dame Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-12, 2004

Gilbert L. Rochon, Mohamed A. Mohamed and J. Paul Robinson. Remote Sensing Applications within a High Bandwidth and High Performance Computing Environment. International Conference on Peace, Development & Reconstruction. Islamic Network for Engineering & Technology (ISNET). Khartoum, Sudan. October, 2005.

Gilbert L. Rochon, J. Quansah, M. Mohamed, Y. Twumasi, T. Coleman, V. Taylor, C. Luther, C. Johannsen and D. Landgrebe. “Applicability of Near-Real-Time Satellite Data Acquisition and Analysis and Distribution of Geo-information in Support of African Development,” United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA), Committee for Development Information, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April, 2005.

Gilbert L. Rochon and J. Paul Robinson. “The Reality and Potential of Remote Sensing & Multispectral Analysis for Societal Benefit,” Invited Plenary Speaker, Recent Advances in Space Technology (RAST 2005): Space in the Service of Society, Istanbul, Turkey, June 9-11, 2005.

Synergistic Activities

1. Summer, 2000: Visiting Scientist, EPA/NAFEO Faculty Research Fellow, US EPA NRMRL, remote sensing applications for watershed monitoring, resulting in a federal research staff appointment and subsequent receipt of an EPA Superior Achievement Award.

2. Spring, 1999: Research Fellow, International Nutrition Foundation, Boston, MA, dissertation research for MIT, focusing on scientific visualization of remotely sensed data for drought related famine conditions in Sudan.

3. Summer, 1997: Visiting Faculty Fellow, Oxford Univ., Environmental Change Unit, Oxford, UK, research on climate change impact on food security in Africa’s Sahel region and development of a cooperative agreement between Oxford Parallel and DOD NAVOCEANO HPCMO PET program to facilitate a training workshop on Bulk Synchronous Parallelism (BSP) as an alternative to Message Passing Interface (MPI).

4. Summer, 1994: Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia, Russia, collaborating with the Russian Academy of Sciences, utilizing GPS and spectrometers for monitoring lacustrine ecosystems

5. Summer, 1993: NASA/JOVE Faculty Research Fellow. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Cartographic Applications Group, CalTech, Pasadena, CA Review of multi-temporal, multi-sensor remotely sensed data for agricultural regions within the Sudan. CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS: Ph.D. Dissertation Committees for 4 Purdue students

Senior Member, IEEE Int’l. Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society UWG for NASA SEDAC-Columbia University

IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology Dir., IndianaView Consortium (USGS AmericaView)

Urban & Regional Information Systems Association Fulbright Senior Specialist Candidate- Environ. Sci.

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Exec. Comm. Purdue Climate Change Research Cntr.

Education Committee, Supercomputing (SC’05 & ’06) International Comm., AARSE 2006 (Cairo, Egypt) American Society of Agronomy

OTHER RESARCH FELLOWSHIPS: NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellow (Goddard & Stennis) United Nations University (UNU) Fellow UNCF/Mellon Doctoral Fellow; MIT Dean’s Fellow

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