Wen-Ching Chuang

Wen-Ching Chuang

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe, AZ 85287
Email: Wen-Ching.Chuang@asu.edu



Biography

Student member of Association of American Geographers, American Meteorological Society, and the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science.

Honors and Awards

  • Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Alumni Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2005-2007
  • Sustainable Energy Fellpwship (Arizona State University, University of Michigan, Cornell University, Duke University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 2007

Education

  • M.P.P., Public Policy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2007
  • M.A., Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 2003
  • B.A., Journalism, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2001

Journal Articles

Chow, W. T., W. Chuang and P. Gober. In press. Vulnerability to extreme heat in metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, temporal and demographic dimensions. The Professional Geographer 64.

Golden, J. S., W. Chuang and W. Stefanov. 2009. Enhanced classification of engineering paved surfaces for urban systems modeling. Earth Interactions Journal 13:1-18.

Hartz, D. A., J. S. Golden, C. S. Sister, W. C. Chuang and A. J. Brazel. In review. A biometeorology study of heat incidents in Chicago, Illinois. International Journal of Biometeorology.

Posters/Presentations

Chuang, W. and R. Aggarwal. 2008. Governance of environmental impacts of high-tech industry in developing countries: Top-down versus. Presentation at the 5-6 April 2008 Science & Technology: An International, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Washington, DC.

Chuang, W. and J. S. Golden. 2007. An object-based approach for urban land-cover classification of engineering surfaces. Presentation at the 14-16 November 2007 1st Climate Change and Human Health Vulnerability Conference, U.S. EPA, U.S. CDC, NOAA, and Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Chuang, W. and J. S. Golden. 2008. An object-based approach for urban land-cover classificatin of engineered surfaces. Poster presented at 1 February 2008 GELSS Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

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Expertise

Urban studies on linkages of climate change; urban morphology and human health vulnerability; remote sensing applications of urban regions; object-based and pixel-based approaches for land-cover classications; climate change adaptation policy analysis


vision

Established in 2007, the School of Sustainability brings together multiple disciplines and leaders to create and share knowledge, train a new generation of scholars and practitioners, and develop practical solutions to the most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges of sustainability - especially as they relate to urban areas.

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