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. 2012. Vulnerability to extreme heat in metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, temporal and demographic dimensions. The Professional Geographer 64:286-302.

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. Sister, W. C. Chuang and A. J. Brazel. 2012. Climate and heat-related emergencies in Chicago, Illinois (2003-2006). International Journal of Biometeorology 56:71-83.

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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Research Interests

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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