Nina Lam

Nina Lam is professor and E.L. Abraham Distinguished Professor in the department of environmental sciences at Louisiana State University. She was chair of the department (2007-2010), program director of geography and spatial sciences program at National Science Foundation (1999-2001), and president of the University Consortium on Geographic Information Science (UCGIS, 2004). Lam’s research interests are in GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis, environmental health, and disaster resilience. She has published on topics including spatial interpolation, fractals, cancer mortality, scale and uncertainties, AIDS in America, business recovery in New Orleans after Katrina, community resilience assessment, coastal vulnerability modeling using a coupled natural-human system approach, and lately social media use in disaster.

Lam has published two edited books and over 100 refereed articles. She has served as PI or co-PI of 50 external grants. She has mentored 6 post-docs, 19 PhD, and 30 masters' students. She has served on numerous national and international advisory panels such as NAS, NRC, NSF, NIH, NIEH, EPA, and NASA. In 2004, Lam was honored with an Outstanding Contributions in Remote Sensing Award by the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. In 2016, Lam received the 2016 Inaugural Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award and the UCGIS Fellow Award. Within LSU, Lam received top awards including Distinguished Faculty Award, Rainmaker Award, Distinguished Research Master, and Outstanding Faculty Research Award.