Remote Sensing and GIS

Remote sensing has the ability to greatly improve our understanding of earth systems. Researchers are actively pursuing remote sensing research to investigate scientific problems in water resources and tectonics. By leveraging large datasets in both deterministic and machine learning models, S&T researchers can quantify changes in groundwater storage, soil moisture, crop water stress and fault movement using a combination of satellite and drone datasets. This research has the potential to improve monitoring and modelling of critical earth resources and hazards, while preparing graduate students for careers in the growing field of geospatial data science.

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Interested in discussing the research we are working on or learning more? Please contact:
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Dr. Weibing Gong

Assistant Professor, Geological Engineering

573-341-4466 | weibing.gong@mst.edu |

318 McNutt Hall

Research Interests

Climate change-related and seismic hazards, infrastructure resilience against natural hazards, applications of remote sensing and AI in geological (geotechnical) engineering, and carbon detection and capture.

For additional information regarding Dr. Gong's research, please select here for publications and here for his lab website.
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Dr. John Hogan

Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics/Petroleum Engineering

573-341-4618 | jhogan@mst.edu |

149 McNutt Hall

Research Interests

Structural geology - folding and faulting; igneous petrology - granite petrogenesis and textural development; tectonics - extensional regimes; and significance of sub-horizontal topographic surfaces.

For additional information regarding Dr. Hogan's research, please see his website, or select here for publications.
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Dr. Jeremy Maurer

Assistant Professor, Geological Engineering

573-341-4852 | jlmd9g@mst.edu |

326 McNutt Hall

Research Interests

Geodesy, earthquake and fault mechanics, induced seismicity, inverse problems and modeling, uncertainty quantification, crustal deformation, and geophysical methods.

For more information regarding Dr. Maurer's research, please visit his website, or select here for publications.
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Dr. J. David Rogers

Hasselmann Professor, Geological Engineering

573-341-6198 | rogersda@mst.edu |

B-57 McNutt Hall

Research Interests

Geographic information systems, seismic hazards in the midwest, seismically induced landslides, composite landslides, and sturzstroms and sackungen failures.

For additional information regarding Dr. Rogers's research, please see his website, or select here for publications.