ENVIRONMENTAL SEMINARS SPEAKER – Dr. Thomas Meyer

Dr. Thomas Meyer

Please join us Wednesday 13 April at 6pm in room C101 and meet Dr. Thomas Meyer.

Tom Meyer was awarded a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 1998, where he was a research associate in the Mapping Sciences Laboratory.

He now is a Professor of Geodesy in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Connecticut, where he teaches courses in geomatics, GNSS and plane surveying, geodesy, and geospatial analysis in Python.

Dr. Meyer is a member of ASCE and the Connecticut Association of Land Surveyors. He is also a past president of the New England Section of the ACSM and a Fellow and the 2016/2019 president of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying.

Dr. Meyer has published an undergraduate textbook on geodesy, numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Surveying Engineering (JSE) and Surveying and Land Information Science (SaLIS).

He is a regular presenter at national meetings, giving workshops and seminars on numerous topics in geodesy, GNSS, and surveying. His most recent research projects include new formulations of low-distortion projections and developing spatial statistical animal-movement models for mountain lions, bobcats, and salmon.

Following the presentation there will be a question-and-answer period.

Dr. Diba Khan-Bureau, Professor & Program Coordinator.

This seminar is available to students for 3credits or free to non-credit students, and the public.