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Services

Dr. Wu serves the geospatial community through editorial roles, proposal review, conference organization, and institutional leadership at the department and university levels.

Institutional Services

Department of Geography & Sustainability, UTK

PeriodRole
2024–presentDirector of Graduate Studies
2023Chair, GIS Lab Manager Search Committee
2022–2024Member, Strategic Planning Committee
2021–2024Associate Director, Graduate Program/Admission Committee
2020–presentChair & Webpage Editor, Web Page and Social Media Committee
2019–presentMember, Technology/Tech Fee Committee
2019–presentUCGIS delegate
2021Physical Geographer Search Committee
2021Coordinator, Visiting Speakers/Colloquium 501 (Spring 2021)
2019–2021Member, Special Event Coordinating Committee
2020–2022Team Leader, Big Orange Family Campaign
2019–2020Member, Graduate Program/Admission Committee
2019–2020Member, Curriculum Committee
2019–2020Community Urban Geography Search Committee

University of Tennessee

PeriodRole
2023Reviewed 18 nominations for the 2023–2024 Endowed Graduate School Fellowships

Department of Geography, Binghamton University

PeriodRole
2018–2019Graduate Program Director
2018–2019Chair, Graduate Committee
2017–2019Geography Library Representative
2015–2019Member, GIS Committee
2015–2019Member, Honors Committee
2017–2018Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee
2016–2018Graduate Co-Director
2015–2018Member, Graduate Committee
2015–2018Member, Sustainability Committee
2015–2019Organizer, website designer, & webmaster for Annual GIS Day

Binghamton University

PeriodRole
2018–2019Affiliated Faculty, Chesapeake Watershed Unit of the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU)
2017–2019Member, Organized Research Center for Imaging, Acoustics, and Perception Science (CIAPS)
2017–2019Member, Data Science Transdisciplinary Working Group
2015–2019Member, Sustainable Communities Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence
2016Departmental Representative, Spring 2016 Commencement Ceremony

Disciplinary Services

Services on Professional Society Committees

PeriodRole
2022–2025Member, Research Committee, UCGIS
2022–2025Member, Education Committee, UCGIS
2021–2024Member, Membership Committee, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2021–2025Chair, Education Committee, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
2012–2013Student Councilor, GIS Specialty Group, AAG. Reviewed 26 student papers for the AAG GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition

Journal Editorial Boards

PeriodRoleManuscripts Handled
2023–2025Associate Editor, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation256
2016–2025Associate Editor, Wetlands, Springer Nature114
2022–2024Editorial Board Member, Journal of Remote Sensing8
2018–2023Associate Editor, Remote Sensing, MDPI156
2016–2019Editor, Cogent Geoscience, Taylor & Francis2
2016–2018Editorial Board Member, Remote Sensing, MDPI50

Journal Themed Issues

PeriodRoleCo-Editors
2022–2023Guest Editor, Frontiers in Marine Science, Special Issue – Remote Sensing for Coastal SustainabilityChao Chen, Xiyou Hou
2021–2022Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special Issue – Remote Sensing and Geospatial Approaches for Studying the Environment Affected by Human ActivitiesJun Li, Xinyi Shen, Chengye Zhang
2021–2022Guest Editor, Journal of Remote Sensing, Special Issue – Remote Sensing for Environmental and Societal Changes using Google Earth EngineJingwei Dong, Nicholas Clinton, Gennadii Donchyts, Le Yu, Yelu Zeng
2020–2021Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special Issue – Remote Sensing of Dryland River SystemsJiaguang Li, Laurence Hawker, Stephen Tooth
2020–2021Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special Issue – Remote Sensing for Wetland Inventory, Mapping and Change AnalysisMeisam Amani, Brian Brisco
2019–2020Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Special Issue – Cloud Computing in Google Earth Engine for Remote SensingMeisam Amani, Xiangming Xiao, Le Yu, Murali Gumma
2016–2017Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special Issue – Remote Sensing of Climate Change and Water ResourcesCharles Lane, Melanie Vanderhoof, Chunqiao Song
2016–2017Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special Issue – Remote Sensing for 3D Urban MorphologyBailang Yu, Lei Wang

Journal Reviewer

Reviewed 184 times for 43 journals since 2015 (Verified Review Record)

TimesJournal
34Remote Sensing
15GIScience & Remote Sensing
13Wetlands
9Remote Sensing of Environment
8IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
8ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
8Transactions in GIS
6Sustainability
5Annals of the American Association of Geographers
5International Journal of Remote Sensing
5Remote Sensing Letters
4Computers & Geosciences
4Journal of Hydrology
3Annals of GIS
3Catena
3International Journal of Geographical Information Science
3ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
3Journal of Geographic Information System
3Journal of Spatial Science
3Journal of The American Water Resources Association
3Physical Geography
3Water
2Frontiers of Earth Science
2Geomorphology
2Hydrological Sciences Journal
2Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
2International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2Journal of Coastal Research
2Journal of Meteorological Research
2Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment
2Sensors
1Applied Geography
1Computational Urban Science
1Computers, Environments and Urban Systems
1Earth System Science Data
1EGUsphere
1International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research
1Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
1Journal of Earth Observation and Geospatial Applications
1Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface
1Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
1Journal of Mountain Science
1Scientific Reports
1Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
1Tehnicki Vjesnik – Technical Gazette
1WIREs Water

Grant/Workshop Proposal Reviewer

YearOrganizationProposals Reviewed
2025Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund1
2024NASA ROSES 20231
2024Seed grant at School of Emerging Technologies (SET) at Towson University1
2023NASA FINESST Program1
2023US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program3
2023Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)1
2022UTK Global Catalyst Faculty Research Grants3
2022Amazon Research Awards program4
2022NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program Panelist9
2021National Science Foundation (NSF)1
2020International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)1
2020U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)1
2019NASA Postdoctoral Program2

Tenure Promotion Reviewer

YearInstitutionDossiers Reviewed
2025Cornell University1

Conference Manuscript/Proposal Reviewer

YearConferenceProposals Reviewed
2024ICLR 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning for Remote Sensing5
2023ICLR 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Remote Sensing3

International Conference Session Organizer

YearRoleConference
2025Session ConvenerOpen Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud. AGU Fall Meeting 2025. New Orleans, LA. December 15–19, 2025
2019Session OrganizerEmerging Spatial Techniques for Hydrological and Hydrogeological Modeling, AAG. Washington, D.C., April 3, 2019
2017Session ChairSpatial Analysis and Optimization, The 25th International Conference on Geoinformatics. Buffalo, New York. August 2, 2017
2017Session OrganizerUsing GIS and Remote Sensing Approaches to Inform Aquatic System Connectivity, AWRA 2017 Specialty Conference. Snowbird, Utah. April 30, 2017
2016Session ChairImmigrant Receptivity, Race, Ethnicity & Place Conference. Kent State University. September 21, 2016

Other Service Activities

PeriodRole
2020–2021Space Apps Challenge 2021 Judge. Reviewed 6 projects

Professional Services

PeriodRole
2024–2026Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) Founding Editorial Board Member
2023–2025NASA Lifelines Advisory Committee
2022–2023NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS) Community Panelist
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