Rodrick A. Hay
Associate Dean and Professor of Geography

MAILING ADDRESS
Department of Earth Sciences
CSU Dominguez Hills
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, CA 90747
Tel (310) 243-2547
FAX (310) 516-3987
E-Mail: rhay@csudh.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Geography, University of Arizona, 1996
M.A., Geography - University of Arizona, 1991
M.B.A., Business Administration, University of Santa Clara, 1982
B.S., Earth Science, Northern Arizona University, 1978

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Hay has been a faculty member at California State University Dominguez Hills since 1996 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences. He is an experienced instructor and researcher specializing in land use change and analysis. He has extensive international experience in remote sensing and GIS, undertaking projects in Saudi Arabia, Malawi, The Gambia, Zambia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Sudan and the Ethiopia. Dr. Hay is currently participating on a collaborative research project to determine land use and land cover change in the Southern Province of Zambia..

RECENT FUNDED RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
Southern California Center for Managing Fire Hazards at the Urban-Wildlands Interface, NASA Regional Earth Science Application Center, 1999, Co-Principal Investigator Augmented Learning Environment and Renewable Teaching (ALERT), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1998, Director GIS ACCESS, National Science Foundation, 1998, Co-Principal Investigator University Advancement Grant for International Projects, CSU Dominguez Hills, 1997 Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant for a GIS Laboratory, National Science Foundation, 1997, Co-Principal Investigator U.S. Army/Dominguez Hills Corporation, "Silurian Valley Expansion Project", 1996 Determining Range and Forest Burning in The Gambia, United States Agency for International Development, 1993.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Lee, Christopher Tom, Rodrick A. Hay and Patrick Johnson. 1997. Mapping surface disruption at the National Training Center using SPOT panchromatic imagery. Proceedings of the First Annual Fort Irwin and Mojave Desert Ecosystems Initiative Science Symposium, U.S. Army: Fort Irwin.

Kliman, Douglas, Stuart M. Marsh and Rodrick A. Hay. 1996. GPS referenced video for accuracy assessment of a small scale land cover map. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual ESRI International Users' Conference, ESRI: Redlands.

Hay, Rodrick A. and Stuart E. Marsh. 1994. The Gambia: Burn Scar Mapping, A Technical Report to the United States Agency for International Development. Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona: Tucson.

Hutchinson, Gilruth, Hay, Marsh and Lee. 1992. Geographic Information Systems Applications in Crop Assessment and Famine Early Warning. Prepared for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona: Tucson

Hay and Kliman. 1992. Annex A: Resource Needs and Information Sources, and Annex B: Resource Information Generation, Analysis, and Management, 74 pages, in Natural Resource and Environmental Information for Decision Making, Hassan and Hutchinson eds., The World Bank: Washington, D.C.