Resources

Google Earth Engine Book

Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine: Fundamentals and Applications

Chapter on "Active Fire Monitoring": Morgan Crowley and Tianjia Liu

Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-based GIS software with a petabyte-scale data catalogue and free to use for research, education, and non-profits. The GEE book published by Springer in 2023 is available online free-of-charge and includes a variety of chapters on GEE fundamentals and applications. Many chapters are accompanied by video walkthroughs.

Faculty Job Applications

A Guide for Applying to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions

Lead authors: Tianjia Liu and Makoto Kelp
Contributors: Minghao Qiu, Dien Wu, and Yun Hang

Applying to tenure-track Assistant Professor positions can be daunting and stressful! Based on our experiences from 2023-2024, we wrote a comprehensive guide to help you navigate this opaque process, from putting together an application package to preparing for interviews to negotiating your offer. Included in this guide is what we wished we knew when we applied for faculty jobs. Whether you're a postdoc or graduate student, we hope this guide will make your journey in academia a little easier.