Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Shams, S., Cai, H., Meyer, M.A., Yang, S., Lee, K., Park, S.J. and Reams, M.A. 2018. Twitter use in Hurricane Harvey reveals social and geographical disparities. International Journal of Digital Earth. (Under Review)
Mihunov, V., Lam, N.S.N., Rohli, R.V. and Zou, L. 2018. Emerging disparities in community resilience to drought hazard in south-central United States. Climate Change. (Under Review)
Bushra, N., Rohli, R.V., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Mostafiz, R.B. and Mihunov, V. 2018. The relationship between biophysical indicators and drought indices in the south-central United States. Natural Hazards. (Under Review)
Kirby, R., Reams, M.A., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Dekker, G. and Fundter D.Q.P. Assessing social vulnerability to flood hazards in the Dutch province of Zeeland. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. (Under Review)
Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., and Qiang, Y. 2018. Mining social media for improved understanding of disaster resilience. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(5):1422-1441. [Access].
Lam, N.S.N., Cheng, W.J., Zou, L., and Cai, H. 2018. Effects of landscape fragmentation on land loss. Remote Sensing of Environment, 209:253-262. [Access]
Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., and Qiang, Y. 2018. Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian network. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(5):1260-1279. [Access].
Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., *Zou, L., Correll, R. and Mihunov, V. 2018. A synthesis of resilience measurement methods and indices. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31:844-855 (*Corresponding Author)
Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., Li, K., Cai, H., Zou, L. and Mihunov, V. 2018. Extending resilience assessment to dynamic system modeling: perspectives on human dynamics and climate change research. Journal of Coastal Research, SI85:1401-1405.
Lam, N.S.N., Xu, Y.J., Liu, K.B., Dismukes, D.E., Reams, M.A., Pace, R.K., Qiang, Y., Narra, S., Li, K., Bianchette, T., Cai, H., Zou, L. and Mihunov, V. 2018. Understanding the Mississippi River Deltas as a coupled natural-human system: research methods, challenges, and prospects. Water, 10(8):1054.
Mihunov, V., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Rohli, R.V., Bushra, N., Reams, M.A., and Argote, J.E. 2017. Community resilience to drought hazard in South-central United States. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(3):739-755. [Access]
Qiang, Y., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., and Zou, L. 2017. Changes in exposure to flood hazards in the United States. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(6):1-19. [Access]
Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y., and Li, K. 2016. Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Delta. Water, 8(2):46. DOI: 10.3390/w8020046. [Access]
Rohli, R.V., Bushra, N., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Mihunov, V., Reams, M.A., and Argote, J. E. 2016. Drought indices as drought predictors in the south-central USA. Natural Hazards 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2376-z. [Access]
Shen Q., Li J.S., Zhang B., Wu Y.H., Zou, L., and Wu T.X. 2016. Analyzing spectral characteristics of water involving in-situ multi-angle polarized reflectance and extraction of water-leaving radiance. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 36(10):3269-3273. [Access]
Zou, L., Kent, J., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., and Li K. 2015. Evaluating land subsidence rates and their implications for land loss in the Lower Mississippi River Basin, Water 8(1):10 doi:10.3390/w8010010. [Access]
Li, K., Lam, N.S.N., Qiang, Y., Zou, L., and Cai, H. 2015. A cyber-infrastructure for community resilience assessment and visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 42(sup1):34-39. DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1060113. [Access]
Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J., Shen, Q., Zhang, F., and Wang, G. 2014. A study on retrieval algorithm of black water aggregation in Taihu Lake based on HJ-1 satellite images. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 17(1):012100. DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012100. [Access]
Zhang, F., Zhang, B., Li, J., Shen, Q., Wu, Y., Wang, G., Zou, L., and Wang, S. 2014. Validation of a synthetic chlorophyll index for remote estimates of chlorophyll-a in a turbid hypereutrophic lake. International Journal of Remote Sensing 35(1):289-305. [Access]
Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J., Song, Y., Shen, Q., and Li, L. 2012, July. A comparative analysis of the ‘transmittance’ method between using integrating sphere and filter holders for measuring light absorption by aquatic particles. In 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 2567-2570). Ieee. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350955. [Access]
Li, J., Zhang, B., Shen, Q., Zou, L., and Li, L. 2012, July. Monitoring water quality of Lake Taihu from HJ-CCD data using empirical models. In 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium(pp. 812-815). Ieee. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351438 [Access]
Lam, N.S.N., Xu, Y.J., Pace, R.K., Liu, K.B., Qiang, Y., Narra, S., Bianchette, T.A., Cai, H., Zou, L., Li, K., Joshi, S. and Mihunov, V. 2018. Collaboration across boundaries: reflections on studying the sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system in Across Boundaries for Interdisciplinary Environmental Systems Science: Experiences Around the World (eds: Stephen Prez and Palgrave Macmillion). In Revision.
Zhang, B., Li, J.S., Wang, Q., and Shen, Q. 2012. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Inland Water. Chapter 3. Measurement of Optical Spectral Properties in Inland Water. Science Press, China (Zou, L. wrote the first draft).
Zou, L.2018. Geospatial Big Data mining for disaster resilience and sustainability. Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas.
Zou, L.2018. Location-based social media data analytics. Seminar at GIScience Club, Louisiana State University.
Zou, L.2017. Achievving a sustainable society in the Big Data era. Seminar at the Geography Colloquium, Department of Geography, Kansas State University.
Zou, L.2017. Big Data streams for emergency management during natural hazards. Seminar at GIScience Club, Louisiana State University.
Zou, L., Lam N.S.N., Cai, H., Meyer, M.A., Yang, S., Lee, K., Park, S.J., Reams, M.A. 2018. Sensing, building, and improving disaster resilience through social media data mining. 2018 Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysics Union, Washington D.C., U.S.
Zou, L., Lam N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2018. The changing roles of social media in disaster resilience. 2018 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, U.S.
Correl, R., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Mihunov, V., Cai, H. 2018. Move or stay? A dilemma for coastal Louisiana residents. 2018 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, U.S.
Zou, L., Lam N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2017. Leveraging social media data to understand disaster resilience: a case study of Hurricane Isaac. 2017 Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysics Union, New Orleans, LA, U.S.
Cai, H., Lam N.S.N., *Zou, L., Qiang, Y. 2017. A coupled natural-human system modeling of the land loss probability in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. 2017 Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysics Union, New Orleans, LA, U.S. (*Presenter)
Zou, L., Lam N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2017. Visualizing and mining social media data for improved understanding of disaster resilience. International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2017, Washington D.C., U.S.
Cai, H., Lam N.S.N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y. 2017. Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian Network. International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2017, Washington D.C., U.S.
Zou, L., Lam N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2017. Mining social media data for improved understanding of disaster resilience. 2017 International Symposum on Location-based Social Media and Tracking Data (LSMTD), Washington D.C., U.S.
Liu, K.B., Bianchette, T.A., Zou, L., Qiang, Y., Lam N.S.N. 2017. Contribution of recent hurricanes to wetland sedimentation in coastal Louisiana European Geosciences Union Meeting 2017, Vienna, Austria.
Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. 2017. Utilizing social media data to understand and enhance disaster resilience. 2017 College of the Coast and Environment Annual Graduate Student Symposium at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S. Finalist.
Zou, L., Lam N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2017. Mining Twitter data for improved understanding of disaster resilience. Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2017, Boston MA, U.S.
Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2016. Social sensing coastal resilience to disasters through Twitter. Louisiana Sea Grant’s Coastal Connections Competition, Baton Rouge LA, U.S. Finalist
Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y. 2016. Social sensing of disaster resilience through Twitter: a case study of Hurricane Sandy. 3rd International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science, Urbana IL, U.S. (Poster)
Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., Li, K. 2016. Impacts of hurricane Katrina on population dynamics in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2016, San Francisco CA, U.S.
Cai, H., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y., Li, K. 2016. Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2016, San Francisco CA, U.S.
Qiang, Y., Lam, N.S.N., Zou, L., Cai, H., Li, K. 2016. Modeling long-term human dynamics in response to natural hazard using remote sensing data. Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2016, San Francisco CA, U.S.
Mihunov, V., Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. 2016. Community resilience to drought hazard in South-Central U.S. Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2016, San Francisco CA, U.S.
Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., Li, K. 2015. A genetic algorithm calibrated cellular automata modeling of urban growth in the East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2015, Chicago IL, U.S.
Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H. 2014. Assessment of community resilience to drought hazards in Texas and Louisiana. The 30th Annual of Louisiana Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop, New Orleans LA, U.S. (Poster)
Cai, H., Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N. 2014. Predicting the resiliency of the east coast counties after Hurricane SandyAnnual Meetings of Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2015, Tampa FL, U.S.
Zou, L., Zhang, B., Li, J.S., Shen, Q. 2012. A study on retrieval algorithm of Black Water Aggregation in Taihu Lake by HJ-1 satellite data. The 12th National Symposium of Case II Water Color Remote Sensing,Guangzhou, China.
04/2018 CC&E Outstanding student dissertation award, College of Coast & Environment, Louisiana State University
04/2018 Dr. Joseph Martinez Memorial Award, College of Coast & Environment, Louisiana State University
08/2017 Tavel Fund for the Community Earth System Modeling (CESM) Workshop 2017, National Center for Atmospheric Research, $800
02/2017 USNC Travel Fund for ICC 2017, 28th International Cartographic Conference, $1000
01/2017 Spring/Summer Dissertation Year Assistantship, Louisiana State University, $12,600
07/2016 NSF CyberGIS’16 Travel Award, International CyberGIS’16 Conference, $800
05/2016 Graduate Dean’s Summer Research Stipend, Louisiana State University, $4000
05/2016 Graduate Student Travel Fund, AAG Annual Meeting 2016, Louisiana State University, $200
04/2015 Graduate Student Travel Fund, AAG Annual Meeting 2015, Louisiana State University, $280
05/2012 Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
05/2011 Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
09/2007 Excellent Student Scholarship, Wuhan University, China, $200