Dr. Gilbert Rochon

Courtesy Appointment, Associate Vice President Collaborative Research & Engagement

E-mail: rochon@purdue.edu

Associated Website(s): Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC)

Education

Ph.D. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT

M.P.H. - Yale University (Epidemiology and Public Health)

B.S. - Xavier University

Satellite Remote Sensing for Drought-Related Famine Conditions in Sudan

• Chief Scientist for the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

• Director of the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory

• Editor of the Journal of Terrestrial Observation

• Director of the IndianaView Consortium

• Research Team Leader for Land Use and Hydrology at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Sustainable Environments Branch in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Physical Scientist with the DOD Naval Oceanographic Office in Mississippi.

• Geographer with the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USDA FS) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Visiting Faculty Fellow with Oxford University’s Environmental Change Unit in the UK.

• University Affiliates Coordinator for Northrup Grumman’s sub-contract under the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program.

• Coordinator for the Planning & Evaluation Unit within the City of Boston’s Office of Environmental Affairs-Department of Health & Hospitals.

• Department Head/Director & tenured Conrad Hilton Assoc. Professor for the Urban Studies & Public Policy Institute at Dillard University in New Orleans.

• A host of successive Research Fellowships with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Stennis Space Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at California Institute of Technology.

• User Working Group (UWG) for NASA’s Socio-Economic Data Applications Center (SEDAC) based at Columbia University in New York.

• Member of the External Science Review Team for the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (2005 - 2007).

• Gilbert L. Rochon, Joseph E. Quansah and Hildred Sarah Rochon.  “The Role of Information Technology in Facilitating a Coalition between Conventional Medical Practitioners and Indigenous Healers in the Struggle against HIV/AIDS in Africa. Invited presentation at the Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, held in Accra, Ghana, March, 2006.

• Gilbert L. Rochon, Loring F. Nies, Chad T. Jafvert, Julie A. Stuart, Rabi H. Mohtar, Joseph Quansah and Akilah Martin. “Education in Sustainable Production in US Universities.”  Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy.  Springer Verlag (2006). Originally presented to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society (CCMS) Pilot Study on Clean Products & Processes Annual meeting, May 2-6, 2004  

• Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris J. Johannsen, David A. Landgrebe, Bernard A. Engel, Jonathan M. Harbor, Sarada Majumder and Larry L. Biehl. “Remote Sensing as a Tool for Achieving and Monitoring Progress toward Sustainability.” Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy, Vol. 5, pp. 310-316. Springer Verlag (April, 2003).

• Gilbert Rochon, David Landgrebe, Chris Johannsen, Sarada Majumder and Larry Biehl, “Real-Time Remote Sensing for Time-Critical Environmental Applications,” International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE 2003), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 8-12, 2003.

• Gilbert L. Rochon, Chris Johannsen, David Landgrebe, Bernard Engel, Jonathan Harbor, Sarada Majumder and Larry Biehl. “Intergenerationaly Prudent Resource Management in Africa: The Contributions of Remote Sensing   & Spatial Technologies in Achieving Sustainability,” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2003). Presented in Toulouse, France, July, 2003.

• Gilbert Rochon, Chris Johannsen, Steve Mayo, Mohamed Mohamed, Sarada Majumder, Marseyas Fernandez and Larry Biehl. “Remote Sensing and Decision Support for Environmental Sustainability,” State of the Planet Conference, General Assembly of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG 2003). Presented in Sapporo, Japan, June 30-July 11, 2003.