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
Research Interests

Satellite Remote Sensing for Drought-Related Famine Conditions in Sudan
Professional Experiences

  • 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).

Selected Publications <More>

  • 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.