Contact Information
Email: su-yin.tan@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x48772
Location: EV1 227
Lecturer | Geography and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment
Dr. Su-Yin Tan is a Continuing Lecturer in the Geomatics Program, Teaching Fellow of the Faculty of Environment, and Director of the Applied Geomatics Research Laboratory at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She previously served as the Associate Director of the UW Aviation program and supported program review/accreditation and curriculum design. She is also a faculty member of the International Space University (ISU) based in Strasbourg, France, where she has served in the roles of Core Chair and Space Applications Department Chair for the Space Studies Program (SSP) and lectures at the Masters of Space Studies (MSS) program and Executive Space Courses at The Museum of Flight in Seattle. She is an elected member of the ISU Academic Council and previously served as Chair in 2015-17.
Dr. Tan’s specialisation is in geographic information systems, remote sensing, and spatial data analysis. She is a distinguished Gates Scholar and received her PhD degree from the University of Cambridge (UK), two Master’s degrees from Oxford University (UK) and Boston University (USA), and BSc (Env) from the University of Guelph (Canada). Dr. Tan has an interdisciplinary background in the environmental sciences and spatial analysis methodologies in a range of application areas, such as climatology, ecosystem modelling, and remote sensing.
In the past decade, she has received over 16 awards and scholarships, including a prestigious Presidential University Graduate Fellowship and Overseas Research Scholarship. Dr. Tan received the prestigious 2014 Outstanding Performance Award for exceptional contributions to teaching and scholarship, which recognizes the top professors at the University of Waterloo.
Graduate Supervision: Remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial statistics and data analysis, vegetation and climatology, public health and crime mapping, medical geography, environmental monitoring, GIS education
Selected Publications:
- Tan, S-Y. (2020). Remote Sensing Applications and Innovations via Small Satellite Constellations. In: Pelton, J., and Madry, S., (eds) Handbook of Small Satellites. Springer, Cham.
- Chu, S.H.Y., Tan, S-Y., and Mortsch, L. (2020). Social resilience to flooding in Vancouver: The issue of scale. Environmental Hazards. .2020.1834345
- Bradshaw, J., Jit Singh, S., Tan, S-Y., Fishman, T., and Pott, K. (2020). GIS-based Material Stock Analysis (MSA) of climate vulnerabilities to the tourism industry in Antigua and Barbuda. Sustainability, 12, 8090.