Area(s) of Expertise: Geography/GIS, Spatial Analysis
Courses Taught
GEOG 1111K Introduction to Physical Geography
GEOG 1101 Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 1102 World Regional Geography
GEOG 4000K Environmental Geography
GEOG 2903 Special Topics in Geography
GISC 2011/L Geographic Information Science/Lab
GISC 4470K Spatial Analysis
GISC 4983 Internship in GIS
ENVE 2221K Surveying I
Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of Cincinnati
M.A., Geography/GIS, University of Cincinnati
Research/Special Interests
Water resource management and watershed modeling
Human environmental interactions
Land use/cover change
Urban and regional planning
Population dynamics and public health
Land surveying and mapping
Publications
Sun, Y., S. T. Y. Tong, and Y. J. Yang. 2016. Modeling the cost-effectiveness of stormwater best management practices in an urban watershed in Las Vegas Valley. Applied Geography 76: 49-61
Ranatunga, T., S. T. Y. Tong, Y. Sun, and Y. J. Yang. 2014. A total water management analysis of the Las Vegas Wash watershed, Nevada. Physical Geography 35(3): 220-244
Sun, Y., S. T. Y. Tong, M. Fang, and Y. J. Yang. 2013. Exploring the effects of population growth on future land use change at the Las Vegas Wash watershed: an integrated approach of geospatial modeling and analytics. Environment, Development and Sustainability 15: 1495-1515
Tong, S. T. Y., Y. Sun, and Y. J. Yang. 2012. Generating a future land use change scenario with a modified population-coupled Markov cellular automata model. Journal of Environmental Informatics 19(2):108-119
Tong, S. T. Y., Y. Sun, T. Ranatunga, J. He, and Y. J. Yang. 2011. Predicting plausible impacts of sets of climate and land use change scenarios on water resources. Applied Geography 32: 477-489