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CHRISTOPHER T. LEE, Ph.D.
Board Member
International Center for Remote Sensing Education, Inc.
P.O. Box 18285
Baltimore, MD 21227
Tel: 410-796-1980
E-Mail: clee@csulb.edu

Dr. Christopher Lee earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Arizona in 1990. He spent nine years (1991-2000) as a faculty member, including two years as Chair, in the Department of Earth Sciences at CSU Dominguez Hills. He moved to the CSU Long Beach Geography Department in August 2000 and is currently a Professor of Geography at CSULB. Dr. Lee is a physical geographer who has specialized in remote sensing and GIS-based education and research for the past 20 years. Dr. Lee is also an Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Arizona, a former Fulbright Senior Research Scholar to Egypt (1995-96) and a former Visiting Senior Scientist in the Applications Division at NASA Headquarters (1999). He was the principal investigator and Director of the Southern California Wildfire Hazard Center which was one of nine NASA Regional Earth Science Applications Centers (RESACs). He was also the principal investigator of a NASA grant focused on international, state and local geospatial workforce development. Dr. Lee's research has included analysis of long-term vegetation dynamics in both riparian and wetlands environments, monitoring of rain-fed agriculture on the northwest coast of Egypt, and assessment of environmental conditions at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin. Dr. Lee has acted as the principal investigator on over $2.5 million of funded research and he has participated in grants and contracts totaling over $5 million.

To view Dr. Lee's Curriculum Vitae, at his own web site, click here.