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Yao Zhou

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Post Doc, National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Univ. of Central Florida

Ph.D. in Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2018)

M.S in Physical Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China (2012)

B.S. in Geographic Information Science, Wuhan University, China (2009)

Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, and PhD student, 2012 – 2018

yaozhou@ufl.edu

Current CV

Profile on Dept. of Geography website

Areas of Specialization

  • Tropical cyclone rainfall
  • Natural disaster risk analysis
  • GIS and spatial analysis
  • Cartography

Research Statement

My research focuses on climatology of tropical cyclone precipitation and related hydrological hazard.

Projects

A statistical analysis on shape metrics of tropical cyclone precipitation and tropical cyclone attributes
Variation of tropical cyclone precipitation over Eastern United States (1950- 2010)