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Dr. Soe Win Myint

  • Professor - Endowed Chair - Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
  • Program Faculty - Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
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Biography and education

Ph.D., Geography (GIScience), Louisiana State University
M.S., Natural Resources Program (Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformation for Development), Asian Institute of Technology
Post-Grad. Diploma, Forest Survey (Aerospace Remote Sensing Techniques), International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), the Netherlands
B.S., Forestry, Rangoon University

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Myint, Soe Win (Co-Principal). Decoding Land Transitions across the Urban-Rural Continuums (URC): A Synthesis Study of Patterns, Drivers, and Socio-environmental Impacts in Southeast Asia, NASA, Federal, $2021134. (Funded: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2026). Grant.
  • Zhu, Y., Myint, S. W., Devine, J. A., Blue, S. A., Fan, C., & Gu, X. (n.d.). Rising Aerosol Burdens in the Warm Desert City of Phoenix, AZ: Hydroclimatic–LULC Drivers and Exposure Disparities in a Climate–Land Surface–Society Framework. Earth’s Future.
  • Wang, P., Yuan, Y., & Myint, S. W. (2025). Developing mobility zones based on heat exposure and vegetation condition: a tale of two transportation modes. International Journal of Digital Earth, 12(2), 2552878.
  • Heidari, B., Myint, S. W., & Zhu, Y. (2025). Examining environmental stress changes in response to climate change and land use dynamics in the Colorado River Basin over the past two decades. Sustainable Futures, 10, 1–13. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101427
  • Zhu, Y., Myint, S. W., Schaffer-Smith, D., Tong, D., Zhou, Y., & Li, Y. (2025). Rising environmental inequalities and their relationship to racial and socioeconomic disparities in the US Southwest. Environmental Science & Technology, 59, 17534–17544. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c14369
  • Gu, X., Han, S. Y., Myint, S. W., Cho, E., & Zhu, Y. (2025). Exploring Dynamic Human Mobility of Diverse Social Groups Under Heat Conditions: A Simulation-Based Approach (pp. 1–9). Retrieved from https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=iguide
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). December 5, 2024 - December 31, 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, American Association of Geographers (AAG). January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: World’s top 2% most influential scientists in their respected research categories, Stanford University/Elsevier. January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: John Jensen distinguished lecture at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting (2024) – Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). October 31, 2023 - December 31, 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Achievement Award (American Association of Geographers (AAG) - Remote Sensing Specialty Group). March 29, 2016 - December 31, 2025
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  1. Member

    NASA ECOSTRESS Science and Application Committee

  2. Member

    NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Science Committee

  3. Member

    Promotion and Recruiting Committee

  4. Member

    Undergraduate Committee

  5. Member

    Faculty Evaluation Committee

  6. Editor

    Ecological Processes

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