About me
Dr. Weihong Wang is a Professor and Department Chair of Earth Science at Utah Valley University. Holding a Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina, she is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include anthropogenic impact on wetland ecosystems, ethical and responsible research and research mentoring, GIS and remote sensing applications, and energy and sustainability. Her current research projects focus on 1) assessing nutrient loading to Utah Lake and its correlation with algal blooms and classifying land use and land cover within the Utah Lake Watershed using GIS-remote sensing techniques; 2) scaling open access responsible and ethical conduct of research and mentoring trainings across academic institutions; 3) prototyping tiny container homes using sustainability principles.
