Our Faculty

Dr. Zhi (Luke) Wang
Program Coordinator

Dr. Zhi (Luke) Wang is Professor of Hydrology and Soil Physics at California State University, Fresno in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is the Coordinator of this GIS Certificate Program. Dr. Wang learned GIS in the 1990s and has been teaching the subject on campus since 2002. His PhD dissertation and many of his research involved many of the GIS applications, especially the 3-D, surface and geostatistical analyses. Dr. Wang participated in many ESRI user conferences, hands-on training sessions and user-model collaborations,  and presented as a speaker in several of California’s local GIS meetings. His GIS analysis maps on the Fresno River Monitoring project were adopted by the Madera County Library for display to the public.

Dr. Wang teaches courses in Hydrology, Hydrogeology, GIS, Geostatistics, Soil and Environmental Sciences. He has many   publications in Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, and other peer-reviewed journals.  Dr. Wang received his BS and MS degrees in civil engineering in China, his PhD degree in hydrology from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and his post-doctoral fellowship from the University of California, Riverside. His research on watershed hydrology and environmental hydrogeology has been funded by the US Natural Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, California EPA and California Department of Water Resources.

Dr. John McIntosh

John McIntosh has over 15 years experience with GIS and associated technologies. His research interests include GIS representation, remote sensing, environmental analysis and physical geography.  John’s recent teaching experience has focused on geotechniques including classes in GIS, remote sensing and spatial analysis, statistics and programming.  In addition to teaching, John’s experience includes work in the consulting and government sectors where he has been responsible for all aspects of GIS project implementation including project management, data development, analysis, statistics and programming.

John holds a Ph.D. in geography with an emphasis in geotechniques and physical geography, an MA in geography focusing on resource management and a BS in physical science.