Tarek M. G. E. Rashed
Assistant professor for the Department of Geography

EDUCATION

UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University                      USA

Year: 2003

Degree: PhD in Geography
Major: GIS and Remote Sensing
Dissertation: “Measuring the Environmental Context of Urban Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazards: An Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach”

University of Geneva                                                    SWITZERLAND

Year: 2000

Degree: Post Graduate Diploma - Master level
Major: GIS/RS/Risk Management
Thesis: “Applications of GIS to Flood Hazard Assessment: A case study of rainfall-runoff modeling for Tijuana River Watershed (TRW) on the US-Mexican borders”

University of Manchester Institute of Science                                  UK

Year: 1998

Degree: MSc in Computation
Major: GIS/Software Engineering
Dissertation: “An Investigation into GIS Support for Flood Risk Assessment and a Design of Flood Management and Risk Assessment System (FMRAS)”

University of Assiut                                                                   EGYPT

Year: 1993

Degree: BSc in Architectural Engineering
Major: City Planning/Urban

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Rashed, T., Weeks, J., Stow, D., and Fugate, D. 2003. Measuring Temporal Compositions of Urban Morphology through Spectral Mixture Analysis: Toward a Soft Approach to Change Analysis in Crowded Cities. International Journal of Remote Sensing (in press)

Rashed, T. and Weeks, J. 2003 . Assessing Social Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazards through Spatial Multicriteria Analysis of Urban Areas. International Journal of Geographic Information Science (in press).

Rashed, T., Weeks, J., Roberts, D., Rogan, J., and Powell, R. 2003. Measuring the Physical Compositions of Urban Morphology using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Models. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing: Special issue on applications of remote sensing and GIS to urban analysis (in press).

Weeks, J.; Hill, A.; Getis, A.; Gadalla, A. and Rashed, T. (revised and resubmitted).  The Fertility Transition in Egypt: Intra-Urban Patterns in Cairo. The Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Rashed, T., Weeks, J., Gadalla, M and Hill, A., 2001. Revealing the Anatomy of Cities through Spectral Mixture Analysis of Multispectral Satellite Imagery: A Case Study of the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt. Geocarto International, 16 (4) 5:16.

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PRECEEDINGS

Rashed, T., Weeks, J., Stow, D., and Fugate, D. 2002. Measuring Temporal Compositions of Urban Morphology through Spectral Mixture Analysis: Toward a Soft Approach to Change Analysis in Crowded Cities. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Urban Remote Sensing, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-13, 2002.. V2: 512-527.

Rashed, T. 1997. Using GIS as an Educational Tool for Military Academy Students, Egypt. Proceedings of the 17^th Annual ESRI User Conference, San Diego, June 4-9, 1997, http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc97/proc97/abstract/a139.htm.

Rashed, T. and M. Hanna 1995. The Role of Modern Techniques and Computer Based Systems in the Urban Planning Process of Arab Cities, A Case Study of Cairo City, Egypt. Proceedings of the 36th scientific week, Syria, December 1995.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Tarek Rashed, John Weeks. 2003. “Exploring the Spatial Association between Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazards and Measures from Remote Sensing and Population Census,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003

John R. Weeks, Dennis Larson, and Tarek Rashed, 2003, “Contrast or Continuum? The Creation and Application of an Urban Gradient Index,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003

Tarek Rashed and John Weeks 2003. “Measuring the Ecological Context of Urban Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazards Through an Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach,” presented at a Congressional Briefing organized by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Washington, DC, February 2003 (The project was presented by Dr. Weeks in this meeting)

Tarek Rashed, John R. Weeks. 2002. “Analyzing the Ecological Context of Social Vulnerability to Urban Earthquake Hazards through Spectral Mixture Modeling of Satellite Images,” presented at the 22^nd Annual Symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, Prague, the Czech Republic, May 2002

Tarek Rashed, John R. Weeks, Douglas Stow, and Debbie Fugate, 2002. “Measuring Temporal Compositions of Urban Morphology Through Spectral Mixture Analysis: Toward a Soft Approach to Change Analysis in Crowded Cities,” presented at the Third International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2002

   John R. Weeks, Dennis Larson, Douglas A. Stow, and Tarek Rashed, 2002.   

        “Conceptualizing the Urban-Rural Continuum: The Potential Contribution of

        Remotely-Sensed Imagery,” presented at the International Conference on

        Population Geographies, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland,

        July 2002

Tarek Rashed, 2002. “Assessing Social Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazards Through Spatial Multicriteria Analysis of Urban Areas,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 2002.

Tarek Rashed, John Weeks. 2001. “Spectral Mixture Analysis of Urban Environmental Attributes in Central Cairo, Egypt,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, April 2001.

Tarek Rashed, 2000. “Remote Sensing Analysis of Urban Environmental Attributes,” presented at the First Session of the Doctoral Seminar on the Irregular Quarters of the Mediterranean, Organized by the French Ministry of Education and the French Center of Cultural Research (CEDEJ), Fayoum, Egypt, December 2000.

Tarek Rashed, John Weeks 2000. “Demographic Analysis Using Spectral Mixture Modeling of Remote Imagery for Urban Areas: a Case Study of Cairo, Egypt,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 2000.

John R. Weeks, Tarek Rashed, M. Saad Gadalla, and Allan G. Hill, 2000 "The Environmental Context of Reproduction in Rural Menoufia, Egypt," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 2000.

John R. Weeks, Tarek Rashed, M. Saad Gadalla, and Allan G. Hill, 2000 "Measuring the Environmental Context of Urban Fertility in Arab Countries: A 'Top-Down' Approach to Fertility in Cairo, Egypt," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, March 2000.

RECENT GRANTS

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, The National Science Foundation: Measuring the Environmental Context of Social Vulnerability to Urban Earthquake Hazards: An Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach

UNU Fellowship, United Nations University, Tokyo: Applications of GIS to Flood Hazard Assessment: A case study of rainfall-runoff modeling for Tijuana River Watershed (TRW) on the US-Mexican borders

British Chevening Scholarship, The British Council: An Investigation into GIS Support for Flood Risk Assessment and a Design of Flood Management and Risk Assessment System (FMRAS)

RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

GISSG (GIS Specialty Group of the AAG, USA): Student Paper Competition, Second Place Award (2002)

CSISS (Center of Spatially Integrated Social Science, USA): Travel Award (2001)

RSSG (Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the AAG, USA): Student Paper Competition, Second Place Award (2001)

Phi Beta Delta Scholarship competition (USA): First Place Award (2000)

UCGIS (University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, USA): Excellent Poster Award (2000)

Geography Department, San Diego State University (USA): McFarland award for doctoral students (2000)

URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Southern California Chapter, USA): GIS Award  (1999)

Geography Department, San Diego State University (USA): Human geography Award  (1999)