American Association of Geographers (AAG) honor M. Duane Nellis as the AAG fellow
Dr. M. Duane Nellis’ contributions to remote sensing and geography and to higher education were recently recognized by the AAG by his appointment as AAG Fellow in 2023. Dr. Duane Nellis has had an outstanding career as a leader in remote sensing and geography, and through his leadership positions at major universities across the United States. Nellis forged an impressive career as a geographer and as a senior administrator at several public research universities. He has published numerous papers in the field of geography and remote sensing, and he has guided the continual growth of this field serving in his long-standing role as co- editor of Geocarto International. Nellis also served the AAG through his efforts in the Remote Sensing Specialty Group, and especially through his terms as Vice-President, President, and Past President of the AAG. He received many awards and commendations over the course of his distinguished career and has richly deserved all the recognition. He received the Gilbert Grosvenor Geographic Education Honors in 2001 for his distinguished contributions to geographic education. He also received the highest-level scholarly achievement award from the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group and the John Fraser Hart Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Agriculture and Rural Land Use Specialty Group.
Prashant Srivastva recognized as one of the top scientists in the world
As many of our readers know, the SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings and provides a comprehensive overview of worldwide research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Stanford University, along with SCOPUS, publishes the list of the world’s top 2% most widely cited scientists in different disciplines. Prashant Srivastva is recognized as one of these 2% top researchers in the world in geospatial technology, remote sensing, and engineering. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and includes more than 190,000 researchers from the more than 8.5 million scientists considered to be active worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields considered. In addition, Prashant is listed as one of top 3,000 scientists in the world by Research.com website.
We congratulate our distinguished colleagues Duane and Prashant for these honors and wish them success in their future endeavors.
Brad Rundquist Department of Geography, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
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Szabó Szilárd Institute of Geosciences, University of Debrecen, Hungary