{"id":360,"date":"2015-08-19T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T08:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2015-08-23T01:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T08:41:48","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor of Geography and the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Program Coordinator at Palomar College.\u00a0 I have also been involved in various national and regional initiatives to align GIS and STEM education with workforce needs, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geotechcenter.org\/\">National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence<\/a>. My academic research focuses on the potential of public participation GIS, and its application in the mitigation of flood risk.<\/p>\n<p>When I am not teaching or doing research, I enjoy fiddling with tech gadgets, surfing, traveling, or learning about beers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-393\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arcg.is\/1KDWUFY\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-393\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/08\/brew-300x271.jpeg\" alt=\"brew\" width=\"295\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/08\/brew-300x271.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/08\/brew.jpeg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click above to see an interactive webmap of beer breweries in California (March 2014).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2013\/04\/2621_721191329656_6553980_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-303 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2013\/04\/2621_721191329656_6553980_n-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"2621_721191329656_6553980_n\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2013\/04\/2621_721191329656_6553980_n-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2013\/04\/2621_721191329656_6553980_n.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor of Geography and the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Program Coordinator at Palomar College.\u00a0 I have also been involved in various national and regional initiatives to align GIS and STEM education with workforce needs, such as the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence. My academic research focuses on the potential of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/wcheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}