Teaching and Learning Books
- Walker J, Awange JL (2020).
Surveying for Civil and Mining Engineers. Acquire the Skills in Weeks.
Springer International Publishing AG (411pp). 2nd Edition.
ISBN: 978-3-030-45803-4
- Walker J, Awange JL (2018; a total of 11703-chapter downloads and one of the top 50% most downloaded eBooks in the relevant Springer eBook Collection in 2019).
Surveying for Civil and Mining Engineers. Theory, Workshops and Practicals.
Springer International Publishing AG.
ISBN: 978-3-319-53129-8
Teaching Areas
Research Methods
Engineering Surveying
Satellite and Space Positioning
Remote Sensing of Environment
Civil Engineering (Engineering Survey)
Students and Research Associates Supervised
Postdoctoral/Research Associates Supervised: 7 international students from Germany, USA, Vietnam, Brazil, Australia, and China.
Supervised PhD, MSc, & BSc students with outcomes: More than 40 (see examples below).
PhD Students
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1、 Khandu (Honours, PhD): Assessing climate change impacts on water resources in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna River Basin https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/2531.
🏆 2013 IPCC Award (EUR 30,000)
🏆 D B Johnston Award for Excellence (2017) -
2、 Christopher Ndehedehe (PhD): Remote Sensing of West Africa's Water Resources Using Multi-Satellites and Models https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/59637.
🏆 Chancellor’s Recommendation for Outstanding PhD Thesis -
3、 Mehdi Khaki (PhD): Integration Framework for Merging Satellite Remote Sensing Observations with Hydrological Model Outputs https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/70487
🏆 2019 Postgraduate Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) -
4、 Kexiang Hu (PhD): Understanding Australia’s groundwater spatio-temporal variability in relation to its hydroclimate-hydrogeology https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/89138
🏆 2023 Postgraduate Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA)
🏆 WA and the 2023 Postgraduate Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA), Oceanic -
5、 Jieolong Wang (Chinese Scholarship Council sponsored PhD student)
🏆 Best Oral Presentation Award Hononary Mention, awarded by ISPRS Technical Commission IV held at Perth, Australia
MSc and Honours Students
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1、 Leidy Luna Cabeza (MSc): Surface water and geomorphological changes of the Blue Nile dynamics associated with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD): a multi-temporal analysis. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2024.2346383
🏆 2024 Furgo Women’s Award for Excellence in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences -
2、 Kexiang Hu (MSc): Hydrogeological characterisation of groundwater over Brazil using remotely sensed and model products, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.188
🏆 2019 Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship -
3、 Tong Ding (Honours): GNSS Radio Occultation Infilling of the African Radiosonde Data Gaps Reveals Drivers of Tropopause Climate Variability, doi: 10.1029/2022JD036648
🏆 2023 undergraduate Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA). -
4、 Pearl Ontse (BSc)
🏆 2022 undergraduate Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA).