# overview
Dr. Cai's research primarily focus on the application of geographic information science and technology (GIST) in disaster resilience and coupled natural-human system modeling. She has worked for a number of research projects funded by National science foundation, Louisiana sea grant, and Coastal protection and restoration authority. Her work employs a diverse spatial analysis tools and data mining methods to evaluate the community resilience to natural hazards, model the interactions between the human and natural systems, and simulate population and land cover changes under certain scenarios.

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Multi-criteria Spatial Decision Support Systems

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Geographical And Social Disparities In Disaster Resilience

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Chinese Academy of Sciences - (Beijing, Beijing, China)

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Louisiana State University - (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States)

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China University of Geosciences - (Beijing, China)

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Montague Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar

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Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship

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Power outage and environmental justice in Winter Storm Uri: an analytical workflow based on nighttime light remote sensing

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Unveiling Community Adaptations to Extreme Heat Events Using Mobile Phone Location Data

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Editorial for the Special Issue: "Human-Environment Interactions Research Using Remote Sensing"

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Spatial-Temporal Land Loss Modeling and Simulation in a Vulnerable Coast: A Case Study in Coastal Louisiana

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A cyberGIS-enabled multi-criteria spatial decision support system: A case study on flood emergency management

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Cratering process and morphological features of the Xiuyan impact crater in Northeast China

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Global detection of large lunar craters based on the CE-1 digital elevation model

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An Integrated 3S and Historical Materials Analysis of the Keriya Paleoriver, NW China

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Social media for emergency rescue: An analysis of rescue requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey

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A cyberinfrastructure for community resilience assessment and visualization

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Extending Resilience Assessment to Dynamic System Modeling: Perspectives on Human Dynamics and Climate Change Research

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Coastal Education and Research Foundation

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VictimFinder: Harvesting rescue requests in disaster response from social media with BERT

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Social and geographical disparities in Twitter use during Hurricane Harvey

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A synthesis of disaster resilience measurement methods and indices

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Economics over Risk: Flooding Is Not the Only Driving Factor of Migration Considerations on a Vulnerable Coast

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Incorporating neighborhood scale effects into land loss modeling using semivariograms

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Revealing the linguistic and geographical disparities of public awareness to Covid-19 outbreak through social media

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Understanding the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System: Research Methods, Challenges, and Prospects

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Modeling the Dynamics of Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards Using a Bayesian Network

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Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies

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Mining Twitter Data for Improved Understanding of Disaster Resilience

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Assessing Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

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Evaluating Land Subsidence Rates and Their Implications for Land Loss in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

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Changes in Exposure to Flood Hazards in the United States

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Effects of landscape fragmentation on land loss

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Sensing the pulse of the pandemic: unveiling the geographical and demographic disparities of public sentiment toward COVID-19 through social media