Alumnus Dr. Segun Ogunjemiyo, California State University Fresno, recently contacted his mentor Dar Roberts to say that he had just received the Provost’s Promising New Faculty Award. Segun, in his second year at CSU Fresno, was one of nine faculty members to receive the award which recognizes “exemplary achievements in teaching, research/creative activities and/or service among non-tenured, tenure-track faculty”).
Dar hired Segun as a post-doc researcher in his Viper Lab in 1999 to help complete the analysis of field data and Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) products. Dr. Ogunjemiyo became an assistant professor in Fresno State’s Department of Geography in 2005. He has an extensive background in micrometeorlogy, remote sensing, and geographic information systems, and his current research at Fresno State is devoted to air quality and how exposure to heat waves, ozone, and pollutants can affect people in the Central Valley. Segun was instrumental in establishing the Central Valley Environmental Research Laboratory in the Department of Geography. For more, see his web page at http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~sogunjemiyo/.
