- Author: Shane Feirer
Sean Hogan joined UCANR and IGIS on September 2, 2014 as an Academic Coordinator II, to provide IGIS analysis, coordination and support to the Informatics and Geographic Information Systems (IGIS) team to the meet the IGIS mission.
Sean has a double major B.A. in Spanish and Geography from CSU Sacramento and a M.A. in Geography from UC Davis. The core emphasis of his master's thesis was mapping spatial variability of water quality across California's rangeland watersheds. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at UC Davis, completing a dissertation interested in: “Machine learning and data fusion methods for optimizing remote sensing and GIS based land cover classifications.”
Prior to joining ANR, Hogan was a teacher assistant and a graduate student researcher at UC Davis. Most recently he was a member of the UCD Center for Spatial Technology and Remote Sensing where he provided GIS and remote sensing support for interests in precision agriculture, monitoring natural resources and calibration of NASA's airborne imagers. Prior to this he was a member of the UCD Rangeland Watershed Laboratory, where he provided GIS support for rangeland management and water quality research. GIS and remote sensing however were not Hogan's first career specialties. Prior to perusing a path in higher education he was a deputy sheriff in the County of Sacramento (1998-2004), and before that grew up on a small ranch in the rural foothills of California, where he trained horses and helped his father with his work as a professional logger.