EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Members of the editorial board

Professor Serwan M. J. Baban

BSc, MSc, PhD. Cert. TL, FRGS, FGS, FRSPSoc.

Areas of Specialisation: Geosciences, Environmental sciences, Geoinformatics (in particular Environmental Remote sensing and GIS).

Serwan is the professor of Environmental Geoinformatics and Head, School of Environmental Science and Management, Southern Cross University, Australia.

Formerly he was the professor of Surveying and Land Information and the Chairman, School of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago. He was also the founder and director of the Centre for Caribbean Land and Environmental Appraisal Research (CLEAR).

He obtained his PhD in Environmental Remote Sensing from the University of East Anglia, UK in 1991 and his MSc in Geophysics and BSc in Geology from the University of Baghdad, Iraq during 1983 and 1980 respectively.

His research interests are in Geosciences, Environmental Sciences and Geoinformatics (Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS). Serwan has undertaken extensive research and consultancy work in these areas in Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Malaysia, UK, the Caribbean region and USA. He also has interests in teaching innovation and curriculum development at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has published extensively and is an academic referee for a wide range of National and International Journals. His research has been funded by various local, regional, national and global organisations worldwide.

To date, Serwan has successfully graduated and is currently supervising a number of MPhil/PhD students, some of whom were/are jointly supervised with various Universities in the Middle East, UK and the USA, and has been involved in examining MSc and MPhil/PhD student's worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (FGS), a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society (FRGS), a Fellow of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (FRSPSoc) and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.

Contact Details:

School of Environmental Science and Management,
Southern Cross University, Australia

• Tel: +61 (0)2 66 203766
• Fax: +61 (0)2 66 212 669
• E-mail: sbaban2001@yahoo.com