Fatema Tuz Johra Nourin Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Community and Regional Planning Iowa State University GIS Technician Geographic Information Systems Support and Research Facility Iowa State University Phone: 307-343-6772 Email: fnourin@iastate.edu Resume

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Graduate Teaching Assistant at Iowa State University, 2020-present

• Course: CRP 251- Fundamentals of GIS
• Syllabus included: Introduction to ArcGIS Online and applications such as- ArcGIS Insights, Story maps, Survey123, Field Maps.

Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Wyoming, 2017- 2019

• Course: GEOG 4200/5200- Introducion to GIS
• Syllabus included: Projection and transformation, topology, georeferencing, vector and Raster analysis, multicriteria analysis.
• Course: GEOG 4210/5210- Advanced GIS
• Syllabus included: Modifiable areal unit problem, Interpolation, cost path analysis, Some GIS automation using Model Builder.

GIS Technician at Iowa State University, June 2021- present

• Crop boundary delineation for the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) project (Summer 2021, Summer 2022).
• Preparation of a historical topographic map service of Iowa from scanned maps and generation of the pipeline of the work that has been used in other similar projects (Fall 2021), Published in- here.
• Georeferencing of historic DOT maps of Iowa and ceartion of a time enabled map service (Spring 2022).
• Lidar Data Classification for Clarke, Decatur and Madison Counties (Spring 2022).

Team Leader at Play Ames: Imagine your City, the first cummunity engamement festival in Fall 2021

• Led the Digital mapping of benches, Paper mapping of unsafe places, and exploring virtual reality.
• Designed the Spot-the-differences game and the Geoform using ArcGIS Survey 123. Detailes can be found here.
• Created a website for the project.

GIS Intern at unevictIA, Summer 2021

• Developed first ever eviction record map of 22 most populated Iowa counties.
• Created an Interactive year-wise eviction record chart using Shiny R. (Website: https://www.unevictia.com/map-data)

Research Associate at Institute of Water and Flood Management, May 2016 - June 2017

• Project: REACH- Improving Water Security for the Poor, Globally Led by University of Oxford, UK.
• Primary Duties: GIS data collection and map preparation, Land Use Land Cover Change Detection of Dhaka City from 1995, 2000, and 2005 images using QGIS.

Dessertation research at Graduate level

• Urban growth sustainability estimation from Land Use Land Cover (LULC) categories: A case study of utilizing Google Earth Engine.

• An Exploratory Study on the Impact of Wildfire Events in Yellowstone National Park using Biased Flickr Data.

Graduate Research Assistant at University of Wyoming

• Evaluated operational performances of innovative intersections and transit priority in Redwood Road Corridor at Salt Lake City, Utah. (sponsored by Avenue Consultant)
• Implemented driver behavior model for Connected and Automated Vehicles and evaluated the operational benefits

Journal Publications

1. Mahmood, S.Nourin, F. T. J.,, Siddika, A., & Khan, T. F. (2017). Encroachment of the Buriganga River in Bangladesh. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 5(5), 266-273. https://doi.org/10.4236/jmmce.2017.55022

Conference Proceedings

1. Nourin, F. T. J.,, Tobin, T., Pechman, R. J. 2021. Game-Based Community Engagement with Spot-the-Differences Game and Survey123. ESRI User Conference, San Diego, CA, 2022.
2. Kosacz, T., Gula, M., Poplin, A., Tobin, T., Nourin, F.T.J. 2021. Mapping Unsafe Places and Emotions: Study of Ames, Iowa. International Symposium on Platial Information Science. Hosted by ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
3. Nourin, F. T. J.,, Xu, C. 2019. An Exploratory Analysis of Social Media Data Usage in Yellowstone National Park. National AAG Washington DC, 2019.
4. Betcher, G., Poplin A., Schroeder, S., Nourin, F. T. J.,, Jacobson, N., Sairamesh, V.P. 2022. Play Ames: Imagine Your City-A City-University Partnership to Increase Engagement with Underrepresented. International Town and Gown Association (ITGA). Clemson, South Carolina.
5. Nourin, F. T. J.,, Mahmood S., Chayon M.S.A., Siddika, A., Khan M.S.A. 2017. Assessment of Different Dimensions of Irrigation Water Security in A Coastal Polder of Bangladesh. 6th International Conference on Water & Flood Management (ICWFM-2017). Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Book Chapter

1. Poplin A., Schroeder, S.,Nourin, F. T. J.,. 2023. Play Ames: Imagine your City, 1st community engagement festival in Ames, Iowa. Mittal, J. LaFrombois, M.E.H. (eds). Partners in Planning: University-Community Partnerships in Planning Education. Auburn University, AL, United States.

Last updated July 11, 2022