University PhD Graduate Wins 'Best Student Paper' in Macao

Source: Macao Daily Times

Tang U Wa did it again. After winning last year's Best Student Paper Award at the 12th Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Tang, a fresh PhD graduate from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Macau (UM), won another Best Student Paper at the 16th International Conference on Geoinformatics.

This award was presented by the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences. Established in 1992, the association is the largest overseas Chinese professional association in Geographical Information Sciences.

Each year, the association hosts a series of international conferences on Geoinformatics in order to create opportunities field professionals and experts to exchange ideas.

This year, the conference attracted the participation of more than 800 scholars and experts from 15 different countries and regions.

As assessed by foreign scholars and experts, Tang's paper titled “Fragmentation of Urban Forms and the Environmental Consequences: Results from a High Spatial Resolution Model System” won third place at this year's Best Student Paper Award.

In the paper, Tang indicates the phenomenon and causation of urban fragmentation in Macau, revealing that the scales of urban fragments in the SAR and in the old city areas are less than three square kilometres and one square kilometres, respectively.

Tang also notes that the main reason for this phenomenon is that the expansion and development of Macau has always been subject to the particular political and geographical constraints. By establishing a high-spatial resolution model system as elaborated in the paper, Tang successfully quantified the spatial characteristics, street canyon effects, traffic conditions and distributions of air and noise pollution in the relationship between urban development and urban environment in quantitative methods.

Tang's paper, presented at the conference, is part of his doctoral dissertation supervised by UM professor Wang Zhishi.

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Editor: Chen Minjie