ITC Alumnus Dr Alok Porwal Receives Best Reviewer Award
Dr Alok Porwal is one of the recipients of the Mathematical Geosciences Editor’s Best Reviewer Award 2008-2009 (see Mathematical Geosciences, vol. 42, no. 1, January 2010). Dr Porwal and two other mathematical geoscientists were given the award for their exceptionally diligent and thorough reviews, as well as their commitment to seeing the full completion of new and revised versions of manuscripts submitted to Mathematical Geosciences. This journal is one of three journals of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), the other two being Computers & Geosciences and Natural Resources Research.
Dr Porwal obtained his PhD in model-based mineral potential mapping from ITC and Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in February 2006. His PhD research, which was co-supervised and co-promoted by Professor Martin Hale and Dr John Carranza, falls within the earth systems science research theme being investigated by scientific staff at ITC’s Department of Earth Systems Analysis.
Dr Porwal is now a senior research fellow at the Centre for Exploration Targeting and the Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. He has over 20 years’ research and professional experience in applications of GIS technology to real-world exploration targeting. His recent work includes continent-wide prospectivity mapping of Australia for all styles of uranium deposits for an exploration company. He is currently working on applications of machine learning algorithms such as neural networks, support vector machines and genetic algorithms for geological remote sensing and mineral prospectivity mapping. A life member of the IAMG, he has had a long association with Mathematical Geosciences as a reviewer and contributor of papers.
Congratulations Alok!
John Carranza
carranza@itc.nl