Faculty & Staff Directory
Helenmary Hotz
Title: Director,SFE Academic Lab
Phone: 617.287.5289
Email: Helenmary.Hotz@umb.edu
Department: SFE - Dean's Office
Areas of Expertise
Geographic Information Systems, Climate change impacts on saline lake dynamics, Tropical lakes
Degrees
PhD, Environmental Sciences, UMass Boston
MS, Environmental Sciences, UMass Boston
BS, Earth & Geographic Sciences, UMass Boston
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Hotz, H.M. and Christian, A.D., 2015. Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Analyze Lake Level Rise of Étang Saumâtre, Haiti. International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research, 2(1), p.6.
- Hotz, H., 2010, June. Constructing a GIS geodatabase to assess and analyze the factors enabling proliferation of a noxious seaweed along the south-facing coast of Harwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application (p. 57). ACM.
- Hotz, HelenMary. "Geographic Information Systems Facilitate Youth, Youth Workers and Community Stakeholder Efforts." (2012).
- Hotz, H. Developing nearshore bathymetry to analyze a noxious seaweed along the south-facing shore of Harwich, Cape Cod, MA. In, Bremen, J (Ed), Ocean Globe. ESRI Press, 217-236.
Additional Information
Helenmary Hotz provides support and facilitates student learning across of the instructional labs in the School for the Environment. Whether it's trouble shooting Arc GIS for a faculty remotely located in Rwanda or working alongside our aquatic ecology students as they sort their bugs, she is actively engaged with all of our students and faculty.