The American Association of Geographers (AAG) has named Soe Myint, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University, a 2024-2025 AAG Fellow.
Myint holds the Meadows Endowed Chair for Geography and Environmental Studies and serves as the chief of conservation for the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at TXST.
The AAG Fellows is a recognition and service program that applauds geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography.
Myint was honored for his leadership in the use of remote sensing and geographic information science to understand coupled human-environment systems in the context of natural hazards, land change, urban sustainability and environmental management. He has won accolades from organizations including the U.S. Geological Survey, the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science and the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group. He has made great efforts to sustain and advance justice, diversity, equity and inclusion in geography, including giving talks at minority-serving schools in under-resourced communities.
Myint has an extensive record of service to the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group, including as chair, vice chair, director, special session organizer and judge for student paper competitions in 2009 and 2015. He was also invited by AAG to help lead a joint workshop organized by AAG, NASA and USAID as part of the My Community Our Earth (MyCOE) fellowship initiative that focused on climate change and sustainable landscapes in Asia. Myint has a long and distinguished track record of teaching and mentoring.