Remote Sensing Group.

University of Lethbridge

Xiameng Ren, MSc.

I grew up in a small city on the Inner Mongolia grassland, a Chinese equivalent of Lethbridge, and then spent teenage years trying to adjust to the life in the huge city of Beijing. I never got to know Beijing very well, because like every high school students in China, school work is almost everything in my teenage life.

Left the big capital city, in 2000, I went to one of the “four big hot stoves of China” (more like a big wet sauna room), to study in Wuhan University and got a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering in four years.

Hated memorizing all the chemical reactions, I decided to come to Canada and try something different. While being “adopted” by the incredibly generous Willms’ family, I studied with Dr. Wei Xu in the Geography Department of University of Lethbridge, and luckily got into the field of Remote Sensing and GIS − something I enjoy doing. In January 2007, I earned my Master of Science degree after two years of study.

After graduation, I worked a few short contracts with AAFC, Alberta Public Land and Environment Canada in projects concerning rangeland management and wildlife conservation.

In August 2007, Dr. Anne Smith introduced me to Dr. Philippe Teillet, who later hired me as his research associate. I have been working in the University of Lethbridge Remote Sensing Team for almost two years now. It is great to work with a group of people who all love what they do.