Haroon Sahotra is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also serving as the Faculty Director of the Teaching and Learning Commons. Sahotra is involved in interdisciplinary research of climate change impact and hydrology with specific emphasis on applications of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) and specific focus on safeguarding and improving urban quality of life. He has been involved in several federal- and state-sponsored research projects involving research and applications of geospatial data. In these projects, he has worked with the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Forest Service, City of Las Vegas, Nevada Division of Forestry, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, and Nevada Department of Transportation. He has participated in various competitive research grants, including National Science Foundation (NSF) grants titled “The Solar Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Nevada”, and “Collaborative Research: The Western Consortium for Watershed Analysis, Visualization, and Exploration.” Currently, he is lead PI of a $2.5 million NSF project titled “Enhancing Critical Transitions in Undergraduate Civil Engineering Education.” He is also UNLV lead CoPI of a $20 million NSF project titled "Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science.” Sahotra's ongoing research interests include applications of remote sensing and GIS technologies to wildfires; water resource mapping; and natural and urban climate study.