Section: Meet our Editors    

Prof. Ni-Bin Chang, Chief Editor

Dr. Ni-Bin Chang is currently a professor with Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Director of the Stormwater Management Academy, University of Central Florida (UCF) in the United States. He received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan in 1983, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Systems Engineering from Cornell University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. Since 1992, Dr. Chang has been directing academic research in the field of environmental sustainability and systems analysis. His areas of research include sustainable systems engineering, sustainability science, environmental informatics, environmental cyberinfrastructure and remote sensing, computational intelligence and soft computing, industrial ecology, ecological systems engineering, green infrastructure system planning, environmental systems monitoring and modeling, and system control and engineering optimization leading toward achieving the overarching goal of environmental sustainability. Dr. Chang has received widespread recognition for his interdisciplinary research in environmental systems engineering via the senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE), Diplomat of Water Resources Engineer (DWRE), Certificate of Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED), an elected Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE), an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (F.AAAS), and an elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (M.EAS). He has edited, authored and co-authored over 197 peer-reviewed journal articles, 8 books, 10 special issues of academic journals, 6 United States Patents, 14 book chapters, and 159 conference papers as of 2011. Articles published have been cited worldwide by over 2,810 cites as of Feb. 2012 and his H-index is 30/30 (on Google Scholar Web). He is an ad hoc reviewer of 86 journals and a member of 10 more professional associations. He was one of the founders of International Society of Environmental Information Management and the former editor-in-chief of Journal of Environmental Informatics. He is currently an editorial board member, an editor, or an associate editor of 34 international journals in the areas of water resources, environmental engineering and science, environmental management, earth system sciences, and sustainability sciences.

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Dr. Wei Zhang, Associate Editor

Dr. Wei Zhang is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and a jointly-appointed faculty in Environmental Science & Policy Program at Michigan State University, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University in 2010, his MS degree in Biosystems Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 2006, and his bachelor’s degree in Environmental Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2000. Wei is broadly interested in the quality and sustainability of soil and water resources, with emphasis on the movement of water, solutes (e.g., nutrients, agrochemicals, and environmental toxics), and fine particles such as microorganisms, abiotic colloids, and engineered nanomaterials in natural and engineered systems, particularly in unsaturated soils. The overarching goal of his research activities is to promote protection of soil and water resources and sustainable agricultural production through understanding of fundamental transport processes and scientifically-sound management practices. Wei has previously received the US National Research Council Research Associateship Award and Cornell Liu Memorial Award.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Impact of Climate Change on Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in Hydrological Cycle.

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 Dr. Kaveh Madani, Associate Editor

Dr. Kaveh Madani is an assistant professor of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis, a Master of Water Resources from Lund University in Sweden, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from University of Tabriz in Iran. Before joining the UCF, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in Environmental Economics and Policy at the Water Science and Policy Center at the University of California, Riverside. His core research interests and experiences include integrated water, environmental, and energy resources engineering and management. Dr. Madani’s work includes application of systems engineering, conflict resolution, system dynamics, economics, optimization as well as simulation and modeling methods to water, environmental, and energy resource problems at different scales to derive policy and management insights. He is the founder of WaterSISWEB, the founding coordinator of the Hydro-Environmental and Energy Systems Analysis (HEESA) Research Group, and the Faculty Advisor of the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Chapter at UCF. Dr. Madani has been recently selected as one of the ten “New Faces of Civil Engineering in 2012” by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue in Honor of Distinguished Professor Miguel A. Mariño: Modeling Approaches to Study Climate Change Impacts on Water and Environmental Systems.

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Prof. Ge Sun, Associate Editor

Dr. Ge Sun is senior Research Hydrologist with the United States Department of Agricultural Forest Service, Southern Research Station and USDA professor of hydrology at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He also holds adjunct professorship with the University of Toledo, Auburn University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Forestry University. Over the past 20 years, he has conducted forest hydrological research on various ecosystems, from Florida’s cypress swamps in the humid southeastern U.S. to northern China’s Loess Plateau and Mongolia dry lands. He served as hydrology expert for US Forest Service International Program’s Mission in Mexico, Africa, and China. His research contributes to regional and national assessments of climate change and vegetation management impacts on water and carbon resources. Currently, he is leading several NSF and USDA funded studies to examine the regional interactions between climate, water and carbon, and land use change by employing research tools from eddy covariance techniques, paired watersheds, and remote sensing-based integrated simulation models. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Beijing Forestry University and a Ph.D. of Forest Hydrology from the University of Florida. He has published over 100 articles and a book on hydrology, ecosystem ecology, watershed management and global change. He is Associate Editor of Journal of American Water Resources Association.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Interactions of Forests, Climate, Water Resources, and Humans in a Changing Environment.

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Prof. Barry M. Gross, Associate Editor

Barry Gross is currently a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, New York. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at City College where he focused on femtosecond optical communications. More recently, he has worked in the area of active and passive optical remote sensing. Topics of interest includes the analysis of multispectral reflectance data from both geostationary and polar orbiting satellites for the analysis of aerosols, the use of combined active and passive sensors for the improved detection and quantification of trace gases, aerosols and clouds and there interactions and the improved retrieval of ocean colour properties in coastal areas through improved atmospheric correction procedures. He has served on a number of national and international committees including the NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) Senior Review Panel and the AMS sponsored Coordination-group on Laser Atmospheric Studies (CLAS) and a member of the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Aerosol Lidar Observation Network (GALION) Quality Assessment / Quality Control working group. He is currently is affiliated with the NOAA–CREST Cooperative Research Center and the NSF–MIRTHE center. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles and is a member of ASEE, SPIE and IEEE.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on The integrated use of passive and active remote sensing to address problems in atmospheric environmental and/or climate studies.

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Dr. Fayyaz Ali Memon, Associate Editor

Dr. Fayyaz Ali Memon received his MSc and PhD in Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London. He worked at Imperial for about 10 years on sustainable urban water management systems. Presently, he is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter UK. Over the past 13 years, his research has been focused on alternative water resources, water demand management, technologies for water reuse, wastewater collection systems, life cycle impact assessment, sustainable water management, urban water systems analysis and water management in developing countries. He has co-ordinated and contributed to several multi-disciplinary and multi - institutional research projects (e.g. WaND, Urban Futures, and Integrated Alternatives) funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK and leads a water conservation and recycling network: WATERSAVE. He is presently leading the decision support tools development for two FP7 projects with a major focus on the delivery of sustainable solutions. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist, fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Adapting climate change through water efficiency

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Dr. Moetasim Ashfaq, Associate Editor

Dr. Moetasim Ashfaq is currently a Computational Climate Scientist in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Purdue University, USA, and his M.Phil. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He was recipient of Henry Silver Graduate Research Excellence Scholarship in 2009. Moetasim’s research focuses on understanding the temporal and spatial scales at which components of the climate system interact. In particular, he is interested in the response of multi-scale climate system processes to anthropogenic forcing, and on the development of approaches to reliably estimate future hydro-climatic change. He has contributed to U.S. Federal hydropower climate assessments. Currently, he serves as a PI on multiple US Department of Energy Projects that are geared towards developing a multi-disciplinary Earth System modeling framework that will enable more comprehensive, rigorous investigation of the challenges posed by climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. He also serves as visiting scientist for developing countries under the Visiting Scholar Program of Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Regional hydro-climate variability and change

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Dr. Stewart Barr, Associate Editor

Stewart Barr graduated from the University of Exeter’s Geography Department in 1998 and continued his studies at Exeter undertaking a PhD thesis entitled ‘Factors influencing household attitudes and behaviours towards waste management in Exeter, Devon’. Building on this research, he worked for two years in the School as a post-doctoral researcher on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project entitled ‘Environmental Action in and Around the Home’. He became a Lecturer in Geography in 2003, Senior Lecturer Geography from 2008 to 2012 and is now Associate Professor in Geography. From 2004 to 2011 he was Co-director of the MSc in Sustainable Development and now convenes a range of undergraduate modules focusing on sustainable development and geographical concepts and research methods. Stewart’s research interests lie in the geographies of sustainable development: environmental and sustainability policy in the UK; environmental lifestyles and citizenship; sustainable travel, tourism and mobilities and quantitative methods in geography. He has recently completed an ESRC funded project on ‘Promoting Sustainable Travel: a social marketing approach’, which has led to an ESRC Follow-on fund project that is exploring the development on a community of practice for successful behavioural change campaigns. He also holds awards from the Leverhulme Trust (on the social context of sustainable household waste management) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (on the values involved in the Transition movement). Stewart currently supervises 14 PhD candidates in the field of sustainability science. He is also on the founding committee of the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS) Energy Geographies Working Group, as well as a committee member of the Planning and Environment Research Group of the RGS.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Energy Securities in an Age of Climate Change: Scaling the Challenge

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Dr. Jimmy Kao, Associate Editor

Dr. Jimmy Kao is currently a distinguished professor in the Institute of Environmental Engineering at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. Prof. Kao received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in civil and environmental engineering from North Carolina State University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. He is a fellow member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a fellow member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Registered Professional Engineer, a Certified Ground Water Professional, and a Professional Hydrologist in the United States. He is also a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Diplomate of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. He serves as the Executive Committee of the Taiwan Association of Soil and Groundwater Environmental Protection, Taiwan Environmental Engineering Association, and Soil and Groundwater Remediation Fund of Taiwan EPA, etc. Prof. Kao was the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers, 2011 Distinguished Researcher Award from Taiwan National Science Council, the 2010 Distinguished Professor Award from National Sun Yat-Sen University, the 2011 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, and the 2008 ASCE-EWRI Best Theory-Oriented Paper Award. He is the Associate Editor of Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste and Water Environment Research. Prof. Kao is also an authorized Instructor for Environmental Site Assessment and Risk-Based Correction Action Processes by ASTM.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Toward a Sustainable and Resilient City – Development of Adaptation Measures to Climate Change.

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Dr. Feifei Pan, Associate Editor

Dr. Feifei Pan is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Geography of the University of North Texas (UNT). He received a B.S. degree in Atmospheric Science from Nanjing University in 1988 and a M.S. degree in Marine Meteorology from National Research Center of Marine Environmental Forecasts in China in 1991. He also received a M.S. degree in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University in 1997 and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (Major: Hydrology and Water Resources, Minor: Remote Sensing and GIS) from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory of Department of Energy (DOE) as a postdoctoral fellow. Prior to joining the Department of Geography at the University of North Texas, he was a research scientist in School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. As a hydrologist he studies the environmental and anthropogenic factors that affect the availability of water as a resource. His particular research focuses on developing data and methodologies that can be used for sustainable water resource management by researchers, governmental agencies, and the general public. To do this he focuses on developing better methods for data collection and analysis through the use of remote sensing technology and environmental modeling. In 2010, he received one of 32 nationally competitive Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. He currently is also an editorial board member of Open Journal of Soil Science.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Impacts of climate variability and change on groundwater resources and adaptation options.

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Dr. Lloyd H. C. Chua, Associate Editor

Dr. Lloyd Chua obtained his PhD from Nanyang Technological University after which he worked at the Ministry of the Environment, Singapore and thereafter in various research appointments at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark and Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany. He is currently Assistant Professor at the School Of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has published close to 70 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and 3 research reports. He has been a reviewer for Journal for Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE); Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering (ASCE), Hydrogeology Journal (AGU), Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Environmental Management, Advances in Environmental Research and Development, Journal of Hydro-environment Research, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (EGU) and is a past receipient of the Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize (ASCE). His current research interests lie is in the broad area of water resources engineering focusing on water resources issues in urban environments and focuses on topics in urban hydrology, water quality, rainfall-runoff modeling and data driven modeling approaches. Besides research, his other passion is in mentoring students in his capacity as the Assistant Chair for CEE, NTU.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Interactions between Urbanization, Climate Variability and its Impact on Surface Waters.

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Dr Guangtao Fu, Associate Editor

Dr Guangtao Fu is a lecturer in Water and Environmental Engineering at the University of Exeter. He holds a PhD in Water Resources Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, and a BEng and Master in Hydraulic Engineering from Shandong University. Before joining the University of Exeter, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol and Imperial College London. His research focuses on conducting fundamental and applied research at the interface between water systems and decision making by combining simulation, optimization, and information technologies to tackle water and environmental issues under climate change and urbanization. In particular, he is interested in the potential impacts of climate change on urban water systems, and the development of mitigate and adaptation measures using hydroinformatics tools. He has managed and contributed to several EPSRC and EU FP research projects. He is a fellow of UK HEA and a member of IWA and IAHS.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Innovative urban water infrastructure systems for a changing climate.

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Prof. Bryan C. Pijanowski, Associate Editor

Dr. Bryan C. Pijanowski is currently Professor of Landscape Ecology in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) at Purdue University. He is Director of the Graduate Assistance in Area of National Need (GAANN) Program in Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue, Director of the FNR Partnering for Land Use Sustainability (PLUS) Program and PI on an NSF Coupled Natural Human Systems Grant to support a Global Sustainable Soundscapes Network (GGSN). Dr. Pijanowski received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Michigan State University and his B.S. in Biology from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has published widely (>100 peer reviewed papers) in the area of environmental impacts to land use change and the use of multi-models to investigate land-climate-people interactions. Specific research foci has been land use change forecasts and backcast, coupling of land change models to surface and groundwater flow models, interaction of land surface properties and regional climate change and the error propagation in coupled spatial models. His research has focused on watersheds in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin, Central America, East Africa and the Middle East.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Climate Change Impact on Eastern Africa.

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Prof. Miklas Scholz, Associate Editor

Prof. Miklas Scholz cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, received his MSc in Water Resources Engineering and PhD in Civil Engineering from City University London and The University of Birmingham, respectively. He worked at The University of Edinburgh for about 8 years on wetland and sustainable urban water management systems. Since 2010, he is a Professor in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford, UK. He holds the Chair in Civil Engineering and is the Director of the Civil Engineering Research Centre. Over the past 14 years, his research has been focused on integrated constructed wetlands, alternative water resources technologies, sustainable water management, urban water systems analysis and sustainable flood retention basins. He has co-ordinated and contributed to several multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research projects. Prof. Scholz has published two books on wetland systems and approximately 135 journal papers. The latest research undertaken by his team has been summarized in a Springer book published by Scholz in 2010. The book is entitled ‘Wetland Systems – Storm Water Management Control’.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Adapting wetland management to climate change.

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Prof. Yang Hong, Associate Editor

Dr. Yang Hong is currently professor of hydro-meteorology-climatology and remote sensing in the School of Civil Engineering & Environmental Sciences and in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. Previously, he was a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Post-doc researcher at University of California, Irvine. He is currently the Director of Hydrometeorology and RemOte Sensing Laboratory (HyDROS Lab: http://hydro.ou.edu) at the National Weather Center, Norman OK. Dr. Hong’s areas of research span the wide range of hydrology-meteorology-climatology, with particular interest in bridging the gap among the water-weather-climate-human systems across scales in space and time. He has developed and taught class topics such as remote sensing retrieval and applications, advanced hydrologic modeling, climate change and natural hazards, engineering survey/measurement and statistics, land surface modeling and data assimilation systems for hydrological cycle and water systems under a changing climate.
Dr. Hong has served on several international and national committees, review panels, and editorial board of several journals. He was Chair of the AGU Hydrology-Precipitation Technical Committee from 2008-2012. He is recipient of the 2008 Group Achievement Award from the NASA Headquarter. Dr. Hong received a PhD Major in Hydrology and Water Resources and Ph.D. Minor in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis from the University of Arizona (2003) and an M.S. (1999) in Environmental Sciences and a B.S. (1996) in Geosciences from the Peking (Beijing) University, China.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Hydro-meteorological modeling and Sensor Network to address natural disasters in a changing climate.

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Dr. Sadiq I. Khan, Associate Editor

Dr. Sadiq Khan is currently postdoctoral scholar in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He is also affiliated with the Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing Laboratory (HyDROS Lab) and the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC). Dr. Khan received his Ph.D. (2011) from the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Science from the University of Oklahoma and M.A degree (2007) in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University. His field of interest includes flood hydrology and remote sensing in hydrology, particularly optical and microwave remote sensing for flood hydrology and management. Dr. Khan is the recipient of the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, Association of American Geographers, and American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Dr. Khan was selected for an outstanding student paper award for the research work he presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2009 Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Special Contribution: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of BJECC on Hydro-meteorological modeling and Sensor Network to address natural disasters in a changing climate.

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