Hello, here is Yaoyang Xu, whose home page at Institute of urban environment (IUE, CAS) would like to show you what this guy did from past experience and works for next step. This guy joined in IUE at the end of January, and now serves as research professor, graduate supervisor and principal investigator with heading the team work of aquatic/watershed ecology. During ten years for which this guy has been with earning a doctorate degree and lecturing college/graduate student in China as well as experiencing postdoc research in USA, he was running in a funny way along which this guy engages to convince research and management communities with several practicable approaches of how several well-known theories in ecology (e.g. Spatial synchrony, Co-occurrence network, Population principle and Law of the minimum) could be applied powerfully for understanding Damming-impacted ecosystem processes, modeling Algal-based biofuel sustainability and managing Climate-driven lake eutrophication. This guy just passed a traffic-green light at the cross of his academic way, and keeps running toward the same direction, with merging his research experience into recent interests about how the couple of fundamental ecology and other emerging disciplines could enhance the integration of observation design, model development and knowledge accumulation specified to the data-driven precision management of aquatic/watershed ecosystems interacted by both of human activity (e.g. urbanization) and climate variability (e.g. extreme events). Please don’t hesitate to touch this guy with E-mail, if this page might be raising you with questions, comments and interests, any of which he would love to feedback you and really appreciates you with having at least $1 drinks! (Water, beer, juice or tea, no wine and alcohol)
1. Education background
1.1 B.S. (Sep. 2000~Jul. 2004): South China University of Tropical Agriculture (Re-named now as “Hainan University”); Majored in Agricultural resources and environmental sciences (known as “Soil science and plant nutrition”). http://www.hainu.edu.cn/
1.2 Ph.D. (Sep. 2005~Jul. 2010): Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Majored in Hydrobiology (Master-doctor graduate program). http://www.ihb.ac.cn/
2. Professional experience
2.1 Research Assistant (Aug. 2004~Jul. 2010): Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Investigated reservoir eutrophication and damming-impacted ecosystem alterations. http://www.ihb.ac.cn/
2.2 Lecturer (Aug. 2010~Mar. 2012): College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University; Lectured agricultural meteorology and advanced biostatistics. http://www2.ahnu.edu.cn/
2.3 Post-doctoral Research Scientist (Apr. 2012~Mar. 2013): Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University; Modelled algal-based biofuel sustainability. https://www.nmsu.edu/
2.4 Post-doctoral Associate (Apr. 2013~Jan. 2016), Vermont-EPSCoR, the University of Vermont; Modelled climate-driven lake eutrophication. https://www.uvm.edu/
3. Academic memberships
3.1 Member (2012-), Association for Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, ASLO. http://aslo.org/index.php
3.2 Member (2014-) International Association for Great Lakes Research, IAGLR. http://www.iaglr.org/
4. Community services
4.1 Peer-reviewers of academic journals (more than 20 journals)
"4.2 Session chair (2015). 58th IAGLR Conference on Great Lakes Research. http://iaglr.org/conference/downloads/2015_program.pdf
4.3 Review Panelist (2016). National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship Program http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201
5. Honor awards
5.1 Excellent Prize (2010): President Scholarship for Graduate Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. http://www.cas.cn/
5.1 Lu Jiaxi Prize (2010): Lu Jiaxi Scholarship for Excellent Graduate Student, Lu Jiaxi Science and Education Foundation, China. http://www.fjirsm.ac.cn/fjljxkxjyjjh/
Aquatic/watershed ecology
1. Guo, Z.; Boeing, W.J.; Xu, Y*.; Borgonmeo, E.; Al-Mashaqbeh, O.A.; Liu, D.; Yang, X.R., Regionally distinct threats from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in global reservoirs. Nature Geoscience, 2026, 19, 68-74.
2. Guo, Z.; Ateia, M.; Borgomeo, E.; Boeing, W.J.; Malnes, D.; He, Y.; Liu, D.; Xu, Y*., Asymmetrical contamination of anionic PFAS across global freshwater reservoirs. Water Research, 2026, 298, 124940.
3. Ao, S.; Cower, W.; Resh, V.H.; Chiu, M.C.; Zhang, D.; Xu, Y.; Patil, A.J.; Guo, Z.; Sun, X.; Xu, Y*., Biogeographic biases in microplastic ingestion research mask biodiversity and consumption risks across benthic invertebrates. Water Research, 2026, 291, 125115.
4. Lu, L.; Johnson, M.F.; Zhu, F.F.; Ruan, T.; Chan, F.K.S*.; Xu Y*., Climate adaptation framework for advancing community stormwater management. Environmental Science & Technology, 2025, 59, 50, 27244-27253.
5. Chen, C.; Cowger, W.; Nava, V.; van Emmerik, T.H.M.; Leoni, B.; Guo, Z.; Liu D.; He, Y.; Xu, Y*., Wastewater discharge transports riverine microplastics over long distances. Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58, 15147-15158.
6. Liu, D.; Luo, Y.; Bao, W.; Junaid, M.; Guo, Z.; Xu, Y*., Data-driven insights into the contamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in marine bays. Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58, 15202-15213.
7. He, Y.; McDonough, L.K.; Zainab, S.M.; Guo, Z.; Chen, C.; Xu, Y*., Microplastic accumulation in groundwater: Data-scaled insights and future research. Water Research, 2024, 258, 121808.
8. Guo, Z.; Das, K.; Boeing, W.J.; Xu, Y*.; Borgomeo, E.; Zhang, D.; Ao, S.; Yang, X., Distance-decay equations of antibiotic resistance genes across freshwater reservoirs. Water Research, 2024, 258, 121830.
9. Ruan, T; Xu, Y*.; Jones, L; Boeing, W.J.; Calfapietra, C., Green infrastructure sustains the food-energy-water-habitat nexus. Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023, 98, 104845.
10. Guo, Z.; Boeing, W.J.; Xu, Y*.; Borgomeo, E.; Liu, D.; Zhu, Y., Data-driven discoveries on widespread contamination of freshwater reservoirs by dominant antibiotic resistance genes. Water Research, 2023, 229, 119466.
11. Guo, Z.; Boeing, W.J.; Xu, Y*.; Borgomeo, E.; Mason, S.A.; Zhu, Y., Global meta-analysis of microplastic contamination in reservoirs with a novel framework. Water Research, 2021, 207, 117828.
12. Liang, Z.; Liu, Y.; Xu, Y*.; Wagner, T., Bayesian change point quantile regression approach to enhance the understanding of shifting phytoplankton-dimethyl sulfide relationships in aquatic ecosystems. Water Research, 2021, 201, 117287.
13. Xu, Y.; Schroth, A.W.; Isles, P.D.F.; Rizzo D.M., Quantile regression improves models of lake eutrophication with implications for ecosystem-specific management. Freshwater Biology, 2015, 60, 1841-1853.
14. Xu, Y.; Schroth, A.W.; Rizzo, D.M., Developing a 21st Century framework for lake-specific eutrophication assessment using quantile regression. Limnology and Oceanography: Method, 20115, 13, 237-249.
15. Xu, Y.; Boeing, W.J., Modeling maximum lipid productivity of microalgae: Review and next step. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014, 32, 29-39.
16. Xu, Y.; Boeing, W.J., Mapping biofuel field: A bibliometric evaluation of research output. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013, 28, 82-91.