ISSN: 2642-4525
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
South Dakota State University
United States of America
Tel: 605-688-6714
Dr. Xiaoyang Zhang received the B.S. degree in geography from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1984, the M.S. degree in geography from theNanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in geography from King's College London, University of London, London, U.K., in 1999. Dr. Zhang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and a Senior Scientist at the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence at South Dakota State University. Before coming to SDSU, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (1984-1988); a Research Associate Professor with the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, CAS (1988-1995); a Research Associate and Research Assistant Professor from the Department of Geography, Boston University, Boston, MA (1999 to 2005). As a Senior Research Scientist in the Earth Resources Technology (2005-2012) and a visiting Associate Research Scientist at the University of Maryland (2012-2013), he worked at the NOAA/NESDIS/STAR. Dr. Zhang's research focuses on land surface dynamics and vegetation phenology, biomass burning emissions, land cover and land use change, and climate-terrestrial ecosystem interaction.
