Dr. Yangdong Pan is a full professor at the Professor of Environmental Science and Management, Portland State University, Oregon. He obtained his Ph.D in Biology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, U.S.A in 1993. He served as chairman of Chair of Environmental Science and Management, Portland State University, Oregon in 2012-2015. He was a visit scientist at Shanghai Academy of Environmental Science, China from 2011 to 2012. His major research interests include freshwater ecology, water quality, and environmental risk assessment. He has presided over and participated >20 scientific research projects. He is a peer reviewer for >33 journals such as Aquatic Living Resources; Aquatic Biology; Archive für Hydrobiologie; Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research; Annales de Limnologie–International Journal of Limnologyetc. He published more than 50 journal articles.

From 2011 to 2016, he went to Shanghai Normal University and Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences for water quality safety exchange every year,andarrived in Kunming in May 2015, Jiuzhaigou in 2016. Hecame to Nanyang in September 2017 and June-July 2018 for cooperative research on water safetyon water safety technology of Water Source Region of Middle Route Project of South-North Water Diversion.

E-mail:pany@pdx.edu