Reporter: Professor Duan Qingyun

Time: 9:00 am on 2 November, 2016 

Place: Room 208 of college water resources and architectural engineering’s comprehensive building

Reporter’s Introduction:

Duan Qingyun is a professor and chief scientist of the College of Global Change and Earth System Science at Beijing Normal University. He is a state distinguished professor of innovative long-term project of Central Organization Department’s Thousand Talents plan.

Professor Duan received his bachelor’s degree from Wuhan Hydraulic & Electric University (now Wuhan University) in 1982, his master’s degree in water resources management and doctorate of hydrology was obtained from the University of Arizona, USA in 1987 and 1991 respectively. Between 1991 and 2009, he was appointed as the team leader of the hydraulic laboratory of NOAA, and as a senior researcher of the U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Professor, Duan has been teaching in Beijing Normal University since 2009 and engaging in various research activities related to surface water hydrology, land hydrological models, soil-plant-atmosphere interaction mechanism, the impact of climate change on water resources, etc. Presently, the focus of his study is on the hydrometeological forecast methods and uncertainty analysis methods for numerical weather models, climate models and other complex models.

He has published 3 books and more than 70 SCI papers to his credit with ISI citations total of over 5400 and H-index is 31. He has held leading position in many international academic communities and presently leading MOPEX.

Professor Duan has been serving as either an editor or editorial board member of many journals including Water Resources Research, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, International Journal of Water, Environmental Modeling and Software. Now, he is the Chief executive editor for large reference books of Springer press, which published Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting. He was awarded Thousand Talents plan in 2010, American Geophysical Union fellow in 2012, and American Meteorological Society fellow in 2015.