Full-Time Faculty

Basic Introduction:

Dr. Lihong Yang received her Ph.D from Peking University. She is currently the Teaching Associate Professor in School of Environmental Science and Engineering at SUSTech, and the Deputy Director of State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water and Groundwater Pollution Control. She previously serves as the Chief Technical Engineer in the China Energy Conservation DADI Environmental Remediation Co., Ltd., the Deputy Director of State Environmental Protection Engineering Center for Industrial Contaminated Site and Groundwater Remediation. Dr. Lihong Yang’s expertise is focused on soil and groundwater environmental protection and contamination control, ecological protection and remediation in watershed, application and promotion of mathematical models in environmental management, etc.

Professional Experience:

2022.02 to present, Teaching Associate Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

2018-2021 Chief Technical Engineer of China Energy Conservation DADI Environmental Remediation Co., Ltd. / Deputy Director of the National Environmental Protection Industrial Pollution Site and Groundwater Remediation Engineering Technology Center

2012-2017 Manager of Consulting Department, Beijing Water International Technology Co., Ltd.

2007-2011 Environmental Engineer, HDR | HydroQual, Inc. United States

Education:

2014-2019 Ph.D in Mechanics (Energy and Resource Engineering), Peking University,

2003-2006 M.S. in Technical System Management (Environmental Management), State University of New York at Stony Brook,

1999-2002 M.S. in Marine Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1995-1999 B.S. in Environmental Science, Shanxi University

Synergistic Activities:

Deputy Director, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water and Groundwater Pollution Control

Committee Member of the China Environmental Protection Brand Cluster Expert Committee

Selected funded projects:

1．Pilot Projects for Groundwater Pollution Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in Lishui, Zhejiang Province (2019 to present), Technical Director;

2．National Groundwater General Survey and Contamination Assessment: Developing National Guideline and Demonstrating Case Studies Regarding Various Contamination Sources, supported by Ministry of Environmental Protection, China, 2011 ~ 2017

3．The Guide for Groundwater Contamination Transport Modeling, supported by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA, 2016-2017

4．Evaluation of the Impact of Tailings Pond in the Zhongjiaxi River Basin of Longyan, Fujian on the Surface Water Quanlity and Development of Ecological Restoration Plan for the Basin, 2015

5．Daguhe Groundwater Rehabilitation and Protection, Qingdao, China, Technical Assistance Project by Asian Development Bank, 2014 ~ 2015

6．Groundwater Radioactive Contamination Investigation, Modeling, and Risk Assessment. China Institute of Atomic Energy: 2013

7．Beijing Karstic Groundwater Investigation – Distributed Watershed Model Development and Application, 2012 ~ 2014

8．San Joaquin River Dissolved Oxygen and Water Quality Modeling, U.S. ACE, San Francisco District, California, 2009 ~ 2011

9．Risk Assessment of Petroleum Products on Human Health and Ecosystem, Exxon Mobil Corporation, 2010 ~ 2011

10．Lower Passaic River and Newark Bay Sediment Transport and Pollutants Distribution and Water Quality Impact. USEPA, 2010 ~ 2011

11．Korea Neasung Stream Watershed Hydrology Condition and Sediment Transport Study, Myongji University, 2010 ~ 2011

12．Copper Transport and Fate in Godwin Creek Watershed, American Chemical Council. 2010

13．The Impact Assessment of the Smelter to Upper Columbia River Surface Water and Sediment, 2009 ~ 2011

14．Wuhan (Yangtze River, Hanjiang River and Donghu Lake) Water Quality Modeling and Water Resources Management Alternatives Plan, Asian Development Bank, 2008 ~ 2010

15．New Jersey Non-Tidal Passaic River Basin Nutrient Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Study, NJDEP, 2008 ~ 2009

16．East Canyon Creek Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Results, Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District, 2008 ~ 2009

17．Water Quality Impact Assessment of the Proposed Outfalls in New York Harbor Area, NYC Dept of Design and Construction, 2008 ~ 2009

New York City-Wide Long-Term Waterbody/Watershed Facility Planning and Receiving Water Quality Evaluation, NYCDEP, 2007 ~ 2008

Research Interests:

1.Environment protection and ecological remediation in river basin

2. Integrated environmental protection and pollution control for soil and groundwater

3. Environmental system modeling and risk assessment

Teaching

Undergraduate courses:

Ø  Ecological Remediation

Ø  Soil and Groundwater Contamination

Graduate courses:

Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Pollution

Published Works:

1. 杨丽红，邢玉权，孟楠，杜维涛，陈秋勇，徐萍，基于污染机制系统研究的废弃黄铁矿区酸性废水综合治理体系开发[J]. 环境工程（40卷增刊）2022，149-204.

2. Lihong Yang, Chunmiao Zheng, Charles B. Andrews, Chengjian Wang. Applying a regional transport modeling framework to manage nitrate contamination of groundwater. Ground Water, 2020, 59(2): 292-307.

3. Lihong Yang, Yongqiang Qi, Chunmiao Zheng, Andrews A. Charles. A Modified Water-Table Fluctuation Method to Characterize Regional Groundwater Discharge. Water, 2018, 10(4): 503-519.

4. Laurie D. De Rosa, Andrew J. Thuman, Thomas W. Gallagher, Lihong Yang. “Non-Traditional Management Solutions for Macrophyte and Dissolved Oxygen Impairment in a Midwestern Creek When Point Source Controls Have Not Worked”, Water Environment Federation® Technical Exhibition and Conference. 2009, (19): 3263-3281.

5. Lihong Yang, Muhong Chen, Rujian Wang, Fan Zheng. “Radiolarian record to paleoecological environment change events over the past 1.2MaBP in southern South China Sea”, Chinese Science Bulletin, 2002, 41(18): 1478-1483.

6. Lihong Yang, Muhong Chen, Rujian Wang, Jun Lu, Fan Zheng, “Radiolarian fauna characters in southern South China Sea since 1MaB.P.”, Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2003, 22(5): 8-15.

7. Muhong Chen, Rujian Wang, Lihong Yang, Jianxiu Han, Jun Lu. “Development of east Asian summer monsoon environments in the late Miocene: radiolarian evidence from Site 1143 of ODP (Ocean Drilling Project) Leg 184”, Marine Geology, 2003, (201): 169-177.

8. Tieliang Shangguan, Zhili Jia, Hong Zhang, Lihong Yang, “Studies on the biomass of three herb communities in flood plain of Fen River”, Pratacultural Science, 2002, 6(17): 39-46.

9. Cuihong Wang, Jianhong Xu, Xiaoyun Xin, Wei Fan, Xiaoyong Ma, Lihong Yang, Shurong Zhang, “Comparative study of the toxicity to six organophosphorus pesticides and three heavy metal ions to Chlorella Vulgaris” , Henan Science, 1999, 6(17): 108-110.

10. Lihong Yang, Liuxin Jing, Chunmiao Zheng. Evaluation of groundwater remediation strategies at petroleum contaminated sites based on groundwater modelling approach. 2019 IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 344 012162.