Curriculum Vitae - Weihong Fan
TITLE and EDUCATION:
9/2002 – Date Associate Professor of Environmental Science
1993 Ph.D. Ecology Colorado State University, USA
1984 M.S. Geography Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
1982 B.S. Geography Northeastern Normal University, Changchun, China
¨ Weihong Fan, Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Award number: 05-CA-11242343-129), 2005-2007, $39,787, Estimation of Nitrogen Mineralization in Forest Ecosystems of Mid-Atlantic Region.
¨ Richard Waring, Nicholas Coops, and Weihong Fan, Grant from NASA (Award number: NNG04GK26G), 2004 -2007, $532,323, Predicting Tree Diversity across the Contiguous U.S.A. from Growing Season Patterns in Photosynthesis derived with a Satellite-driven Model, 3-PGS. Map and data publications in website: http://loki.stockton.edu/~fanw/
¨ W. Cromartie, N. Ashton, Weihong Fan and C. Thomson, Grant from the National Science Foundation (Award number: DUE#0088594), 2000-2003, $166,766. Increasing student and faculty participation in GIS education: Envisioning spatial data. See NSF website of the project: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0088594
¨ Weihong Fan, Grant from Cherry Hill Fire Department, 2000, $4,493. The most current street mapping of Cherry Hill Township for evaluation of emergency responses using GIS.
¨ Weihong Fan, Grant from the Atlantic County Department of Planning, 1998, $2,400, Providing technical support in performing delineation of Well Head Protection tiers for approximately 140 public non-community wells in Egg Harbor and Galloway Townships using GIS technology.
¨ Weihong Fan, Contract between Stockton and Atlantic County Planning, 1998, $5,000, Converting existing municipal zoning maps and ordinances from current analogy source maps and documents into a GIS data set(s).
¨ Weihong Fan, software funding worth $25,000/year from the Environmental System Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), Redlands, California, the leading GIS software company, 1997- NOW.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
Nightingale, J. M., Weihong Fan, N. C. Coops, and R. H. Waring. 2008. Predicting tree diversity across the U.S.A. as a function of modeled gross primary production. Ecological Applications 18:93-103.
Waring, H. Richard, N. Coops, Weihong Fan, and J. Nightingale. 2006. MODIS enhanced vegetation index predicts tree species richness across forested ecoregions in the contiguous U.S.A. Remote Sensing of Environment 103:218-226.
Swenson, Jennifer, Richard, Waring, Weihong Fan,, and Nicholas Coops, 2005. Predicting Site Index with a Physiologically-based Growth Model across Oregon, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 35:1697-1707.
Ehman, Jeffrey L., Weihong Fan, J.C. Randolph, Jane Southworth, and Nicole Turrill Welch. 2002. An Integrated GIS and Modeling Approach to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on Forests of the Southern Great Lakes Region. Forest Ecology and Management, 155:237-255.
Fan, Weihong, J. C. Randolph, and Jeffrey Ehman. 1998. Estimation of Nitrogen Mineralization in Forest Ecosystems in the Midwestern Great Lakes Region using GIS. Ecological Application, 8(3):734-747
Fan, Weihong. 1993. Regional Analysis of Plant Species and Environmental Variables in Eastern Colorado. Ph.D. dissertation. Colorado State University, pp. 182.
Zhao, Ji, Chimei Liao, and Weihong Fan. 1990. Research on land degradation of Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia by remote sensing. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Grassland Vegetation (peer reviewed), Hanxi Yang (edited), page 141-146. Science Press, Beijing, China.
Zhao, Ji, and Weihong Fan. 1988. A research on the problems of irrational utilization and degradation of land in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Journal of Beijing Normal University (Beijing Shifandaxue Xuebao, a peer reviewed national journal in Chinese with abstracts in English), 1988 (supplemental issue):77-84
Fan, Weihong, and Zhao Ji. 1987. Remote sensing analysis on desertification in Hulun Beier grassland. Remote Sensing of Environment, China (a peer reviewed national journal in Chinese with abstracts in English), 2:11-19
Fan, Weihong, Ji Zhao, and Chimei Liao. 1987. An analysis of remotely sensed image on land cover types and land use status in Chifeng area. Application Research of Remote Sensing on Grassland Resources Survey in Inner Mongolia, Guodong Zhang et al. (edited), page 312-317. The University of Inner Mongolia Publishing, Huhehot, China
Zhao, Ji, Chimei Liao, and Weihong Fan. 1987. Application of Landsat images to the analysis of land types and land degradation. Application Research of Remote Sensing on Grassland Resources Survey in Inner Mongolia, Guodong Zhang et al. (edited), page 235-244. The University of Inner Mongolia Publishing, Huhehot, China
Zhou, Qiming, Weihong Fan and Ji Zhao. 1986. The geographical analysis of remotely sensed images on deterioration of grassland in Hailar region. The Journal of Beijing Normal University (Beijing Shifandaxue Xuebao, a peer reviewed national journal in Chinese with abstracts in English), 1986:81-86
Zhao, Ji, Weihong Fan, and Chimei Liao. 1986. The studies of degradation of land and resources management in Chifeng and Zelinu League, Inner Mongolia. The Journal of Beijing Normal University (Beijing Shifandaxue Xuebao, a peer reviewed national journal in Chinese with abstracts in English), 1986 (supplemental issue):33-38.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:
Fan, Weihong and Colleen Carroll. Temperature and Precipitation Trends in the U.S. from 1931 – 2000. World Association of Sustainable Development 9th International conference, Atlantic City, NJ, October 26 – 28, 2011.
Mueller, Raymond, Weili Qiu, Weihong Fan, and Michael Hozik. Production, Pesticide Usage, and Labor Cost of Apple Farms in Northeastern US and North China – A comparative case study. World Association of Sustainable Development 9th International conference, Atlantic City, NJ, October 26 – 28, 2011.
Fan, Weihong and Richard H. Waring. Actual Evapotranspiration (AET) and Tree Species Richness in the Eastern U.S.A. FIA Symposium 2008, Park City, Utah, October 21 – 23, 2008.
Fan, Weihong, Richard H. Waring, N. Coops, and J. Nightingale. Analysis of Environmental Factors Influencing Tree Species Richness across and within Ecoregions in Eastern U.S.A. The 91st Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America at Memphis, TN, August 6-11, 2006
Fan, Weihong, R. H. Waring. A General Method of Converting Variable Radius Plot Data to Fixed Area Estimates of Species Richness across the U.S.A. The 90th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America at Montreal, Canada, August 7-12, 2005.
Fan, Weihong J. Chen, and K. D. Brosofske. The scale dependency of the relationship between litter quantity and nitrogen mineralization in forest ecosystems and landscape. The 85th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America at Snowbird, Utah, August 6 –10, 2000.
Fan, Weihong, C. Epstein, P. Morris, J. Oden, and Z. Szabo. Method to improve contributing-area delineation used to assess relations among land use, radionuclide concentrations, and water quality in unconfined public-supply wells in New Jersey. The 35th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, March 13 –15, 2000, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Fan, Weihong, J. Chen, K.D. Brosofske, and D. Zheng. 1999. Landscape-level effects of alternative forest management on nitrogen minerlization in the Chequamegan National Forest, WI. The 84th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Spokane, Wahshington. August 8 - 12, 1999
Holdcraft, R. J. and Weihong Fan. 1999. Identification of ideal areas in Atlantic County, NJ, for conversion to wetlands for mitigation purposes. The 19th Annual ESRI User Conference, the largest international conference on GIS technology with over 9,000 attendants, San Diego, CA. July 26 - 30, 1999
Leibrand, T. J. and Weihong Fan. 1999. Farmland preservation in Salem County, NJ. The 19th Annual ESRI User Conference, the largest international conference on GIS technology with over 9,000 attendants, San Diego, CA. July 26 - 30, 1999
Fan, Weihong. 1998. N Storage in the United States and its Environmental Change Implications. The Thirteenth Annual Symposium for United States Regional Association of International Association for Landscape Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. March 17 - 21, 1998
Cromartie, W. J. and Weihong Fan. 1997. A Geographic Information Systems Facility for Environmental Studies Workshop. The Thirteenth Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, the Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey. October 24 - 25, 1997.
Fan, Weihong. 1997. Scale - The Key Spatial Concept in GIS Education. The Third International Symposium on GIS in Higher Education, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, October 30 - November 2, 1997.
Fan, Weihong, J. C. Randolph, and Jeffrey Ehman. 1995. Estimation of Nitrogen Mineralization in Forest Ecosystems in the Midwestern Great Lakes Region using GIS. The 80th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, Utah, 1995.
Fan, Weihong, W. K. Lauenroth, D. P. Coffin, and I. C. Burke. 1993. Regional analysis of relationships between the geographical distributions of plant species and environmental controls in eastern Colorado. The 78th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993.