Education

M.A. in Geography, University of Northern Iowa, 2019
- Thesis: Evaluating Livelihood Vulnerability of Farming Communities to Winter Storms in Iowa. FULL TEXT
B.S. in Human Geography and Urban-rural Planning, Fuzhou University, 2017
- Thesis: Impact of Tibetan Household Livelihood Capital on Tourism Participation Level: A Case of Jiaju Tibetan Village in Garze

Research & Field Experience

Jun - Present 2024: Research Affiliate Program, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Developing methods to map commodity flows
Sep - Dec 2022: Analyst, Statistics Canada
- Identified and reported data and methodologies useful for producing ecosystem service accounts for the Register of Ecosystem Assets
April-August 2020: Consultant, WWF China
- Conducted research on protected area management standards, adapted the criteria and drafted the manual
- Provided consultation for ranger app development
- Prepared consultation meeting materials (drafts, brochure, slides, maps), facilitated meetings, and reported project progress
- Translated the Living Planet Index for Migratory Fish
- Prepared environmental education resources and conducted lessons in the classroom
- Assisted in developing and maintaining project documentation and database
Summer 2019: Research Assistant, GeoTREE Center, University of Northern Iowa
- Configured GPS receiver and collected field data
- Tested and edited water quality modeling script tools
Jan 2018-May 2019: Research Assistant, Geography Department, University of Northern Iowa
- Collected various remote sensing products and performed pre-processiing
- Validated Remote Senisng algorithms
- Conducted and reported literature review

Leong Fellowship. 2022-2024.
Rathlyn Fellowship in Geography. McGill University. 2022.
Rathlyn Fellowship in Geography. McGill University. 2021.
First Place of the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award. Graduate College at the University of Northern Iowa. 2020.
Graduate Research Award. College of Social and Behavioral Science. Cedar Falls, IA. 2019.
Third Place Award in Graduate Poster Presentation at the WLDAAG 2019. Cedar Falls, IA. 2019.
Third Place Award in the 14th SUPERMAP CUP National College GIS Contest. China. 2016.
Multidimensional Research on the Construction of Integrated Community. Funded by Provincial Undergraduate Research Training Program. Member. Provincial Excellence Award. Fujian, China. 2015-2016.

Canadian EFI Summer School: Forecasting for Decision-Making: An Epidemiological & Ecological Perspective
Resilience Alliance Short Course: Resilience assessment and social-ecological systems methods
NASA ARSET Program: Applications of Remote Sensing-Based Evapotranspiration Data Products for Agricultural and Water Resource Management
Santa Fe Institute: Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling
African Wildlife Foundation & Friends of Nature China: China-Africa Youth Conservation Workshop on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework