Peng Gao EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT. 09/2013 Present, Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina. AWARDS

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1 Department of Geography University of South Carolina 709 Bull ST, Callcott 122 Columbia, SC Peng Gao Curriculum Vitae, Peng Gao (Office) (Fax) EDUCATION Ph.D. in Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, December 2013 Dissertation: Uncovering the Structures in Ecological Networks: Multiple Techniques for Multiple Purposes (Advised by Dr. John A. Kupfer) M.S. in Soil Science, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, August 2007 Thesis: A WebGIS based Inquiry System for Soil Information in China (Advised by Dr. Xuezheng Shi) B.S. in Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, May 2004 Thesis: the Non-point Source Pollution in Yangzhou City and its Effect on the Water Quality of Grand Canal (Advised by Dr. Manrong Chen) EMPLOYMENT 09/2013 Present, Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina. AWARDS Student Travel Awards, U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), Dean s Dissertation Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina, National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Michigan State University (NASA - MSU) Professional Enhancement Award, U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), Second place in the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Annual GeoLeague Challenge competition, (Title: Development of a Repeatable Cost and Time Efficient Remote Sensing Solution for Updating the National Coastal Wetlands Inventory. team work) Excellent Thesis, Yangzhou University, Published or Accepted: Journals PUBLICATIONS Yao, R.J., Yang, J.S., Wu, D.H., Li, F.R., Gao P. and X.P. Wang. Evaluation of pedotransfer functions for estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity in coastal salt-affected mud farmland. Journal of Soils and Sediments, in press. Kupfer, J. A., K. M. Meitzen, and P. Gao. Flooding and Surface Connectivity of Taxodium-Nyssa Swamps in a Southern Floodplain Forest System, River Research and Applications, in press. Yao, R. J., J. S. Yang, P. Gao, X. P. Wang, L. Z. Hong, and M. W. Wang Determination of Site-Specific Management Zones Using Soil Physico-Chemical Properties and Crop Yields in Coastal Reclaimed Farmland, Geoderma, 232: Yao, R. J., J. S. Yang, P. Gao, J. B. Zhang, W. H. Jin, and S. P. Yu Soil-Quality-Index Model for Assessing the Impact of Groundwater on Soil in an Intensively Farmed Coastal Area of E China, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Updated on Jan 26,

2 Soil Science, 177(3): Curriculum Vitae, Peng Gao Yao, R. J., J. S. Yang, P. Gao, H. B. Shao, G. M. Liu, and S. P. Yu Comparison of Statistical Prediction Methods for Characterizing the Spatial Variability of Apparent Electrical Conductivity in Coastal Salt-Affected Farmland, Environmental Earth Science, 71 (1): Gao, P., J. A. Kupfer, D. Guo, and T. Lei Identifying Functionally-Connected Habitat Compartments with a Novel Regionalization Technique, Landscape Ecology, 28 (10): Gao, P., D. Guo, K. Liao, J. J. Webb, and S. L. Cutter Early Detection of Terrorism Outbreaks Using Prospective Space-Time Scan Statistics, Professional Geographer, 65 (4) Yao, R. J., J. S. Yang, P. Gao, W. H. Jin, and S. P. Yu Determining Minimum Data Set for Soil Quality Assessment of Typical Salt-Affected Farmland in the Coastal Reclamation Area, Soil & Tillage Research, 128: Yao, R. J., J. S. Yang, P. Gao,, H. B. Shao, X. B. Chen, and S. P. Yu Multivariate Simulation and Assessment of Three Dimensional Spatial Patterns of Coastal Soil Salinity Using Ancillary Variables. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 22(1): Yao, R. J., J. S. Yang, J. B. Zhang, P. Gao, S, P. Yu and X. P. Wang Short-Term Effect of Cultivation and Crop Rotation Systems on Soil Quality Indicators in a Coastal Newly-Reclaimed Farming Area, Journal of Soils and Sediments, 13 (8): Kupfer, J. A., P. Gao, and D. Guo Regionalization of Forest Pattern Metrics for The Continental United States Using Contiguity Constrained Clustering and Partitioning, Ecological Informatics, 9: Guo, D., X. Zhu, H. Jin, P. Gao., and C. Andris Discovering Spatial Patterns in Origin-Destination Mobility Data, Transactions in GIS, 16 (3): Kupfer, J. A. and P. Gao Spatial Patterns of Ecological Integrity in South Carolina Watersheds, Southeastern Geographer, 51: Proceedings Gao,P., G. Carbone, D. Tufford, A. Patel, and L. Rouen. Assessing Methods to Disaggregate Daily Precipitation for Hydrological Simulation, Proceedings of the 2012 South Carolina Water Resources Conference. Gao, P., C. C. Trettin, and C. Yi. Use of Remote Sensing to Inventory Mountain Peatlands in Lesotho, Proceedings of the 14 th International Peat Congress Peatlands Gao, P., C. C. Trettin, and S. Ghoshal. Object-Oriented Segmentation and Classification of Wetlands within the Khalong-La-Lithunya Catchment, Lesotho, Africa, Proceedings of the 20 th International Conference on Geoinformatics Kupfer, J and Gao,P. A Flexible Indicator-Based Approach to Assessing the Ecological Integrity of South Carolina Watersheds, Proceedings of the 2008 South Carolina Water Resources Conference. In Review: Gao, P., and J. A. Kupfer. Uncovering Food Web Structure Using a Novel Trophic Similarity Measure, Ecological Informatics. Gao, P., D. L. Tufford, G. J. Carbone, P. Aashka, and L. F. Rouen. Assessing Methods to Disaggregate Daily Precipitation for Watershed Hydrological Simulation Modeling, Hydrological Sciences Journal. Gao, P. and G. J. Carbone. NARCCAP Model Comparison of Extreme Rainfall Intensity in the Continental United States, Hydrological Processes. Yao, R. J., J. S. Yng, D. H. Wu, P. Gao, W. H. Jin, S. Y. Cui and X. Zhang. Geostatistical Monitoring of Soil Salinity for Precision Management Using Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) and Repeated EMI Surveys. Soil Use & Management. Yao, R. J., J. S. Yang, D. H. Wu, W. P. Xie, P. Gao, S. Y. Cui, X. Zhang, and S. P. Yu. Spatial-temporal changes of soil and crop parameters and their implications for precision management in a coastal salt-affected mud farmland. Soil and Tillage Research. Updated on Jan 26,

3 PRESENTATIONS Comparison of Rainfall Intensity in Downscaled Climate Model Output for the Carolinas, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual meeting, Tampa, FL, Regionalization of White-Tailed Deer Movement Patterns Using High Resolution Telemetry Data, U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Symposium, Austin, TX, Assessing Methods to Disaggregate Daily Precipitation for Hydrological Simulation, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Assessing Methods to Disaggregate Daily Precipitation for Hydrological Simulation, South Carolina Water Resources Conference, Columbia, SC, Identifying Functionally-Connected Habitat Compartments with a Novel Regionalization Technique, U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Symposium, Newport, RI, Early Detection of Terrorism Clusters Using Space-Time Scan Statistics, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual meeting, Seattle, WA, A Flexible Indicator-Based Approach to Assessing the Ecological Integrity of South Carolina Watersheds (Poster), Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV, RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 09/2013 present, Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center, Department of Geography. Project: Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments Research Associate. Responsibilities: Constructed climate change scenarios for hydrological modeling from a suite of dynamically and statistically downscaled CMIP3/CMIP5 output 09/ present, South Carolina Applied Landscape Ecology Lab, Department of Geography. Project: A GIS-based mitigation forecasting tool and study on advanced mitigation processes used by Department Of Transportation (DOT). Research Associate. Responsibilities: Data acquisition, management, quality assurance and control 08/ /2012, Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center, Department of Geography. Project: Climate Change-Induced Changes in Flow Regime, Floodplain Inundation and Species Habitats at Congaree National Park. Tested the sensitivity of a watershed-level hydrological model for assessing the impact of climate change on riparian ecosystems at Congaree National Park 06/ /2011, Center for Forested Wetlands Research, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Project: Inventory and Characterization of Alpine Wetlands in Lesotho. Graduate Intern. Responsibilities: Developed methods for detecting wetlands through the use of remote sensing techniques and assessing erosion in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho, Africa 08/ /2010, Spatial Data Mining and Visual Analytics Lab, Department of Geography. Project: Extracting and Understanding Complex Patterns in Spatial Interactions - A Computational - Visual Framework. Analyzed spatial and temporal patterns of organism movement from GPS telemetry data Updated on Jan 26,

4 08/ /2008, South Carolina Applied Landscape Ecology Lab, Department of Geography. Project: Pattern of Ecological Integrity in Southeastern Riparian Systems. Investigated spatial patterns of ecological integrity of watersheds in South Carolina 08/ /2008, Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, Department of Geography. Project: Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), Department of Homeland Security. Predicted potential terrorism outbreaks based on the worldwide terrorism database TEACHING EXPERIENCE Spring 2015, Teaching Assistant of GEOG 847: Advanced Seminar in Physical Geography: Approaches and Applications in Species Distribution Modeling and Mapping Fall 2014, Co-supervisor of GEOG 705: Independent Study: Social Network Analysis of Climate Information Usage Summer 2014, Instructor of GEOG 363: Introduction to GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Summer 2013, Instructor of GEOG 363: Introduction to GIS (Geographic Information Systems) PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Hydrological Simulation Program--FORTRAN (HSPF) for Watershed Modeling held by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Conroe, TX, August Model Calibration and Predictive Uncertainty Analysis Using PEST, Bethesda, MD, September SKILLS Software: ESRI ArcGIS Suite, ecognition, BASINS, HSPF, LP360 Programming Language: Java, Python, R PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for Journals: Dataset Papers in Science (1 time) Environmental Engineering and Management Journal (1 time) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (1 time) Environmental Processes (1 time) GIScience & Remote Sensing (1 time) ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (4 times) Journal of Environmental Informatics (3 times) Journal of Geographical Systems (1 time) Pedosphere (3 times) Updated on Jan 26,

5 Remote Sensing (3 times) Sensors (1 time) Landscape and Urban Planning (1 time) Society Membership and Service: Association of American Geographers (AAG) U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Newsletter Committee, Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Systems (CPGIS) Treasurer, Friendship Association of Chinese Students and Scholars (FACSS), University of South Carolina Updated on Jan 26,