Peng Gao

Peng received his Bachelors Degree in Agriculture focusing on soil, plants and fertilization from Yangzhou University. He holds a Master Degree in Soil Science from the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed his Ph.D in Geography at the University of South Carolina in 2013. Peng has a broad background in the disciplines of landscape ecology, biogeography, hydrological modeling, climate change, and soil science. He is particularly interested in the applications of GIS, remote sensing, spatial data mining, and statistical methods to address basic and applied questions of these disciplines. His publications cover the topics of habitat connectivity, animal movement, forest fragmentation, watershed integrity, wetland detection, and soil salinity. His current postdoctoral work centers on constructing climate change scenarios for hydrological modeling from a suite of dynamically and statistically downscaled CMIP3/CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project) outputs.