Curriculum Vitae
July 2007

MAJOR FIELDS OF INTEREST
Air pollution and its impacts on ecosystems, Sustainable development policy of island nations, Weather risk management, Environmental assessment, management and decision making


EDUCATION TRAINING
✔ Ph.D. student, Ecology program, Colorado State University(CSU), USA. Aug. 2006 - Present
✔ Master of Arts (Geoscience), Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, National Central University(NCU). (GPA = 3.82/4.0) Sep. 2001 - Jan. 2003



EXPERIENCE
✔ Field work, Department of Earth Resources, CSU. Sep. 2007

- Title: The role of Herbivore and Hydrologic Condition in Cottonwood Establishment: Determining Barriers to Establishment and Persistence of Cottonwoods in Yellowstone National Park’s Northern Range. I measured the behavior of vegetation, such as Boothi, Beb and Geyer willow, in the wetland around the northern entrance of Yellowstone National Park for 10 days. The goal of this research will be to quantify the factors affecting the establishment and persistence of cottonwoods in the northern range of Yellowstone National Park. I learn from this field work on determining where recruitment and establishment are occurring and the proportion of sexual and asexual reproduction at each site; reconstructing the patterns of cottonwood establishment for the past century; determining the effects of climate, hydrologic processes and elk on the establishment and persistence of cottonwoods.

✔ Project assistant, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory(NREL), CSU. July. 2007 - Present

- Title: Air emission from dairy CAFOs: multi-scale measurements and process-based modeling. I created a running module and script of Monte Carlo simulations and interfaces for ISC-AERMOD Models and optimal analysis. ISC-AERMOD Model is a air dispersion modeling system which incorporates three popular U.S. EPA air quality and air dispersion models.

✔ Project assistant, NREL, CSU. Jun. 2007 - Present

- Title: The impact of Nitrogen deposition in California. I studied the long term analysis of various ecosystems under different scenarios Nitrogen deposition in California using DayCent models and statistic methods, especially in the dynamic tendency of leaching impacts in watersheds. DayCent is soil organic matter model which understands biogeochemistry for ecosystem analysis and evaluates the effects of changes in management and climate change on ecosystems.

✔ Project volunteer, NREL, CSU. May. 2007 - July. 2007

- Title: Loch Vale watershed research project. I learned how to conduct a ecological field study in Rocky Mountain National Park and assist in sample collection, lab work/analysis and quality assurance. It’s a wonderful experience to enjoy the fun part of hiking on the snow land and carry heavy day pack all day in the famous national park around the world.

✔ President, Taiwanese Students Association, CSU. Jun. 2006 - Feb. 2007

- Coordinator on diplomatic affairs and international students, such as International festival in Fort Collins, Colorado and so on.

✔ Assistant Researcher, Institute of Environment and Resource(founded by Taiwan EPA). Nov. 2005 - Jul.2006

- I conducted two national-wide projects at the same time studying the management policy of used oils recycling and reuse in Taiwan, especially in integration of resource recovery act and waste disposal act. Based on a sound national sustainable development with democratic, bottom-up approach in formulating priority of environmental issues, I was a project manager to assist PIs to organize national conferences. In sum, this project involved more than 10,000 participants, collected more than 5,000 comments, and came to 267 items of conclusions of consensus, 53 items of conclusions with non-common consensus and declaration of sustainable development - National Conference on Environmental Action Plan towards sustainability in 2006 and action plan.

✔ Lecturer, Taiwan Environmental Protection Alliance (TEPA). Mar. 2005 - Jul.2006

- I elected to be a lecturer who can deliver the interesting speech for high school students on how to have a energy-saving life, and how to mitigate the global warming in the daily life. My keynote has been made a teaching materials for teenager students and other lecturers. TEPA is the first NGO created by university professors and their vision is to protect environment based on the idea of a non-nuclear country, bottom-up approach and the power of knowledge.

✔ Research Assistant, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University. Jan. 2005 - Mar. 2005

- I conducted a part of project which studied the relationship between the dynamic distribution of Red imported fire ants (RIFA) and climatology using Geographical information systems (GIS). I also was involved in a training course for the outstanding Olympiad students.

✔ Ensign, Naval Meteorologic and Oceanographic Office, Taiwan. Jul. 2003 - Jan. 2005

- My duties as a officer are conducting a promotive project on the integration of small-scale weather forecasting system and supercomputer set-up procedure. I also built up the mesoscale meteorology model (MM5) and learned the meteorology codes conformity. MM5 modeling system software is mostly written in Fortran, and has been developed at Penn State and NCAR, designed to simulate or predict mesoscale atmospheric circulation.

✔ Teaching Assistant, NCU, Taiwan. 2002 - 2003

- I assisted the instructor to teach one integral course in sustainable issues - Earth Environment and Catastrophe, in that I generated a teaching package included a interactive learning process, a module of field study and a student guidebook of how to conduct a field study in the central Taiwan where experienced 921 earthquake and serious landslide and hurricanes. The 921 earthquake occurred on September 21, 1999 and measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. Some sections of land near the fault were raised as much as 7 meters (23 feet) and caused the death of 2,000 people.

✔ Project Assistant, NCU, Taiwan. 2002 - 2003

- I assisted in an intensive measurement of long-range transport of Asian dust in the top of high mountain of North Taiwan for several weeks and following data analysis and modeling simulations. In this project, I got experience setting up weather stations and the other measurement s in the remote area, such as ASRC passive collector, Anderson automatic collector, active scattering aerosol spectrometer probe(ASASP), cloud condensation nuclei counter, FSSP-100 forward scattering spectrometer probe, ground base precipitation probe(GBPP), particulate volume monitor(PVM), denuder and ion chromatography. These equipment had been optimized to understand the cloud/aerosol chemistry and physics. This project was executed in the same period of measurement in China, Korea, Japan and NASA international experiment.

✔ TV Assistant Producer, Science Education Program,Power News Television Station, Taiwan. 2001

- I did this position for fun, because to be a weatherman and a file producer for the Taiwan equivalent of the Discovery channel and National Geography channel was one of my dream. I delivered the correct broadcasting scripts daily and assisted in weather TV programs weekly.

✔ Observer and Vice- stationmaster, PCCU meteorologic observation station, Central Weather Bureau. 1999 - 2000

- I passed the qualification to be a practical weatherman and conducted daily duty in the weather station for 2 years.


GRANTS
✔ The National Youth Conference, invited by Executive Yuan, Taiwan. 2004

- I was elected to be a section host focused on the sustainable development of environment in the national wide conference which is a interface of providing policies and comments with government departments and president.

✔ Academic research, invited by Institute of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China. 2003

- I was invited by a institute in Peking University to study the fallout distribution from nuclear power plants in main land China. This research was a part of my master topic related the risk assessment of long range transport.

✔ Undergraduate student fellowship, funded by National Science Council, Taiwan. 2001

- I wrote a special research proposal focused on the impact evaluation of economy and environment for rainy season in Taiwan and issued 1 year funding in my undergraduate period. National Science Council equals to National Science Foundation in the U.S.


AWARD
✔ The 2nd Prize in Oral Examination for Master’s Thesis, NCU. 2003

- I conducted the first research in Asia focused on the long range transport of fall out in areas near nuclear power plants in China, Japan and Korea. My master’s thesis was reported by daily newspaper and radio station in 2006.

✔ The 4th Prize in Master’s Recommendation Examination, NCU. 2003
- I got the admission in oral presentation and ranked top 1st from the outsider.
✔ The Outstanding Student Award - The 34th PCCU Youth, PCCU. 2001
- This is an unique award electing 28 outstanding students from more than 30,000 students around the whole university based on their academic performance, contributions to society and excellent personality.
✔ The 1st Prize in Academic achievement, Wha-Kang Scholarship, PCCU. 2000
- I got this scholarship based on my academic performance in Atmospheric Sciences.

DISSERTATION
✔ Chang K. H. (2003)"Taiwan's influence evaluation of atmospheric long-range transportation for serious nuclear catastrophe in neighbor countries," Master’s Thesis of Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, National Central University, Taiwan.

PUBLICATIONS
✔ Liu J. C. and K. H. Chang. (2006) " The Possibility Cooperative Operation of Policy on County Towars Sustainable Development," EPA’s Report, EPA-94-E102-02-210.
✔ Chen E. W. and K. H. Chang. (2005) "A Study to Re-evaluate the Status of Used Oils Recycling and Reuse," EPA’s Report, EPA-94-HA11-03-A045.
✔ Chang K. H. and N. H. Lin. (2004) "Risk assessment of atmospheric transportation effects for nuclear power plants in East Asian neighbor countries - part 2," Navy Academic Monthly Publication, vol.38., iss.12.
✔ Chang K. H. and N. H. Lin. (2004) "Risk assessment of atmospheric transportation effects for nuclear power plants in East Asian neighbor countries - part 1," Navy Academic Monthly Publication, vol.38., iss.11.
✔ Chang K. H. and J. Y. Yu. (2001) "Impact evaluation of economy and environment for rainy season in Taiwan," Colleges Students to Participate In The Special Study Plan, national science council, Taiwan.

CONFERENCE
✔ Chang K. H., N. H. Lin and C.-M. Peng. (2003) "Risk assessment of atmospheric transportation effects for nuclear power plants in East Asian neighbor countries," The 11th Session of National Defense Science and Technology Academic Workshop, Taiwan.
✔ Chang K. H., N. H. Lin and C.-M. Peng. (2002) "Risk assessment of atmospheric transportation incident for nuclear power plants in Taiwan neighbor countries - the discussion of air trajectory," Cross-strait Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Academic Workshop, Taiwan.

VIDEO/AUDIO
✔ Chang K. H., etc. (2003) "Science education program - Water Rocket", Training Class of Science Education Program Manufacture - intermediate class, national science council, Taiwan.
✔ Chang K. H., etc. (2003) "Science education program - The development of Nano-tech and High-tech", Training Class of Science Education Program Manufacture - the high-level class, national science council, Taiwan.
✔ Chang K. H., etc. (2002) "Science education program - Air", Training Class of Science Education Program Manufacture - the elementary class, national science council, Taiwan.

SKILLS
✔ Language Proficiency: Mandarin Chinese, English, and Taiwanese
✔ Computer Skills: Mac OS(Unix-base), Linux, Unix, GIS, Perl, R, SAS, Matlab, Grads, NCAR-Graphic and FORTRAN.
✔ Model Skills: MM5, NOAA-Hysplit, ISC-AERMOD and DayCent Models.
✔ Specialist Skills: Web design; Producing TV program script; Photography and Filmmaking skill.

INTERESTS
✔ Indoor activity: Music, Cooking Chinese food, Movies, Reading in the bookstore/library, Learning new technological staff, Porker.
✔ Outdoor activity: Tennis, Football, soft ball, Swimming, Watching different cultures, Watching stars, Hiking, and Camping in remote areas.