Jieying (Jenny) Huang, NSERC PGS-D
Biography
PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia, 2018-present
Master of Land and Water Systems (MLWS), University of British Columbia, 2016
B.Sc. in Natural Resource Conservation, University of British Columbia, 2015
Research Interests
My research interests include urban stream syndrome, ecosystem services, systematic conservation plannings on urban landscape. I have been investigating the linkages between land cover changes and water chemistry, benthic invertebrates, and heavy metal concentrations in urban streams. Using high resolution map across Metro Vancouver Region, we developed several useful landscape indicators that could be used to monitor water chemistry, biotic response, and heavy metal concentrations. We are now extending the work to examine additional water quality monitoring sites.
In my PhD thesis, I also examines the synergies and tradeoffs in ecosystem services associated with green infrastructure. I hope to use aquatic indicators created in previous works to represent aquatic ecosystem services and explore the spatial interactions among them. I am also interested in using systematic conservation planning tools (e.g. Marxan) to spatially identify priority areas important to both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem conservation in urban environment. These works will likely benefit aquatic systems monitoring, green infrastructure planning, and conservation planning cross aquatic – terrestrial systems on urban landscape.
Publications
Huang, J., & Gergel, S. E. (2023). Effectiveness of landscape indicators for explaining the variability of benthic macro-invertebrates in urban streams. Journal of Environmental Management, 342, 118130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118130
Huang, J., & Gergel, S. E. (2022). Landscape indicators as a tool for explaining heavy metal concentrations in urban streams. Landscape and Urban Planning, 220, 104331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104331
Ruan, X., Huang, J., Williams, D. A., Harker, K. J., & Gergel, S. E. (2019). High spatial resolution landscape indicators show promise in explaining water quality in urban streams. Ecological Indicators, 103, 321-330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.03.013
Wang, G., Mang, S. L., Riehl, B., Huang, J., Wang, G., Xu, L., … & Innes, J. (2019). Climate change impacts and forest adaptation in the Asia–Pacific region: from regional experts’ perspectives. Journal of Forestry Research, 30(1), 277-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-018-0827-y
Huang, J.Y., Black, T.A., Jassal. R.S., and Lavkulich, L.M. (2017) Modelling Rainfall Interception by Urban Trees. Canadian Water Resource Journal/Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2017.1375865
Contact Info
Email: jieying.huang@ubc.ca
Twitter: @jhuang610
