Assistant Professor
Dept of Horticulture

Dr. Jun Yang joined the Temple University Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture faculty in Fall 2005.

Dr. Yang comes to Temple University Ambler from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management of the University of California, Berkeley, where he was completing his Ph.D. in Urban Forestry. He holds a master’s degree in Botany and a bachelor’s degree in Forest Science from the Beijing Forestry University in China. With an expertise in urban forestry and urban ecology, Dr. Yang’s research at Ambler will include urban watershed restoration, urban forest management, and applying ecological concepts to sustainable urban landscape design and management.

Dr. Yang's past research experience has mainly concentrated on exploring the role that urban forests can play in cities. He was involved in a project studying urban pollution reduction by the Pacific Rim urban forests. He also participated in a project to determine the influence of American and European park design on public parks in China and Japan.

He is currently involved in a project supported by the Tree Fund to study street tree transplanting techniques and has been involved in helping design and teach urban forest planning and management courses to upper level undergraduate students and graduate students in the Department of Landscape and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.