 Jun Yang |
Assistant Professor of Horticulture
Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley
MS, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
BS, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Principal: Urban Forestry
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.
Awards and Honors:
Member, Xi-Sigma-Pi (Forestry Honor Society), 01/2001
Consultant Travel Award, State Administration of Forestry, China, 01/2004
Block Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 09/2003
Published work:
Yang, J., McBride, J., Zhou, J. X and Sun, Z. Y 2005 The urban forest in Beijing and its role in air pollution reduction. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 3: 65-78
Yang, J. and McBride, J 2004 A unique technique for street tree planting in Beijing. Arboricultural Journal. 27: 1-10
Xiao, J., Ma, L., Wang, X., Xu, J and Yang, J 2004 Economic benefit dynamics of carbon sequestration by forest trees in Miyun watershed. Journal of Beijing Forestry University. 26: 20-24
Wu, Z., McBride, J., Nowak, D.J., Yang, J and Cheng, S 2003 Effects of urban forest on air pollution in Hefei City. Journal of Chinese Urban Forestry. 1: 39-43
Yang, J. and Zhou, J. X 2003 Spatial and temporal change of greenspace distribution in urban Beijing. In: Proceedings of International Urban Forest and Construction of Eco- City Symposium, September 16-22, 2002, Shanghai, China.
Nowak, D. J., McBride, J., Wu, Z., Yang, J and S. Cheng 2001 Urban Forest Effects on Air pollution in Ningbo, People’s Republic of China. Technical Report. University of California, Berkeley, CA. 26 pp.
Cheng, H and Yang, J 1998 Pest and disease control in medicinal fungus. In: Chinese Medicinal Mycology (ed. Xu, J). Peking University Medical Press, Beijing
Contact: juny@temple.edu
215-283-1583
