Seminar
Title: Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation (CAR): How is the Earth’s Climate Driven by the CAR
Speaker: Dr. Zhanqing Li
Time: Monday, July 17th, 8-9pm EST
Brief Bio
Zhanqing Li is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China, in 1983 and 1989, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Canada, in 1991. After pursing one-year postdoctoral research at the Meteorological Service of Canada, he became a research scientist (II-IV) at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing before becoming a full professor at UMD in 2001.
His research interests include remote sensing, atmospheric physics and chemistry, climate and environment focusing on aerosol, cloud, radiation budget, precipitation, air quality, biomass burning. He has authored 400 peer-reviewed papers and is ranked among the top 0.1% most highly cited researchers with ~29000 citations and h-index of 90.
Dr. Li is a fellow of AMS, AGU, and AAAS. He has received a dozen of awards including the AGU’s Y. Kaufman Award, the Head of Public Service Award of Canada, the Humboldt Research Award of Germany. He has served as an Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere (2013-2020) and the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (since 2020). He has served on numerous committees such as the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the US Academies, Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate of the WMO, the AGU/AS Yoram Kaufman Award Committee, the AMS Atmospheric Chemistry Committee and Satellite Meteorological Committee.
