Dr. Wang joined ARBRI as our CAIP Research Chair in Computational Sustainability and Environmental Analytics in September, 2013. Prior to that Dr. Wang had served as Principal Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research in the UK. Dr. Wang is a leading expert in modelling and simulation of complex environmental and energy processes and systems, such as ecosystems, nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration, groundwater, pollutants, greenhouse gas emission and mitigation, fuel cells, microbial fuel cells, biogas, bioenergy and biomass.
Dr. Wang has made efforts to integrate agroecosystem, land use change and Geographic Information System (GIS) to assess environmental impacts of expanding biogas, bioenergy crops, land use change and climate change with emphasis on their interactions. Dr. Wang and his team are developing a modelling framework of integrated terrestrial and aquatic systems in the Athabasca River Basin by utilizing these innovative computational technologies and analytical modeling techniques and are expanding capacity of agroecosystem modeling and computational sustainability for agroecosystem and water resource management across Alberta and Canada.
Research interests
Computational sustainability and environmental analytics
Modelling of integrated terrestrial and aquatic systems for a watershed management
Modelling and simulation of complex process and systems
Modelling of nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and mitigation strategy Modelling and simulation of biofilms and bioreactors
Remediation and reclamation
Renewable energy, such as fuel cells, microbial fuel cells, biogas, bioenergy, and biomass
2004, Research Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, The University of Greenwich, London
2001, Post-doctorate, Chemical & Process Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield
1996, Ph.D., Chemical and mechanical engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai
1989, M.Sc., Engineering thermophysics, Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute, Harbin
Professional affiliations
Member of Soil Science Society of America
Member of Geosciences Evaluation Group (EG 1506) of NSERC Discovery Grants Program
JY Wang, Y Li, EW Bork, GM Richter, SHH Shah, C Chen, S Mezbahuddin, 2021. Effects of grazing management on spatio-temporal heterogeneity of soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions in grasslands and rangelands: monitoring, assessment and scaling-up, Journal of Cleaner Production, 288, 125737.
SHH Shah, JY Wang, X Hao, BW Thomas, 2021. Modeling the effect of salt-affected soil on water balance fluxes and nitrous oxide emission using modified DNDC, Journal of Environmental Management, 280, 111678.
JY Wang, NK Shrestha, MA Delavar, TW Meshesha, SN Bhanja, 2021. Modelling watershed and river basin processes in cold climate regions: A review, Water, 13(4):518.
SN Bhanja, JY Wang, 2021. Influence of environmental factors on autotrophic, soil and ecosystem respirations in Canadian boreal forest, Ecological Indicators, 125, 107517.
MA Delavar, JY Wang, 2021. Numerical investigation of pH control on dark fermentation and hydrogen production in a microbioreactor, Fuel, 292, 120355.
MA Delavar, Z Li, JY Wang, 2021. Modelling denitrification process in a static mixer-reactor using lattice-Boltzmann method, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 173, 140-149.
MA Delavar, JY Wang, 2021. Lattice Boltzmann method in modelling biofilm formation, growth and detachment, Sustainability, 13(14), 7968.
MA Delavar, JY Wang, 2021. Modeling coupled temperature and transport effects on biofilm growth using thermal lattice Boltzmann model. AIChE Journal, 67(4), e17122.
L Gurdon, L Esmahi, NY Amponsah, JY Wang, 2021. Life cycle cost analysis of contaminated site remediation using information technology tools, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23 (7), 10173-10193.
MA Delavar, JY Wang, 2021. Simulation of a Hybrid System of Solar Microturbine with Application to Cold Climate Region, Applied Thermal Engineering, 182, 116080.
MA Delavar, JY Wang, 2020. Modeling combined effects of temperature and structure on competition and growth of multispecies biofilms in microbioreactors, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 59(37): 16122-16135.
JY Wang, Y Li, EW Bork, GM Richter, SHH Shah, H-Il Eum, C Chen, S Mezbahuddin, 2020. Modelling spatio-temporal patterns of soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions in grazing lands: Current status and prospects. Science of the Total Environment. 739, 139092.
MA Delavar, JY Wang, 2020. Pore-scale modeling of competition and cooperation of multispecies biofilms for nutrients in changing environments. AIChE J, 66 (6), e16919
ND Melaku, JY Wang, TW Meshesha, 2020. Improving hydrologic model to predict the effect of snowpack and soil temperature on carbon dioxide emission in the cold region peatlands. Journal of Hydrology, 587, 124939
TW Meshesha, JY Wang, ND Melaku, 2020. Modelling spatiotemporal patterns of water quality and its impacts on aquatic ecosystem in the cold climate region of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Hydrology, 587, 124952.
SHH Shah, Y Li, J Wang, A Colin. 2020. Optimizing farmyard manure and cattle slurry applications for intensively managed grasslands based on UK-DNDC model simulations. Science of the Total Environment, 714, 136672.
TW Meshesha, ND Melaku, JY Wang, 2020. A modified Hydrological model for assessing effect of pH on fate and transport of Escherichia coli in the Athabasca River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 582, 124513
Y Li, SHH Shah, JY Wang, 2020. Modelling of nitrification inhibitor and its effects on emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) in the UK. Science of the Total Environment, 709,136156
S Bhanja, JY Wang, 2020. Estimating influences of environmental drivers on soil heterotrophic respiration in the Athabasca River Basin, Canada. Environmental Pollution, 257, 113630 More publications in Google: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=8bH4_Y0AAAAJ&hl=en and ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Junye-Wang-2