Xander Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). He is also the Director of Climate Smart Lab in the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation. He has been elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars. He has served as the Associate Dean (Interim) in the School of Climate Change and Adaptation and a core member leading the development of the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation at UPEI, which is a world-leading research and teaching cluster in climate change impacts and adaptation. Before joining UPEI, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US. His research is mainly focused on regional climate modeling, climate downscaling, hydrological modeling, flooding risk analyses, energy system modeling under climate change, climate change impact assessment and adaptation studies, GIS, spatial modeling and analyses, big data analyses, and visualization.
Morteza Mesbah is a research scientist (data scientist and agroecosystem modeler) at the Charlottetown Research and Development Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. He uses agro-ecosystem models, environmental models, and mathematical and economic instruments and develops tools to evaluate the economic and environmental performance of various policies and beneficial management practices. The focus of his research is the development of decision-support tools for science-based decision making. He has experience in developing trading discharge permit tools for river quality management, cap and trade systems for air quality management, and N recommendations for the management of N fertilizer from the agricultural sector.
