Jay Jianying Gan (born 1963) is an American

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

and

environmental scientist Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geograp ...

. Gan is current

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of the Department of Environmental Sciences at University of California, Riverside.

Biography

Gan received his B.Sc. in

agronomy Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...

in 1982, M.Sc. in

pesticide Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests. This includes herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, molluscicide, piscicide, avicide, rodenticide, bactericide, insect repellent, animal repellent, microbicide, fungicide, and lampri ...

s in 1985, and Ph.D. in pesticides in 1988, all from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. From 1990 to 1991, Gan was a research fellow of the

International Atomic Energy Agency The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. It was established in 1957 ...

(IAEA) of United Nations at IAEA Laboratories. Gan was a research fellow of FAO/IAEA of the United Nations at USDA-ARS Veterinary and Entomology Toxicology Research Laboratory in Texas. Gan joined the faculty of environmental sciences at University of California, Riverside and serves as professor of soil science, professor of environmental chemistry, and water quality specialist. In 2006, Gan became a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Gan previously served as the department chair of Environmental Sciences.

References

1963 births Living people Zhejiang University alumni University of California, Riverside faculty Chinese emigrants to the United States American environmental scientists American earth scientists American agronomists {{US-academic-scientist-stub