Yu Zhan

Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
University of California Davis

PostDoc

Email: yzhan@ucdavis.edu

Education

2008 – 2013 Ph.D. Ecology, University of California, Davis
Dissertation: Pesticide Use Risk Evaluation (PURE) Indicator: Development, Sensitivity Analysis, and Application
2002 – 2006 B.S. Biological Sciences, Zhejiang University, China

2010 2nd place at the A5 (Environmental Quality) graduate student poster competition, ASA, CSSA, & SSSA International Annual Meetings
2008 – 2010 Conservation management fellowship from the Packard Foundation
2006 Excellent Bachelor Thesis

Zhan, Y., S. Fan, M. Zhang, and F. Zalom. 2014. Modelling the effect of pyrethroid use intensity on mite population density for walnuts. Pest Management Science (in press).
Grieneisen, M., Y. Zhan, D., Potter, and M. Zhang. 2014. Biodiversity, taxonomic infrastructure, international collaboration, and new species discovery. BioScience 64, 322-332.
Zhan, Y. and M. Zhang. 2014. Spatial and temporal patterns of pesticide use on California almonds and associated risks to the surrounding environment. Science of the Total Environment 472, 517-529.
Zhan, Y. and M. Zhang. 2013. Application of a combined sensitivity analysis approach on a pesticide environmental risk indicator. Environmental Modelling & Software 49, 129-140.
Zhan, Y. and M. Zhang. 2012. PURE: A web-based decision support system to evaluate pesticide environmental risk for sustainable pest management practices in California. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 82, 104-113.
Zhang, M., J. Campos, Y. Zhan, and M. Grieneisen, 2013. Sulfur management and miticide use in winegrapes grown in California. Renewable Agriculture and Food System 28, 32-42.
Liu, X., Y. Zhan, Y. Luo, M. Zhang, S. Geng, and J. Xu, 2012. Almond organophosphate and pyrethroid use in the San Joaquin Valley and their associated environmental risk. Journal of Soils and Sediments 12, 1066-1078.

2013 Modelling the effect of pyrethroid use intensity on mite population density in walnuts (Poster). ASA, CSSA, & SSSA International Annual Meetings, Tampa, Florida
2012 Spatial and temporal trends in pesticide use and associated risks for California almond (Poster). ASA, CSSA, & SSSA International Annual Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio
2011 Spatial and temporal trends in pesticide use and associated risks for California wine grape (Oral). ASA, CSSA, & SSSA International Annual Meetings, San Antonio, Texas
2011 A grower-oriented online system for site-specific pesticide use risk evaluation – website demonstration (Oral). ASA, CSSA, & SSSA International Annual Meetings, San Antonio, Texas
2010 A grower-oriented online system for site-specific pesticide use risk evaluation (Poster). ASA, CSSA, & SSSA International Annual Meetings, Los Angeles, California

2011 Teaching Assistant, "Process on pesticide registration, use and risk assessment", University of California, Davis

Membership: American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; Soil Science Society of America
Peer reviewer: Journal of Environmental Quality; Science of the Total Environment; Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

2012 – present Regional Agricultural IPM grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
2011 – 2012 Specialty Crop grant from California Department of Food and Agriculture
2009 – 2010 Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP) grant from EPA
2007 – 2009 Food Quality Protection Act grant from EPA