Professional Affiliation & Outreach Activities

 

Membership

• ​2016–Present, Member of the American Chemical Society

• 2018–Present, Member in Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors

• 2018–Present, Member of the International Water Association

• 2019–Present, Member of the Soil Science Society of America

• 2022–Present, Member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

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Editor

• Editorial board member in Soil & Environmental Health (2025-present)

• Early career editorial board in Journal of Hazardous Materials (2024-2027)

• Guest editor for a joint virtual special issue entitled “Emerging Contaminants in Agroecosystems” in ACS Journal Agricultural and Food Chemistry, ACS Agricultural Science and Technology, and ACS ES&T Water (submission deadline: 1 December 2023).

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Reviewer for Journals (reviewed 357 articles for 48 journals as of 22 September 2024)

ACS ES&T Water (2); Applied Energy (3); Applied Geography (1); Atmospheric Environment (2); Bioresource Technology (26); Chemosphere (3); Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (3); Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (2); Emerging Contaminants (1); Energy (21); Environment International (1); Environmental Engineering Science (4); Environmental Geochemistry and Health (4); Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (1); Environmental Research (4); Environmental Science & Technology (6); Environmental Science and Pollution Research (4); Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (3); Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering (1); Gas Science and Engineering (29); Geoderma (1); Habitat International (1); Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (1); Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis (2); Journal of Biotechnology (1); Journal of Cleaner Production (99); Journal of Earth Science (3); Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (2); Journal of Environmental Engineering (4); Journal of Environmental Management (10); Journal of Environmental Quality (6); Journal of Environmental Sciences (2); Journal of Hazardous Materials (37); Journal of Hydrology (6); Journal of Integrative Agriculture (1); Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (1); Journal of South Carolina Water Resources (1); Journal of Water Process Engineering (1); Microchemical Journal (2); Organic Geochemistry (1); Process Safety and Environmental Protection (1); Science of the Total Environment (35); Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (1); Soil & Environmental Health (7); Sustainability (1); Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment (1); Total Environment Engineering (1); Water Research (7).

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Reviewer for Research Proposals

Joint Fire Science Program under USGS (2023); Division of Earth Sciences at US NSF (2022).

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Organizer for Conferences and Symposiums

​[4] Oral (in-person & virtual sessions) and poster symposiums of ‘Occurrence, transport, and fate of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in Agroecosystems’ in 2023 ACS Spring National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, US, 26-30 March 2023, Organizers: Huan Chen, Alex T. Chow, Clinton F. Williams, Jun-Jian Wang, Wei-Ling Sun.

​[3] “Low-Carbon Business Development Forum: Green Z3 Roadmap Design Charrette”, Shenzhen, China, 22-24 April 2011.​

[2] “International Low-Carbon Development Forum: Shenzhen – California”, Shenzhen, China, 16-18 April 2010.

​[1] “School of Environment and Energy Inaugural Ceremony and Environment and Energy Conference”, Shenzhen, China, 10-11 Oct 2009.

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Volunteer for Mentoring Activities

[3] Volunteer Judge in Poster Competition: Judged 16 posters in 2019 Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium (GRADS) by Clemson University, SC, 3 April 2019

​[2] Mentor in Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP; Jan–April 2018): Advised high-school students on the project of “Designing a Smart Floating Wetland to Enhance Pollutant Removal Efficiency in Storm Water Ponds” for the entry to 2018 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize  [video1]

​​[1] Volunteer in STEM Summer Camp (23–27 May 2016): Help seventh- to ninth-grade students at Lenoir City and Loudon County Schools, Knoxville, TN, US to create water filters to clean dirty water and then measure water quality  [news1, news2]