Yegang Wu Ph.D.
Senior Environmental Scientist
South Florida Water Management District
Everglades Division
3301 GunClub Road
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
(561) 682-6686
(561)-682-6442
ywu@sfwmd.gov

Yegang Wu has been with South Florida Water Management District as senior environmental scientist since 1993.  Dr. Wu obtained his Ph.D. at the Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, U.S.A.  He had a Master degree in mathematical ecology in 1984 at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.  In 1977, Yegang graduated from South China University of Tropical Agriculture, Hainan Province, China, with a major in tropical agriculture. 

Yegang Wu also worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as Post-doc research associate from 1990-1992 and at the University of Tennessee as research assistant professor from 1992-1993.  His research interest can be identified as fire ecology, landscape ecology, vegetation ecology and ecological modeling.  Here are his choice of five of his publications:

2002 Wu, Y., Rutchey, K., Guan, W.,Vilchek, L. and Sklar, F. H. Spatial Simulations of Tree Islands for Everglades Restoration. In: A. van der Valk and F. H. Sklar (eds.) Everglades Tree Island. 

2000 Wu, Y., W. Guan and F. Chang. Modeling spatial and temporal dynamics of the Everglades with GIS: development of a GIS interface for the Everglades Landscape Vegetation Model. Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4): problems, prospects and research needs. Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2-8 2000. 

1997 Wu, Y., F. Sklar, and K. Rutchey.  Analysis and simulations of fragmentation patterns in the Everglades.  Ecological Applications 7(1):268-276. 

1996 Wu, Y., F. Sklar,  K. Gopu, and K. Rutchey. Fire simulations in the Everglades landscape using parallel programming. Ecological Modelling 93(1996) 113-124. 

1996 Wu, Y. , M.G. Turner, L.L. Wallace, and W.R. Romme.  Elk survival following the 1988 Yellowstone fires: a simulation experiment. Natural Areas Journal 16(3)198-207.

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