Xiangdong Zhang, a professor at the International Arctic Research Center and Department of Atmospheric Science/College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks. He got his Ph.D. in 1992 from Nanjing University and B.S. in 1983 from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology. Now, his major research interests are on atmosphere-sea ice-ocean-hydrology interactions, and his several prominent scientific results have been published on the journal of Nature.