MUN

Department of Civil Engineering

Bing Chen, Ph.D., P.Eng.

BC

UArctic Chair in Marine and Coastal Environmental Engineering
Professor in Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Associate Dean Graduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Director, Northern Region Persistent Organic Pollution Control Laboratory (NRPOP Lab)
Director, Network on Persistent, Emerging, and Organic PoLlution in the Environment (PEOPLE Network);
                    and NSERC PEOPLE CREATE Network

Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada
Fellow, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
Member, Royal Society of Canada (College)
Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Memorial University of Newfoundland
240 Prince Phillip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X5, Canada
Tel: (709) 864-8958, E-mail: bchen@mun.ca

Awards and Recognitions

Year Name/Organization
2022 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)
2022 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)
2022 UArctic Chair in Marine and Coastal Environmental Engineering, the University of the Arctic (UArctic) and Memorial University
2021 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)
2020 Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE)
2020 Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Systems Research by Springer
2019 Elected Member of the Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society
2019 Associate Editor, Canadian Water Resources Journal, by Taylor & Francis and Canadian Water Resources Association
2019 - 2020
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2017 - 2018
Member of the Engineering Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Selection Committee (1609), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2017 - 2018 Member (appointed by the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Coastal Guard) of the National Advisory Committee of Canada’s Oceans Protection Plan (OPP) Multi-Partner Response Research Initiative (MPRI)
2018 Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters, by International Society for Environmental Information Sciences
2017 Affiliated Faculty, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California Berkeley, 2017-
2017 Arthur Sidney Bedell Award, Water Environment Federation (WEF) and Atlantic Canada Water & Wastewater Association (ACWWA)
2016 Member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
2014 - 2017 Alternate Chair and Member of the Research Grant Evaluation Group in Civil, Industrial and Systems Engineering (1509), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2016 Senior Visiting Scholar Award, Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD)
2016 - 2017 Visiting International Fellowship Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) (As Host)
2015 Member of Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Expert Panel on oil spills
2014 FEAS Award for Research Excellence
2014 Terra Nova Young Innovator Award (former Petro Canada Young Innovator Award)
2013 & 2007 Leaders Opportunity Fund Award, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
2012 Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA)
NA Various paper and presentation awards and recognitions (IEEE, CAWQ, AEHS, IOSC, etc.)
NA Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by Elsevier (Environmental Pollution, Chemical Engineering Journal, Water Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Marine Pollution Bulletin, etc.)
NA Over 20+ other institutional awards, honours and scholarships (e.g., NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship)