Tianze Pang joined the Climate Smart Lab at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in January 2022, as a PhD student in environmental sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island. Before this, he graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Master’s degree in Water Security in 2021, and from Ocean University of China with a Bachelor’s degree of Engineering in Geo-Information Science and Technology in 2020. He has a multidisciplinary background in marine geosciences, hydrology, and geomatics. Currently, he is focusing on the research of modeling and investigating the coastal erosion of Prince Edward Island. He has been a member of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering since January 2023.