Climate Smart Lab

Dr. Quan Dau is an instructor and research associate at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He also serves as a geomatics officer with Service Nova Scotia, Government of Nova Scotia, in Halifax, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Khon Kaen University and brings more than 15 years of international experience across diverse sectors. His past roles include research assistant at the Water Resources and Environmental Institute in Thailand, research associate at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom, research fellow at the National Research Institute of Agriculture–Food–Environment in France, and national consultant for UNESCO Vietnam.

Dr. Dau’s research primarily focuses on environmental science and global climate change, with expertise in the hydrological cycle, water resources planning and management, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, physical geography and GIS, climate change adaptation, irrigation water management, socio-economic projections, and reservoir operations. He is also an experienced data scientist with skills in web application development, software engineering, scripting, server development, parallel computation, data visualization, and workflow automation.

Teaching Experiences

ACC 1020 – Introduction to Climate Adaptation Tools and Technologies
ACC 3010 – Global Climate Systems/Science
ACC 3060L – Remote Sensing and Climate Change
ACC 4020 – Uncertainty and Probability in Climate Change
ENV 2130/BIO 2130 – Integrated Watershed Management
ENV 2040 – Methods of Environmental Inquiry
ENV 3320 – Environmental Innovation and Change Management

Research Articles

Shad M.A.R., Dau Q.V., Wang X. (2025). Social-ecological vulnerability and risk to coastal flooding and erosion in major coastal cities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105286
Basheer, S., Wang, X., Dau, Q.V., Awais, M., Kinay, P., Pang, T., Mahmood, M.Q. (2024). Quantification of carbon flux patterns in ecosystems: A case study of Prince Edward Island. Land, 13, 1692. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13101692
Dau Q.V, Wang X, Aziz F, Nawaz R.A., Pang T, Mahmood M.Q. (2024). Pluvial flood modeling for coastal areas – A case study for Prince Edward Island, Canada, Journal of Hydrology, 641, 131769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131769
Liu K, Raisolsadat A, Wang X, Dau Q.V. (2024). Quantitative assessment of G7’s collaboration in Sustainable Development Goals, Nature Communication. 15, 7274. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51663-5
Pang T, Mohammad S, Dau Q.V, Wang X. (2024). Assessing the social risks of flooding for coastal societies: A case study for Prince Edward Island, Canada, Environmental Research Communications. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad61c8
Zhang S, Wang X, Kinay P, Dau Q.V. (2024). Climate change impacts on potato storage, Food, 13(7):1119. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13071119
Wang, X., Dau Q. V, and Aziz, F. (2023). Real-time peak flow prediction based on signal matching. Environmental Modelling & Software, 172, 105926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105926
Dau Q.V., Wang X, Shad M.A.R, Kinay P. & Basheer S. (2023). Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems – A Canadian case study. Remote Sensing, 15, 4742. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15194742.
Dau QV, Kangrang A, Kuntiyawichai K. (2023). Probability-based rule curves for multi-purpose reservoir system in the Seine river basin, France. Water, 15(9):1732. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15091732
Adeloye JA. & Dau Q.V. (2023). A system-based probing of climate and societal perturbations on water resources management. Development in Environmental Science, 14, 107-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-18640-0.00003-1
Rustum R, Adeloye JA. & Dau Q.V. (2022). Water resource planning and climate change. Water and Climate Change. p. 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99875-8.00004-5
Dau Q.V& Adeloye A. (2021). Influence of reservoir joint operation on performance of the Pong-Bhakra multipurpose, multi-reservoir system in northern India. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147(11): 04021076. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0001462
Dau Q.V., Kuntiyawichai, K. (2021). Potential impacts of climate and socio-economic changes on future water demand in the Himalayas, India. Geographia Technica, 16(2):1-8. https://www.doi.org/10.21163/GT_2021.162.01
Dau Q.V& Adeloye A. (2021). Water security implications of climate and socio-economic stressors. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 66:7, 1097-1112. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2021.1909032
Dau Q.V, Momblanch A. & Adeloye A. (2021). Adaptation in a Himalayan water resources system under a sustainable socio-economic pathway in a high-emission context. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 26(3), 04021003, 1-21. https://www.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0002064
Dau Q.V, Kuntiyawichai K & Adeloye JA. (2021). Future changes in water availability due to climate change projections for Huong Basin, Vietnam. Environ. Process. 8, 77–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-020-00475-y
Dau Q.V& Kuntiyawichai K. (2020). Identifying adaptive reservoir operation for future climate change scenarios: A case study in Central Vietnam. Water Resources, 47(2): 189-199. https://www.doi.org/10.1134/S009780782002013X
Dau Q.V& Adeloye JA. (2020). Effects of climate and socio-economic changes on basin water resources management: A case study in the Beas-Sutlej River Basin, India. Hydrology and Water Resources In Nigeria, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) – ISSN:231-6686, pp.141-158.
Adeloye JA, Wuni I, Dau Q.V, Soundharajan B-S, Kasiviswanathan KS. (2019). Height-Area-Storage functional models for evaporation loss inclusion in reservoir planning analysis. Water, 11, 1413. https://www.doi.org/10.3390/w11071413
Adeloye JA & Dau Q.V. (2019). Hedging as an adaptive measure for climate change induced water shortage at the Pong reservoir in the Indus Basin Beas River, India. Science of the Total Environment, 687: 554-566.https://www.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.021
Dau Q.V, Kuntiyawichai K, & Fransiscus XS. (2018). Drought severity assessment in the lower Nam Phong river basin, Thailand. Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology, 40(4):985-992. https://www.doi.org/10.14456/sjst-psu.2018.99
Dau Q.V, Kuntiyawichai K, & Vichian P. (2017). Quantification of flood damage under potential climate change impacts in Central Vietnam. Irrigation and Drainage, 66(5): 842-853. https://www.doi.org/10.1002/ird.2160
Kuntiyawichai K, Dau Q.V, & Saengdavanh I. (2017). Community engagement for irrigation water management in Lao PDR. Journal of Water and Land Development, No.35: 121-128. https://www.doi.org/10.1515/jwld-2017-0075
Kuntiyawichai K, Vichian P, Ramasamy J, & Dau Q.V. (2017). Climate change vulnerability for the Greater Mekong Sub-region. Chiang Mai University Journal of Natural Science. 16(3):165-173. https://www.doi.org/10.12982/CMUJNS.2017.0013
Kuntiyawichai K. Dau Q.V, Winai S, & Fransiscus XS. (2016). An assessment of flood hazard and risk zoning in the lower Nam Phong river basin. International Journal of Technology, 7: 1117-1124. https://www.doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v7i7.4871
Dau Q.V& Kuntiyawichai K. (2015). An assessment potential of climate change impacts on flood risk in Central Vietnam. European Scientific Journal, 1: 667-681

Book/Chapters

Kuntiyawichai K, Vichian P, Ramasamy J, & Dau Q.V. (2015). Climate change vulnerability mapping for Greater Mekong Sub-region. UNESCO Bangkok, TH/SC/15-01, pp.49.
Dau Q.V& Adeloye JA. (2020). Effects of climate and socio-economic changes on basin water resources management: A case study in the Beas-Sutlej River Basin, India. Hydrology and Water Resources In Nigeria, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) – ISSN:231-6686, pp.141-158.
Adeloye JA. & Dau Q.V. (2023). A system-based probing of climate and societal perturbations on water resources management. Development in Environmental Science, 14, 107-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-18640-0.00003-1
Rustum R, Adeloye JA. & Dau Q.V. (2022). Water resource planning and climate change. Water and Climate Change. p. 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99875-8.00004-5.
Kuntiyawichai K, Vichian P, Ramasamy J, & Dau Q.V. (2015). Climate change vulnerability for the Greater Mekong Sub-region. TH/SC/15-01, 49p, UNESCO Library. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000243557

Conference Proceedings

Dau Q.V, Dorchies, D. Bader, J. (2021). Many-objective risk assessment framework for guiding operational decisions on multiple reservoirs. EGU General Assembly,19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-10676, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10676.
Dau Q.V& Adeloye JA (2020). Understanding the effects of climate change and socio-economic changes in water allocation adaptation in Indian Himalayas. Water Conclave 2020, Roorkee, India. https://www.iitr.ac.in/rwc2020/pdf/papers/RWC_178_Dau_Adeloye.pdf
Dau Q.V& Adeloye JA (2019). Performance benefits of Integrated operation for multipurpose reservoirs system. International Conference on Clean Water, Air and Soil, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. https://inwascon.org.my/cleanwas/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/FINAL-ABSTRACT-BOOK-REVISED-2019.pdf
Dau Q.V& Kuntiyawichai K. (2016). Potential impacts of climate change on reservoir flood control in the Huong river basin, Vietnam. Proceeding in 4^th APG Symposium and 9^th EADC. Hokkaido, Japan, pp. 41-46. https://jcold.sakura.ne.jp/cm/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/9th_web-APG-EADC_2016_Proceedings

Reports

Wang, X, Dau Q.V, &, Nawaz R.A. (2025). Technical Report for Historical Flood Mapping of Hurricanes Dorian and Fiona in PEI. Climate Smart Lab, Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada (https://chris.peiclimate.ca/reports/PEI_Historical_Flood_Maps_for_Hurricanes_Fiona_and_Dorian_by_UPEI.pdf).
Wang, X, Nawaz R.A. & Dau Q.V. (2025). Technical Report on the Identification of Flood Isolated areas in PEI. Climate Smart Lab, Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada (https://chris.peiclimate.ca/reports/Identification_of_Flood_Isolated_Areas_in_PEI_by_UPEI.pdf).
Wang X, Dau Q.V, Aziz F, Nawaz R.A, Pang T. Mahmood M.Q. (2024). Technical report for PEI pluvial flood mapping Climate Smart Lab, Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada (https://chris.peiclimate.ca/reports/PEI_Pluvial_Flood_Mapping_Final_Report_by_UPEI.pdf).

Dr. Quan Dau

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