Introduction: Professor Edward A. McBean is served as associate professor of School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Chief Scientist. He has been a professor at the University of California, United States, and the University of Waterloo, Canada. The research fields mainly focus on risk analysis and management, hydrological timing series analysis and its applications in water resources management, hydrological analysis, environmental engineering and so on.