袁秀堂，男，1972年出生，研究员，硕士生导师，中国生态学会会员，中国海洋与湖沼学会会员。2005年获中国科学院研究生院（海洋研究所）海洋生物学理学博士学位，2014-2015年英国普利茅斯大学海洋研究所（MIUoP）及普利茅斯海洋研究室（PML）访问学者。研究聚焦于人类活动和气候变化对海洋生物及生态系统的影响。主持国家自然科学基金“刺参对浅海浮筏贝类养殖系统的生物修复作用研究(30871932)”,“刺参早期发育对海洋酸化及变暖的生态响应和基因调控(41676164)”，国家海洋公益专项子课题“辽东湾生境与重要经济生物资源修复技术集成及示范(200805069) ”和“典型海湾受损生境修复生态工程和效果评价技术集成与示范(201305043)”等项目。已发表论文40余篇，引用超过600次。为Science of Total Environment, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Marine Pollution Bulletin, PLoS ONE, Aquaculture, Aquaculture Research, Electronic J. Biotechnology, Regional Studies of Marine Science, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, Chemistry and ecology等期刊的审稿人。

近两年论文如下：

1、X Yuan, S Shao, X Yang, et al. 2016. Bioenergetic trade-offs in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in response to CO2-driven ocean acidification.Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23(9): 8453-8461.

2、X Yuan, L Meng, L Wang, et al. 2016. Responses of scallop biodeposits to bioturbation by a deposit‐feeder Apostichopus japonicus (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea): Does the holothurian density matter? Aquaculture Research, 47(2): 512-523.

3、L. N. Zamora, X. Yuan, A. G. Carton, M. J. Slater. 2016. Role of deposit-feeding sea cucumbers in integrated multitrophic aquaculture: Progress, problems, potential and future challenges. Reviews in Aquaculture, 1-8. DOI: 10.1111/raq.12147.

4、X Yuan, Y Zhou, Y Mao. 2015.Apostichopus japonicus: a key species in integrated polyculture systems. In The Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus. History, Biology and Aquaculture. Elsevier publishing House.

5、X Yuan, X Yang, G Na, et al.. 2015. Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in surface sediments from the sand flats of Shuangtaizi Estuary, China: levels, distribution, and possible sources. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22 (18), 14337-14348

6、X Yang, X Yuan*, A Zhang, et al.. 2015. Spatial distribution and sources of heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbon in the sand flats of Shuangtaizi Estuary, Bohai Sea of China. Marine pollution bulletin, 95 (1), 503-512.

7、X Yuan, S Shao, S Dupont, et al.. 2015.Impact of CO2-driven acidification on the development of the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka)(Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) Marine pollution bulletin, 95 (1), 195-199.

8、A Zhang, X Yuan*, W Hou, et al.. 2015. Biodeposition, respiration, and excretion rates of an introduced clam Mercenaria mercenaria in ponds with implications for potential competition with the native clam Meretrix meretrix in Shuangtaizi estuary, China. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 3: 1-10.