Feb 2023 - present
Associate Professor
School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
Guotao Cui
Associate Professor of hydrology and water resources at the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University.
Appointments
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Project Scientist
Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California, Merced
California, USA
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California, Merced
Advisor: Roger Bales
Apr - Oct 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Athabasca River Basin Research Institute, Athabasca University
Advisor: Junye Wang
Education
Aug 2014 - Dec 2017
Ph.D., Civil Engineering / Water Resources
University of Wyoming
Advisor: Jianting Zhu
Sep 2010 - Jun 2013
M.S., Hydrology and Water Resources
Zhengzhou University
Advisor: Qiting Zuo
Sep 2006 - Jun 2010
B.S., Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering
Zhengzhou University
Honors
- Pearl River Young Scholar, Guangdong Province
- Outstanding Young Scholar Paper Award, China Water Forum
- National Graduate Scholarship, China
- 6th Zhang Guangdou Science and Technology Education Foundation Outstanding Student Scholarship
Academic service
- Committee member, Water Resources Management and Conservation Committee, China Committee of the International Water Resources Association
- Committee member, Water Resources Committee, China Society of Natural Resources
- Member, Sino-UK Association for Resources and Environment
- Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Meteorological Society (AMS), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
- Young editorial board member, Pearl River and Journal of North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power
- Guest editor, Frontiers in Earth Science, Water, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Processes
Peer review
Grant reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, U.S. National Science Foundation, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Journal reviewer for PNAS Nexus, Geophysical Research Letters, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Environmental Science & Technology, Soil Science Society of America Journal, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Earth Sciences, Water, Geosciences, Atmosphere, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, and Ecological Indicators.
Presentations
Conference presentations & invited talks
2022 · Oral presentation
Ground-based sensor networks provide precipitation amounts and partitioning for near-real-time decision making in California's Sierra Nevada
AGU Frontiers in Hydrology, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2022 · Poster
Hydrologic vulnerability of dense mixed-conifer forests in California's Sierra Nevada to multi-year droughts
AGU Frontiers in Hydrology, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2022 · Invited talk
Vulnerability of Mediterranean-climate forests in California's Sierra Nevada to multi-year drought
12th Resources and Environment Forum, online
2021 · Poster
Snowpack mapping and forecasting by blending deep-learning estimates with ground observations in the Northern Sierra Nevada
AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA
2021 · Invited talk
Detecting mountain rain-snow transition elevations using watershed wireless sensor networks
9th Resources and Environment Academic Forum, online
2021 · Oral presentation
Deep-learning-based snowpack mapping and forecasting with ground observations: A case study using a wireless-sensor network in the American River basin
88th Annual Western Snow Conference, online
2020 · Poster
Water-stress patterns of giant-sequoia groves during multi-year droughts
AGU Fall Meeting
2020 · Oral presentation
Water-stress vulnerability of giant sequoia groves during extended drought
Yosemite Hydroclimate Meeting, Mariposa, USA
2020 · Invited talk
Detecting rain-snow transition elevations in mountain basins using wireless-sensor network
California Extreme Precipitation Symposium, Davis, USA
2019 · Oral presentation
Mountain precipitation patterns in mixed rain-snow areas from a distributed wireless-sensor network and a random forest model
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA
2019 · Co-authored poster
Simulating water-carbon interactions in a Mediterranean mountain ecosystem using a dynamic global vegetation model
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA; W. Guo et al.
2019 · Poster
Estimating precipitation in a mountainous region from a wireless-sensor network
Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory Annual Meeting, Merced, USA
2019 · Poster
Rain-snow transition elevation from wireless sensor network in American and Feather River basins
87th Annual Western Snow Conference, Reno, USA
2017 · Poster
A simple and accurate rate-driven infiltration model
AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA
2017 · Oral presentation
Infiltration model in layered soils: Application of steady-state modeling
Civil Engineering Seminar, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
2016 · Poster
Dynamic modeling of infiltration in unsaturated layered soils
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA
2015 · Poster
Effective Green-Ampt parameters of sloping layered soils
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA
2015 · Poster
Effective hydraulic parameters for sloping heterogeneous soil formations
SSSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA
2012 · Oral presentation
Analysis and quantitative evaluation of the effects of human activities on river-lake connectivity
10th China Water Forum, Wuhan, China; Outstanding Young Scholar Paper Award