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Investigating watershed processes, environmental extremes, and new approaches to observing and predicting water.

Current projects

Ongoing

Dec 2024 - Nov 2027

National Key R&D Program of China

Dynamic watershed water quality

Understanding dynamic changes in watershed water quality through variable-frequency monitoring.

Project lead · Grant 2024YFD1700801-04

Ongoing

Aug 2023 - Dec 2026

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Compound heat-drought and root-zone water storage

Modeling the effects of compound heat-drought events on vegetation root-zone water storage and identifying vulnerable areas.

Principal investigator · Grant 42301012

Previous projects & collaborations

Jan 2024 - Dec 2025

Guangzhou Science and Technology Program

Compound extremes and regional heat risk

Investigating the influence of compound extreme hydrometeorological events on heat risk in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Principal investigator · Grant 2024A04J3814

Jul - Dec 2024

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

An IoT network for watershed soil monitoring

Designing and applying an IoT-based soil-sensing network at the watershed scale.

Principal investigator · Grant 24qnpy020

Sep 2020 - Jan 2023

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation & California Department of Water Resources

The rain-snow transition in the Northern Sierra Nevada

Defining the rain-snow transition zone in the Northern Sierra Nevada.

Key contributor

Oct 2018 - Jan 2023

U.S. National Science Foundation

Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory

Contributing to hydrological research in the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory.

Contributor

Apr - Oct 2018

Government of Alberta, Canada

Integrated hydrological and biogeochemical modeling

Campus Alberta Innovates Program (CAIP) research on integrated hydrological and biogeochemical modeling.

Key contributor

Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

Ministry of Water Resources of China

Human activities and river-lake connectivity

Analyzing the influence of human activities on connectivity and river-lake system functions.

Key contributor

Jan 2012 - Jun 2013

Ministry of Water Resources of China

River-lake connectivity: Cases and classification

Case analysis, classification, and synthesis for interconnected river-lake systems.

Key contributor

Jan 2012 - Jun 2013

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Harmony-based regulation of human-water relationships

Research on theories and methods for regulating human-water relationships.

Contributor