Name: Renhua Yan

Position: Associate Professor Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Postal Address: 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China

Telephone: +86-025-86882127

E-mail: rhyan@niglas.ac.cn

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Physical Geography, Sep 2013 –Jul 2016 Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

M.S., Geography, Sep 2010 –Jul 2013 Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Ministry of Education, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China

B.S., Geography, Sep 2006–Jul 2010 Resource Environment and Tourism School, Anyang Normal University, Anyang, China

EMPLOYMENT

2022/06–present Assistant Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2017/03–2022/05 Assistant Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2018/09–2019/09，Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

2016/07–2017/02，Assistant Professor, Southwest University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Catchment Hydrological and Nutrient Modeling; Ecological Hydrological Process; Estimation of Water Environmental Capacity and Pollution

SELECTED PUBLICATION

1. Renhua Yan, Lingling Li, Junfeng Gao, Jiacong Huang, 2022. Exploring the influence of seasonal cropland abandonment on evapotranspiration and water resources in the humid lowland region, southern China. Water Resources Research, 58: e2021WR031888. 

2. Renhua Yan, Junfeng Gao, 2021. Evaluating the complementary relationship to calculate evapotranspirationby using multiple models in a humid lowland region, Southeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 310:108645. 

3. Renhua Yan, Philip Brunner, Junfeng Gao, 2021. Simulation of the nitrogen dynamics of lowland polders using a new coupled modelling approach: Insights into management. Journal of Cleaner Production, 313: 127753. 

4. Renhua Yan, Junfeng Gao, Jiacong Huang, 2016. WALRUS-paddy model for simulating the hydrological processes of lowland polders with paddy fields and pumping stations. Agricultural Water Management,169,148-161. 

5. Renhua Yan, Junfeng Gao, Jiacong Huang, 2019. Modelling the hydrological processes of a Chinese lowland polder and identifying the key factors using an improved PHPS model. Journal of Hydrology, 578: 124083. 

6. Renhua Yan, Lingling Li, Junfeng Gao, 2019. Framework for quantifying rural NPS pollution of a humid lowland catchment in Taihu Basin, Eastern China. Science of the Total Environment, 688: 983-993. 

7. Renhua Yan, Jiacong Huang, Lingling Li, Junfeng Gao, 2017. Hydrology and phosphorus transport simulation in a lowland polder by a coupled modeling system (PHPS). Environmental Pollution, 227,613-625. 

8. Renhua Yan, Lingling Li, Junfeng Gao, 2018. Modelling the regulation effects of lowland polder with pumping station on hydrological processes and phosphorus loads. Science of the Total Environment, 637,200-207. 

9. Renhua Yan, Yongnian Gao, Lingling Li, Junfeng Gao, 2019. Estimation of water environmental capacity and pollution load reduction for urban lakeside of Lake Taihu, Eastern China. Ecological Engineering, 139, 105587. 

10. Renhua Yan, Junfeng Gao, 2021. Key factors affecting discharge, soil erosion, nitrogen and phosphorus exports from agricultural polder. Ecological Modelling, 452, 109586. 

11. Renhua Yan, Jiangcong Huang, Yan Wang, Junfeng Gao, Lingyan Qi, 2016. Modeling the combined impact of future climate and land use changes on streamflow of Xinjiang Basin, China. Hydrology Research, 47,356-372. 

12. Renhua Yan, Junfeng Gao, Lingling Li, Jiacong Huang, 2016. Modeling the hydrological effects of climate and land use/cover changes in Chinese lowland polder using an improved WALRUS model. Hydrology Research, 47,84-101. 

13. Renhua Yan, Jiacong Huang, Junfeng Gao, 2016. Streamflow response to future climate and land use changes in Xinjiang basin, China. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75,1-15. 

14. Lingling Li, Renhua Yan*（通讯）, Bin Xue, 2020. Methane Levels of a River Network in Wuxi City, China and Response to Water Governance. Water, 12, 2617.

AWARDS/ HONORS

2018 Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship 

2013 Standing director of Geographical Postgraduate Union of China 

2016 Wu Yisun scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences 

2012 The GuangHua Educational Scholarship 

2012 National Scholarship for Postgraduate