Name:   Qi Zhang

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

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

Telephone: +86-25-86882102 (office)

Fax: +86-25-57714759 (office)

E-mail: qzhang@niglas.ac.cn

EDUCATION

       Mar 1996 – Mar 2000: PhD, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia

Sep 1988 – Jun 1991:  Master of Civil Engineering, Hohai University, China

Sep 1984 – Jun 1988:  Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Hohai University, China

EMPLOYMENT

Nov 2003 –: Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

       Jan 2003 – Oct 2003: Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

Oct 2000 – Dec 2002: Senior Consultant, GHD Geo-Eng Australia

Apr 2000 – Sep 2000: Research Officer, The University of Queensland, Australia

Jul 1991 – Mar 1996:  Lecturer, Hohai University, China 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Professor Zhang Qi is a research professor at Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology (CAS) since 2003. In 2014, he was appointed as the vice-director of Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His major research interests include catchment hydrological processes and lake hydrodynamic processes and responses to climate change and human activities. In recent years, as a leading scientist in the division of hydrology and lake-catchment interactions, he has been conducting research on lake-catchment hydrological and hydrodynamic processes modelling, impacts of climate change and human activities on the water balance and water quality of lakes, effects of large hydraulic engineering (e.g. the Three Gorges Dam) on lake-river hydraulic relationship and lake hydrology for the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. He developed a spatially distributed hydrological model, WATLAC, for surface and subsurface water flow modelling for large scale lake catchments. The model can be used as an effective tool to assess the hydrological effects of catchment land use changes and climate change on lake hydrology. Prof. Zhang well established research collaboration with international organizations including CSIRO Land and Water Australia, Flinders University and University of Queensland of Australia, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research of Germany.

His expertises include:

               Catchment hydrology and distributed hydrological modelling

               Lake hydrology and hydrodynamics

               Groundwater flow modelling

               Seawater intrusion

               Wetland ecohydrology

AWARDS

       2013: Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Quaternary International, in cooperation with International Union for Quaternary Research

2011: Certificate of 333 High Level Talent Program of Jiangsu Province (III-2842)

AFFILIATIONS AND FELLOWSHIP

2014-2019: Guest Professor of Jiangxi Normal University

2013-2017: Guest Professor of Hohai University, China

2004-2007: Guest Professor of Shandong University, China (No.04018)

March 2014: Visiting Professor of Flinders University, Australia

April 2012: Visiting Professor of Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Germany

May 2011: Visiting Professor of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

March 2010: Visiting Professor of Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Germany

       March 2009: Visiting Professor of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

April 2008: Visiting Professor of Flinders University, Australia

EDITORIAL BOARD

2014-2018: Committee member of editorial board, Journal of Lake Sciences

2010-2014: Committee member of editorial board, Journal of Lake Sciences

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2015

Xianghu Li, Qi Zhang, Chong-Yu Xu, Xuchun Ye. 2015. The changing patterns of floods in Poyang Lake, China: characteristics and explanations. Natural Hazards, 76(1): 651-666.

Dan Zhang, Haoyuan Hong, Qi Zhang, Xianghu Li. 2015. Attribution of the changes in annual streamflow in the Yangtze River Basin over the past 146 years. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 119(1-2): 323-332.

2014

Qi Zhang, Xu-chun Ye, Adrian D. Werner, Yun-liang Li, Jing Yao, Xiang-hu Li, Chong-yu Xu. 2014. An investigation of enhanced recessions in Poyang Lake: Comparison of Yangtze River and local catchment impacts. Journal of Hydrology, 517: 425–434.

Dan Zhang, Haoyuan Hong, Qi Zhang, Rong Nie. 2014. Effects of climatic variation on pan-evaporation in the Poyang Lake Basin, China. Climate Research, 61: 29–40.

Xuchun Ye, Xianghu Li, Jian Liu, Chong-Yu Xu, Qi Zhang. 2014. Variation of reference evapotranspiration and its contributing climatic factors in the Poyang Lake catchment, China. Hydrological Processes, 28: 6151–6162.

Xianghu Li, Qi Zhang, Chong-Yu Xu. 2014. Assessing the performance of satellite-based precipitation products and its dependence on topography over Poyang Lake basin. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 115(3-4): 713-729.

Yunliang Li, Qi Zhang, Jing Yao, Adrian D. Werner, Xianghu Li. 2014. Hydrodynamic and hydrological modeling of the Poyang Lake catchment system in China. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 19(3): 607-616.

2013

Xuchun Ye, Qi Zhang,_Jian Liu, Xianghu Li, Chong-yu Xu. 2013. Distinguishing the relative impacts of climate change and human activities on variation of streamflow in the Poyang Lake catchment, China. Journal of Hydrology, 494: 83–95.

Xianghu Li, Qi Zhang, Xuchun Ye. 2013. Dry/wet conditions monitoring based on TRMM rainfall data and its reliability validation over Poyang Lake basin, China. Water, 5: 1848-1864.

Xianghu Li, Qi Zhang, Ye Xuchun. 2013. Effects of spatial information of soil physical properties on hydrological modeling based on a distributed hydrological model. Chinese Geography Science, 23(2): 182-193.

Xianghu Li, Qi Zhang, Xuchun Ye. 2013. Capabilities of satellite-based precipitation to estimate the spatiotemporal variation of flood/drought class in Poyang Lake basin. Advances in Meteorology, vol. 2013, ID 901240.

Adrian D. Werner, Qi Zhang, Lijuan Xue, Brian D. Smerdon, Xianghu Li, Xinjun Zhu, Lei Yu, Ling Li. 2013. An initial inventory and indexation of groundwater mega-depletion cases. Water Resources Management, 27: 507–533.

2012

Qi Zhang, L. Li, Y.-G. Wang, A.D. Werner, P. Xin, T. Jiang, D.A. Barry. 2012. Has the Three-Gorges Dam made the Poyang Lake wetlands wetter and drier? Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L20402, 7 PP., doi:10.1029/2012GL053431.

Li, X., Qi Zhang, C.-Y. Xu. 2012. Suitability of the TRMM satellite rainfalls in driving a distributed hydrological model for water balance computations in Xinjiang catchment, Poyang lake basin. Journal of hydrology, 426-427: 28-38.

Hua Guo, Qi Hu,_Qi Zhang, Song Feng. 2012. Effects of the Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River flow and river interaction with Poyang Lake, China: 2003–2008. Journal of Hydrology, 416–417: 19–27.

2011 and before

Xuchun Ye, Qi Zhang, Li Bai, Qi Hu. 2011. A modeling study of catchment discharge to Poyang Lake under future climate in China. Quaternary International, 244: 221-229.

Xuchun Ye, Qi Zhang, Neil R. Viney. 2011. The effect of soil data resolution on hydrological processes modelling in a large humid watershed. Hydrological Processes, 25: 130–140.

Xiaolong Wang, Jingyi Han, Ligang Xu, Junfeng Gao, Qi Zhang. 2011. Effects of anthropogenic activities on chemical contamination within the Grand Canal, China. Environmental Monitoring Assessment, 177: 127–139.

Qi Zhang. 2011. Development and Application of an Integrated Hydrological Model for Lake Watersheds. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 10: 1630 – 1636.

Hai-Jun Zuo, Qi Zhang, Lu-Yi Ma, Heike Hartmann, Jian-Qing Zhai, Li-Gang Xu. 2010. Evaluation of soil water percolation in response to different rainfall conditions using HYDRUS-1D model in the low hill red soil region of Jiangxi, China. Research Journal of Soil and Water Management, 1(3-4): 76-84.

Xiaolong Wang, Jingyi Han, Ligang Xu, Qi Zhang. 2010. Spatial and seasonal variations of the contamination within water body of the Grand Canal, China. Environmental Pollution, 158(5): 1513–1520.

Qi Zhang, Adrian D. Werner. 2009. Integrated surface-subsurface modeling of Fuxianhu Lake catchment, Southwest China. Water Resources management, 23: 2189–2204.

Qi Zhang, L.J. Li. 2009. Development and application of an integrated surface runoff and groundwater flow model for a catchment of Lake Taihu watershed, China. Quaternary International, 208(1-2): 102-108.

Qi Zhang, A. Werner, F. Aviyanto, J. Hutson. 2009. Influence of soil moisture hysteresis on the functioning of capillary barriers. Hydrological Processes, 23: 1369–1375.

Xiaoli Jin, Chong-yu Xu, Qi Zhang, Yongqin David Chen. 2009. Regionalization study of a conceptual hydrological model in Dongjiang Basin, south China. Quaternary International, 208(1–2): 129–137.

Ligang Xu, Qi Zhang, Hengpeng Li, Neil R Viney, Jintao Xu, Jia Liu. 2007. Modeling of surface runoff in Xitiaoxi catchment, China. Water Resources Management, 21(8): 1313 - 1323.

Ligang Xu, Jingsong Yang, Qi Zhang, Guangming Liu. 2005. Salt-water transport in unsaturated soils under crop planting: dynamics and numerical simulation. Pedosphere, 15(5): 634-640.

Qi Zhang, Ray E. Volker, David A. Lockington. 2004. Numerical investigation of seawater intrusion at Gooburrum, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. Hydrogeology Journal, 12: 674-687.

Qi Zhang, David A. Lockington. 2003. Discussion of “Stream-aquifer interactions: evaluation of depletion volume and residual effects from ground water pumping”, by Xunhong Chen and Longcang Shu, May-June 2002, 40(3): 284-290. Ground Water, 41(3): 391-392.

Qi Zhang, Ray E. Volker, David A. Lockington. 2002. Experimental investigation of contaminant transport in coastal groundwater. Advances in Environmental Research, 6: 229-237.

Ray E. Volker, Qi Zhang, David A. Lockington. 2002. Numerical modelling of contaminant transport in coastal aquifers. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 59(1-3): 35-44.

Qi Zhang, Ray E. Volker, David A. Lockington. 2001. Influence of seaward boundary condition on contaminant transport in unconfined aquifers. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 49: 201-215.

Ray E. Volker, Qi Zhang. 2001. Comment on "An analytical solution of groundwater response to tidal fluctuation in a leaky confined aquifer" by Jiu Jimmy Jiao and Zhonghua Tang. Water Resources Research, 37(1): 185-186.