Name:     Ronghua Ma

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

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

Telephone:   +86-25-86882168 (office)

Fax:              +86-25-57714759 (office)

E-mail:          rhma@niglas.ac.cn

EDUCATION

2002, Ph.D. in Cartography and GIS, Nanjing University

M.S. and B. S. in Surveying and Mapping, in 1999 and 1996, Xi’an University of Science and Technology

EMPLOYMENT

2009/08—present, Director of Geo-informatics Department of NIGLAS and Director of Lake and Watershed Data Center of NIGLAS; 

2008/07－2009/08, Associate Director of Geo-informatics Department of NIGLAS and Director of Lake and Watershed Data Center of NIGLAS;

2006/06－2009/12, Post-doctor, the Second Institute of Oceanography of the State Oceanic Administration;

2005/08－2009/01, Associate professor in lake remote sensing, NIGLAS;

2002/08－2005/08, Research Assistant, NIGLAS.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

My research interests are mainly focused on the water environment remote sensing of inland lakes. I have also devoted much of my effort to the application of remote sensing and GIS technique for the dynamic monitoring of land use/land cover and its effect on environment. So it covers a broad spectrum of remote sensing and GIS application on geographical, ecological and environmental issues.

AWARDS

Ronghua Ma, Fanxiang Kong, Hongtao Duan, Yuchao Zhang, Minwei Zhang, Min Zhang. The second class of Jiangsu Science and Technology Progress Award (by People’s Government of Jiangsu province). 2012

Fanxiang Kong, Ronghua Ma, Yuwei Chen, Junfeng Gao, Guang Gao, Xiaodong Wu, Min Zhang. The second class of Jiangsu Science and Technology Progress Award (by People’s Government of Jiangsu province). 2008

Ronghua Ma. The 11th Young Science & Technology Award on Geography of China (by the Geographical Society of China)

 Ronghua Ma, et al. Advanced Group of NIGLAS. 2009, 2012

AFFILIATIONS AND FELLOWSHIP

Executive director: Jiangsu Provincial Society for Geography, Jiangsu Provincial Society for Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography

Secretary General and Vice Chairman: Jiangsu Provincial Society for Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editorial board member: Journal of Lake Sciences (in Chinese), Journal of Geo-information Science (in Chinese)

Editorial board: Wetlands Ecology and Management

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hongtao Duan, Ronghua Ma, Chuanmin Hu. Remote sensing algorithms of cyanobacteria pigments during spring bloom formation in several lakes of East China. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2012, 126: 126-135

Guangjia Jiang, Ronghua Ma, Steven Arthur Loiselle, Hongtao Duan. Optical approaches to examining the dynamics of dissolved organic carbon in optically complex inland waters. Environmental Research Letters, 2012, 7, 034014 (6pp), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034014

Ronghua Ma, Hongtao Duan, Qinhuo Liu, Steven Arthur Loiselle. Approximate bottom contribution to remote sensing reflectance in Taihu Lake, China. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2011, 37(1): 18-25

Ronghua Ma, Guangjia Jiang, Luca Bracchini, Steven Loiselle. Effective upwelling irradiance depths in turbid waters: a spectral analysis of origins and fate. Optics Express, 2011, 19(8): 7127-7138

Ronghua Ma, Hongtao Duan, Chuanguang Lv, Steven Loiselle. Unusual links between inherent and apparent optical properties in shallow lakes, the case of Taihu Lake. Hydrobiologia, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0646-z

Ronghua Ma, Hongtao Duan, Chuanmin Hu, Xuezhi Feng, Ainong Li, Weimin Ju, Jiahu Jiang, Guishan Yang. A half-century of changes in China's lakes: Global warming or human influence? Geophysical Research Letters. 2010, 37, L24106, doi:10.1029/ 2010GL045514

Hongtao Duan, Ronghua Ma, Yuanzhi Zhang, Steven Arthur Loiselle, Jingping Xu, Chenlu Zhao, Lin Zhou, Linlin Shang. A new three-band algorithm for estimating chlorophyll-concentrations in turbid shallow lakes. Environmental Research Letters, 2010, 5, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/4/044009

Ronghua Ma, Delu Pan, Hongtao Duan, Qingjun Song. Absorption and scattering properties of water body in Taihu Lake, China: backscattering. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2009, 30(9): 2321-2335

Ronghua Ma, Chaolin Gu, Yingxia Pu, Xiaodong Ma. Mining the Urban Sprawl Pattern: A Case Study on Sunan, China. Sensors, 2008, 8: 6371-6395

Hongtao Duan, Ronghua Ma, Xiaofeng Xu, Fanxiang Kong, Shouxuan Zhang, Weijuan Kong, Jingyan Hao, Linlin Shang. Two-decade reconstruction of algal blooms in China's Lake Taihu. Environmental Science and Technology, 2009, 43: 3522-3528

Feng Gao, Eric Brown de Colstoun, Ronghua Ma, Qihao Weng, Jeffrey G. Masek, Jin Chen, Yaozhong Pan, Conghe Song. Mapping impervious surface expansion using medium-resolution satellite image time series: a case study in the Yangtze River Delta, China. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012, 33(24):7609-7628

Chuanmin Hu, Zhongping Lee, Ronghua Ma, Kun Yu, Daqiu Li, Shaoling Shang. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observations of cyanobacteria blooms in Taihu Lake. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010, 115, C04002, doi:10.1029/2009JC 005511

Published Monograph (in Chinese)

Ronghua Ma, Hongtao Duan, Junwu Tang, Zhaobo Chen. Lake Water Environment Remote Sensing. Science Press: Beijing, China. 2010

Ronghua Ma, Yingxia Pu, Xiaodong Ma. Mining Spatial Association Patterns from GIS database. Science Press: Beijing, China. 2007

Published Monograph (in Chinese)

Zhiming Chen, Bronguleyev V. V., Ronghua Ma. Plate Morphotectonic Map of Asia and Surrondings (1: 14 000 000). Surveying and Mapping Press: Beijing, China. 2011

Zhiming Chen, Timofeyev D. A., Junshu Lin, Ronghua Ma, Zhenguo Huang. General Geomorphic Map of Land and Sea of Asia and Surroundings (1: 8 000 000). Surveying and Mapping Press: Beijing, China. 2011