Name: Ganlin ZHANG

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

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

Telephone:  +86-25-86882002 (office)

Fax:  +86-25-57714759

E-mail: glzhang@niglas.ac.cn

Education

Ph.D., Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1993

B.S., Huazhong Agricultural University, China,  1987

Employment

Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 2019 to present

Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 2001 to May 2019

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Soil Genesis, Soil Classification, Soil Mapping, Soil Resource Evaluation, Urban Soils

AWARDS

Winner of the Distinguished Young Scientist Fund of the National Natural Science Foundaion

Winner of Jiangsu Province “333” Talent Engineering, Winner of the Special Fellowship of the State Council of China

National Natural Science Award (2nd class) and four Provincial Science and Technology Awards

AFFILIATIONS AND FELLOWSHIP

Vice-chair of the Commission of Soil Genesis, International Union of Soil Science (C1.3, IUSS) (2002-2006)

Vice-chair of the Working Group of Soils of Urban, Industial, Traffic and Mining Areas, IUSS (SUITMA, IUSS)(2007-2010)

Chairman-elect of the Commission of Soil Genesis (C1.3, IUSS) (2010-2014)

Chair of the Committee of Soil Genesis, Classification and Geography (2004-2012)

Member of National Soil Standardization Committee of China

Editorial board member of Geoderma, Acta Pedologica Sinica and Arid Zone Research

Leader of the East Asian Node of Global Soil Mapping Programme, Globalsoilmap.net

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.  Zhang Gan-Lin, Wolfgang Burghardt , Ying Lu and Zi-Tong Gong，2001，Phosphorus-enriched soils of urban and suburban Nanjing and their effect on groundwater phosphorus，Zeitschirift fuer Pflanzenernaehrung und Bodenkunde (Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science), 164（3）：295-301 

2． Zhang Ganlin, Zitong Gong, 2003, Pedogenic evolution of paddy soils in different soil landscapes, Geoderma, 115(1-2):15-29

3． Zhang, G. L., Burghardt, W. and Yang, J. L. 2005. Chemical criteria to assess risk of phosphorus leaching from urban soils. Pedosphere. 15(1): 72—77.

4． Hua Zhang, Gan-Lin Zhang, 2005, Landscape scale soil quality assessment of a tropical farm in China, Soil Use and Management, 21(1): 58-64

5． Zhang Gan-Lin, Feng-Gen Yang, Yu-Guo Zhao, Wen-Jun Zhao, Jin-Ling Yang, Zi-Tong Gong, 2005, Historical change of heavy metals in urban soils of Nanjing, China during the past 20 centuries, Environmental International, 31(6): 913-919

6． Yang Jin-Ling, Gan-Lin Zhang*, Yu-Guo Zhao, 2007, Land use impact on nitrogen discharge by stream: a case study in subtropical hilly region of China, Nutrient Cycling in Agro-ecosystem, 77:29-38

7． Zhang Gan-Lin*, Feng-Gen Yang, Wen-Jun Zhao, Yu-Guo Zhao, Jin-Ling Yang, Zi-Tong Gong, 2007, Historical change of soil Pb content and Pb isotope signatures of the cultural layers in Urban Nanjing, Catena, 69:51-56

8． Zhang Hua, Gan-Lin Zhang*, Yu-Guo Zhao, Zhi-Ping Qi, 2007, Chemical Degradation of a Ferralsol (Oxisol) under Intensive Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) Farming in Tropical China, Soil & Tillage Research, 93:109-116 

9． Gong ZiTong, Chen HongZhao, Yuan DaGang, Zhao YuGuo, Wu YunJin, Zhang GanLin*, 2007, The temporal and spatial distribution of ancient rice in China and its implications, Chinese Science Bulletin, 52(8):1071-1079

10.Zhang Gan-Lin*, Ji-Hua Pan, Cheng-Min Huang, and Zi-Tong Gong, 2007, Geochemical features of a soil chronosequence developed on basalt in Hainan Island, China, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas (Mexican Journal of Geological Science), 24(2): 261-269