At the invitation of Prof. Gou Xiaohua from the Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Associate Researcher Xuejia Wang from the Northwest Institute of Ecological and Environmental Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dr. Weijian Ma from Marburg University, Germany visited our university and gave academic reports on June 3, 2021.
Lecturer1: Xuejia Wang
Title1: Climate Simulation and Improvement of the Tibetan Plateau
Lecturer2: Weijing Ma
Title2: Sustainable Water Resources Use in Arid Agricultural Areas Based on Water Footprint Theory: Zhangjiakou City as an Example
Time: June 3, 10:00am-12:00am
Site: Lecture room 502, Qilian Building, Lanzhou University
Lecturer1 profile
Xuejia Wang, male, PhD, an associate researcher of the Northwest Institute of Ecological and Environmental Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a member of Young Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden from 2018-2021. He is mainly engaged in research on climate and environmental change, climate dynamics downscaling simulation, cryosphere-climate interaction on the Tibetan Plateau. He has hosted or participated in more than 10 projects under the Key R&D Program, CAS Pioneer Science and Technology Special Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and CAS Western Light Project. He has published 38 academic papers inEarth Science Reviews, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, International Journal of Climatology and other journals, including 16 SCI papers with first or corresponding authors. He is the topic editor of Remote Sensing and the reviewer of many international academic journals such as ESR, GRL and CD. In particular, his review article entitled "The Tibetan Plateau cryosphere: Observations and model simulations for current status and recent changes" in ERS has been widely recognized by international peers and has been selected as a highly cited paper in ESR. He was awarded the President's Award for Excellence of CAS and the Outstanding Graduate of CAS.
Lecturer2 profile
Weijing Ma, a PhD in Physical Geography from Marburg University, Germany. His research interests include agro-ecosystem response and adaptation in the context of climate change, basin socio-ecosystem sustainability assessment, water-food-energy-carbon coupling, virtual water trade, transboundary material metabolism and environmental effects. In recent years, he has participated in more than 10 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science and Technology Support Project, the Important Direction Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and local government projects, etc. He has published 7 academic papers as the first or corresponding author in Science of the Total Environment, Agricultural Water Management, Journal of Natural Resources, etc. He participated in the preparation of "Theory and Practice of Ecological Compensation in Germany", and is currently a reviewer of Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Research Letters, and other internationally renowned academic journals.
