Chunmiao Zheng

Chair Professor

AGU Fellow

NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar

Vice President

czheng@eitech.edu.cn

Biosketch

Chunmiao Zheng holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Geological Society of America (GSA). He is currently a Chair Professor and Vice President at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Ningbo, China.  In 2015, he joined the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as the Founding Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering and served as the Vice Provost of Global Strategies from 2018 to 2022. Previously, he was a Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Water Sciences at Peking University in Beijing. He also held faculty positions ranging from Assistant Professor to George Lindahl III Endowed Professor at the University of Alabama. His research interests include groundwater contaminant transport and remediation, basin-scale ecohydrological processes, and the impacts of global change and emerging contaminants on water resource sustainability. He is the developer of the MT3D/MT3DMS series of contaminant transport models used in over 100 countries, and the author or co-author over 480 peer-reviewed journal papers and six books, including the textbook Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling. Currently, he serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international open-access journal Sustainable Horizons and has been an associate editor for five leading hydrology and water resources journals, including Water Resources Research. He has also served on the Committee on Hydrologic Science of the U.S. National Research Council, as president of the International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), and as a member of the advisory panel for the "Environmental Science Earth" section of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectureship (2009) and the O.E. Meinzer Award (2013) from the Geological Society of America, the John Hem Award (1998) and the M. King Hubbert Award (2013) from the National Ground Water Association (U.S.), the Distinguished Alumni Award (2014) from the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the 11th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) (2024).

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Education

1985-1988: Ph.D., Hydrogeology with a minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin.

1983-1984: Postgraduate work in Geology and Applied Mathematics, Chengdu University of Technology (formerly Chengdu College of Geology), China.

1979-1983: B.S., Geology (specialized in hydrogeology), Chengdu University of Technology (formerly Chengdu College of Geology), China.


Employment History

2022-Now: Chair Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China.

2022-Now: Chair Professor (concurrent appointment), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

2018-2022: Chair Professor and Vice Provost of Global Strategies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

2015-2018: Chair Professor and Founding Dean, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

2010-2018: Chair Professor and Founding Director, Institute of Water Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China (on joint appointment after 2015).

2010-2018: George Lindahl III Endowed Professor of Hydrogeology, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama (on leave without pay after 2013).

2002-2009: Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama.

1997-2002: Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama

1993-1997: Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama.

1988-1993: Senior Hydrogeologist, S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland.


Professional Experience

2021-Now: Visiting Chair Professor, Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, affiliated with Hohai University, Nanjing, China.

2018-Now: Lindahl Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama.

2006-2009: Visiting Professor and Founding Director, Center for Water Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.

2001: Visiting Fellow, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

2000: Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

2000: Visiting Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.

1995: Visiting Fellow, Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organization, Sydney, Australia.

1991: Assistant Professional Lecturer, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.


Awards and Honors

2024: Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) (https://www.psipw.org)

2024: Highly Cited Researchers 2024, Clarivate (https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/)

2019: Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU) (https://eos.org/agu-news/2019-class-of-agu-fellows-announced)

2014: Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin.

2013: O.E. Meinzer Award, Hydrogeology Division, Geological Society of America

(http: //www.geosociety.org/awards/13speeches/meinzer.htm).

2013: M. King Hubbert Award, National Ground Water Association.(https://www.ngwa.org/members/awards/m-king-hubbert-award-recipients

2012: Distinguished Lecturer for Hydrology Section, AOGS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore.

2009: Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, Hydrogeology Division, Geological Society of America (https://community.geosociety.org/hydrodivision/aboutus/birdsall-lectures/past). 

2008: DuPont Lecturer, University of Delaware.

2005: Oliver Lectureship in Hydrogeology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas-Austin, Texas.

1999: Fellow, Geological Society of America.

1998: John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award, National Ground Water Association.


Major Committees and Editorial Boards

2023-Now: Hydrology Fellow Committee, Hydrology Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2021-Now: Co-Editor-in-Chief, Sustainable Horizons

2019-Now: Advisory Panel, Section on Environmental Earth Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China

2018-2020: Paul A. Witherspoon Mid-Career Lecturer in Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee, American Geophysical Union

2016-Now: Associate Editor, Vadose Zone Journal

2015-Now: Associate Chair, Steering Committee, Major Research Program "Runoff Change in the Headwater Region of China's Southwestern Rivers and Their Adaptive Management", National Natural Science Foundation of China

2013-2018: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)

2010-2018: Member, Steering Committee, Major Research Program "An Integrated Study of Ecohydrological Processes in the Heihe River Basin", National Natural Science Foundation of China

2010-2015: Associate Editor, Water Resources Research

2009-2013: Blue Ribbon Panel on "Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences", National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

2007-2014: Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology

2007-2013: President-elect and President, International Commission on Groundwater, International Association of Hydrologic Sciences (IAHS)

2005-2015: Standing Committee on Hydrologic Science, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

2005-2007: Treasurer, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), Washington, D.C.

2004-2008: Science and Technology Center Site Review Team, National Science  Foundation

2003-2007: Associate Editor, Hydrogeology Journal, International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) and Geological Society of America (GSA)

1998-2010: Associate Editor and Software Column Editor (2002-), Journal Ground Water, National Ground Water Association


Primary Research Interests

  • Impacts of global change and emerging contaminants on groundwater sustainability

  • Integrated studies of hydrologic and ecological processes at watershed scales

  • Surface water-groundwater interactions and their ecological and environmental effects

  • Effects of physical and chemical heterogeneities on contaminant transport and remediation

  • Novel technologies for green environmental remediation and nature-based carbon sequestration

 

Published Works

Summary

Over 480 SCI journal papers; 1 major textbook (with 1st, 2nd and Chinese editions) and 5 other books; 11 software manuals.

A complete publication list and citation matrix can be found:

  • Including all papers, books and software:

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=g0FPeQsAAAAJ 

  • Including SCI papers only:

Web of Knowledge: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/991862

 

Five Representative Papers from the Past Five Years (*corresponding author)

  • Kuang, X., J. Liu*, B.R. Scanlon, J.J. Jiao, S. Jasechko, M. Lancia, B.K. Biskaborn, Y. Wada, H. Li, Z. Zeng, Z. Guo, Y. Yao, T. Gleeson, J.-P. Nicot, X. Luo, Y. Zou, C. Zheng*, 2024, The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle, Science, 383, eadf0630, doi: 10.1126/science.adf0630.

  • Yu, J., Y. Tian*, X. Wang, T. Sun, M. Lancia, C.B. Andrews, C. Zheng*, 2024, Integrated modeling of flow, soil erosion, and nutrient dynamics in a regional watershed: Assessing natural and human-induced impacts, Water Resour. Res., 60(9), doi: 10.1029/2024WR037531.

  • Chen, K., X. Chen, J.C. Stegen, J.A. Villa, …, E.E. Roden*, C. Zheng*, 2023, Vertical hydrologic exchange flows control methane emissions from riverbed sediments, Environ. Sci. Technol., 57(9), 4014–4026, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c07676.

  • Feng, Y., Z. Zeng*, T.D. Searchinger, A.D. Ziegler, …, C. Zheng*, 2022, Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century, Nature Sustainability, 5, 444-451, doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-00854-3.

  • Ben, Y., C. Fu, M. Hu, L. Liu, M. H. Wong, C. Zheng*, 2019, Human health risk assessment of antibiotic resistance associated with antibiotic residues in the environment: A review, Environmental Research, 169, 483-493. (Cited over 1,090 times on Google Scholar by 11/2024.)


Major Books and Computer Software

  • National Research Council (NRC), 2012, Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 188 pp. (Chunmiao Zheng was a member of the NRC committee that authored this book report, available at https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13293/challenges-and-opportunities-in-the-hydrologic-sciences).

  • Zheng, C. and G.D. Bennett, 2009, Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling, Chinese Edition, Higher Education Press, Beijing, China, in collaboration with John Wiley & Sons, New York, 417 pp.

  • Committee on Chinese Groundwater Science, 2009, Challenges and Opportunities in Chinese Groundwater Science, Science Press, Beijing, China, 200 pp. (Chunmiao Zheng was chair of the committee that authored this book report.)

  • Zheng, C., and G.D. Bennett, 2002, Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 621 pp. (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471384771.html).

  • Zheng, C., and G.D. Bennett, 1995, Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling: Theory and Practice, Van Nostrand Reinhold (now John Wiley & Sons), New York, 440 pp.

  • Zheng, C., and P.P. Wang, 1999, MT3DMS: A Modular 3-D Multi-species Transport Model for Simulation of Advection, Dispersion and Chemical Reactions of Contaminants in Groundwater Systems; Documentation and User’s Guide, Contract Report SERDP-99-1, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, 169 pp. (available athttps://web.archive.org/web/20170129200934/http://hydro.geo.ua.edu/mt3d/).

  • Zheng, C., 1990, MT3D: A Modular 3-D Transport Model for Simulation of Advection, Dispersion and Chemical Reactions of Contaminants in Groundwater Systems, Report to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 170 pp.