Principal speakers
Prof. David Lerner FREng: Professor of Environmental Engineering and Director of the Catchment Science Centre at the University of Sheffield. Leader of a range of research projects on catchment management and decision-making, groundwater resources and pollution, and urban water and rivers.
Prof. Bob Harris: Visiting Professor of Catchment Science and Strategy Director for the Catchment Science Centre, Secretariat of the new Demonstration Catchment initiative of the Dept of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Member of the EU research consortia RISKBASE, Modelkey and AquaTerra.
Dr Ben Surridge: Lecturer in the Lancaster Environment Centre, previously a founding Research Fellow of the Catchment Science Centre. His research interests are in the hydrology of river floodplains, and nutrient biogeochemistry (primarily N and P) in river catchments. He has also provided guidance on the environmental management strategies of clients such as the Environment Agency, Yorkshire Water and English Nature.
Prof. Chunmiao Zheng: Director of CWR at Peking University and Professor of Hydrogeology at University of Alabama. Research interests include contaminant transport, hydrological modeling and groundwater management. He is currently involved in national research programs in North China Plain and Heihe River Basin. Dr. Zheng was the 2009 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer for the Geological Society of America and President of International Commission on Groundwater on the IAHS.
Prof. Yi Zheng: Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Water Research at Peking University. His research interests include watershed water quality modeling and management, and uncertainty in hydrological and environmental modeling. His ongoing research covers several critical watersheds in China, including the Huaihe Watershed, the Luanhe Watershed, and the Chaohu Lake Watershed. Prof. Zheng has extensive experience in Total maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) management.
Prof. Jie Liu: Associate Professor and Manager of the Center for Water Research, Peking University. Research interests include: (1) Groundwater flow and transport modeling at basin scale; (2) Groundwater and surface water interaction; and (3) Integrated hydrologic modeling and management at basin scale. Dr. Liu has been studying the water management issues in the North China Plain for several years.
Prof. Wenpeng Li: Senior hydrogeologist at China Institute of Geo-Environmental Monitoring. He has involved in a number of important projects around Beijing area and will provide study cases and field visit opportunity to small watershed management demonstration in suburb of Beijing.
Prof. Yangwen Jia: Senior hydrologist at China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. His research interests include water cycle at basin scale, distributed hydrological modeling and integrated water resources assessment and planning. He has involved in National Basic Research Program of China (MOST 973) "Haihe watershed hydrologic processes and efficient water use".
Prof. Honglang Xiao: Senior scientist at the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests cover the areas of water and land resources and eco-hydrology. Dr. Xiao has involved in integrated catchment management in the Hei River basin and has rich experience in sustainable water resource management at basin scale.
Dr Bridget R. Scanlon: Senior Research Scientist and Director of Center for Sustainable Water Resources with Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Her current research interests include evaluation of the impact of climate variability and land use change on groundwater resources, and assessment of natural and anthropogenic contamination of aquifers, including arsenic and nitrate.
Prof W. Berry Lyons: Director of School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and a Fellow of GSA, AAAS and AGU. His research interests include the biogeochemistry of Antarctic terrestrial/aquatic ecosystems and how they response to climate change, and the impact of urbanization, suburbanization and agricultural activities on water quality.