Ying Zhao
Research Scientist

• Research on saline soil and water security in Yellow River Delta, China
• Hydrological processes of the reclaimed and forested soil under saline water drip irrigation in the Taklimakan desert and its simulation • Hydrological processes under different grazing intensities in seasonally frozen soil of Inner Mongolia grassland and its model development
• Crop habitat process simulation and dynamic optimized decision-making technique
• Impacts of residue and plastic film mulching on coupled soil water and heat fluxes
• Influence of various grazing intensities on soil stability and water balance on the plot scale • Synergy or competition for nitrogen and water use in alley cropping systems estimated by nuclear technique

• Frozen soil hydrological processes, parameterization, and modelling
• Coupled soil water and heat movement • Grassland ecology
• Climate change and land use change evaluation
• Spatial statistics, geostatistical analysis • Soil pedology and pedometrics
• Spatial model building and soil-landscape scaling analysis
• Transport of water, nutrients, chemicals, and pollutants through soil