ZHANG FANGMIN（张方敏），PROFESSOR，Ph.D. Supervisor

Research Field: Carbon and water cycle and its eco-climatic effects; Evapotranspiration and carbon source and sink estimation and simulation; Meteorological disasters and crop risk assessment; Environmental remote sensing

Scientific research level and academic achievements: Presided over and participated in a number of national and provincial funds, national key research and development projects, published more than 100 academic papers in RSE, JGR and other international and domestic authoritative journals. Won the second prize of Provincial and ministerial Science and Technology Progress Award and the second Prize of Science and Technology Award of China Meteorological Service Association.

Curriculum Teaching: Climate Resources and Urban Meteorology for undergraduates, global climate change and Urban Climates for international undergraduates and graduate students. Guide students to win a number of awards, such as excellent graduation thesis, President's Scholarship, National Scholarship, Graduate Innovative Practice Project, and CSC Scholarship.

Short bio:

From 2002 to 2012, I obtained Bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. During this period, I spent 1 year as a guest student in Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 year as a guest student in Nanjing University, 3 years as a joint doctoral candidate in the University of Toronto from 2009 to 2012. After that, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Toronto from 2012 to 2015, and became as a full professor in 2017 in Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.

I am doing research in the fields of ecological meteorology and agricultural meteorology. My research includes the dynamics of the carbon-water cycle in terrestrial ecosystems and their ecological-climatic effects, the estimation and simulation of evapotranspiration and carbon sources/sinks, as well as assessing the impacts of climate change and meteorological disasters on crop risk.

In recent years, I have conducted quantitative analyses of changes in China's arid and humid zones and the mechanisms of meteorological disasters, particularly their effects on crops such as wheat, rice, rapeseed, soybeans, etc. Using crop models and the MaxEnt model, I have evaluated the future suitable zones for crops. Additionally, I have improved the temporal resolution of the BEPS ecological process model at both daily and hourly scales. I have simulated and evaluated ecosystem productivity, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency in China, East Asia, the United States, and other regions, and assessed the response to climate change, especially extreme climate events like drought, ENSO and extreme precipitation.

Furthermore, based on forest inventory data and observational data, I have established carbon emission models under different disturbances and stand age growth models for different tree species. I have improved the ecological process model, InTEC, and applied it to simulate and predict forest carbon sinks in the United States and China. Ultimately, this model has been implemented in operational use by the United States Forest Service and promoted for use in China. As a project participant, I collaborated with a U.S. project team in 2016 and jointly received the highest scientific contribution award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recognizing and encouraging my scientific contributions to forest carbon cycling model simulations. Participated in the technology and application of meteorological disaster risk assessment based on disaster-causing process won the second prize of provincial science and technology, and the "excellent" level in the evaluation of meteorological science and technology achievements of China Meteorological Administration; Participated in the research and application of climate resources development evaluation technology serving green development, and won the second prize of science and Technology of China Meteorological Services Association.

Students interested in climate change related research are welcome to join us.

My email:  fmin.zhang@nuist.edu.cn