Updated on 11-15-2006

       Curriculum Vitae

YOU-KUAN ZHANG

Business Address:              Department of Geoscience

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone:                                   319-335-1806        
E-mail:                                   you-kuan-zhang@uiowa.edu

 

I.   EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

• Higher Education

 

University of Arizona, Tucson          Ph.D.                      Hydrology                             1990
            Nanjing University, China                  M.S.                        Hydrogeology                      1982
            Jilin University, China                         B.S.                         Hydrogeology                      1978

• Professional and Academic Positions

 

2006-present       Professor                                             Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa
                              Secondary Professor                         Department of Civil & Env. Engineering,
                                                                                            University of Iowa
2006-present       Siyuan Adjunct Professor                Nanjing University, China
1997-2005             Associate Professor                          Department of Geoscience, University­ of Iowa
1997-present       Secondary Associate Professor      Department of Civil &­ Env. Engineering­
                                                                                  University of Iowa
1994-present       Research Engineer                             Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research­
                                                                                            University of Iowa
2005-present       Adjunct Professor                             Nanjing University, China
2000-present       Adjunct Professor                             Hohai University, Nanjing, China
1997                      Visiting Professor                              Department of CEE, UC Berkeley
1993-1996             Assistant Professor                           Department of Geology, University­ of Iowa
1993-1996             Secondary Assistant Professor       Department of Civil &­ Env. Engineering­
                                                                                  University of Iowa
1990-1993             Research Assistant Professor         Conservation and Survey Division­
                                                                                            University of Nebraska,­ Lincoln
                             

• Honours,  Awards,  Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements

• Elected GSA Fellow in 2005.
• Appointed as a Member of the White Paper Committee for China’s Groundwater Research by Chinese National Science Foundation in 2005.
• Invited by the editor of the Journal “Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment” to organize a forum on The State of Stochastic Hydrology in 2003
• Elected President of International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences (IPACES) in 2003.
• Invited researcher by DISTART-Idraulica, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy through the CNR Short Term Mobility Program for Italian and Foreign Research Institution, Sept-Oct., 1997 and 2001.
• John W. Harshbarger Award, Dept. of Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona, 1987.
• Third Class Award for Outstanding Scientific Research, Jiangsu  Government, China, 1986.

• Membership

• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of America
• International Association of Hydrogeologists
• International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences (IPACES)
• Iowa Groundwater Association

 

II.   TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
               

• Teaching Assignments since 1999

Sem. & year	Advisees		Course Taught		Selected ACE Summary Score
	Unders	Grads	Course Number & Title	Students Enrolled	Course organization	Instructor preparation	Instructor availability	Grading was faired
Spring, 2006		5	12:184 *53:104 Applied Groundwater Modeling	11	6.00	6.00	5.93	5.83
Spring, 2006		5	12:008 Introduction to Environmental Sciences	398	5.02	5.43	5.10	5.07
Fall, 2005	6	5	12:166 Hydrogeology	13	5.86	5.94	5.94	5.86
Spring, 2005	6	5	12:153 Geocomputing	14	5.64	5.75	5.58	5.50
Spring,      2005	6	5	12:188 Environmental Seminar	20	5.67	5.83	5.79	5.87
Fall, 2004	6	5	12:184 & 53:104 Groundwater Modeling	9	6.00	6.00	5.93	5.83
Spring, 2004	6	5	12:166 Hydrogeology	11	5.80	5.92	5.92	5.63
Spring, 2004	5	7	12:153 & 159:153 Geocomputing	16	5.88	5.88	6.00	5.92
Fall      2003	4	7	12:178 & 44:188 Applied Geostatistics	11	5.94	5.94	5.94	5.94
Summer 2003	5	4	12:199 Hydrogeologic Methods	6	6.00	6.00	6.00	6.00
Spring 2003	5	4	12:153 & 159:153 Geocomputing	20	5.38	5.85	5.57	5.78
Spring 2003	5	4	12:166 Hydrogeology	10	5.92	5.63	5.80	4.67
Fall      2002	15	4	12:188 Environmental Seminar	18	5.71	5.60	5.80	5.60
Fall      2002	15	4	12:184 & 53:104 Groundwater Modeling	6	5.56	6.00	5.83	5.17
Spring 2002	15	5	12:166 Hydrogeology	18	5.92	5.92	5.92	5.91
Spring 2002	15	5	12:153 & 159:153 Geocomputing	23	4.75	5.25	5.25	5.79
Fall 2001	15	4	On leave
Spring 2001	15	3	12:166 Hydrogeology	20	5.00	5.69	5.78	5.13
Fall  2000	15	3	12:188 Environmental Seminar	10	****	****	****	****
Fall      2000	15	3	12:178 & 44:188 Applied Geostatistics	9	5.40	5.80	5.00	5.60
Fall    2000	15	3	12:119 Directed study	1	****	****	****	****
Summer 2000	15	3	Study abroad program: International water	17	****	****	****	****
Summer 2000	15	3	12:199 Hydrogeological methods	8	****	****	****	****
Spring 2000	15	3	12:184 & 53:104 Groundwater Modeling	6	5.88	5.88	6.00	5.67
Spring 2000	15	3	12:153 & 159:153 Geocomputing	25	****	****	****	****
Fall   1999	15	3	12:166 Hydrogeology	12	5.14	5.75	5.75	5.40

Fall      1999	15	4	12:188 Environmental Seminar	12	****	****	****	****
Summer 1999	15	3	12:184 & 53:104 Groundwater Modeling	6	5.50	6.00	6.00	5.90
Summer 1999	15	3	12:199 Hydrogeological methods	8	****	****	****	****
Spring 1999	15	3	12:166 Hydrogeology	15	5.86	5.86	5.94	5.86
Spring 1999	15	3	12:153 & 159:153 Geocomputing	25	****	****	****	****

**** no data available

2.   Student Supervised

       Degree objective           Student Name                       Years                                     Outcome               

1. Postdocs

Yang, Xiaoying                    2005                                       

                                                Chi, John                               1993 – 1994                                           

1. Ph.D candidates

Schilling, Keith                     2006 – present     
Lachhab, Ahmed                  2003 – 2006                            Graduated             
Li, Zhongwei                         2003 – 2006                            Graduated
Seo, Byong-min                    1998 – 2004                            Graduated
Lin, Jie                                1992 - 1997
  (works at the Research Institute of Basic Sciences,
   Chungnam National University, Korea)

1. Master’s candidates

Kent, Andrew                       2003 – present                      Current
Stewart, Matt                        2005 – present                      Current
Weisbrod, Timothy             2003 – 2005                            Graduated
     (works for Iowa state government)
                                                                Zhou, Lei                               2001 – 2004                            Graduated
                                                                    (a Ph.D. student at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Brown, Eric            2002 – 2004                            Graduated
    (works in Des Moines)
Schulmeyer, Pete                  1999 – 2002                            Graduated
   (works for an Environmental Consulting Company)
Wallace, Andi      1999 – 2001                            Graduated
   (works for Environment Resources Management, Indiana)
Shinall, Liz             1998 – 2000                            Graduated
   (Worked at Iowa Geological Survey Bureau)
Ribas, Scott          1998 – 2000                            Graduated
   (works in a State agency in Long Island)
Keeler, Ryan        1995 – 1997                            Graduated
   (works for Environment Resources Management, Chicago)
Lin, Jie                    1993 – 1994                            Graduated
  (works for an Environmental Consulting Company in Washington)

1. Undergraduate students

Bayliss, Michael                   2003 – present                      Current
Clayton, Krysti                     2004 – present                      Current
Derynck, Lindsey                 2004 – present                      Current
Renley, Jessica                     2003 – present                      Current
Segreto, Mary                       2004 – present                      Current

Smith, Sean                           2005 – present                      Current
(Additional more than 20 former ES students supervised but not  listed  )

1. Committee Member for Current Graduate Students

 

i.   Ph.D. candidates
De, Malini                              Geography
Goshit, Sunday                     Geography
Liu, Xiaoyi                             Geoscience
Tiwari, Chetan                      Geography
Zeng, Yu                                Geography

                       ii.   M.S. candidates
                                                                Knight, Charles

1. Committee Member for Past Graduate Students

 

1. Ph.D. candidates

                                Anagnostou, Emmanouil                          CEE
                                Ansar, Matahel                                           CEE
                                Banerjee, Rudy                                           Geography
                                Chen, Grace                                                 Geography
                                Chen, Li-Chuan                                           CEE
                                Dawson, John                                             Geology
Emerson, Charles                                        Geography
Lovanh, Nanh                                             CEE
                                Nelson, Brian                                              CEE.
                                Sayeeduzzaman, Mohammad                   Geology
                                Young, Bryan                                              CEE

1. M.S. candidates

Craig, Andy                                                 CEE
                                Hagen, Brad                                                CEE
                                Lachhab, Ahmed                                        CEE
                                Langel, Rick                                                 Geology
Yang, Xiaoying                                           Geography
                               

1. Other contributions to instructional programs

I served as an instructor for the “International Perspectives on Water Resources Planning”, a study-abroad program in 2000 and led a group of 20 graduate students from UI and other universities in U.S. and Europe to China for a period of two weeks.

     

III.  SCHOLARSHIP

1. Publications

      * = major contribution;
    ** = secondary contribution;
  *** = equal contribution;
**** = minor contribution;
         + = co-author with an advisee.

1. Refereed

 

   *Zhang, Y.-K. and Z. Li, Effect of temporally correlated recharge on fractal fluctuations of groundwater levels, Water Resour. Res., 42, W10412, doi:10.1029/2005WR004828, 2006.
   *Zhang, Y.-K, Z. Li., X. Yang, and K. Schilling, Fractal fluctuation of groundwater levels: Observation, Analyses and Simulations.  Publication of the International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences, Vol. 3: Environmental Geosciences, in press.
   ***Schilling, K.,  Z. Li , and Y.-K. Zhang, Groundwater-surface water interaction in the riparian zone of an incised channel, Walnut Creek, Iowa, J. Hydrol., 327, 140-150, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.11.014, 2006.
 *Zhang, Y.-K. and K. Schilling, Increasing  Streamflow and Baseflow In Mississippi River since 1940’s:  Effect of Land Use Change, J. Hydrol., 324, 412-422, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.09.033, 2006.
     *Zhang, Y.-K. and K. Schilling, Effects of land cover on water table, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and groundwater recharge: a field observation and analysis, J. Hydrol., 319, 328-338, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.06.044, 2006.
  *+Li, Z. Y.-K. Zhang, K. Schilling, and M. Skopec, Cokriging Estimation of Daily Suspended Sediment Loads, J. Hydrol.,  327, 389-398, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.11.028, 2006.
*Zhang, Y.-K. and K. Schilling, Temporal Variations and Scaling of Streamflow and Baseflow and their Nitrate-Nitrogen Concentrations and Loads, Adv. in Water Resour.,  28, p. 701-719, doi:10:1016/j.advwatres.2004.12.014, 2005.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and Z. Li, Temporal scaling of hydraulic head fluctuations: Nonstationary spectral analyses and numerical simulations, Water Resour. Res., 41, W07031, doi:10.1029/2004WR003797, 2005.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and K. Schilling, Temporal scaling of hydraulic head and river baseflow and its implication for groundwater recharge, Water Resour. Res., 40, W03504, doi:10.1029/2003WR002094, 2004.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and B. Seo, Stochastic analysis and Monte Carlo simulations of non-ergodic solute transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous and statistically anisotropic aquifers, Water Resour. Res., 40, W05103, doi:10.1029/2003WR002871, 2004.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and B. Seo, Numerical simulations of non-ergodic solute transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous porous media, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 18(3), 205-215, doi:10.1007/s00477-004—178-4, 2004.
*Zhang, Y.-K. and D. Zhang, Applications of Stochastic Methods in Subsurface Hydrology, An Introduction to a Forum in Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Stoch Envir Res and Risk Ass, 18: 265, DOI 10.1007/s00477-004-0190-8, 2004.
**Schilling, K.E., and Y.-K. Zhang, Baseflow contribution to Nitrate-Nitrogen Export from a large, Agricultural Watershed, USA, J. Hydrol., 295, 305-316, doi:10:1016/j.jhydrol.2004.03.010, 2004.
   *Zhang, Y.-K. and K. Schilling, Impact of Vegetation on Main Hydrological Processes: A Field Study and Its Implication for Water Quality, Advance in Earth Sciences, 19(3), 422-428, Article ID: 1001-8166(2004)03-0422-07, 2004.
**Schilling, K., Y.-K. Zhang, and P. Drobney, Water table fluctuations near an incised stream, Walnut Creek, Iowa, J. Hydrol., 286,  p. 236-248, 2004.
   *Zhang, Y.-K., Non-ergodic solute transport in physically and chemically heterogeneous porous media, Water Resour. Res., 39(7), 1197, doi:10.1029/2003WR002116, 2003.
   *Zhang, Y.-K and R.C. Heathcote., An improved method for estimation of biodegradation rate with field data, Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation, 23(3), p.112-117, 2003.
   *Zhang, Y.-K. and V. D. Federico, Letter to the editor: Comments on the paper ‘Comparison of observations from a laboratory model with stochastic theory: initial analysis of hydraulic and tracer experiments’, by S.E. Silliman and L. Zheng, Transport in Porous Media, 52: 111-115, 2003.
***Wang, L. and Y.-K. Zhang, An unconditionally-stable explicit scheme for groundwater flow equations, Computational Methods in Water Resources, XIV, p. 145-152, 2002.
  *+Wallace, A. and Y.-K. Zhang, Calibration of a Groundwater Flow Model for Spatially- and Temporally-varied Recharge to a Fractured-Karst Aquifer, Acta Universitatis Carolinae-Geologica, 46: 286-289, 2002.
  *Zhang, Y.-K., and V. D. Federico, Nonergodic solute transport in heterogeneous porous media: Influence of multiscale structure, in Zhang, D., and Winter, C.L., eds., Theory, Modeling, and Field Investigation in Hydrogeology: A Special Volume in Honor of Shlomo P. Neuman’s 60th Birthday: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 348, p. 61–72, 2000.
  *Zhang, Y.-K., B. Seo, and V. D. Federico, Stochastic analysis and simulation of transport of a Contaminant plume in nonuniform groundwater flow, Computational Methods in Water Resources, XIII, 389-395, 2000.
***Federico, V.D. and Y.-K. Zhang, Solute transport in heterogeneous porous media with long-range correlations, Water Resour. Res., 35(10), 3185-3192, 1999.
   *Zhang, Y.-K. and V.D. Federico, Solute transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous media with a Gaussian covariance of log hydraulic conductivity, Water Resour. Res., 34(8), 1929-1934, 1998.
   *Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Numerical simulations of transport of non­ergodic plumes in     heterogeneous aquifers, Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics,  Vol. 12, No. 2, 117-139,         1998.
   *Zhang, Y.-K.,  A comment on “Linear equilibrium adsorbing solute transport­ in physically and
               chemically heterogeneous porous formations, 1. Analytical solutions” by Alberto Bellin
               et al., Water­ Resour. Res., 34(12), 3701-3704, 1998.
   *Zhang, Y.-K., On the Variances of Second Spatial Moments of a Non­Ergodic Plume in Heterogeneous Aquifers,  Water Resour. Res., 33(8), 1893-1900, 1997.
   *Zhang, Y.-K. and D. Zhang, Time-Dependent Dispersion of Non-Ergodic­ Plumes in Two-Dimensional Heterogeneous Porous Media, Journal of Hydrologic­ Engineering, Vol.2, No.2, 91-94, 1997.
   *Zhang, Y.-K., D. Zhang, and J. Lin, Non-Ergodic Solute Transport in­ Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Isotropic Aquifers, Water Resources­ Res., 32(9), 2955-2963, 1996.
   *Zhang, Y.-K., Modeling of a Flowing-Well Test in a Fractured-Karst­ Aquifer with a Double-Porosity odel, Computational Methods in Water­ Resources, XI, Vol. I, 295-302, 1996.
   *Zhang, D. and Y.-K. Zhang, Higher-Order Velocity Covariance and Its­ Effect on Advective Transport in Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Anisotropic­ Media, Computational Methods in Water Resources , XI, Vol. I, 689-697, 1996.
   *Zhang, Y.-K., E.-W. Bai, R. Libra, R. Rowden, and H. Liu, Simulation of­ Spring Discharge from a Limestone Aquifer in Iowa, USA, Hydrogeology­ Journal , v.4, no.4, 41-54, 1995.
   *Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Chi, An Evaluation of Nonlinearity in Spatial Second­ Moments of Ensemble Mean Concentration in Heterogeneous Media, Water­ Resour. Res., 31(12), 2991-3005, 1995.
   **Gosselin, D.C, J.F. Ayers, and Y.-K. Zhang, Modeling Concentration­ Variations in High-Capacity Wells: Implications for Groundwater Sampling,­ Water Resources Bulletin , Vol.30, No.4, 613-622, 1994.
***Neuman, S.P., O. Levin, S. Orr, E. Paleologos, D. Zhang, and Y.-K.­ Zhang, Nonlocal Representations of Subsurface Flow and Transport by­ Conditional Moments, Computational Stochastic Mechanics, ed. by A. H.-D.­ Cheng and C.Y. Yang, Computational Mechanics Publisher, Sothhamton, the United­ Kingdom, 451-473, 1993.
     *Neuman, S.P. and Y.-K. Zhang, A Quasi-linear Theory of Non-Fickian and­ Fickian Subsurface Dispersion: 1. Theoretical Analysis with Application to­ Isotropic Media, Water Resour. Res. , 26(5), 887-902, 1990.
     *Zhang, Y.-K. and S.P. Neuman, A Quasi-linear Theory of Non-Fickian and­ Fickian Subsurface Dispersion: 2. Application to Anisotropic Media and the­ Borden Site,  Water Resour. Res. , 26(5), 903-913, 1990.
 ***Neuman, S.P., Y.-K. Zhang, and O. Levin, Quasi-linear Analysis,­ Universal Scaling, and Lagrangian Simulation of Dispersion in Complex Geologic­ Media, Dynamics of Fluids in Hierarchical Porous Formations, ed. by John­ Cushman, Academic Press, 349-391, 1990.
     *Xue, Y. and Y.-K. Zhang, Application of the Dural-Porosity Model and­ Ritz Finite Element Method in Mine Drainage Estimation, Hydrogeology and­ Engineering Geology , No.3, 33-39, 1984.
     *Zhang, Y.-K, Double-Porosity Model and Finite Element Solution to Flow­ in Fractured-Karst Aquifers, Engineering Prospecting , No.4, 57-68, 1983.
 ***Zhu, X. X. Qian, and Y.-K. Zhang, Estimation of Infiltration Coefficients in­ Fractured Rocks, Engineering Prospecting, No.3, 1982.
   

• Papers in Proceedings

   *Zhang, Y.-K. and R.C. Heathcote, Modeling the Fate and Transport of a Contaminant Plume in Sioux City, 8th International Petroleum Engineering Conference, 2001.
   *Zhang, Y.-K. and B. Seo, Monte Carlo Simulations of Contaminant Plumes in Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Porous Media, MODFLOW 2001 AND OTHER MODELING ODYSSEYS, Proceeding of An International Ground Water Modeling Conference and Workshops, 2001.
*+Shinall, L.A., Y.-K. Zhang, and M.J. Gannon, Effect of Heterogeneity on Nitrate Concentration in a Shallow Aquifer in Sioux County, Iowa, MODFLOW 2001 AND OTHER MODELING ODYSSEYS, Proceeding of An International Ground Water Modeling Conference and Workshops, 2001.
**Lovanh, N., Y.-K. Zhang, and P.J.J. Alvarez, Statistics and effect of first-order biodegradation rate coefficient on intrinsic remediation of groundwater contamination, the proceeding of the 6th International Petroleum Environmental Conference, October, 1999.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Monte Carlo simulation of non-ergodic reactive solute transport in random porous media, GQ’98: International Conference and Special Workshops on                         GROUNDWATER QUALITY: Remediation and Protection, 1998.          
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and R. Keeler, Modeling groundwater flow with MODFLOW  in a fractured-karst aquifer in the Big Spring basin, Iowa,  MODFLOW’98 International Conference, 1998.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Monte Carlo Simulations of Non-Ergodic Solute Transport in Random Porous Media, Proceedings of the 27th IAHR Congress, ­ 240-245, 1997.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and E.-W. Bai, Simulation of Spring Discharge from a­ Limestone Aquifer in Northeastern Iowa with an Identification Scheme,­ Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modeling, IAHS Publ. no. 237,­ 31-39, 1996.
  *Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Groundwater Monitoring Network Design with­ Geostatistics and Monte Carlo Simulation, Calibration and Reliability in­ Groundwater Modeling, ModelCARE 96, 361-370, 1996.
**Sibray, S.S. and Y.-K. Zhang, Three-Dimensional Modeling of Hydraulic­ Behaviour of a Highly Conductive Secondary Permeability Zone in the Brule­ Formation, Proceedings of 1994 Groundwater Modeling Conference, Fort Collins,­ Colorado, 445-452, 1994.

• Book Review

 

    Zhang, Y.-K. Review of the book: “Stochastic Methods for Flow in Porous Media”  by Dongxiao Zhang, Vadose Zone Journal, in preparation, 2006.
    Zhang, Y.-K. Review of the book: “Applied Stochastic Hydrogeology” by Yoram Rubin, EOS, Vol. 84, No. 43, 2003.
    Zhang, Y.-K. Review on the book: "Inverse Problems in Groundwater Modeling" by Ne-Zheng Sun, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,­ July, 1995.

• Non-Refereed

 

    Zhang, Y.-K. and R. Heathcote, Guidelines for numerical modelling in tier 3 assessments and other corrective actions, Technical Report submitted to Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Undergrround Storage Tank Fund Board, p.79, 2001.
    Zhang, Y.-K., B. Seo, N. Lovanh2, and P. J.J. Alvarez, Evaluation of computer software packages for RBCA tier-3 analysis, A technical report submitted to Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Board, 2001.
    Lovanh, N., Y.-K. Zhang, R.C. Heathcote, and P.J.J. Alvarez, Guidelines to Determine Site-Specific Parameters for Modeling the Fate and Transport of Monoaromatic Hydrocarbons in Contaminated Aquifers, A technical report submitted to Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Board, 1999.
    Alvarez, P., Y.-K. Zhang, and N. Lovanh, The Evaluation of the Iowa Tier-2 Model Based on the Benzene Plume Dimensions and the Literature Search, Final Report, pp. 147, 1998.

• Conference Abstracts and Presentations

 

        
    Li, Z. and Y.-K. Zhang, Dynamic Sediment Modeling: A Case Study at Walnut Creek, Iowa, American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 11 – 15, 2006.
    Schilling, K. and Y.-K. Zhang, Effects of LULCC on Streamflow and Nitrate-N Concentrations in Iowa and the Mississippi River Basin, American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 11 – 15, 2006.
    Zhang, Y.-K., Increasing Mississippi River Flow since 1940s: Climate Change or Human Intervention? Thirty-four Congress of International Association of Hydrogeologists, Bejing, China, Oct. 9 – 13, 2006.
    Zhang, Y.-K. and K. Schilling, A field observation and analysis of effects of land cover on water table and groundwater recharge, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Beijing, China, 24-27 July 24 – 27, 2006.
    Zhang, Y.-K., Temporal Variations and Scaling of Water Table in Aquifers, 2006 International Symposium on Groundwater Resources and Environment, organized by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, China Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, July 22 – 23, 2006.
    Zhang, Y.-K. and Z. Li, Fractal fluctuations of groundwater levels: Observation, interpretation, and implication, American Geophysical Union 2005 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 5 – 9, 2005.
    Li, Z. and Y.-K. Zhang, Fractal fluctuations of groundwater levels: Detrended fuctuation analyses, American Geophysical Union 2005 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 5 – 9, 2005.
   Yang, X., Z. Li, and Y.-K. Zhang, Y.-K, Fractal fluctuations of groundwater levels: Numerical simulations, American Geophysical Union 2005 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 5 – 9, 2005.
    Zhang, Y.-K., Increasing Mississippi River Flow since 1940s: Climate Change or Human Intervention? The Fifth annual meeting of the International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, June 20 - 22, 2005.
    Zhang, Y.-K. and Z. Li, Temporal variations of groundwater levels and their scaling properties, A Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Chinese Groundwater Science, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, June 16 - 17, 2005.
    Zhang, Y-K., Comparison of Groundwater Research in USA and China, A Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Chinese Groundwater Science, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, June 16 - 17, 2005.
    Zhang, Y.-K., Recent Advances in Groundwater Science, the Fifth annual meeting of the International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, June 20 - 22, 2005.
   Li, Z. and Y.-K. Zhang, Stochastic Analysis and Numerical Simulations of Hydraulic Head and Baseflow in Heterogeneous Media under Spatial-Temporal Random Recharge, American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 2004.
   Li, Z. and Y.-K. Zhang, Dynamic Sediment Modeling in Iowa Streams and Rivers: A Case Study at Walnut Creek, American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 2004.
   Zhang, Y-K., Ecohydrology: A rejuvenated discipline with new perspectives, the International Conference and Workshop on Frontiers of Earth Sciences: Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, Chengdu, June, 2004.
   Zhang, Y-K., Stochastic Surface Hydrology: from Theory to Applications, the International Conference and Workshop on Frontiers of Earth Sciences: Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, Chengdu, June, 2004.
   Zhang, Y-K., Numerical Simulations of Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, the International Workshop on Applications of Computational Methods in Earth Sciences, Beijing, June, 2004.
   Li, Z. and Y.-K. Zhang, Temporal Scaling and Numerical Simulations of  The Hydraulic Head and River Baseflow, American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 8 - 12, 2003.
   Brown, E. and Y.-K. Zhang, Modeling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Around Two Lagoons in Eastern Iowa with Analytical and Numerical Models, MODFLOW and More 2003, Denver, Sept. 17 -20, 2003
   Zhang, Y.-K. Stochastic analysis and Monte Carlo simulations of contaminant plumes in threedimensional heterogeneous porous media; The Fourth World Chinese  conferenceon Geological Sciences, Nanjing, China, May 22–23, 2002.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and B. Seo, Three-Dimensional Monte Carlo Simulations of Movement of a Contaminant Plume in Heterogeneous Aquifers, American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 6- 10, 2002.
   Wang, L. and Zhang, Y.-K., An unconditionally-stable explicit scheme for groundwater flow equations, Computational Methods in Water Resources, XIV,  2002.
   Wallace, A. and Zhang, Y.-K., Calibration of a Groundwater Flow Model for Spatially- and Temporally-varied Recharge to a Fractured-Karst Aquifer, International conference on ModelCare, June 17-20, Czech Republic 2002.
   Bradley, A. A., G. J. Ciach, W. N. Eichinger, K. C. Hornbuckle, W. A. Illman, W. F. Krajewski*, A. Kruger, V. C. Patel, F. H. Weirich, Y. K. Zhang, Iowa Hydrologic and Environmental Validation Site: A Proposal to the Community, Eos Trans. AGU, H22A-05.
   Wallace, A. and Y.-K. Zhang, Modeling of Groundwater Flow in a Karst Aquifer in Northeast Iowa, American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 10-14, 2001.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and B. Seo, Monte Carlo Simulations of Contaminant Plumes in Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Porous Media, MODFLOW 2001 AND OTHER MODELING ODYSSEYS, Abstracts of An International Ground Water Modeling Conference and Workshops, 2001.
   Wallace, A. and Y.-K. Zhang, Modeling of Groundwater Flow in a Karst Aquifer in Northeast Iowa, American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 10-14, 2001.
   Shinall, L.A., Y.-K. Zhang, and M.J. Gannon, Effect of Heterogeneity on Nitrate Concentration in a Shallow Aquifer in Sioux County, Iowa, MODFLOW 2001 AND OTHER MODELING ODYSSEYS, Abstracts of An International Ground Water Modeling Conference and Workshops, 2001.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and B. Seo, Is the Borden plume ergodic? American­ Geophysical Union 2000  Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 15-19, 2000.
   DeChoudens, V., Y.-K. Zhang, and L. A. Gonzalez, Modeling of Three-Dimensional Groundwater Flow in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, American­ Geophysical Union 2000  Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 15-19, 2000.
   Shinall, L., J.M. Gannon, and Y.K. Zhang, Hydrogeology and Wellhead Protection Area Delineations: Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa, Geological Society of American­ 2000 Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Nov. 13-17, 2000.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and V. di Federico, Non-Ergodic Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media with a Multi-Scale Structure, American­ Geophysical Union 1999 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 1999.
   Shinall, L., J.M. Gannon, and Y.K. Zhang, Hydrogeology and Wellhead Protection Area Delineations: Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa, American­ Geophysical Union 1999 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec.13-17, 1999.
   Lovanh, N., R. Keller, Y.K. Zhang, and P. Alvarez, The Effect of Biodegradation Rate Coefficients on Intrinsic Remediation: Evaluation of Field Data, The 8th Biocatalysis and Bioprecessing Conference, October 25-27, 1999.
   Lovanh, N., Y.-K. Zhang, and P. Alvarez, Statistics and effect of first-order biodegradation rate coefficient on intrinsic remediation of groundwater contamination, The 6th International Petroleum Environmental Conference, October, 1999
   Zhang, Y.-K., V. di Federico, and B.-M. Seo, Non-Ergodic Solute Transport in Nonuniform Groundwater Flow, American­ Geophysical Union 1998 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 6-10, 1998.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and Federico, V.D.,  Non-Ergodic Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous: Media: Influence of Multiscale Structure, Shlomo Neuman’s 60th birthday mposium,  Tucson, AZ, Oct., 1998.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and R. Keeler, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling of the Big Spring Basin, Iowa, USA, 1998 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, July 21-24, 1998
   Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Monte Carlo Simulations of Non-Ergodic Solute­ Transport in Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Aquifers, American­ Geophysical Union 1997 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 8-12, 1997.
   Federico, V.D. and Y.-K. Zhang, Solute Transport in Heterogeneous­ Porous Media with Long-range Correlations, American Geophysical Union 1997­ Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 8-12, 1997.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Stochastic Analysis and Simulation of Solute­ Transport in Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Aquifers, 42nd Annual­ Midwest Groundwater Conference, Coralville, Iowa, Oct. 22-24, 1997.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Monte Carlo Simulations of Non-Ergodic Solute ­Transport in Random Porous Media, 27th IAHR Congress, Aug., 1997.
   Keeler, R. and Y.-K. Zhang, Modeling of Groundwater Flow in the Big­ Spring Basin, Clayton County, Iowa, 42nd Annual Midwest Groundwater­ Conference, Coralville, Iowa, Oct. 22-24, 1997.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Stochastic Analysis and Simulation of Solute­ Transport in Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Aquifers, 1997 North­ Central GSA Abstracts with Programs, 1997.
   Keeler, R. and Y.-K. Zhang, Modeling of Groundwater Flow in a­ Fractured-Karst Aquifer in the Big Spring Basin, Iowa, 1997 North-Central GSA­ Abstracts with Programs.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and J. Lin, Numerical Simulations of Nonergodic Solute­ Transport in Heterogeneous Aquifers, EOS, Vol.77, No. 46, pp. F263, 1996.
   Zhang, Y.-K., Scale Effect and Stochastic Theories of Groundwater­ Pollution in Heterogeneous Aquifers, Abstracts of 30th International­ Geological Congress, Vol. 3, p.276, 1996
   Zhang, Y.-K. and D. Zhang, A Negative Dispersivity: Can a Plume­ Shrink?, EOS, Nov. 7, pp. F180, 1995.
   Zhang, Y.-K., An Evaluation of Nonlinearity in the Second Spatial­ Moments of the Ensemble Mean Concentration in Aquifers, AGU Fall Meeting,­ 1994.
   Zhang, Y.-K., Application of the Double-Porosity Model and Finite­ Element Method to a Fractured-Karst Aquifer in Makeng, China, Western Pacific­ Geophysics Meeting, 1994.
   Zhang, Y.-K. and M. Shao, A Simple Method for Determining Unsaturated­ Hydraulic Conductivity, AGU 1993 Fall Meeting.
   Neuman, S.P. and Y.-K. Zhang, Eulerian-Lagrangian Theory of Transport­ in Space-Time Nonstationary of Velocity Fields, AGU 1992 Fall Meeting.
   Ayers, J.F, Y.-K. Zhang, and D.C. Gosselin, Water-Sampling Regime­ Around High-Capacity Wells: An Analysis, GSA 1991 Annual Meeting.
   Zhang, Y.-K., Time-Dependent Nonlocal dispersion in Unsaturated Media­ with Statistically Anisotropic Hydraulic Conductivities, AGU 1991 Fall­ Meeting.
   Zhang, Y.-K., Time-Dependent Nonlocal dispersion in the Vadose Zone,­ Workshop on Characterization of Transport Phenomena in the Vadose Zone,­ sponsored by the Soil Science Society of America and AGU, 1991.
   Zhang, Y.-K., Macrodispersion in the Vadose Zone; Statistically­ Isotropic Media, AGU 1990 Fall Meeting.

• Grants Funded

 

a. External

2005-2008  PI,  A study of temporal variations of groundwater levels, recharge, and baseflow: Does scaling exist in these processes?  $180,000.00, NSF.
2005            Modeling Sediment Transport in Iowa Rivers, $9,500.00, awarded by the                                  Iowa Department of Natural Resources. in transaction.
2003-2004    PI, Modeling Sediment Transport in Iowa Rivers, $16,000.00, awarded by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
1999-2001     Co-PI, Iowa RBCA Tier-3 Model Selection and Parameter Estimation, $103,755.00, awarded by the Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Board, the state of Iowa.
1998              Co-PI, The Evaluation of the Iowa Tier-2 Model Based on the Benzene Plume Dimensions and the Literature Search, $17,080 awarded by Iowa State Government.
1992-1995     PI, Stochastic Analysis and­ Simulation of Time-Dependent Solute Transport in Soils, $168,000.00 awarded by­ U.S. Department of Agriculture.
1992-1995     Co-PI, Evaluation of Irrigation­ Wells as Sampling Mechanisms, $122,102.00 awarded by U.S. Department of­ Agriculture.
1992-1994   PI, Effect of Local Anisotropy of­ Hydraulic Conductivities on  Non-local Dispersion in Aquifers, $25,500.00­ awarded by U.S. Geological Survey.
1991-1993     Co-PI, Performance Assessment of the Low-Level­ Radioactive Nuclear Waste Disposal Facility at Butte, Nebraska, $30,000.00­ provided by Nebraska Low-Level Waste Disposal Program.

b. Internal

2005              PI, Increasing Streamflow and Baseflow in the Mississippi River Basin since 1940s: Effect of Climate or Land Use Change, CGRER Seed Grant, $24,386.00, the University of Iowa.
2004               PI, Carver Scientific Research Initiative, $14,752.00, the University of Iowa.
2004              PI, The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Summer, 2004, $12,000.00, the University of Iowa.
2002               PI, Proposal to Computerize Room 231, TH for Computer Fee Funds, $45,500.00 awarded by College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the University of Iowa.
1995              PI, Modeling Groundwater­ contamination by Agricultural Chemicals at Big Spring, Iowa,­ $10,000.00 awarded by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies­ Interdisciplinary Research Grant, University of Iowa.
1997              PI, The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Summer, 1997, $10,000.00, the University of Iowa.

• Proposals Submitted But Not Funded

 

• Co-PI, Development of Hydraulic and Tracer Tomography Field Equipment and Facility, Submitted to NSF Instrumentation & Facilities program, $527,315.00, August 8, 2005.
• PI, An Integrated Study of the Basin-Scale Water Cycle and the Temporal and Spatial Variation of Groundwater Recharge, $550,000.00, submitted to NSF Hydrologic Sciences Program on July 26, 2004.
• PI, Impacts of Annual Crops and Perennial Vegetation on Soil Moisture, Groundwater Recharge, Discharge, and Quality in Agricultural Watersheds, USDA CSREES program, $486,446.00, January 8, 2004.
• Co-PI, Center for Advanced Subsurface Simulation and Imaging, Submitted to NSF, $1,421,253.00,  2004
• PI, A Study of Temporal and Spatial Variation of Groundwater Table, Recharge, and Baseflow: Does Scaling Exist in These Processes? Submitted to NSF Hydrologic Sciences Program, $193,596.00, December 1, 2003.
• Co-PI, CMG Research:Stochastic Dynamics of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, $1,136,588.00,  submitted to NSF ATM- Mathematical Geosciences program on February 20, 2003.
• Co-PI, CMG Research: Bayesian Nonstationary Models for Spatiotemporal Data with Application to Ground Water Contamination,  $401,747.00, submitted to NSF ATM- Mathematical Geosciences program on February 20, 2003.
• PI, A Study of Temporal and Spatial Variation of Groundwater Table, Recharge, and Baseflow: Does Scaling Exist in These Processes? Submitted to NSF Hydrologic Sciences Program on December 1, 2002.
• PI, An Integrated Study of the Basin-Scale Water Cycle and the Temporal and Spatial Variation of Groundwater Recharge, $833,329.00, submitted to NSF Hydrologic Sciences Program on June 18, 2002.
• PI, Large-Scale Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Fluid Flow and Contaminant Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, $ 871,700.00, submitted to DOE EMSP program on March 26, 2002.
• Co-PI, Multi-Scale Investigation of Subsurface Heterogeneity, $1,583,171.00, submitted to NSF in November of 2001.
• Co-PI,  $217,731, A Study of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Porous Media with Lattice Boltzmann Methods, submitted to NSF in Dec., 2000.
• PI, $80,370,  An Auto-Regressive Moving Average Model for Groundwater Contamination by Agricultural Chemical, submitted to USDA in Nov., 1998.
• PI, $97,481, An Auto-Regressive Moving Average Model for Groundwater Contamination by Agricultural Chemicals, submitted to USDA in Nov., 1997.

• Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations

 

• Invited speaker, Increasing Mississippi River Flow since 1940s: Climate Change or Human Intervention? Hohai University, China, October 15, 2006.
• Invited speaker, Increasing Mississippi River Flow since 1940s: Climate Change or Human Intervention? Thirty-four Congress of International Association of Hydrogeologists, Bejing, China, Oct. 9 – 13, 2006.
• Keynote speaker, A field observation and analysis of effects of land cover on water table and groundwater recharge, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Beijing, China, 24-27 July 24 – 27, 2006.
• Keynote speaker, Temporal Variations and Scaling of Water Table in Aquifers, 2006 International Symposium on Groundwater Resources and Environment, organized by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, China Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, July 22 – 23, 2006.
• Invited speaker, Hydrology and Water Resources Research in the 21st Century, Nanjing University, China, March 15, 2006.
• Invited speaker, Stochastic Hydrogeology: past, present and future, Workshop organized by China’s National Science Foundation, Denver, Feb. 3 – 5, 2006.
• Keynote speaker, Increasing Mississippi River Flow since 1940s: Climate Change or Human Intervention? The Fifth annual meeting of the International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, June 20 - 22, 2005.
• Keynote speaker, Comparison of Groundwater Research in USA and China, A Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Chinese Groundwater Science, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, June 16 - 17, 2005.
• Keynote speaker, Recent Advances in Groundwater Science, the Fifth annual meeting of the International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, June 20 - 22, 2005.
• Invited lecturer, a lecture series on Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology, Hohai University, China, Jan. 5 – 14, 2005.
• Invited lecturer,  Some recent advances in hydrological research in USA,  Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, China, Jan. 12, 2005.
• Invited speaker,  Increased Mississippi River Flow: Effect of Climate or Land Use Change? Department of Geography, the University of Iowa, April 29, 2005.
• Keynote speaker,  Ecohydrology – Rejuvenated discipline with new perspectives,  the international Conference and Workshop on Frontiers of Earth Sciences: Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, Chengdu, June, 2004.
• Keynote speaker, Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology: from theories to applications, the international Conference and Workshop on Frontiers of Earth Sciences: Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, Chengdu, June, 2004.
• Invited speaker, Numerical Simulations of Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, the International Workshop on Applications of Computational Methods in Earth Sciences, Beijing, June, 2004.
• Characterization and monitoring of unsaturated fractured carbonates by tomographic methods-Towards a unified understanding of local to basin scale hydrological and contaminant transport processes, Presentation at the STC Workshop, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, December 6, 2003.
• Invited speaker, Recent development in Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology, Hohai University, July, 2003.
• Recent Development in Groundwater Hydrology, Nanjing University, June, 2002.
• Stochastic Approaches in Studying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Geological Formations, Hohai University, June, 2002.
• Groundwater and Environment, the Center for Minicipal Environmental Research, June, 2002.
• Non-ergodic Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Media, DISTART-Idraulica, Universita di Bologna, Italy, 2001.
• Groundwater Contamination, Remediation, and Research in USA, Nanjing Institute of Hydraulic Research, Nanjing, China, December of 2001.
• Stochastic Methods in Subsurface Hydrology, Peking University, China, August of 2001.
• Stochastic Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulations of Contaminant Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Dept. of Statistics, University of Iowa, 2000.
• Groundwater Contamination and Research in USA,  Hohai University, China, 2000.
• Stochastic Approaches to Groundwater Hydrology, China University of Geology, 2000.
• Groundwater Contamination and Remediation, the Center of Municipal Enironmental/Geological Research, Nanjing, China 1999.
• Monte-Carlo Simulations of Non-ergodic Plumes in Heterogeneous Porous Media, DISTART-Idraulica, Universita di Bologna, Italy, 1997.
• Contaminant Transport in Heterogeneous Geological Media, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Iowa, 1997.
• Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology, a series of lectures presented to­ the graduate students and faculty of the Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing­ University in the summer of 1996.
• Stochastic Analyses and Simulation of Non-Ergodic Solute Transport in­ Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Aquifers, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic­ Research, 1996.
• The Effect of the New Iowa City Well Field on Groundwater Resources in the Silurian Aquifer at Johnson County, Iowa, Iowa City Silurian Advisory­ Committee Meeting, Oct. 17, 1996.
• Application of the Double-Porosity Model and Finite Element Method to­ a Fractured-Karst Aquifer in Makeng, China, Western Pacific Geophysics­ Meeting, 1994.
• Time-Dependent Macrodispersion in Geological Formations, Department of­ Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, 1994.
• Scale-Dependent Dispersion in Porous Media, Department of Mathematics,­ University of Iowa, 1994.
• Macrodispersion in Heterogeneous Aquifers, Department of Hydrogeology­ and Engineering Geology, China University of Geosciences, 1993.
• Quasi-Linear Theory of Macrodispersion in Highly Heterogeneous Porous­ Media, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, 1993.
• Scale-Dependent Dispersion in Geological Media, Water Resources­ Division, U.. Geological Survey in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1993.
• Eulerian-Lagrangian Theory of Transport in Space-Time Nonstationary­ Velocity Fields, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 1992.

• Sections Organized and Chaired at International/National Conferences

 

• Co-Chair, The Sixth annual meeting of the International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, June 25-28, 2007.
• Session organizer and chair, Preferential Flow, Transport, and Numerical Simulation in Variably Saturated Multiphase Subsurface Systems, AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 11- 15, 2006.
• Session organizer and chair,  Groundwater Environmental Problems and Solutions, Western Pacific AGU Meeting in Beijing,  China,  July 24 - 27, 2006.
• Session chair,  2006 International Symposium on Groundwater Resources and Environment, organized by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, China Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, July 22 – 23, 2006.
• Session organizer and chair, Numerical Simulations of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Media, AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December, 2005.
• Session organizer and chair, Advances in research of temporal and spatial variability and scaling of hydrological variables, AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December, 2005.
• Session organizer and chair, A Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Chinese Groundwater Science, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, June 16 - 17, 2005
• Co-convener, Recent Advances in Groundwater Science, the Fifth annual meeting of the International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, June 20-22, 2005.
• Session organizer and chair, Simulations of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Media, AGU Fall Meeting, 2004.
• Member of Technical Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee for the International Conference and Workshop on Frontiers of Earth Sciences: Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, Chengdu, June, 2004.
• Co-Chair of Groundwater Workshop Organizing Committee for the International Conference and Workshop on Frontiers of Earth Sciences: Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, Chengdu, June, 2004.
• Session organizer and chair, Numerical Simulations of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Media, AGU Fall Meeting, 2003.
• Session organizer and chair, Numerical Simulations of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Media, AGU Fall Meeting, 2002.
• Session organizer and chair, Numerical Simulations of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in­ Heterogeneous Porous Media, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 1997.
• Session chair, Groundwater Stochastic Analysis, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco­ 1995.
• Session chair, Groundwater Stochastic Analysis, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco,­ 1994.
• Session chair, Ground Water Hydrology, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Hong Kong,­ July 25 - 29, 1994.
• Session chair, Stochastic and Statistical Modeling of Groundwater, AGU Fall Meeting,­ San Francisco, 1991.
• Session chair, Computer Applications to Groundwater, 35th Annual Midwest Groundwater­ Conference, 1990.

• Manucripts and proposals under review

 

• Manuscripts in revision or in review

  
*+Li, Z. and Y.-K. Zhang, Quantifying fractal dynamics of groundwater systems with detrended fluctuation analysis, submitted to J. Hydrol. in revision.
  Jin, X.,  L. Wan, Y.-K. Zhang, Z. Zue, and Y. Yin, A Study of Relationship between Vegetation Growth and Groundwater in Yinchuan Plain, China, submitted to Frontier in Earth Sciences, Nov., 2006
  Schilling, K.,  M. Tomer, Y-K Zhang, T. Weisbrod, P. Jacobson, and C. Cambardella, Hydrogeologic Controls on Nitrate Transport  in a Small Agricultural Catchment, Iowa, in review.
 **Lachhab, A., Y.-K. Zhang, and M. V.I. Muste, Three dimansional particle tracking in matched-index-refraction homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media, submitted to Experiments in Fluids, in review
   *+Li, Z. and Y.-K. Zhang, Multiscale Entropy Analyses of Mississippi River Flow, Geophysical Research Letters, in review.
   Jin, X.M., L. Wan, M. Schaepman, and Y.-K. Zhang, Impact of Economic Growth on Vegetation Cover in China Based on GIMMS NDVI, Submitted to International Journal  of Remote Sensing, May, 2006

• Pending Proposals

 

2007 – 2010     Collaborative Research: An Integrated Study of Effects of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Watershed Hydrology for Sustainable Environment, Submitted to NSF BES-Engineering program, $358,780., September 15, 2006.

 

IV.   SERVICE
 

• Profession

• Editorial duties
• Aassociate editor for Groundwater, published by the National Ground Water Association since 2006.
• Aassociate editor for Vadose Zone Journal, published by the Soil Sciences Society of American since 2004.
• Member of Advisory Board for the Journal, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment since 2004.
• Member of the Editorial Committee for Geology, Foxwell & Davies, Italy since 1992.

 

• National/International Professional Service and Activities

• Vice chair of the Committee of Groundwater Sciences and Engineering, the Association of Hydraulic and Hydrological Sciences and Engineering of China since 2006.
• Member of the planning committee for the 2008 Midwest Ground Water Conference.
• Member of Groundwater Committee of the Hydrology Section of AGU since 2004.
• Member of Academic Committee for the International Symposium on Methodology in Hydrology, Nanjing, China, October 30 – November 1, 2005.
• Panel Member of China’s National Science Foundation, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Research, 2005.
• Member of Scientific Committee for the Fifth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications or geoENV 2004, Octobrer, Switzerland, 2004.
• Member of Scientific Committee for the international Conference on Research Basins and the Hydrologic Planning, Hofei and Huangshan City, March 22-31, 2004
• Coordinator for the Outstanding Student Paper Awards for the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 2004.
• Member of Technical Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee for the International Conference and Workshop on Frontiers of Earth Sciences: Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, Chengdu, June, 2004.
• Coordinator for the Outstanding Student Paper Awards for the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 2003.
• Served as a judge for the student presentations in 1995, 1996, 1997 American­ Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
• Referee for the Italy government, the Ministry through CINECA since 2003.
• Member of Advisory board of Nanjing University for their research planning in   “Resources and  Environment”, 2003.
• Member of the Board of Experts in the Committee for Research Evaluation (CIVR) of the Italian Ministry of Education, Italy since 2000.

 

c.   Reviewer for Journals and State and Federal Agencies

• Advances in Water Resources
• American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund
• China’s National Science Foundation
• Environmental Pollution
• Environmental Science & Technology
• Ground Water
• Hydrological Engineering
• Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
• Journal of Hydrology
• National Environmental Research Council, United Kingdom
• National Science Foundation
• Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
• The Ministry through the CINECA, Italy
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture
• The U.S. Department of Energy
• The U.S. Department of State
• The U.S. EPA
• Vadose Zone Journal
• Water Resources Research

• Department
• Member of the P&T committee for Mark Reagan, 2006
• Member of Graduate Studies in Geosience since 2006;
• Director of Graduate Studies in Geoscience since 1998 - 2006.
• Member of the departmental executive committee since Fall, 2005.
• Member of the departmental self-study committee, 2005.
• Chair of the Mentoring Committee for Walter Illman since 2001.
• Member of the P&T committee for Chris Brochu, 2005.
• Member of the P&T committee for Gane Jolotti in 2004.
• Member of the P&T committee for Jonathan Adrain in 2003.
• Member of the P&T committee for Art Bettis in 2002.
• Member of the Department Executive Committee from 1999 to May, 2002.
• Search Committee Member for the high-T Geochemist in 2002.
• Search Committee Chair for the filed hydrogeologist, 2000.
• Past Member of Curriculum Committee, Department of Geology, since 1997.

 

• College and University
• Judge for the 2007 James F. Jakobsen Graduate Conference, University of Iowa, March 31, 2007.
• Member of the University Committee on International Student Recruitment since 09/2006;
• Department's representative on the planning committee for the Midwest Groundwater Conference in Fall 2008;
• Member of the Executive Committee of CRGER since 2005
• UI representative at the symposium: In American’s Interests: Welcoming International Students, the Role of Higher Education, held in Bloomington, IN, June 21-22, 2005.
• Advisor for the Environmental Science Blue Track students since 2002
• Member of Advisory Committee for Environmental Sciences from 1999 - 2001
• One of the organizers for the Environmental Seminar (formerly­ Hydro/Env. Brownbag) for springs of 1994, 1995, and 1996.
• Committee member of the proposed B.S in environmental sciences and the co-ordinator for the Hydro-science (Blue) Track group.

• State of Iowa
• Provided expert opinions to Iowa City Silurian Aquifer Advisory­ Committee on the Effect of the New Iowa City Well Field on Groundwater­ Resources in the Silurian Aquifer at Johnson County, Iowa.
• Served as a representitive for t