Professional Overview
Chunmiao Zheng is an internationally recognized hydrogeologist and environmental engineer whose work has made fundamental contributions to contaminant transport modeling, groundwater–surface water interactions, ecohydrology, and sustainable water resources management. He currently serves as Chair Professor and Vice President at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) in Ningbo, China. His previous academic and leadership appointments have included Founding Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering and Vice Provost for Global Strategies at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen; Inaugural Director of the Institute of Water Sciences at Peking University; and George Lindahl III Endowed Professor at the University of Alabama, United States.
Professor Zheng was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019. His major honors include the 11th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2024, the O.E. Meinzer Award and the M. King Hubbert Award in 2013, and the John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award in 1998. He is widely known for developing the MT3D/MT3DMS solute transport models, which have been used in more than 100 countries. Over the past three decades, these models have become standard tools for groundwater contamination assessment, remediation design, and water resources management worldwide, and have helped shape the way contaminant transport problems are analyzed in research, consulting, and regulatory settings.
He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Sustainable Horizons. He has also served as President of the International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and as Associate Editor of five leading hydrology journals, including Water Resources Research. He is the author or co-author of more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and six books, including Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling. He has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, and his publications have been cited more than 42,880 times on Google Scholar as of July 2026.
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Education
1985-1988 Ph.D., Hydrogeology; minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA.
1983-1984 Postgraduate Studies in Geology and Applied Mathematics, Chengdu University of Technology (formerly Chengdu College of Geology), China.
1979-1983 B.S., Geology, specializing in Hydrogeology, Chengdu University of Technology (formerly Chengdu College of Geology), China.
Employment History
2022–present Chair Professor and Vice President (Global Engagement & Engineering), Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China.
2022–2026 Chair Professor and Director, Shenzhen Institute of Sustainable Development,
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China (joint appointment).
2015–2022 Chair Professor and Vice Provost for Global Strategies (2018–2022), Founding Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering (2015–2018), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
2010–2018 Chair Professor and Founding Director, Institute of Water Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China (joint appointment after 2015).
1993–2018 George Lindahl III Endowed Professor (2010–2018; on leave after 2013), Professor (2002–2010), Associate Professor (1997–2002), Assistant Professor (1993–1997), Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama.
1988–1993 Senior Hydrogeologist, S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland.
Professional Experience
2025–present Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
2018–present 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 and Technology Organisation, Sydney.
1991 Assistant Professional Lecturer, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Awards and Honors
2024, 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
(https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/)
2024 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) (Groundwater category); PSIPW is a leading global scientific award focusing on cutting-edge innovation in water research (https://www.psipw.org)
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, WI.
2013 O.E. Meinzer Award, Hydrogeology Division, Geological Society of America (https://community.geosociety.org/hydrodivision/awards/meinzer/past)
2013 M. King Hubbert Award, National Ground Water Association.
(https://www.ngwa.org/members/awards/m-king-hubbert-award-recipients)
2012 Distinguished Lecturer for the 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, DE.
2005 Oliver Lectureship in Hydrogeology, Jackson School of Geosciences,
University of Texas at Austin, TX.
1999 Fellow, Geological Society of America.
1998 John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award, 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 integrating sustainable environmental remediation with nature-based carbon sequestration
Professional Affiliations
• American Geophysical Union (AGU, Fellow)
• National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
• Geological Society of America (GSA, Fellow)
• International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
• Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES, Fellow)
Teaching and Mentoring
• Established and advanced programs in hydrogeology and environmental science and engineering across four institutions in the United States and China: the University of Alabama; Peking University; Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen; and the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), Ningbo.
• Designed and delivered more than 10 distinct undergraduate and graduate courses in hydrogeology, groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling, geostatistics, integrated hydrological and environmental systems, water resources management, hydrogeological field techniques, and quantitative analysis.
• Supervised and mentored over 120 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers (more than half of whom are women), many of whom have advanced to leadership roles in academia, government, and industry worldwide.
Grants and Research Funding
• Professor Zheng has secured funding for 58 projects, including 50 as Principal Investigator (PI) and 8 as Co-PI. His portfolio includes approximately RMB 200 million in funding as PI while at Peking University, SUSTech, and the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), as well as approximately USD 19 million as PI or Co-PI during his tenure at the University of Alabama.
• These projects have been supported by major funding agencies in China and the United States, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST), the China Geological Survey (CGS), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Representative Publications
10 papers in Hydrological Sciences and 10 papers in Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences
(* indicates corresponding author.)
[Summary] Professor Zheng has authored or co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed journal articles and six books. Selected recent representative publications are listed below. A complete publication list appears later in this document.
[Hydrological and groundwater sciences]
1. 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(6686), eadf0630, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf0630.
2. 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), e2024WR037531, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037531.
3. Pang, M., E. Du*, C. Zheng*, 2024, Contaminant transport modeling and source attribution with attention‐based graph neural network, Water Resour. Res., 60(6), e2023WR035278, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035278.
4. Ma, R., K. Chen, C.B. Andrews, S.P. Loheide, A.H. Sawyer, X. Jiang, M.A. Briggs, P.G. Cook, S.M. Gorelick, H. Prommer, B.R. Scanlon, Z. Guo, C. Zheng*, 2024, Methods for quantifying interactions between groundwater and surface water, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49, 623–653, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-111522-104534.
5. Chen, K., X. Chen, J.C. Stegen, …, E.E. Roden*, C. Zheng*, 2023, Vertical hydrologic exchange flows control methane emissions from riverbed sediments, Environ. Sci. Technol., 57(9), 4014–4026, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07676.
6. Du, E., Y. Tian, X. Cai, Y. Zheng, F. Han, X. Li, M. Zhao, Y. Yang, C. Zheng*, 2022, Evaluating distributed policies for conjunctive surface water–groundwater management in large river basins: Water uses versus hydrological impacts, Water Resour. Res., 58(1), e2021WR031352, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031352.
7. Yin, M., R. Ma, Y. Zhang*, K. Chen, Z. Guo, C. Zheng*, 2022, A dual heterogeneous domain model for upscaling anomalous transport with multi-peaks in heterogeneous aquifers, Water Resour. Res., 58(4), e2021WR031128, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031128.
8. Lancia, M., Y. Yao, C.B. Andrews, X. Wang, X. Kuang, J. Ni, S.M. Gorelick, B.R. Scanlon, Y. Wang, C. Zheng*, 2022, The China groundwater crisis: A mechanistic analysis with implications for global sustainability, Sustainable Horizons, 4, 100042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100042.
9. Zheng, C. and Z. Guo, 2022, Plans to protect China’s depleted groundwater, Science, 375 (6583), 827, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8377.
10. Yao, Y., C. Zheng*, C.B. Andrews, B.R. Scanlon, X. Kuang, Z. Zeng, S. Jeong, 2021, Role of groundwater in sustaining northern Himalayan rivers, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL092354, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092354.
[Environmental and interdisciplinary sciences]
1. Chen, H., Z. Liu, W. Qiu, …, C. Zheng, 2026, Tumour recurrence, gastrointestinal symptoms and inflammation associated with microplastic-positive intestinal tumours, Nature Health, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00123-z.
2. Qiu, W., G. Yang, L. Cao, …, C. Zheng*, 2025, Risks of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure through marine fish consumption, Science, 390 (6779), 1305–1309, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr0351.
3. Fan, L., X. Kuang, C. Ouyang, K. Chen, C. Zheng*, 2025, Climatic controls on hydrological landslide triggering in the northern Himalayas, Water Resour. Res., 61(2), e2024WR039611, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR039611.
4. Wu, Y., L. Feng*, S. Yang, C. Zheng*, 2025, Satellite observations reveal recent increases in water clarity in Chinese coastal waters, Environ. Sci. Technol., 59(38), 20452–20461, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c07097.
5. Feng, L., Y. Wang, X. Hou, B. Qin, T. Kutser, F. Qu, N. Chen, H.W. Paerl, C. Zheng, 2024, Harmful algal blooms in inland waters, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 5, 631–644, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00578-2.
6. Gu, X., X. Feng, …, C. Zheng, Z. Xu, H. Chen, 2024, Photovoltaic-driven dual-oxidation seawater electrolyzer for sustainable lithium recovery, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(43), e2414741121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2414741121.
7. Dai, Y., S. Yang, D. Zhao, …, C. Zheng, L. Feng, 2023, Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century, Nature, 615 (7951), 280–284, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05760-y.
8. Lin, S., H. Zhang, C. Wang, …, Z. Cai*, and C. Zheng*, 2022, Metabolomics reveal nanoplastic-induced mitochondrial damage in human liver and lung cells, Environ. Sci. Technol., 56(17), 12483–12493, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c03980.
9. Feng, Y., Z. Zeng*, T.D. Searchinger, …, C. Zheng*, 2022, Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century, Nature Sustainability, 5, 444–451, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00854-3.
10. 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.11.040.
Major Books and Computer Software
1. 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 consensus study report, https://doi.org/10.17226/13293).
2. Zheng, C., 2010, MT3DMS v5.3 Supplemental User’s Guide, Report to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, https://web.archive.org/web/20170129200934/http://hydro.geo.ua.edu/mt3d/.
3. 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.
4. Zheng, C. and others (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 report.)
5. Zheng, C. and G.D. Bennett, 2002, Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 621 pp. (Available at the Wiley website).
6. Zheng, C. and P.P. Wang, 1999, MT3DMS: A Modular Three-Dimensional Multispecies 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, 221 pp., https://web.archive.org/web/20170129200934/http://hydro.geo.ua.edu/mt3d/.
7. 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.
8. Zheng, C., 1990, MT3D: A Modular Three-Dimensional 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.
Major Committees and Editorial Boards
2025–present Board of Directors, The Groundwater Project, a global, freely accessible online platform for groundwater knowledge and education, based in Ontario, Canada
2024–present Steering Group, GEWEX Global Groundwater Network, International GEWEX Project Office, Fairfax, Virginia
2023–2025 Hydrology Section Fellows Committee, Hydrology Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2021–present Founding Editor-in-Chief, Sustainable Horizons, an international open-access journal in partnership with Elsevier
2019–present Advisory Panel, Section on Environmental Earth Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2016–present Associate Editor, Vadose Zone Journal
2015–present Deputy 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 Hydrological 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, United States
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 (2002–2010), Ground Water (now Groundwater), National Ground Water Association
Selected Professional Activities (since 2000)
2026 Scientific Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, IAH 2026 World Groundwater Congress, Budapest, Hungary, September 14–18, 2026.
2026 Scientific Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, Groundwater Modeling and More, Princeton University, New Jersey, June 7–10, 2026.
2025 Invited Speaker, AGU Annual Meeting (AGU25), New Orleans, USA, December 15–19, 2025.
2025 Plenary Speaker, 4th Conference on New Technology and Methodology for Groundwater Pollution Prevention and Control, Chengdu, August 24–26, 2025.
2025 Plenary Speaker, International Groundwater Forum 2025, Chengdu, July 12–13, 2025.
2025 Invited Speaker, Earth Science and Engineering Colloquium, Nanjing University, Nanjing, March 6, 2025.
2025 Guest Professor Appointment and Inaugural Lecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, February 28, 2025.
2024 Scientific Committee Member, IAH 2024 World Groundwater Congress, Davos, Switzerland, September 8–13, 2024.
2024 Invited Speaker, Recent Advances in Modeling Groundwater Dynamics, Google/Alphabet-wide Modeling Talk Series, August 27, 2024.
2024 Organizing Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, GEWEX Groundwater Workshop, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 6–7, 2024.
2024 Organizing Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, MODFLOW and More 2024, Princeton University, NJ, June 2–5, 2024.
2024 Plenary Speaker, HIC 2024 – 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Beijing, May 27–30, 2024.
2024 Plenary Speaker, First National Congress on Groundwater Resources and Eco-Environment, Wuhan, April 12–15, 2024.
2023 Keynote Speaker, First IAHR International Conference on Global Water Security, Changzhou, October 30–November 1, 2023.
2023 Chair, First International Conference on Eco-geology and Environment, sponsored by the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Chengdu, October 27–31, 2023.
2022 Chair, Plenary Keynote Session, 49th IAH Congress, International Association of Hydrogeologists, Wuhan, China, September 19–22, 2022.
2022 Distinguished Lecturer, Recent Advances in Groundwater Research and Groundwater Management Challenges under Global Change, Center for International Collaboration, Ministry of Water Resources of China, June 28, 2022.
2022 Distinguished Lecturer, Advances in Groundwater Modeling, Technical Center for Soil, Agriculture, and Rural Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, June 4, 2022.
2022 Distinguished Lecturer, Contaminant transport in heterogeneous aquifers: A critical review of mechanisms and numerical methods of non-Fickian dispersion, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, January 14, 2022.
2021 Conference Chair, International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Development 2021, sponsored by Elsevier and Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, October 31–November 2, 2021.
2021 Invited Panelist, Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Summit, Session on “Close integration with industry is essential to problem-solving and producing world-leading research. How is this best achieved?” June 2, 2021.
2021 Distinguished Lecturer, Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Water Sciences in China, Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Hohai University, Nanjing, May 14, 2021.
2020 Invited Panelist, Dialogue with the Vice Minister of Science and Technology of China on the trend of international research collaboration, Beijing, December 2, 2020.
2020 Invited Speaker, 82nd Westlake Master Forum, 50 Years of Groundwater Contaminant Transport Modeling, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, October 21, 2020.
2020 Invited Speaker, Forum on the Future of Sino-US Research Collaboration, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, September 24–25, 2020.
2019 Invited Panelist, U.S.–China Environment and Sustainability Forum at the University of Michigan, October 1–2, 2019.
2019 Co-organizer and Keynote Speaker, “MODFLOW and More 2019: Groundwater Modeling and Beyond”, Golden, Colorado, June 2–5, 2019.
2018–2020 “Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture in Hydrologic Sciences” Award Committee, American Geophysical Union.
2018 Plenary Speaker, RISUD Annual International Symposium 2018 (RAIS 2018), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, June 29–30, 2018.
2018 Keynote Speaker, Computational Methods in Water Resources XXII (CMWR 2018), St. Malo, France, June 3–7, 2018.
2018 Keynote Speaker, China–US Workshop on Soil Contamination Risk Management and Remediation Technology, University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert Center, Palm Desert, California, April 3, 2018.
2017 Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Xiamen, China, October 20–22, 2017.
2017 Organizer, EPRI Workshop on Advanced Hydrogeologic Characterization, Palo Alto, California, August 29, 2017.
2017 Keynote Speaker, 11th International Symposium on Geochemistry of the Earth Surface, Guiyang, China, June 11–16, 2017.
2017 Co-organizer and Keynote Speaker, “MODFLOW and More 2017: Modeling for Sustainability and Adaptation”, Golden, Colorado, May 21–24, 2017.
2016 Chair, 9th IAHS Groundwater Quality Conference (Groundwater Quality 2016, GQ16), Shenzhen, China.
2016 Advisory Panel, Research Program “GEOCON”, Technical University of Denmark, April 25–26, 2016.
2016 Review Panelist, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., April 4–5, 2016.
2016 Invited Speaker, Joint KAPSARC-NUS Workshop “Emerging Issues Facing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Middle East and Asia”, Singapore, January 22, 2016.
2016 Invited Panelist, 9th Rosenberg Forum on International Water Policy, Panama City, January 25–28, 2016.
2015 Scientific Advisory Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, 42nd Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, Rome, Italy, September 13–18, 2015.
2015 Organizing Committee Member, International Conference “MODFLOW and More 2015: Modeling a Complex World”, Colorado, May 31–June 3, 2015.
2014 Co-chair and host, U.S.–China EcoPartnership Conference “Water-Energy Nexus: Sustainability and Global Challenges”, Beijing, China, April 17, 2014.
2014 Invited Speaker, Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, July 14–15, 2014.
2013 Chair, International Workshop “Observation and Modeling of Ecohydrological Processes in Inland River Basins: A Vision for Transformative Science”, Beijing, China, July 5–8, 2013.
2013 Keynote Speaker, IAH 2013 – 40th Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, Perth, Australia, September 15–20, 2013.
2013 Co-chair, MODFLOW and More 2013: Translating Science into Practice, Golden, Colorado, June 2–5, 2013.
2013 Co-chair, International Workshop “Managing River Basins as Coupled Human-Natural Systems”, sponsored by U.S. NSF and NSFC, Beijing, May 6–7, 2013.
2013 Invited Panelist, Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, 8th Biennial Meeting, Aqaba, Jordan, March 22–25, 2013.
2012 Co-organizer, Water Management and Global Challenges: Advances in Technology, Innovation, Health and Policy, Beijing, China, October 15–16, 2012.
2012 Keynote Speaker, The 5th International Workshop on Catchment Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-V), University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, July 9–13, 2012.
2012 International Expert on Global Water Crisis, 30th Annual Meeting, The InterAction Council, Tianjin, China, May 10–12, 2012.
2011 Organizing Committee Member, International Conference “MODFLOW and More 2011: Integrated Hydrologic Modeling”, Golden, Colorado, June 6–9, 2011.
2011 Chair, Forum on International Water Resources, The 4th World Economic and Environmental Conference, Beijing, China, September 19–21, 2011.
2010 Organizing Committee Chair, International Groundwater Forum 2010, Peking University, Beijing, China, July 8–9, 2010.
2010 Co-Director, International Summer School on International River Basin Management, Peking University, China.
2010 “Humanity 3000” workshop on the world’s water crisis, Foundation for the Future, Seattle, Washington.
2009 International Advisory Committee, HydroPredict 2010 International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
2009 Keynote Speaker, NovCARE International Conference on Aquifer Characterization, Leipzig, Germany.
2009 Luncheon Speaker, California Biennial Groundwater Conference, Sacramento, CA.
2009 Keynote Speaker, Ground Water Summit, Tucson, Arizona.
2009 International Advisory Committee, “Groundwater Quality 2010” International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
2009 Organizing Committee Member, “ModelCARE 2009” International Conference, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China.
2008 Organizing Committee Member, “MODFLOW and More 2008” International Conference, Golden, Colorado.
2008 Invited Speaker, 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway.
2007 Panel of Experts for The New York Times on water and environmental issues in China.
2007 International Advisory Committee, “ModelCARE 2007”, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2007 International Advisory Panel, “Groundwater Quality 2007”, Perth, Australia.
2007 International Advisory Committee, “Water Down Under 2008”, Adelaide, Australia.
2006 Organizing Committee Member, International Conference “MODFLOW and More 2006,” Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
2006 Panelist, Research Grant Review Panel for Environmental Remediation Programs, Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.
2006 Invited Speaker, Special session on “Innovations in field characterization of physical and chemical heterogeneities,” GSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
2006 Invited Seminar Speaker, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona.
2006 Seminar Speaker, University of Tübingen, Germany.
2006 Seminar Speaker, University of Sheffield, U.K.
2005 Keynote Speaker, 2005 Conference on Ground Water Remediation, National Ground Water Association (NGWA).
2005 Panelist, EPRI Arsenic Modeling Workshop, Tampa, Florida.
2005 Invited Speaker, Special session on “Field-scale characterization of hydraulic properties,” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
2005 Co-chair, Working Group on Challenges and Opportunities in Chinese Groundwater Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
2005 Co-instructor, 1st Geochemical and Reactive Transport Modeling Course, Australian Centre for Groundwater Studies, Brisbane, Australia.
2005 Invited Lecturer, School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
2005 Invited Lecturer, Australian Contaminated Land Consultants Association (ACLCA), Victoria, Australia.
2005 Invited Lecturer, Research Center for Deep Geological Environment, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan.
2005 Invited Lecturer, Research and Development Center, Nippon Koei Co., Tokyo.
2004 Scientific Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Finite-Element Models, MODFLOW, and More 2004, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
2004 Co-instructor, Short course on Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Modeling with Introduction to Data Assessment, Sensitivity Analysis, Model Calibration and Uncertainty Evaluation, Charles University, Czech Republic.
2004 Organizing Committee Chair, International Symposium on Earth, Environment, and Human Impacts, IPACES 2004 Annual Meeting and Workshops, Chengdu, China.
2004 NSF IGERT Program “GIScience” Advisory Board, SUNY at Buffalo.
2003–2004 Chair-elect and Chair, International Professionals for the Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences (IPACES).
2003 Organizing Committee Member, International Conference on MODFLOW and More 2003, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
2003 Invited Seminar Speaker, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong.
2002 Review Panelist, Global Water Cycle Research Program, U.S. NSF.
2002 Invited Speaker, Special session on Use Ground-Water Models to Guide Field Data Collection, AGU 2002 Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
2002–2004 Standing Committee on Hydrologic Information Systems, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI).
2002 Peer Reviewer, Assessment of Long-Term Sustainability of Monitored Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents, SERDP Program, DOD/EPA/DOE.
2002 Invited Seminar Speaker, Institute of Applied Geology, University of Tübingen.
2001–2003 Instructor, Short course on Reactive Transport Modeling, University of Sheffield, U.K.
2001 Scientific Advisory Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, GQ-2001: 3rd International Conference on Groundwater Quality, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
2001 Invited Geology Seminar Speaker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
2001 Invited Lecturer, Earth Science Symposium, Peking University, China.
2001 Organizing Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, MODFLOW 2001 and Other Modeling Odysseys, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado.
2000 Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Groundwater Contamination, sponsored by the Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrology, Tokyo, Japan.
2000 Lecturer, Short course on Mass Transport in Groundwater, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Freiberg, Germany.
2000 Invited Speaker, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.
2000 Graduate Fellowship Grant Application Review Panel, U.S. EPA, Washington, D.C.