Time: 10:30-11:30 a.m. 19th September (Wednesday)
Venue: Lecture Hall 221, ISESS (Building No. 16), Tianjin University
Key Words：Agricultural Challenges in southwest England, Ground-truth, Land- and process-based model, Linkage between observations and modelling
Speaker: Dr. WU Lianhai, systems modeller, Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, UK.
Lianhai's research interests are in the areas of the interaction of plants with their physical environment, climate change and systems modelling. He is a Microsoft and SUN certified programmer in C++ and Java. He has skills in designing and developing various levels of dynamic simulation models, with expertise in the impact of climate change on agriculture, water and nutrient use efficiency, and functional assessment of agro-ecosystems. He is applying SPACSYS, a process-based model he developed, to integrate the interactions among below- and above-ground plant growth with development stages, nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon cycling, water and heat movements in the plant-atmosphere-soil continuum to various arable and grassland ecosystems. He is leading an NERC project to simulate the relationships between soil, water and ecosystem processes in the critical zone across the Loess Plateau.
