Mingan Shao
Ph.D.Professor
Soil and water conservation
Northwest A&F University
China
Biography
Education experience: 1993/09–1996/07 Iowa State University of Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Ph.D. Supervisor: Robert Horton. 1989/01–1990/07 University of Reading, Imperial College London, Visiting Scholar 1982/09–1985/06 Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS & MWR. Soil Science, Master of Agriculture. Supervisor: Yang Wenzhi, Li Yushan. 1978/03–1982/01 Hunan Normal University, Department of Physics, Bachelor of Science.
Research Interest
water, heat, and mass transport in soil. He has worked in the following areas: soil water flow, soil water uptake by root, soil water availability, soil and water conservation, water flow in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, and water transfer in Soil Vegetation-Atmosphere Transport system (SVATs)
Publications
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Shao MA, Horton R, Jaynes DB. Analytical solution for one-dimensional heat conduction-convection equation [J]. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 62(1)(1998), 123-128.
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Shao MA, Horton R. Integral method for estimating soil hydraulic properties [J]. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 62(3)(1998), 585-592.
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Shao MA, Horton R. Soil water diffusivity determination by general similarity theory [J]. Soil Science, 161(11)(1996), 727-734.
