Zhanli Wang

Biography

Education experience:    Feb., 1978 - Jan., 1982: B. Sc. in the Department of Geography, Northwest University , Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China Oct., 1996 - Jan., 1998: Academic visitor in the Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK (supervisors: Prof. D. E. Walling & Prof. T. A. Quine) Sep., 1999 - Jan., 2003: PhD in the School of Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China Nov., 2009 - Jun., 2010: Visiting Scholar in USDA-National Soil Erosion Research Lab, Purdue University, USA (supervisors: Prof. Chi-hua Huang & Prof. Dennis C. Flanagan) Other training: Feb.1993 - Jan. 1994: Intensive English Training in Xi’an Foreign Language University

Research Interest

Soil erosion prediction model and soil erosion processes, and also include assessment of factors affecting soil erosion, tillage erosion and its effects, road erosion, hydrological modeling on hillslopes, hydraulics of overland flow, rainfall physics, impact of soil erosion on the environment, soil and water loss on the project areas, assessment of the benefits of soil and water conservation, and regulation and control of sediment-water processes by chemical materials.