Zou, Minzhong

Member Profile

Minzhong Zou
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss)
Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 5620
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Room 207, Science Lab Facility Building (#17)
Phone: (928) 266-3529
E-mail: zoumz@cau.edu.cn

Education

2014-present Ph.D., Hydraulic Engineering, China Agricultural University
Advisor: Prof. Shaozhong Kang

2010-2014 B.S., Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, China Agricultural University

Research Interests

Agroecosystem water and carbon cycle

Assessment of regional ecohydrological impacts of climate change and human activity

Publications

1. Minzhong Zou, Shaozhong Kang*, Jun Niu, Hongna Lu, 2018. A new technique to estimate regional irrigation water demand and driving factor effects using an improved SWAT model with LMDI factor decomposition in an arid basin. Journal of Cleaner Production, 185, 814-828.

2. Minzhong Zou, Jun Niu, Shaozhong Kang*, Xiaolin Li, Hongna Lu, 2017. The contribution of human agricultural activities to increasing evapotranspiration is significantly greater than climate change effect over Heihe agricultural region. Scientific Reports, 7, 8805, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08952-5.

3. Minzhong Zou, Shaozhong Kang*, Jun Niu, Liu Liu, Hongna Lu, 2018. Untangling the effects of evapotranspiration to future climate change and human activities in Heihe agricultural area. Journal of hydrology. (Under review).

4. Minzhong Zou, Shaozhong Kang*, Jun Niu, 2018. Comprehensive assessment of water vulnerability for Heihe River basin based on the SWAT model. (In preparation).

5. Minzhong Zou, Shaozhong Kang*, Jun Niu, Xiaojie Li, 2018. Incorporating the effects of increased atmospheric CO2 in watershed model projections of climate change impacts. (In preparation).

Presentations

1. Minzhong Zou, Shaozhong Kang, Jun Niu. 2016. Modeling of hydrological processes in the middle reach of Heihe River basin. 13th Annual Meeting AOGS, Beijing, China. (Poster).

2. Minzhong Zou, Shaozhong Kang, Jun Niu, Hongna Lu. 2018. Coupling SWAT Model and LMDI factor decomposition to estimate irrigation water demand and its driving effects in an arid basin. 10th Academic Symposium of Agricultural Soil-Water Engineering of Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, Zhenjiang, China. (Oral).

Awards and Honors

2018 National Scholarship
2017 Second prize scholarship for graduate in CAU
2016 First prize scholarship for graduate in CAU
2015 Second prize scholarship for graduate in CAU
2014 Outstanding graduate of Beijing city
2013 National scholarship; President scholarship of CAU; First prize scholarship for undergraduate in CAU
2012 National encouragement scholarship; First prize scholarship for undergraduate in CAU
2011 Education fund scholarship of Xizhi; First prize scholarship for undergraduate in CAU