Xingmei Liu

University of California Davis
Postdoctoral Researcher

xmliu@zju.edu.cn
xmliu@ucdavis.edu

Education

B.Sc., Land Management, College of Agronomy, HeNan Agricultural University, 2000
Ph.D., Soil Science, College of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, 2005

Professional Experience

2006.9 -- Postdoctoral reseach in University of California, Davis.

2006-2008 Hold NFS Project "Rice safety and its environmental quality" and China postdoc project "Quick risk evaluation of agricultural non-point source pollution in the small watershed based on 3S technologies".

2005 to date Instructor in College of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Tutor of Fresh undergraduate of Agricultural Resources and Environment.

2002-2005 Participating in the National Key Basic Research Support Foundation (NKBPSF) of China on "Spatio-temporal Variability of Soil Nutrients in Paddy Field under Different Scales by GIS and Geostatistics and Their Mechanism". Won the first prize for Zhejiang provincial agricultural advancement.

2000-2002 Participating in the Zhejiang Provincial Key Project on "Control Technology for Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution of Hang-Jia-Hu Plain and Its Test Model". The production of this project won the second prize for Zhejiang provincial technology in 2003.

2003-2004 Participating in "International Conference on Geoinformatics & Geographical Systems Modeling, and Fifth Beijing International Workshop in GIS, Beijing, PR China, 2004", giving oral presentation, acted as Subject Chairman; Participating in "Conference on Chinese Soil Science, Shenyang, PR China, 2004", giving oral presentation; Participating in "International Symposium on Cycling and Utilization of Organic Wastes, Hanzhou,China"

2002-2003 Taking professional training program of "Chinese General Arable Soil Survey" sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China.

Research Papers

1. X.M. Liu, J.M. Xu, M.K. Zhang, Application of geostatistics and GIS technique to characterize spatial variabilities of bioavailable micronutrients in paddy soils. Environmental Geology. 2004, 46: 189-194. (SCI )

2. Xingmei Liu, Jianming Xu, Mingkui Zhang, Effects of Land Management Change on Spatial variability of Organic Matter and nutrients in Paddy Field: A Case Study of Pinghu, China. Environmental Management. 2004, 34(5): 691-700. (SCI )

3. Xingmei Liu, Jianjun Wu, Jianming Xu. Characterizing the risk assessment of Heavy Metals and sampling uncertainty analysis in Paddy Field by Geostatistics and GIS, Environmental Pollution, 2006,141: 257-264. (SCI )

4. Zhang Mingkui, Jiang Hong and Liu Xingmei, Phosphorus Concentration and Forms in Surface and Subsurface Drainage Water from Wetland Rice Fields in the Shaoxing Plain. Pedosphere. 2003, 13(3): 239-248. (SCI )

5. Zhang Mingkui, Wang Meiqing and Liu Xingmei, Characterization of Soil Quality Under Vegetable Production Along an Urban-Rural Gradient. Pedosphere. 2003, 13(2): 173-180. (SCI )

6. J.C. Shi, J.M. Xu, X.M. Liu, Spatial distribution of heavy metals in soils: a case study of Changxing, China. Environmental Geology. 2007. (SCI )

7. Xingmei Liu, Jianming Xu. Characterizing the Spatial Variation of Soil Properties of Paddy Field for Pinghu County, China. Proceedings of International Conference on Geoinformatics & Geographical Systems Modeling, and Fifth Beijing International Workshop in GIS . 2004. International Conference Thesis, Oral presentation.

8. Xingmei Liu, Jianming Xu. Characterizing the Spatial Structure of Soil Nutrients in Paddy Field. Conference on Chinese Soil Science, Shenyang, P.R. China. Conference Thesis, Oral presentation.

9. Xingmei Liu, Weiwen Zhang. Paddy Field Quality and Precision Agriculture at Moderate Scale. Journal of Zhejiang University (Agric. & Life Sci.), 2005?31?6??745-749. (In Chinese)

10. Xingmei Liu, Jianming Xu, et al. Study on Spatial Variability of Soil Nutrients in Taihu Lake Region-A Case of Pinghu City in Zhejiang Province. Journal of Zhejiang University (Agric. & Life Sci.), 2003?29?1??76-82. (In Chinese)

11. Xiuhong Qian, Jianming Xu, Jiachun Shi, Xingmei Liu. Comprehensive Survey and Evaluation of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution in Hang-Jia-Hu Water-net Plain. Journal of Zhejiang University (Agric. & Life Sci.), 2002?28(2)?147-150. (In Chinese)

12. Jiachun Shi, Jianming Xu, Zhou Shi, Zhengmiao Xie and Xingmei Liu. Practise and Application of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Information System Based on WebGIS. Journal of Zhejiang University (Agric. & Life Sci.), 2003?29(2)?225-230. (In Chinese)

13. Jing Li, Zhengmiao Xie, Jianming Xu, Lanjun Ye and Xingmei Liu. Evaluation on environmental quality of heavy metals in vegetable plantation soils in the suburb of Hangzhou. Ecology and Environment, 2003, 12(3): 277-280. (In Chinese)

14. Jiachun Shi, Haiping Zhu, Jianjun Wu, Xingmei Liu and Jianming Xu. Spatial Variability of Soil Heavy Metal and Its Risk Assessment. Acta Pedologica Sinica, 2006. (In Chinese)

15. Tao Chen, Xingmei Liu, Muzhi Zhu, Keli Zhao, Jianjun Wu, Jianming Xu & Panming Huang. Identification of trace element sources and associated risk assessment in vegetable soils of the urban-rural transitional area of Hangzhou, China. Environmental Pollution, 2007.5. (SCI )

16. Xingmei Liu, Jianming Xu. Spatial Variability of SOM and Nutrients in Paddy Field at Various Scales. Environmental Geology. 2007. (SCI ) (accepted)