Brief CV

• Associate Professor, Xiamen University (2015-)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Colorado State University (2014-2015)
• Ph.D. in Earth Science, Purdue University (2014)
• M.S. in Ecology, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010)
• B.S. in Geographic Science, East China Normal University (2007)

Research Interests

• Wetland Carbon Cycles
• Coastal Remote Sensing
• Ecological Modeling
• Global Change Ecology

Selected Publications

• Zhu, X.*, L. Song, Q. Weng and G. Huang (2019). Linking in-situ photochemical reflectance index measurements with mangrove carbon dynamics in a subtropical coastal wetland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, doi: 10.1029/2019jg005022.
  
• Zhu, X., L. Meng, Y. Zhang, Q. Weng* and J. Morris (2019). Tidal and Meteorological Influences on the Growth of Invasive Spartina alterniflora: Evidence from UAV Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, 11(10): 1208, doi:10.3390/rs11101208.
  
• Zhu, X*., Y. Hou, Q. Weng and L. Chen (2019). Integrating UAV optical imagery and LiDAR data for assessing the spatial relationship between mangrove and inundation across a subtropical estuarine wetland. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 149: 146-156, doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.01.021.
  
• Song, L., Q. Zhuang, Y. Yin, S. Wu and X. Zhu* (2017). Inter-comparison of model-estimated potential evapotranspiration on the Tibetan Plateau during 1981-2010. Earth Interactions, 21, doi: 10.1175/EI-D-16-0020.1.
  
• Zhu, X. and Q. Zhuang* (2016). Relative importance between biogeochemical and biogeophysical effects in regulating terrestrial ecosystem-climate feedbacks in northern high latitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, doi: 10.1002/2016JD024814.
  
• Zhu, X.*, Q. Zhuang, X. Lu and L. Song (2014). Spatial scale-dependent land-atmospheric methane exchanges in the northern high latitudes from 1993 to 2004. Biogeosciences, 11, 1693-1704, doi: 10.5194/bg-11-1693-2014.
  
• Zhu, X.*, Q. Zhuang, X. Gao, A. Sokolov and C. Schlosser (2013). Pan-Arctic land-atmospheric fluxes of methane and carbon dioxide in response to climate change over the 21st century. Environmental Research Letters, 8(4), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045003.
  
• Zhu, X.*, Q. Zhuang, Z. Qin, M. Glagolev, and L. Song (2013). Estimating wetland methane emissions from the Northern High Latitudes from 1990 to 2009 using artificial neural networks. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27(2), 592-604, doi: 10.1002/gbc.20052.
  
• Zhu, X.*, Q. Zhuang, M. Chen, A. Sirin, J. Melillo, D. Kicklighter, A. Sokolov, and L. Song (2011). Rising methane emissions in response to climate change in Northern Eurasia during the 21st century. Environmental Research Letters, 6(4), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045211.
  
• Zhu, X., H. He*, M. Liu, G. Yu, X. Sun, and Y. Gao (2010). Spatio-temporal variation of photosynthetically active radiation in China in recent 50 years. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 20(6), 803-817, doi: 10.1007/s11442-010-0812-7.

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate courses：

• MATLAB Programming and Applications in Earth Science
  
• Series Lectures on the Beauties of Ecology
  
• Series Lectures on the Frontiers of Ecology
  
• Summer School on "Global Climate Change and Vulnerabilities"
• Fundamental Experiments of Ecology
• Comprehensive Experiments of Environmental and Ecological Engineering
• Field Practice Course of Ecology

Graduate courses：

• Major English Seminar (Wetland Ecology)
• Front of Marine Affairs (COMI lecture-type course)

Research Funding

• Unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry and image processing (Beijing Normal University, 2019) - PI
• Data analyses of vegetation and soil carbon/nitrogen stocks of typical ecosystems in South China (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, 2018-2020) - PI
• Ms. ECOFIT - Mangrove & Seagrass: Ecological Function Improvement Technologies (National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2017-2020) - Sub-task PI
  
• Modeling gross primary productivity of mangrove ecosystem using a light use efficiency framework (NSF of Fujian Province, China, 2017-2020) - PI
• Research on temporal variability of light use efficiency and its environmental controls in a coastal mangrove wetland (NSF of China, 2017-2019) - PI
  
• Responses of watershed-level ecosystem carbon and water cycles to land cover and climate changes (XMU President Fund, 2016-2018) - PI
  
• Modeling the effects of land use changes on China's terrestrial ecosystem carbon budgets (Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, 2015-2016) - PI

Awards and Honors

• The Introduction of High-level Talents in Fujian Province - 2017
  
• The Cao-Dewang Award of Xiamen University - 2019
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• Reviewer for 23 journals: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; Atmospheric Environment; Atmospheric Research; Biogeosciences; Ecological Indicators; Ecological Modelling; Environmental Research Communications; Environmental Research Letters; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science; Geoscientific Model Development; International Journal of Remote Sensing; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry; Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences; Journal of Mountain Science; Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing; Sensors; Water; Wetlands.