Chunmiao Zheng holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988) and is a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Geological Society of America (GSA). He is currently a Chair Professor and Vice President at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Ningbo, China. In 2015, he joined the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as the Founding Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering and served as the Vice Provost of Global Strategies from 2018 to 2022. Previously, he was a Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Water Sciences at Peking University in Beijing. He also held faculty positions ranging from Assistant Professor to George Lindahl III Endowed Professor at the University of Alabama. He was a Senior Hydrogeologist at S.S. Papadopulos & Associates from 1988 to 1993, and he has been an Associated Expert since 1994. He is associated with the Waterloo, Ontario office.

His research interests, on which he provides technical expertise to SSP&A, include groundwater contaminant transport and remediation, basin-scale ecohydrological processes, and the impacts of global change and emerging contaminants on water resource sustainability. He is the developer of the MT3D/MT3DMS series of contaminant transport models used in over 100 countries, and the author or co-author over 480 peer-reviewed journal papers and six books, including the textbook Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling.

Currently, he serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international open-access journal Sustainable Horizons and has been an associate editor for five leading hydrology and water resources journals, including Water Resources Research. He has also served on the Committee on Hydrologic Science of the U.S. National Research Council, as president of the International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), and as a member of the advisory panel for the “Environmental Science Earth” section of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectureship (2009) and the O.E. Meinzer Award (2013) from the Geological Society of America, the John Hem Award (1998) and the M. King Hubbert Award (2013) from the National Ground Water Association (U.S.), the Distinguished Alumni Award (2014) from the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the 11th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) (2024).

EDUCATION
  • PhD, Hydrogeology with a minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988
  • Postgraduate, Geology and Applied Mathematics, Chengdu University of Technology (formerly Chengdu College of Geology), China, 1983-1984
  • BS, Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, China, 1983
AWARDS AND HONORS
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • American Geophysical Union
  • National Ground Water Association
  • Geological Society of America
PUBLISHED WORKS – SUMMARY

Over 480 SCI journal papers; 1 major textbook (with 1st, 2nd and Chinese editions) and 5 other books; plus 11 software manuals. A complete publication list and citation matrix can be found:

Book: Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling - Theory and Practice

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REPRESENTATIVE PAPERS FROM THE PAST FIVE YEARS

  • Kuang, X., J. Liu*, B.R. Scanlon, J.J. Jiao, S. Jasechko, M. Lancia, B.K. Biskaborn, Y. Wada, H. Li, Z. Zeng, Z. Guo, Y. Yao, T. Gleeson, J.-P. Nicot, X. Luo, Y. Zou, C. Zheng*, 2024. The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle, Science, 383, eadf0630
    doi: 10.1126/science.adf0630

  • Yu, J., Y. Tian*, X. Wang, T. Sun, M. Lancia, C.B. Andrews, C. Zheng*, 2024. Integrated modeling of flow, soil erosion, and nutrient dynamics in a regional watershed: Assessing natural and human-induced impacts, Water Resour. Res., 60(9)
    doi: 10.1029/2024WR037531

  • Chen, K., X. Chen, J.C. Stegen, J.A. Villa, …, E.E. Roden*, C. Zheng*, 2023. Vertical hydrologic exchange flows control methane emissions from riverbed sediments, Environ. Sci. Technol., 57(9), 4014–4026
    doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c07676

  • Feng, Y., Z. Zeng*, T.D. Searchinger, A.D. Ziegler, …, C. Zheng*, 2022. Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century, Nature Sustainability, 5, 444-451
    doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-00854-3

  • Ben, Y., C. Fu, M. Hu, L. Liu, M. H. Wong, C. Zheng*, 2019. Human health risk assessment of antibiotic resistance associated with antibiotic residues in the environment: A review, Environmental Research, 169, 483-493. (Cited over 1,090 times on Google Scholar by 11/2024.)
    doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.11.040

MAJOR BOOKS AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE

  • National Research Council (NRC), 2012. Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 188 pp. (Chunmiao Zheng was a member of the NRC committee that authored this book report, available at:
    https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13293/challenges-and-opportunities-in-the-hydrologic-sciences

  • Zheng, C. and G.D. Bennett, 2009. Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling, Chinese Edition, Higher Education Press, Beijing, China, in collaboration with John Wiley & Sons, New York, 417 pp.

  • Committee on Chinese Groundwater Science, 2009. Challenges and Opportunities in Chinese Groundwater Science, Science Press, Beijing, China, 200 pp. (Chunmiao Zheng was chair of the committee that authored this book report.)

  • Zheng, C., and G.D. Bennett, 2002, Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 621 pp.
    http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471384771.html Additional information with links to Amazon and Google Books available at: https://sspa.com/applied-contaminant-transport-modeling-theory-and-practice/

  • Zheng, C., and G.D. Bennett, 1995. Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling: Theory and Practice, Van Nostrand Reinhold (now John Wiley & Sons), New York, 440 pp.

  • Zheng, C., and P.P. Wang, 1999. MT3DMS: A Modular 3-D Multi-species Transport Model for Simulation of Advection, Dispersion and Chemical Reactions of Contaminants in Groundwater Systems; Documentation and User’s Guide, Contract Report SERDP-99-1, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, 169 pp. Available at:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170129200934/http://hydro.geo.ua.edu/mt3d/

  • Zheng, C., 1990, MT3D: A Modular 3-D Transport Model for Simulation of Advection, Dispersion and Chemical Reactions of Contaminants in Groundwater Systems, Report to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 170 pp.