Title：Two-phase flow infiltration equations, finger flow, and vapor flow in arid and semiarid regions
Speaker：Prof. Zhi Wang, California State University, Fresno
Time：PM 5:00, July 8, 2016
Venue：Meeting room 203, State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau,  Institute of Soil and Water Conservation

A Brief Introduction to the Speaker
Dr. Zhi Wang is a tenured professor of hydrology and soil physics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at California State University, Fresno. He has recently served in China as a "Hundred-Person Program” invited professor of Shaanxi Province, hosted by the ChangAn University (2012-present)，as HouJi Guest Professor at Northwest A & F University (2010-2014) , as Guest Professor at the Center for Echo-Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009-2014), and as Editor-In-Chief of GSTF International Journal of Geological Sciences (March 2013-). He has been awarded research grants from various agencies such as US Natural Science Foundation, US Department of Defense’s Environmental Agency，California Department of Water Resources, etc. Since 1986, he has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed professional journals, including 7 widely cited papers in the first-tier international journal Water Resources Research. He has also contributed 75 presentations at various international meetings. Dr. Wang initially graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Xi’An University of Technology in 1982 and a B. Sc from Northwestern Agricultural University (NWAU) in 1985. Since then, he worked at NWAU for 7 years as an assistant professor and later as department chair of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. In 1992，he was awarded a full doctoral scholarship to study at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and eventually earned his PhD in 1997. He was then hired as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside from 1998-2002. In 2002 he was hired as a tenure-track faculty at the California State University, Fresno. Dr. Wang’s teaching and research has been variably focused on interdisciplinary topics in hydrology and geology, including climate change effects on hydrological processes，forest-fire effects on soil erosion and sediment transport, fluid mechanics in porous media, dryland hydrology, open channel hydraulics, water measurement devices and structures, optimal canal flow scheduling and on-farm irrigation technologies, etc.

Institute of Soil and Water Conservation