Education

Ph.D., Ecology, University of Oklahoma                                                   2003-2007

M.S., Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, China                     1997-2000

B.S., Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang Agricultural University, China   1994-1997

Research areas

· Ecosystem Ecology

· Global Change Biology

· Biogeochemistry

· Ecohydrology

· Modeling and data-model assimilation

Working experience

2007 – Present   Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

2003 - 2006        Research assistant, the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

2001 - 2003        Lecturer, Dept. of Tourism, Zhejiang Forestry University, China  

2000 - 2001        Engineerer, Zhejiang Jiahuan Electronic Ltd., China

Teaching experience

2008         Co-Instructor with Dr. Linda Wallace: graduate course in Plant Physiological Ecology. Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, USA

2008          Instructor for high school teachers at K20 center at the University of Oklahoma

2008          Instructor for elementary school teachers at Summer Science Institute in Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma

2007          Instructor: Global change and sustainability. Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, USA (Winter Intersession Course)

2006          Teaching assistant: Plant ecology. Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, USA

2001–2003 Instructor: Tourism Resource Assessment, Tourism Environmental Protection, Ecological Environmental Planning. Department of Tourism, Zhejiang Forestry University, China

Honors and Awards

2006: Travel Grant (2006 ESA annual meeting) from the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma

2005: George L. and Cleo Cross Graduate Student Endowed Scholarships, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma.

2000: Second Class Award of Innovation for Wastewater Treatment, Zhejiang Province Government, China

1999: Second Class Award of Innovation for Wastewater Treatment, Science and Technology Committee of Zhejiang Province, China

1998: Second Class Award of Excellence graduate Student, Zhejiang University, China

Professional Activities

Organizer & moderator

ü      An organized oral session for 2007 ESA annual meeting (San Jose, CA): “Ecosystem responses to experimental warming and other global climate change factors”

ü      An organized session for 2007 AGU fall meeting (San Francisco, CA): “B40 - Effects of multi-factor global change on ecosystem processes”

Invited seminars

ü      Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, February 2007

ü      Atmospheric Observation Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, February 2007

Workshop invited/attended

ü      Workshop on Carbon Respired by Terrestrial Ecosystems (CaTRE) funded by NSF in UC-Irvine, CA January 21-23, 2004

ü      Workshop on automated soil respiration measurements funded by NSF in New England Center, Durham, NH September 10-12, 2007

ü      Workshop on data-model assimilation in ecology funded by NSF in Norman, OK October 22-24, 2007

Journal reviewing (From 2005)

ü       Annals of Botany

ü      Biological Letters

ü      Ecosystems

ü      Global Change Biology

ü   Global and Planetary Change

ü      Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

ü      Journal of Bioscience

ü      Oecologia

ü      Soil Biology & Biochemistry

ü      Tree Physiology

Proposal reviewer

ü      National Institute for Climatic Change Research, Department of Energy (DOE)

Publications (since 2005)

Book

1. Luo Y, Zhou X (2006) Soil Respiration and the Environment. Academic Press/ Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA, pp328 (Chinese version published in 2007 by Higher Education Press, Beijing, China)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

14. Belay-Tedla A, Zhou X, Su B, Wan S, Luo Y (200x) Labile, recalcitrant, and microbial pools of carbon and nitrogen in a Tallgrass Prairie soil subjected to experimental warming and clipping. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, accepted.

13. Luo Y, Clark J, Hobbs T, Lakshmivarahan S, Latimer A, Ogle K, Schimel D, Zhou X (2008) Towards ecological forecasting: applications of data-model fusion techniques. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America in press.

12. Luo Y, Sherry RA, Zhou X, Wan S. (2008) Plant regulation of terrestrial carbon-cycle feedback to climate warming: A case study in a Tallgrass Prairie. Global Change Biology in press

11. Luo Y, Weng E, Wu X, Gao C, Zhou X, Zhang L (2008) Identifiability, Constraint, and Equifinality in Data Assimilation with Ecosystem Models. Ecological Applications In press

10. Luo Y, Gerten D, Maire GL, Parton WJ, Weng E, Zhou X, Keough C, Beier C, Ciais P, Cramer W, Dukes JS, Emmett B, Hanson PJ, Knapp A, Linder S, Nepstad D, Rustad L (2008) Modelled effects of multiple global change factors on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones. Part II: interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and CO₂. Global Change Biology 14: 1986-1999.

9. Zhou X, Weng E, Luo Y (2008) Patterns of nonlinearity in ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in response to gradual changes in temperature, CO₂, and precipitation: modeling analysis. Ecological Applications 18(2): 453-466.

8. Liao C, Peng R, Luo Y, Zhou X, Wu X, Fang C, Chen J, Li B (2008) Altered ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles by plant invasion: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 177(3): 706-714.

7. Liao C, Luo Y, Jiang L, Zhou X, Wu X, Chen J, Li B (2007) Invasion of Spartina alterniflora enhanced ecosystem carbon and nitrogen stocks in the Yangtze Estuary, China. Ecosystems 10(8): 1351-1361.

6. Tjoelker M, Zhou X (2007) The many faces of climate warming. New Phytologist 176: 739-742.

5. Zhou X, Wan S, Luo Y (2007) Source components and interannual variability of soil CO₂ efflux under experimental warming and clipping in a grassland ecosystem. Global Change Biology 13(4): 761-775.

4. Zhou X, Liu X, Wallace LL, and Luo Y (2007) Photosynthetic and respiratory acclimation to experimental warming for four species in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49(3): 270-281.

3. Sherry RA, Zhou X, Gu S, Arnone III JA, Schimel DS, Verburg PS, Wallace LL, Luo Y (2007) Divergence of reproductive phenology under climate warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA (PNAS), 104(1): 198-202.

2. Zhou X, Sherry R, An Y, Wallace LL, and Luo Y (2006) Main and interactive effects of warming, clipping, and doubled precipitation on soil CO₂ efflux in a grassland ecosystem. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 20, GB1003, doi: 10.1029/ 2005GB002526.

1. An Y, Wan S, Zhou X, Subedar AA, Wallace LL, and Luo Y (2005) Plant nitrogen concentration, use efficiency, and contents in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem under experimental warming. Global Change Biology 11: 1733-1744.

Manuscripts under review and revision

(5) Chen X, Su B, Zhou X, Hui D, Sherry R, Luo Y (200x) Larger Indirect than Direct Effects of Warming and Clipping on Litter Decomposition in a Tallgrass Prairie. Global Change Biology, under review

(4) Zhou X, Zhou T, Luo Y (200x) Uncertainties in carbon residence time and sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems of the Conterminous USA: A Bayesian approach. Ecology, under review

(3) Zhou X, Luo Y, Verburg PSJ, Arnone III JA, Schimel DS (200x) Concurrent and lagged impacts of an anomalously warm year on components of soil respiration: a deconvolution analysis. Oecologia, under review

(2) Zhou X, Talley M, Luo Y (200x) Patterns of biomass, litter, and soil respiration along a precipitation gradient in southern Great Plains. Ecosystems, under review

(1) Wu X, White L, Ma Y, Zhou X, Luo Y (200x) Conditional inversion to estimate parameters from eddy flux observations. Global Change Biology in revision

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