Dr. Chen Xiqing  Professor

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Personal Information

·   Surname: CHEN     First name: Xiqing

·   Date of birth: 29 July 1957

·   Place of birth: Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China

·   Nationality: Chinese

·   Sex: Male

Education and Career History:

• From 1994 to Present: Professor, State Key Lab. of Estuarine & Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University (ECNU).

• April 2004 to March 2005: Director, Department of Water Resources, Yangtze River Scientific Research Institute, Changjiang(Yangtze) Water Resources Commission.

• Oct. 1998 to Dec. 1998: Geography Department, University of Durham , UK for collaborative research project

• Aug. 1998 to Oct. 1998: Institute of Wetland Biogeochemistry , Louisiana State University , U.S.A. for consultative studies.

• May 1996 to June 1996: Academic visit in U.S.A.

• April 1990 to July 1994: Associate Professor, ECNU, China

• June 1992 to Dec. 1993: Visiting scholar, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands , and Geography Department, University of Durham , UK

• March 1988 to April 1990: Post-doctorate Research SKLEC, ECNU.

• Dec. 1987: Ph.D. Degree in Nanjing University , China .

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Research Interests and Experiences

Research Projects:

• 2004-2006 Project: A study on change of sediment discharges from the Yangtze River into the sea and their future trend, supported by National Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 40371114), Leader: Myself.

• 2004-2007 Project: Impacts of interbasin water diversion and other major engineering projects on estuarine environment and their counter-measures, supported by National Natural Science Foundation (Key Project Grant No. 50339010), Leader for the State Key Lab. of Estuary and Coastal Research, East China Normal University .

• 2003-2004 Project: A study on strategic countermeasures about freshwater resources in the Yangtze River Estuary, Key Science and Technology Development Project supported by the Construction Commission of Shanghai Municipal Government, Grant No. A0200521, A member of leading group for this project and a leader for No.1 sub-project.

• 2001-2004 Project: The techniques of integrated application system based on the satellite remote sensing in Chinese coastal zone and its adjacent seas. This is one of the China Ocean 863 High Technology Projects (AA 63-03-01 ) supported by Science and Technology Commission of China. Myself: one of the leaders.

• 2000-2002 Project: A study of water discharge from the Yangtze into the sea during dry season: history and trend, supported by National Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 49971071), Leader: Myself.

• 1999-2002 Project: Flux Study in the Yangtze Estuary, a key project supported by National Natural Science Foundation (Grant no. 49736220). One of major participants.

• 2000 Project: Site assessment for Shanghai 's third source water area, supported by Shanghai Water Authority. Myself: one of member in the working group.

• 1998-1999 Project: Changes of water discharge from the Yangtze into the sea under the background of the south to north water diversions and its impact on freshwater resources in the Yangtze estuary, supported by the Key Sciences and Technology Development Foundation (Grant no.98042). Leader: Myself.

• 1996-1998 Project: Impacts of the South to North Water Diversion on the Freshwater Water Quality in the Yangtze Estuary, with a special reference to water supply to Shanghai . Leader: myself, supported by a scientific foundation from the Shanghai Education Authority for the outstanding young teacher.

• 1996-1999 Project: Sea level changes, coastal movements and storminess in the past 2000 years and their implications on future socioeconomic development. Leaders: Dr. Yongqiang Zong and Myself. This is a scientific cooperative project jointly supported by the University of Durham, UK and East China Normal University , China

• 1994-1995 Project: The impacts of sea-level rise on the coastal erosion of Shanghai and the counter-measure studies. Leaders: Professor Chen Jiyu and myself. This is the13 th project in a large research program funded by the Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Municipal Government

• 1995 Project: The impacts of sea-level rise on Shanghai 's social and economic development and the coping policies. Leader: myself, funded by the Development Research Center , Shanghai Municipal Government

• 1992-1993 Project: Sediment dynamics of fine-grained suspended matter in the North Sea . Leader: Professor D. Eisma, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. A Sino-Dutch scientific cooperation project funded by the Netherlands government

• Project: Effects of Future Sea-Level Rise on the Changjiang River Delta and Adjacent low-lying Areas (under the International sea-level rise studies project funded by EPA , USA led by Psuty P.N., Rutgers University Institute of Coastal and Marine Sciences, New Jersey , USA )

• 1989-1992 Project: The runoff and sediment discharge changes from the Changjiang River over the last 30,000 years and their relation with the drainage basin and global changes. Leader: Myself, funded by the Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Academia Sinica.

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Publications

Major Publications:

• Chen Xiqing , 2004, Sand Extraction from the Mid-Lower Yangtze channel and its Impacts on Sediment Discharge into the Sea, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on River Sedimentation (the 9 th ISRS) , Vol.3, Xuejun Shao(ed.), Tsinghua University Press, pp.1699-1704.

• Chen Xiqing , Chen Jin, 2004, Water Resources Allocation and Integrated Water Resources Management in the Yangtze River Basin, Resources and Environment in the Yangtze basin, 14(2), 163-167 (in Chinese) .

• Chen Xiqing , Mu Hongqiang, 2004, On the protection of source area for freshwater in the Yangtze River estuary. In: Wang Songnian (ed.): Strategic Studies on Source Area of Drinking Water for Shanghai . pp.76-82 (in Chinese). Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, Shanghai , (in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing , 2003, Major Hydro-engineering Projects and Water Resource in the Yangtze River deltaic area, Sciences, 55(4), 41-45(in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing , Zhang Erfeng, Li Daoji, Chen Jiyu, 2003, A preliminary study on Changes in water discharge from the Yangtze into the sea during dry season and its trend in future, In: Impacts and Countermeasures of the South-to-North (East Route) Water Diversion Projects on the Ecosystem and Environment of the Yangtze Estuary. Edited by Chen Jiyu and Chen Xiqing, Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, Shanghai , pp.161-167 (in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing , Zhang Dezhen and Zhang Erfeng, 2002, The South to North Water Diversion in China : Review and Comments Journal of Environmental Planning and Management . 2002, 45(6) , 927-932.

• Chen Xiqing , Zhang Erfeng and Xu Jiangang, 2002, Large and episodic decrease of water discharge from the Yangtze River to the sea during the dry season, Hydrological Sciences-Journal, 47(1): 1-9.

• Chen Xiqing , Yongqiang Zong, Erfeng Zhang, Jianggang Xu and Shijie Li, 2001, Human impacts on the Changjiang (Yangtze) River basin, China, with special reference to the impacts on the dry season water discharge into the sea, Geomorphology, 41(2-3):111-123.

• Zong Yongqiang & Chen Xiqing , 2000, The 1998 flood on the Yangtze, China . Natural Hazards 22, 165–184.

• Chen Xiqing , 2000, Transboundary rivers, interbasin water transfer and the fundamental problems about the water diversion projects in China . Resources and Environment in the Yangtze basin 9(1), 92-97 (in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing & Chen Jiyu, 2000, A proposal to study and control the decrease tendency in discharge of the Changjiang River entering the sea in dry season (initially published by the Chinese Association of Science and Technology as an official document to the Central Committee of Communist Party of China and the State Council). Science & Technology Review 2000(2) (Serial No. 140), 39–40 (in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing and Yongqiang Zong, 1999, Impacts of sea level rise on the coastal lowland agriculture in the Changjiang River Delta, Current Topics in Wetland Biogeochemistry, Vol.3, (ISSN 1076-4674), Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute, LSU, pp.214-222.

• Chen Xiqing , Y. Zong, 1999, Major impacts of sea-level rise on agriculture in the Yangtze delta area around Shanghai , Applied Geography, 19 (1999), 69-84.

• Yongqiang Zong, Chen Xiqing , 1999, Typhoon Hazards in the Shanghai Area, The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management, Vol.25, No.1, 66-80.

• Chen Xiqing , 1998, The Changjiang ( Yangtze ) River Delta, Journal of Coastal Research, Vol.14, No. 3, 838-858.

• Chen Xiqing , Chen Jiyu, 1998, A study of closure depth on the profiles of the Changjiang deltaic coast: On the fundamental problems associated with Bruun Rule and its application, Acta Geographica Sinica , 53(4), 323-331 (in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing and Yongqiang Zong, 1998, Coastal erosion along the Changjiang River deltaic Shoreline , China : history and prospective, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 46, 733-742.

• Chen Xiqing , Chen Jiyu, 1997, Effects of the south-to-north water diversion on the coarse-grained sediment discharge into the Changjiang Estuary over the next decades, Advances in Water Sciences, Vol.8, No.3, 259-263, (in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing and Chen Jiyu, 1997. Water resource: A challenge to Shanghai in the next century, Shanghai Water Conservancy, No.2, 35-38 (in Chinese).

• Chen Xiqing , 1996, An integrated study of sediment discharge from the Changjiang River, China and the delta development since the mid-Holocene, Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 12, No.1, 26-37.

• Chen Xiqing , Chen Jiyu, 1994, On the flood disasters and the water conservancy works in the Taihu Lake Plain and their future development, Journal of Lake Sciences, Vol.6, No.4, 364-374, (in Chinese).

• Chen Jiyu, Chen Xiqing , 1994, The major impacts of sea-level rise on the society in the Changjiang River delta and the counter-measure, Advisory Report No.1, Geo-Sciences Department, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Science Press, Beijing, 1994, 325-332 (in Chinese).

• Chen Jiyu, Chen Xiqing , 1992, Major hazards in coastal area of China , their mitigation and associated planning policy, In: Shi and Embleton (eds.), Geo-hazards and Their Mitigation, Science Press, Beijing , 84-92.

• Chen Xiqing , 1991: Sea-level changes since the early 1920's from the long records of two tidal gauges in Shanghai, China, Journal of Coastal Research, Vol.7, No.3, 787-799.

• Chen Xiqing , 1990, Sea level changes from 1922 to 1987 in the Changjiang River mouth and its significance, Acta Geographica Sinica, 45 (4), 387-398 (in Chinese) .

• Chen Xiqing , 1988, the climatic and environmental changes of China since 125 ka BP, Geographical Research, Vol.7, No.2, 113 (in Chinese) .

• Yang Huai-jen, Chen Xiqing , 1988, A pilot study on the possible impact of sea-level rise on East China , Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica, Vol.6, No.3, 187-200.

• Yang Huai-jen, Chen Xiqing , 1988, Greenhouse effects and the impact of sea level-rise and climatic changes on the next century, Journal of Nanjing University (natural sciences edition), Vol. 24, No.l, 66-74 (in Chinese) .

• Chen Xiqing , 1987, the study of two different types of dark conifer forests at present and in the late glacial period and its significance. Scientia Geographica Sinica, Vol.7, No.3, 223-230 (in Chinese) .

• Yang Huai-jen and Chen Xiqing, 1987, Quaternary transgressions, eustatic changes and movements of shorelines in North and East China , In: V. Gardiner (ed.), International Geomorphology 1986 Part II, P.807-827, and John Wily & Sons Ltd.

• Yang Huai-jen, Chen Xiqing, Xie Zhiren, 1988, Sea level changes since the last deglaciation and their impact on the East China lowlands, In: P. Whyte (ed.), The Palaeoenvironments of East Asia from the Mid-Tertiary, Proceedings of the Second Conference, Vol.1, P. 356-374, Hongkong University

Yang Huai-jen, Chen Xiqing, 1985, Quaternary transgressions, eustatic changes and shifting of shoreline in East China, Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, Vol.5, No.4, 59-80 (in Chinese) .
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Contact Information

State key laboratory of estuarine and coastal research

East China Normal University

3663 Zhongshan Road(N.)

Shanghai, 200062

P.R.China

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