Zhengtao Ying
Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin
Profile
Education
Since 2021, PhD candidate in ecohydrology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin
2018-2021, Master of Engineering in Hydraulics and River Dynamics, Hohai University, China
(“Effects of macropores on water and salt exchange in coastal wetlands”)
2014-2018, Bachelor of Engineering in Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
PhD Topic
“Groundwater-surface water dynamics in a mixed land use, lowland catchment”
Objectives
- What are the long-term groundwater behavior and dynamics?
- What is the age distribution (in time and space) of groundwater?
- How do land-use changes and climate change affect groundwater recharge?
Methods
Multiple approaches are used to realize the objectives, including:
- Long-term monitoring of groundwater levels.
- Use of environmental tracers such as stable water isotopes and tritium.
- Regular sampling of groundwater quality and water chemistry.
- Hydrogeophysical surveys by electrical resistivity tomography (ERT).
- Hydrological models (ModFlow and ParFlow)
Conferences
XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), 2023. (Oral presentation)
Ying, Z., Tetzlaff, D., Freymueller, J., Comte, J.-C., Schmidt, A., Soulsby, C. (2023): Using isotopes in a multi-proxy approach to understand groundwater-surface water interactions in a drought sensitive catchment.