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

1. What are the long-term groundwater behavior and dynamics?
2. What is the age distribution (in time and space) of groundwater?
3. How do land-use changes and climate change affect groundwater recharge?

Methods

Multiple approaches are used to realize the objectives, including:

1. Long-term monitoring of groundwater levels.
2. Use of environmental tracers such as stable water isotopes and tritium.
3. Regular sampling of groundwater quality and water chemistry.
4. Hydrogeophysical surveys by electrical resistivity tomography (ERT).
5. 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.

EGU General Assembly 2024 (Oral Presentation)

Ying, Z., Tetzlaff, D., Freymueller, J., Comte, J. C., Goldhammer, T., Schmidt, A., & Soulsby, C. (2024). Using contrasting tracers to characterize groundwater dynamics under a prolonged drought in the lowland catchments in the North German Plain (No. EGU24-602).