报告题目： Water Resources and Watershed Management 

报告人：Zeyuan Qiu, College of Science and Liberal Arts at New Jersey Institute of Technology，威尼斯87978797丁颖讲座教

时间：7月7日下午3:00-5:00

地点：威尼斯87978797602会议室

报告人简介：Dr. Zeyuan Qiu is Professor in Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science in College of Science and Liberal Arts with a joint appointment in School of Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is also Director for the Program of Environmental and Sustainability Policy at NJIT. Dr. Qiu holds Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from University of Missouri-Columbia. He teaches courses on environmental economics and sustainability studies at NJIT. He conducted grant-funded research and publish extensively in water resource and ecosystem management, natural resource conservation and environmental planning. He has been active in applying his expertise in environmental planning and management toward planning and designing sustainable rural housing and communities in China. He is an appointed member of the Ecological Processes Standing Committee in the Science Advisory Board of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. He also serves in the editorial boards of four international journals. He is the recipient of the First Gail P. Carter Award on Best Application of Science and GIS by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Office of Science and his work won the Excellence in Water Resources Protection and Planning Award by the Section of New Jersey of the American Water Resources Association. NJIT Magazine featured his research and career in Fall 2011.

Abstract： Water is a scarce resource. A watershed is a hydrologic representation of landscape in which water, sediment and dissolved materials drain to a common outlet such as a point on a stream, a lake, an underlying aquifer, an estuary, or an ocean. Watershed management is a process of engaging relevant stakeholders with broad interest in watersheds, building the consensus on watershed status and management goals, developing and implementing management measures to improve water quality and restore ecological conditions in watersheds. This presentation will introduce the process of watershed management in the context of the U.S. Clean Water Act, present a watershed restoration plan developed to restore watershed hydrology and water quality in the Neshanic River watershed located in New Jersey, USA, and discuss the implications of watershed management process in the U.S. to managing watersheds in China. Given the rapid economic growth and rampant land use changes in the past 30 years, environmental and ecological conditions in many parts of China are declining. Watershed management should be among the practical approaches to restore ecological conditions and achieve long-term economic growth by accounting the heterogeneous economic and natural resource conditions across different regions in China.