Ting Zhang

Prof. Ting Zhang specializes in the field of basin-scale hydrology and hydro-geomorphology. She obtained her PhD degree from National University of Singapore, Department of Geography. She conducts interdisciplinary research spanning hydrology, geomorphology, and cryosphere science. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change and human activities on riverine processes, hydrological modeling, erosion and surface processes, as well as sustainability in mountainous regions. Her work contributes to simulation and prediction of basin-scale sediment transport dynamics across multiple timescales, proposes theoretical frameworks advancing the understanding of the responses erosion and fluvial transport to climate change and deglaciation, as well as helps to build climate resilience in water-food-energy systems in mountainous regions. In recognition of her academic achievements, Dr. Ting Zhang was honored with the IPCC Scholarship Award in 2023 and was selected for China’s National Program for Young Talents in 2024.

Education and working experience:

04/2024 – present	Full Professor	College of Water Resources & Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University
09/2023 –04/2024	Research Fellow	Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
08/2020 – 08/2023	PhD	Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
09/2017 – 06/2020	Msc	Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University
09/2013 – 06/2017	Bsc	China Agricultural University

Honor

• National program for young talents, 2024

• IPCC Scholarship Award (Seventh Round), 2023

• AAG The Grove Karl Gilbert Award, 2023

• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2023

• President's Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2020-2023

Full publication record is available at:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4975-0200

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uNRfDM0AAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Representative papers:

1.       Li, D.*, Zhang, T.*, Walling, D., Lane, S., Bookhagen, B., Tian, S., Overeem, I., Syvitski, J., Kettner, A., Park, E., Koppes, M., Schmitt, R. J.P., Sun, W., Ni, J., Ehler, T. A. (2024) The competing controls of glaciers, precipitation, and vegetation on high-mountain fluvial sediment yields. Science Advances, 10, eads6196.

2.       Zhang, T., Li, D., East, A. E., Kettner, A. J., Best, J., Ni, J., & Lu, X. (2023). Shifted sediment transport regimes by climate change and amplified hydrological variability in cryosphere-fed rivers. Science Advances, 9(45), eadi5019.

3.       Zhang, T., Li, D., East, A., Walling, D., Lane, S., Overeem, I., Beylich, A., Koppes, M., & Lu, X. (2022). Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3, 832–851. (Cover article)

4.       Zhang, T.,Li, D., Kettner, A. J., Zhou, Y., & Lu, X. (2021). Constraining Dynamic Sediment‐Discharge Relationships in Cold Environments: the Sediment-Availability-Transport (SAT) Model. Water Resources Research, 57(10), e2021WR030690.

5.       Li, D., Lu, X., Walling, D., Zhang, T., Steiner, J., Wasson, R., Harrison, S., Nepal, S., Nie, Y., Immerzeel, W., Shugar, D., Koppes, M., Lane, S., Zeng, Z., Sun, X., Yegorov, A., & Bolch, T. (2022). High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability. Nature Geoscience. 15, 520–530. (Cover article)

6.       Li, D., Lu, X., Overeem, I., Walling, D., Syvitski J., Kettner, A. J., Bookhagen B., Zhou, Y., & Zhang, T. (2021). Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia. Science, 374(6567), 599-603.

Selected Talks

• 2024 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Annual Meeting (Invited presentation)

Title: Regime shifts in sediment transport driven by warming-intensified cryosphere degradation and hydrological fluctuation

• 2023 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (Invited presentation)

   Title: Landscape Changes and Sediment Transport in Warming Cryospheric Regions

• 2023 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Annual Meeting (Invited presentation)

Title: Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in the world’s cold regions

• 2023 International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) Webinar South and West Asia (Invited presentation)

Title: Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in the world’s cold regions

Editorial Board:

• Journal of Hydrology

• Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

• River

• Journal of Applied Foundations and Engineering Sciences

 

Other Professional Services:

• Member of DENUCHANGE Working Group

• Member of  American Geophysical Union (AGU)、European Geosciences Union (EGU)、International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG)

The software works Patent

·      National program for young talents, 2024

·     IPCC Scholarship Award (Seventh Round), 2023

·     AAG The Grove Karl Gilbert Award, 2023

·     Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2023

·     President's Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2020-2023