China Agricultural University (CAU)
Fusuo Zhang
Professor Fusuo Zhang is a major contributor to the development of agricultural resources and environment in China. He has advanced the content and research area of plant nutrition, and has greatly contributed to the development of this discipline in China to converge with global plant nutrition research. His research mainly focuses on how high crop yield and nutrient use efficiency can be achieved at the same time as protecting the environment, in order to ensure food security and sustainable development in China. Over the last 30+ years, he has developed a series of integrated crop and nutrient management technologies to increase crop yield and improve nutrient use efficiency, while significantly reducing environmental footprint. He was awarded second prize in the National Natural Science Award, and National Science and Technology Progress Award. He was a Clarivate Analytics “Global Highly Cited Scientist” during 2017‒2019 and has been selected as an Academician of The World Academy of Sciences, the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Email: zhangfs@cau.edu.cn
Xuejun Liu
Xuejun Liu is a full Professor at China Agricultural University. He is engaged in studies on nitrogen (N) cycling, in particular on N sources and their impacts on soil acidification, eutrophication and greenhouse gas emission in major Chinese croplands. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed SCI papers in a number of major international journals including Nature, Science and PNAS, with a H-index of 36. He has established long-term cooperative relationships with Hohenheim University (Germany), Rothamsted Research and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK), Colorado State University and Stanford University (USA), and Wageningen University (NL). He has obtained support from the China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists (2014), the National Ten-thousand Talents Program (2016) and was chosen to be the 2016 Figure of the Scientific Chinese in Environmental Science and Light Industry. His current research interests are atmospheric N deposition, PM2.5 pollution, microplastics pollution and impacts on food security and ecosystem and human health.
Email: liu310@cau.edu.cn
Homepage: http://zihuan.cau.edu.cn/art/2021/8/19/art_24899_776731.html
Ji Ma
Ji Ma is a professor at the College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University. He is engaged in research on agricultural resources, environment and economic policies, with particular emphasis on decision-making of farmers on production and the factors that influence it. He has presided over and completed more than 40 projects related to agricultural industry development and agricultural economic policy, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the World Bank (WB), EU-LINK and the Sino-German International Research Training Group (IRTG). His current research interests are farmers’ behaviour in use of fertiliser and plastic mulch, utilisation of waste, and general industrial development strategies.
Email: maji@cau.edu.cn
Homepage: http://zihuan.cau.edu.cn/art/2020/12/7/art_24900_721337.html
Kai Wang
Kai Wang is an Associate Professor at China Agricultural University. He obtained his doctorate in atmospheric analytical chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Max Planck Graduate Centre (2014‒2018), and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aarhus University from 2018 to 2020. A major focus of his research is on understanding the environment behaviours of organic pollutants (e.g. microplastics, pesticides and organic aerosols) in water, soil and air by experimental measurements and model simulation. He has participated in several international projects granted by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Max Planck Institute (Germany), Danish Research Council and UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund.
Email: kaiwang_ly@cau.edu.cn
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1305-6789
Homepage: http://zihuan.cau.edu.cn/art/2020/12/7/art_24900_721337.html
Jinrui Zhang
Jinrui Zhang is a Ph.D. student at China Agricultural University (CAU). He mainly conducts research on nitrogen effects of soil microplastics by conducting laboratory and field experiments. He has extensive experience in the determination and identification of microplastics in environmental media.
Email: b20203030244@cau.edu.cn
Siyang Ren
Siyang Ren is a Ph.D. student at Bangor University and CAU. She is currently conducting research into various sources of microplastics (MPs) in farmland soil by model simulation (i.e. material flow analysis, MFA). She has a fund of knowledge and experience in data analysis, mapping software, and household surveys.
Email: syr21yvt@bangor.ac.uk
Jingjing Li
Jingjing Li is a Masters student at CAU. She mainly conducts collection of atmospheric dry/wet deposition samples and extraction of microplastics from dust and rainfall. She has made qualitative and quantitative analysis of atmospheric microplastics in Quzhou, Baoding, Beijing and other places.
Email: SY20213030434@cau.edu.cn
Ce Liang
Ce Liang is a Masters student at CAU. He mainly conducts research on nitrogen effects of soil microplastics by field experiments.
Email: SY20203030462@cau.edu.cn
Chengtao Wen
Chengtao Wen is a postgraduate student at CAU. She is currently conducting research into farmers’ technology adoption behaviour and its influencing factors. She has extensive knowledge and experience in data analysis, questionnaire design, and household surveys.
Email:wenchengtao@cau.edu.cn
Xin’er Shi
Xin’er Shi is a Ph.D student at CAU. She mainly conducts research on agricultural environmental economic policy. She has extensive experience in data analysis.
Email:615268919@qq.com
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Yan Changrong
Changrong Yan is a Professor of Agronomy at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In the past 20 years, his research has focused on the application of plastic mulch and impact of agricultural plastics in the environment, and he is currently the President of the International Committee for Plastics in Agriculture, leading a range of projects investigating the impacts of conventional and biodegradable plastic film mulches in agricultural systems. He has been awarded a national Outstanding Talent in Agricultural Research, an expert with special Government allowance of The State Council, and Distinguished Expert of Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Corps. Since 2010, he has presided over more than 20 national science and technology breakthrough/support projects, national public welfare industry special projects, Chinese Academy of Engineering consulting projects, CGIAR and World Bank consulting projects. He has published more than 150 papers in core journals at home and abroad. Chief editor (co-editor) of 6 books. His research achievements have won a second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award and six provincial and ministerial awards.
Email: yanchangrong@caas.cn
Qin Liu
Qin Liu is an associate professor at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and deputy director of Key Laboratory of Agricultural Film Pollution Prevention and Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
He received his PhD at Liege University and has been involved in several international projects, including bilateral projects of cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) and Bangor University. His current research focuses on the prevention and control of residual pollution, and evaluation of crop mulching films. He is author/co-author of more than 30 scientific papers published in international journals, six books and three patents and he has participated in more than 20 national and international conferences with posters or oral presentations.
Email: liuqin02@caas.cn
Ningbo University
Ge Tida
Ge Tida is Professor of Environmental Soil Science and Biogeochemistry at Ningbo University. He is an expert in soil ecology, biogeochemistry, land use and agroecology, especially in the field of rhizosphere processes, and C and N cycling. His current research is mainly focused on rhizosphere ecology in agricultural systems (e.g. rice, vegetables) and the use of isotopes, sequencing technologies and biomarkers to evaluate soil functioning. He is an active member of several editorial boards, such as Associate Editor in Soil Science Society of America Journal and Frontiers in Agronomy, section/field editor and editor in Plant and Soil, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, Soil Ecology Letters, etc. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed SCI papers in a number of major international journals including ISME J, Global Change Biology, Enivironmental Science and Technology and Soil Biology and Biochemistry, with a H-index of 41. He has received support from the China National Funds for Excellent Young Scientists (2015), Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers (2020), and Newton Advanced Fellowship (2015). His role in this project is to lead the work monitoring the impact of plastics on soil functioning in China.
Email: getida@nbu.edu.cn
Zhu Zhenke
Zhu Zhenke is Professor of Environmental Soil Science and Biogeochemistry at Ningbo University. He is an expert in soil ecology and biogeochemistry. His current research is mainly focused on soil biogeochemical processes of C and N cycles, nutrient mobilization in agricultural systems and the use of isotopes, sequencing technologies and biomarkers to evaluate soil functioning. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed SCI papers in a number of international journals including Environmental Science and Technology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Journal of Hazardous Materials. His work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2016, 2018, 2022).
Email: zhuzhenke@nbu.edu.cn
Xiao Mouliang
Xiao Mouliang is an Assistant Professor in Ningbo University. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on soil carbon cycling and nutrient mobilization in agricultural systems. His research involves the use of the stable/radio isotopes, sequencing technologies and biomarkers to evaluate the soil biogeochemical cycles and soil functioning.
Email: xiaomouliang@nbu.edu.cn
Ding Jina
Ding Jina is a research assistant in Environmental Soil Science and Biogeochemistry at Ningbo University. Her research focuses on the impact of microplastics on the ecological environment of crop rhizospheres. She has published 10 SCI papers.
Email: dingjina@nbu.edu.cn
Shenyang Agricultural University
Wang Jingkuan
Professor Jingkuan Wang is a Professor of Soil Science at Shenyang Agricultural University（SYAU. He is the Director of the Joint China-US Center of Soil Productivity and Environmental Conservation (SPEC), SYAU and University of Tennessee, former Dean of College of Land and Environment. He has led the 35-year long-term Plastic Mulch Experiment Station at Shenyang. More than 100 peer-reviewed papers have been published in Soil Biology & Biogeochemistry, Geoderma, Soil &Tillage Research and other journals, with H-index 24. At present he is PI of the Evaluation Techniques and System for Black Soils (Grant No. 2021YFD1500200, National Key Research and Development Program, 2021-2026) and PI of Microbial Process of Plant Residue Transformation and Stability of Newly Plant-derived Organic Matter in Soil (Grant No. 41977086, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020-2023). His current research interests are protection of black soil, soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, plastic film mulching and microplastic pollution.
Email: jkwang@syau.edu.cn
Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jingkuan-Wang
Fan Ding
Fan Ding is an Associate Professor of Soil Ecology at Shenyang Agricultural University. He obtained his doctoral degree at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011‒2014). He is focusing on soil organic matter formation and stability, ecological and environmental consequences of plastic film mulching, and the development and utilization of biodegradable mulching film. He has published 35 peer-reviewed papers in a number of top international journals including Global Change Biology, Environmental Pollution and Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry. He has established long-term cooperative relationships with Washington State University (USA), Bangor University (UK), and University of Sydney (Australia). He has received support from the National Foundation of China and UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund. His current research interests are soil carbon cycling, ecological stoichiometry, microplastic pollution and their impacts on food security, ecosystem and human health.
Email: dingfan1985@syau.edu.cn
Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fan-Ding-16
Shitong Li
Shitong Li is a Ph.D. student at Shenyang Agricultural University (SYAU). She mainly conducts research on the occurrence and ecological risks of macro- and micro-plastics by conducting field experiments. She has extensive experience in the determination and identification of macro- and microplastics in farmland soil, and published a paper titled as “Macro-and microplastic accumulation in soil after 32 years of plastic film mulching” in Environment Pollution in 2021.
Email: syausoillst@163.com
Dai Jizhao
Dai Jizhao is a Masters student at SYAU. He is mainly engaged in research on the quantity and spatial distribution of plastic film residues in Chinese farmland. He has rich experience in data collection, plastic film degradation and residue accumulation.
Email: daijizhao1998@163.com
Zhao Tao
Zhao Tao is a Masters student at SYAU. She mainly conducts research on the carbon cycle of biodegradable mulches by conducting laboratory and field experiments. She has extensive experience in the film degradation characteristics, soil carbon pool components, and soil microbial determination.
Email: taozhao85@163.com
Northwest A&F University
Rui Jiang
Rui Jiang is a professor at Northwest A&F University. Her principal research interest is in the area of nitrogen and carbon cycling and their environmental impacts, especially in drylands. Specific areas include: 1) nitrogen transformation processes and nitrogen fate in mulching systems; 2) simulation of water and nitrate transport in the vadose zone; 3) non-point source pollution in agriculture; 4) carbon turnover with land use changes. She has led two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, two projects supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China, and two sub-projects from National Key R&D Program of China.
Email: jiangrui@nwsuaf.edu.cn
Homepage: https://zhxy.nwsuaf.edu.cn/szdw/kjdw/252852.htm
Hao Zhang
Hao Zhang is a Ph.D. student at Northwest A&F University. He is currently conducting research on nitrogen transformations in farmland plastic film mulch cultivation using field experiments and laboratory culture experiments. He has extensive experience in field experiments, data analysis, and related software use.
Email: zhanghao0903zh@163.com
Southern University of Science and Technology
Ruimin Qi
Ruimin Qi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southern University of Science and Technology. She obtained her doctoral degree in the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and spent one year as a visiting scholar at Bangor University. A major focus of her research is on the behaviours of microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems, application of plastic films and prevention and control of residual pollution.
Email: qirm@sustech.edu.cn