Dr. Lei Tingwu, Professor

　　Professor Lei was born in Hubei Province of China in February 1958. He got his bachelor's degree of agricultural engineering from Huazhong Agriculture University in 1982. From September 1983 to December 1988, he enrolled in Beijing Agricultural Engineering University for his master's and doctoral degree. He worked as a visiting scholar in Institute for Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture, Victoria, Australia during January to April in 1989, as a senior visiting scholar in Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering, in Michigan State University during December 1994-November 1995. He worked in Purdue University USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory during December 1995-May 1998.

　　He became a Professor and Major Professor of PhD students in China Agricultural University in December 1998. He was selected into China Academy of Sciences "Hundred Talents Program" in 1998, as a research fellow for the Chinese Academy of Science "Introducing foreign outstanding talents "project in 1999. From May 1998, he was the research fellow and Major Professor of PhD students, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, China Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Chinese Academy of Sciences appointed him as the director of State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau.

　　He is the board member of Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering and board member of Chinese Association of Soil and Water Conservation, and member of American Society of Agriculture and Biology Engineer, editorial board members of Journal of water and soil conservation, Trans of Agricultural Engineering, Journal of Agricultural Machinery, CATENA, Chinese Water and Soil Conservation Science, Ecology and Environmental Sciences.

　　His research interests are mainly on soil erosion mechanism, monitoring of sediments and runoff from hillslopes and watersheds and efficient use of water in agriculture. He has supervised 27 Ph.D. and 28 M.S. students. He published more than 200 articles in international and Chinese journals. And he has got 43 approved patents, including more than 20 patents of invention. He has published three monographs, Physical Model for Rill Erosion, Dynamic Process of Hillslope Soil Erosion and Chemical Control Technology, Soil and Water Conservation. He has invented the line source infiltration capacity measurement method and automatic measurement system. He created slope sheet flow velocity measurement methods, including computational models and automated measurement system. He developed the equipment for monitoring the dynamic processes of soil and water losses from runoff plots and watersheds. He also researched watershed soil and water conservation methods and measurement technologies and developed data transmission system.

　　His project "physical processes model for rill soil erosion" was awarded first scientific and technological prize from Shaanxi Province in 2009. And he got "the Ninth Qianning international Sediment Science and Technology Award" in 2009. He acquired the award of China Society of Soil Sciences in 2008. He was voted as the outstanding teacher by China Agricultural University in 2004. In 2001, he received special government allowances of the State Council. In 1998, Professor Lei jointly got award of the Ministry of Agriculture Scientific and Technological Progress. He got Chinese Science and Education Foundation for Young Scientists (Mao Yisheng) Award in 1994.

　　Recent Research Grants

　　[1] Study on the Mechanism of Soil Erosion by Snow-melting Runoff and Its Process Simulation in High Altitude and Cold Regions of China. The State Key Program of China National Natural Science Founds (41230746), ￥3,500,000, 2013-2017.

　　[2] Study on the Mechanism of Landslides Erosion and Its Laboratory Simulation of Wenchuan Earthquake Area. China National Natural Science Funds (41271291), ￥800,000, 2013-2016.

　　[3] Research on the Soil Water Erosion Dynamics Model for Multi-scale Watersheds in the Loess Regions. The State Key Program of China Natural Science Funds (40635027), ￥1,800,000, 2007-2010.

　　Recent Publications in Reviewed Journal

　　[1] Abbas E. Rahma, Tingwu Lei, Xiaonan Shi, Yuequn Dong, Shumei Zhou, Jun Zhao. Measuring flow velocity under straw mulch using the improved electrolyte tracer method. Journal of Hydrology, 2013, 495(06): 121-125.

　　[2] Tingwu Lei, Yan Yan, Xiaonan Shi, Ruiyuan Chuo, Jun Zhao. Measuring Velocity of Water Flow within Gravel Layer with Electrolyte Tracer Method under Pulse Boundary Model. Journal of Hydrology, 2013, 500: 37-44.

　　[3] Zhe Yin, Tingwu Lei, Qinghong Yan, Zhanpeng Chen, Yuequn Dong. A near-infrared reflectance sensor for soil surface moisture measurement. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2013, 99: 101-107.

　　[4] Zhou Shu-mei, Lei Ting-wu, David N. Warrington, Lei Qi-xiang, Zhang Man-liang. Does watershed size affect simple mathematical relationships between flow velocity and discharge rate at watershed outlets on the Loess Plateau of China. Journal of Hydrology, 2012, 444-445: 1-9.

　　[5] Shi X, Zhang F, Lei T, Chuo R, Zhou S, Yan Y. Measuring shallow water flow velocity with virtual boundary condition signal in the electrolyte tracer method. Journal of Hydrology, 2012, 452-453: 172-179.

　　[6] H. Liu, T.W. Lei, J. Zhao, C.P. Yuan, Y.T. Fan, L.Q. Qu. Effects of rainfall intensity and antecedent soil water content on soil infiltrability under rainfall conditions using the run off-on-out method. Journal of Hydrology. 2011, 396: 24-32

　　[7] L.L. Mao, T.W. Lei, V.F. Bralts. An analytical approximation method for the linear source soil infiltrability measurement and its application. Journal of Hydrology, 2011, 411: 169-177.

　　[8] Tingwu Lei, Ruiyuan Chuo, Jun Zhao, Xiaonan Shi, Lin Liu. An Improved Method for Shallow Water Flow Velocity Measurement with Practical Electrolyte Input. Journal of Hydrology, 2010, 390: 45-56.

　　[9] Cuiping Yuan, Tingwu Lei, Lili Mao, Han Liu, Yang Wu. Soil Surface Evaporation Processes under Mulches of Different Sized Gravel. Catena, 2009, 78: 117-121.

　　[10] Qingwen Zhang, Tingwu Lei, Jun Zhao. Estimation of the detachment rate in eroding rills in flume experiments using an REE tracing method. Geoderma, 2008, 147: 8-15.

　　[11] Y. Fan, T. Lei, I. Shainberg, Q. Cai. Wetting Rate and Rain Depth Effects on Crust Strength and Micromorphology. Soil science society of America Journal, 2008, 72: 1604-1610.

　　[12] L.J. Yan, X.X. Yu, T.W. Lei, Q.W. Zhang, L.Q. Qu. Effects of transport capacity and erodibility on rill erosion processes: A model study using the Finite Element method. Geoderma, 2008, 146: 114-120.

　　[13] L.L. Mao, T.W. Lei, X. Li, H. Liu, X. F. Huang, Y.N. Zhang. A linear source method for soil infiltrability measurement and model representations. Journal of Hydrology, 2008, 353: 49-58.

　　[14] T.W. Lei, Q.W. Zhang, C.M. Yao, J. Zhao, Y.H. Pan, A rational method for estimating erodibility and critical shear stress of an eroding rill. Geoderma, 2008,144: 628-633

　　[15] Liqin Qu, Jun Zhao, Xiaofen Zhao, Lijuan Yan, Jianghong Zhou, Tingwu Lei. A Mechanic-Electronic Sensor for Automatic Measurement of Sediment-laden Flow Rate from Erosion Runoff Plots. Journal of Hydrology, 2007, 342:42-49.

　　[16] Jiabing Cai, Yu Liu, Tingwu Lei, Luis Santos Pereira. Estimating reference evaporation with the FAO Penman-Monteith equation using daily weather forcast messages. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 2007, 145:22-35.

　　Contact:

　　Address: No. 17, Qinghua East Avenue, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China

　　Tel: 010-62736367

　　E-mail: leitingwu@cau.edu.cn