Abteilung Pflanzenbau

Master of Science in Ökologie


Research:
My current research focuses on analyzing crop rotation using crop growth models. I am involved in sub-project WP1, "Crop Rotation Adjustment/Modeling," within the research project ZERN (Future of Nutrition in the Federal State of Lower Saxony). Monitoring and simulating agroecosystems is becoming increasingly vital for addressing global challenges such as climate change and the growing demand for agricultural products. Crop systems modeling is a key approach to achieving this goal. I am committed to make the models more reliable.

My previous work focused on the application of remote sensing in forestry and agriculture. This included retrieving vegetation properties using canopy radiative transfer models, estimating primary productivity through models of vegetation light energy use, and applying data assimilation to integrate remote sensing data with crop models for field-scale crop yield estimation.


Expertise:

  • GIS and Remote Sensing

    • Programming in C++ and Python

      • Simulating the dynamics of agricultural ecosystems by using crop growth models

        • Remote sensing inversion for vegetation properties




        Selected peer-reviewed publications:
        Zhao, J., Hu, Y., Gao, W., Chen, H., Yang, M., Quan, Z., Fang, Y., Chen, X., Xie, H., He, H., Zhang, X., & C. Lu, 2024. Effects of long-term conservation tillage on N2 and N2O emission rates and N2O emission microbial pathways in Mollisols. Science of The Total Environment 908, 168440.
        DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168440

        Zhao, J., Hu, Y., Wang, J., Gao, W., Liu, D., Yang, M., Chen, X., Xie, H., He, H., Zhang, X., & C. Lu, 2024. Greenhouse gas emissions from the growing season are regulated by precipitation events in conservation tillage farmland ecosystems of Northeast China. Science of The Total Environment 948, 174716.
        DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174716

        Li, H., Gao, W., Liu, Y., Yuan, F., Wu, M., & L. Meng, 2023. Attributing the impacts of ecological engineering and climate change on carbon uptake in Northeastern China. Landscape Ecology 38, 3945–3960.
        DOI: 10.1007/s10980-023-01679-x

        Mao, S., Zhou, Y., Gao, W., Jin, Y., Zhao, H., Luo, Y., Chen, S., Chen, X., Zhang, G., Lun, F., Pan, Z., & P. An, 2022. Ventilation capacities of Chinese industrial cities and their influence on the concentration of NO2. Remote Sensing 14, 3348.
        DOI: 10.3390/rs14143348


        Education:
        September 2020 - June 2023
        Master of Science in Ecology
        Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang, China

        September 2015 - June 2019
        Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Science
        Central South University, Changsha, China


        Additional information:
        Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gao-Wanjing
        ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5211-251X