 Congratulations to Xin-Zhong Liang, newly elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). This honor is an apt recognition of his vigorous multidisciplinary research efforts and notable achievements.
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Liang is an ESSIC/CISESS Professor and has been working at the University of Maryland since 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Dynamics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in 1987.Â
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Liang has received research grants totaling more than $25 million (directly controlled by Liang) from major agencies, including DOE, EPA, NASA, NOAA, NSF, and USDA. In particular, the CWRF-based earth system model Liang developed has been applied to address the frontier challenges on the food-energy-water nexus (FEW), resulting in four major grants with a total of $16.5 million during 2016-2025. This includes three NSF INFEWS projects on FEW modeling and sustainability research and graduate FEW training, and the most recent USDA NIFA project to develop a predictive decision support Dashboard for Agricultural Water use and Nutrient management (DAWN).
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Liang’s research has resulted in 155 peer-reviewed papers, of which 131 are in SCI journals including Nature (1), Science (3), PNAS (1), and AMS journals (33), and Google Scholar citations of 9,306 with H-index of 52 as of 04/16/2021. His core work is highly transdisciplinary, published in >33 prominent journals in the fields of climate, hydrology, environment, biosphere, agriculture, health, economy, numerical modeling, decision support, and machine learning.
