[Enviro-lunch] Enviro-Lunch is Today! Join us and our guest Dr. Zhi Wang, CSU Fresno for "The Dew" via Zoom 12-1:15 PM PT!*

[Anna Jurusik]

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Join us virtually TODAY! Monday, October 24th, 2022 for Dr. Zhi Wang's seminar from 12:00-1:15PM PT,


"The Dew"

Dr. Zhi Wang

Professor of Hydrology and Soil Physics
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
California State University, Fresno
October 24th, 2022

 12:00-1:15PM PST

via

https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/85854124987

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Dr. Zhi "Luke" Wang

Abstract. Throughout the recorded history, dew has been described in numerous publications including the Bible, poetry, documentaries, and John Muir’s nature books, etc. The descriptions of the sparkling dew drops were beautiful and inspirational. In modern meteorology, the formation of dew has been well studied. In this talk, I will discuss historical studies and report new findings on the Hydrology of Dew which quantifies the amount, frequency, and spatial-temporal distribution of dew. This will lead to the development of technologies to harness the dewfall for beneficial uses. For environmental sciences, dew is an even more important water source for ecosystems on the drylands (41% of the earth's land surface). Papers:

  1.  Jia, Z.F., Z. Wang, H. Wang. Characteristics of dew formation in semi-arid loess plateau of central Shaanxi Province, China. Water, 11(1), 126, 2019 (DOI<https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/1/126>).

  1.  Wang, Z., J. Feyen, D. R. Nielsen and M. Th. van Genuchten. Two-phase flow infiltration equations accounting for air entrapment effects. Water Resources Research, 33(12): 2759-2768. 1997 (web link<https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97WR01708>).

About Dr. Zhi "Luke" Wang. Dr. Zhi “Luke” Wang <https://csm.fresnostate.edu/about/directory/ees/wang-zhi.html> is a professor of Hydrology and Soil Physics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at California State University, Fresno. His Teaching and scholarly activities are focused on hydrology, hydrogeology (groundwater hydrology), soil physics, irrigation engineering, and spatial data science - geostatistics and GIS. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications in Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology and other soil and water related journals (see publications in English on Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zbA7GnIAAAAJ&hl=en>). His research has been funded by the US Natural Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, USDA, California EPA and California Department of Water Resources. Dr. Wang served as Editor-in-Chief of Geological Sciences and a guest editor of WATER for a Special Issue:<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/climate_change_effect_hydrological_processe_water_resource_ecosystem> Climate Change Effects on Hydrological Processes, Water Resources, Ecosystems and Agriculture. With an undergraduate degree in civil engineering, Dr. Wang is always interested in developing products from his research. For examples, he developed a long-border-segment-irrigation system (1986), a parabolic flume (1990), a 0-1 programming model (1995) for optimal water delivery scheduling, two-phase flow infiltration equations (1997) for the design of surface irrigation and groundwater recharge systems, equations for predicting fingered preferential flow in porous media (1998), and a few patented devices (2012-) for harvesting water from dew and fog. In collaboration with scientists at the US salinity lab, a soil salinity map for the western San Joaquin Velley was recently published in California Agriculture (2017, cover page<http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?issue=71_4>, content<https://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.2017a0009>).

*Note: A "Save the Date" email on 10-22-22 incorrectly stated in the subject line that the seminar time is 12-1PM. Please note that the correct time is from 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM PT!

We hope you'll join us!

Kindest" regards,
Enviro-lunch coordinators Anna Jurusik and Teamrat Ghezzehei, PhD.
ESS-190 coordinators Jorge Armando Montiel Molina, PhD., Carolin Frank, PhD., and Justin Yeakel, PhD.

P.S. Thank you so much to our last speaker, Dr. Rose Shillito, for her excellent talk, ""Soil Water Repellency:  The Life and Death of Sorptivity"!


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Fall 2022 Line-up (in progress)

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Date

Speaker

Affiliation

9/12/22

Chelsea Arnold, Ph.D.

University of California Merced

9/19/2022

Michel Philben, Ph.D.

Hope College

9/26/2022

Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D.

The Nat, San Diego Natural History Museum

​10/3/2022

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​10/10/2022

Jason Diogo Pereire Bezerra, Ph.D.

Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

10/17/2022

Rose Shillito, Ph.D.

Desert Research Institute; Army Research Laboratory

"Soil Water Repellency:  The Life and Death of Sorptivity"

TODAY! 10/24/2022

Zhi (Luke) Wang, Ph.D.
California State University, Fresno
"The Dew"

up next! 10/31/2022

Robin Trayler, Ph.D.

University of California Merced

11/7/2022

Rafael Bello-Bodoy, Ph.D.

Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico

11/14/2022

Safeeq Khanm Ph.D.

University of California Merced

11/21/2022

Tetsu Tokunaga, Ph.D.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

11/28/2022

Sheng Wang, Ph.D.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

12/5/2022

Rebecca Abney, Ph.D.

University of Georgia

What: An informal and collegial session where faculty, visiting scholars, postdoctoral researchers, staff, and students have the opportunity to discuss their past and/or current research, and more. This year we welcome 80 undergraduate students enrolled in ESS-190 to join the conversation! https://soilphysics.ucmerced.edu/envirolunch.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/soilphysics.ucmerced.edu/envirolunch.html__;!!DZ3fjg!_cxaM91btptMGOIdckdP0yK2VWD18dbs_kPpkRQLR3FZmy83nHN6kQrTlBj8kgQyYhRhRGMvQcf8lPfl6L6Jqq1qdg$> (website under construction, please pardon any errors)

When: Mondays 12:00p-1:15 pm (PST)

Where: We will host Enviro-Lunch virtually via ZOOM this semester

Who: Our audience typically spans across natural sciences from faculty, students, and staff, but also attracts engineers, social scientists, and more.

How: A ~30-40 min for presentation with ~15-20 min for Q&A/discussion over Zoom. This year we are coordinating with ESS-190, an undergraduate seminar series that will interface with the seminar. (note: only ESS-190 students will meet in person)

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