About greeningxin
The focus of Xin’s current research is the environmental impact of food production, as this basic activity claims about half of the land surface, accounts for 80% of the anthropogenic N2O emission, and leads to severe water and air pollution. As such, she is developing a demand-based model to examine the interaction between food demand and its production, nitrogen input, and the resulting N2O emission. This model will be coupled with the land model (LM3) developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in order to investigate the impact of the intensification and expansion of agricultural production on the global nitrogen cycle, water and air quality, and the climate. Therefore, Xin’s work is relevant to policies that simultaneously address keeping food secure, preventing environmental degradation, and mitigating global climate change.
Xin received a B.S. in Environmental Science and a B.S. in Computer Science from Ocean University of China (OUC), an M.A. in Environmental Science from Peking University (2007), and a Ph.D. from Yale University (2012).
The focus of Xin’s current research is the environmental impact of food production, as this basic activity claims about half of the land surface, accounts for 80% of the anthropogenic N2O emission, and leads to severe water and air pollution. … Continue reading →
Xin Zhang 