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Protection of Critical Source Areas for Enhancing Ecosystem Services in Watersheds

讲 座 人

邱泽元

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职称、职务

教授、博导

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刘心中

讲座类型

R自然科学

讲座对象

全院师生

举办时间

7月9日14:00

□社会科学

举办地点

福州大学城福建工程学院北校区生态环境与城市建设学院B4—2楼小会议室

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Dr. Zeyuan Qiu is Professor in Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science in College of Science and Liberal Arts with a joint appointment in School of Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is also Director for the Program of Environmental and Sustainability Policy at NJIT. Dr. Qiu holds Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from University of Missouri-Columbia. He teaches courses on environmental economics and sustainability studies at NJIT. He conducted grant-funded research and publish extensively in water resource and ecosystem management, natural resource conservation and environmental planning. He has been active in applying his expertise in environmental planning and management toward planning and designing sustainable rural housing and communities in China. He is an appointed member of the Ecological Processes Standing Committee in the Science Advisory Board of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. He also serves in the editorial boards of four international journals. He is the recipient of the First Gail P. Carter Award on Best Application of Science and GIS by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Office of Science and his work won the Excellence in Water Resources Protection and Planning Award by the Section of New Jersey of the American Water Resources Association. NJIT Magazine featured his research and career in Fall 2011.

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主要内容

 A watershed is a hydrologic representation of landscape in which water, sediment and dissolved materials drain to a common outlet such as a point on a stream, a lake, an underlying aquifer, an estuary, or an ocean. Hydrological and ecological processes coupled with human interactions through active land use management form various hydrologically sensitive areas (HSAs) or hydrological hotspots in watersheds. Critical source areas (CSAs) are the land uses with high intensity such agricultural and urban lands with HSAs. Our hypothesis is that, relative to the rest parts of a watershed, CSAs contribute disproportionately to ecosystem degradation such as poor water quality. Watershed management is a process of engaging relevant stakeholders with broad interest in watersheds, building the consensus on watershed status and management goals, developing and implementing management measures to improve water quality and restore ecological conditions in watersheds. This presentation will introduce the process of watershed management in the context of the U.S. Clean Water Act and discuss how the concept of CSAs can be used to significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of watershed management using specific watershed management examples in New Jersey.