Geosciences

Geoscience is a multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together top-quality research across the entire spectrum of the Earth Sciences along with relevant work in related areas. Geosciences Journal opens a new era for the publication of geoscientific research articles in English, covering geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology, structural geology, mineralogy, petrology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, environmental geology, economic geology, petroleum geology, hydrogeology, remote sensing and planetary geology.

Chonggang Xu

Editorial Board Member of Geosciences

Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab, USA

Research Areas

Dynamic Vegetation Modeling, Biogeochemical Modeling, Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis, Microbial Community Dynamics

Education

2009Ph.D University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2008MS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2000BS Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Experience

2011-presentStaff Scientist II Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2010-2011Post-doctoral Fellow Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2009-2010Post-doctoral Fellow Department of Entomology and Center for Quantitative Sciences in Biomedicine, North Carolina State University
2000-2004Research Assistant Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Xu.C., S. Wullschleger, C. Wilson, and N. McDowell. Toward a better understanding of nitrogen-photosynthesis relationship based on nitrogen trade-offs among light absorption, electron transport, carboxylation, and carbon sinks ( pending submission).
[2]  Xu, C., G. Z. Gertner, and R. M. Scheller.2011. Potential succession pathways of forest landscape response to global climatic change: competition or colonization. Climatic change (In press,10.1007/s10584-011-0098-5).
[3]  Xu, C.,C. Liang, S. Wullschleger, C. Wilson, and N. McDowell . 2011. Importance of feedback loop between soil inorganic nitrogen and microbial community in the heterotrophic soil respiration response to global warming. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 9(3): 222-222.
[4]  Xu, C., G. Z. Gertner. 2011. Understanding and comparisons of different sampling approaches for the Fourier Amplitudes Sensitivity Test (FAST). Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , 55: 184-198.
[5]  Legros M., Magori K., Morrison A.C., Xu C., Scott T.W., Lloyd A.L., Gould F. 2011. Evaluation of location specific predictions by a detailed simulation model of Aedes aegypti populations. Plos One 6:e22701.
[6]  Xu, C., G. Z. Gertner, B. Güneralp, R. M. Scheller.2010.Elasticity and loop analysis: tools for understanding forest landscape response to climatic change in spatial dynamic models. Landscape ecology, 25: 855-871.
[7]  Xu, C., M. Legros, F. Gould, A.L. Lloyd 2010. Understanding uncertainties in model-based predictions of Aedes aegypti population dynamics. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases 4(9): e830. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000830.
[8]  Xu, C., G. Z. Gertner. 2010. Reliability of global sensitivity indices. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (in press,doi:10.1080/00949655.2010.509317).
[9]  Xu, C., G. Z. Gertner, and R. M. Scheller. 2009. Uncertainty in the response of a forest landscape to global climatic change. Global Change Biology15, 116–131.
[10]  Xu, C., and G. Z. Gertner.2009.Uncertainty analysis of transient population dynamics. Ecological Modelling, 220: 283-293.
[11]  Li, Q., C. Xu, W. Liang, S. Zhong, X. Zheng, and J. Zhu. 2009. Residue incorporation and N fertilization affect the response of soil nematodes to the elevated CO2 in a Chinese wheat field. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41:1497-1503 .
[12]  Xu, C., and G. Z. Gertner. 2008. A general first-order global sensitivity analysis method. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 93:1060-1071.
[13]  Xu, C., and G. Z. Gertner. 2008. Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with correlated parameters. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 93:1563-1573.
[14]  Wang, J.S., D. A. Grimley, C. Xu, and J. O. Dawson. 2008. Soil magnetic susceptibility reflects soil moisture regimes and the adaptability of tree species to these regimes. Forest Ecology and Management 255:1664-1673.
[15]  Xu, C., and G. Z. Gertner. 2007. Extending a global sensitivity analysis technique to models with correlated parameters. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51:5579-5590.
[16]  Xu, C., G. Z. Gertner, and R. M. Scheller. 2007. Potential effects of interaction between CO2 and temperature on forest landscape response to global warming. Global Change Biology 13:1469–1483.
[17]  Chen, M., C. Xu, and R. Wang. 2007. Key natural impacting factors of China's human population distribution. Population & Environment 28:187-200.
[18]  Chang,Y., H. S. He, Y. Hu, R. Bu,Xu, C. and X. Li 2007. Long-term forest landscape responses to fire exclusion in the Great Xing'an Mountains, China. International Journal ofWildland Fire 16, 34–44.
[19]  Xu, C., H. S. He, Y. Hu, et al. 2005. Latin hypercube sampling and geostatistical modeling of spatial uncertainty in forest landscape model simulation. Ecological Modelling 185:255-269.
[20]  Xu, C., H. S. He, Y. Hu, et al. 2004. Assessing the effect of cell-level uncertainty on a forest landscape model simulation in northeastern China. Ecological Modelling 180:57-72.