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Education

• B.S. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources), Wuahn Univeristy, 2010
• M.S. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources), Michigan State University, 2013
• Ph.D in Civil Engineering (Water Resources), Michigan State University, 2019

Work experience

• 2024 May -Now: Research Scientist. Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas.
  • Simulating fine-scale wetland inundation and surface water–groundwater interactions to improve aquatic biogeochemical modeling using an integrated hydrologic and land surface framework.
  • Developing a near real-time digital twin of the Dallas-Fort Worth stormwater systems to enable data-driven analysis, long-term forecasting, and informed decision-making for sustainable urban development and effective stormwater.
  • Evaluate the multifaceted impacts of solar energy expansion on agricultural lands and the food–water–energy nexus, and to advance sustainable agroenergy landscape science and design.
• 2019.07 –2024.5: Research Associate, PNNL Atmospheric, Climate and Earth Sciences Division && Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Lab.
• Improve hydrologic representations in E3SM (Energy Exascale Earth System Model). Develop inter-grid lateral saturated and unsaturated flow and heat transfer processes in E3SM model. Development of Land-Ocean-Groundwater hydrologic coupling in E3SM. Apply parallel and cloud computing techniques to realize hyper-resolution integrated hydrologic and earth system modeling at continental/global scales.
• Quantifying Socioeconomic Impacts of Changing Arctic Ecosystems Using ABoVE Datasets in An Integrated Human-Earth System Modeling and Data Assimilation Framework. NASA-Above project
• Applications of artificial intelligence in hydrology, ecology and Earth system science.
• Integrating field experiments, remote sensing, and process-based modeling toward improved understanding and quantification of watershed scale carbon cycling
• Climate Impacts & Risks Analysis – EPIC and SWAT modeling of crop yields, irrigation and environmental impacts. Evaluating the Impacts of Grassland to Crop Conversion on the Soil Erosion and Nutrient Loss in the Midwest of US, EPA project.
• Developing integrated surface/subsurface flow and reactive transport processes in PFLOTRAN (Parallel Reactive Flow and Transport Model) for bridging the gap between terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemical processes.

Research Interests and Skills

• Computational Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics
  • Water Quality, Nutrient/Contaminant Reactive Transport Modeling
  • Ecohydrology, Agroecology, Karst Hydrology, Coastal Hydrology
  • Watershed Management, Nature Based Solution
• Environmental and Earth Systems Modeling
• Ecosystem Processes Modeling
• Hyper-resolution Earth System Modeling
• Natural Hazards
• Carbon and Nutrient Cycling
• Artificial Intelligence in Hydrology, Environmental and Earth System Sciences
  • Physics Informed AI and explainable AI
  • Hybdrid AI and process based modeling
  • AI Agent and Agentic AI
• Water-Food-Energy Nexus
  • Integrated Assessment Modeling
  • Coupled Human-Earth System Modeling
  • Energy Transition and Food Security

Publications

(*corresponding author, +: paper with students mentored)

1. Sun, Zhenting, Lei Ma, Quan Li, Yaping Deng, Han Qiu, Haichun Ma and Jiazhong Qian. “Three-Dimensional Discrete Fracture Network Identification Based on Deep Learning and Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm.” International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 197 (January 2026): 106327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2025.106327. (2026)
2. Tong, Yiming, Yu Chen, Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento, Han Qiu, Jingyu Zeng, Qianfeng Wang. “Global Rainfall Erosivity: Observation, Attribution, and Projection.” International Soil and Water Conservation Research, December 19, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswcr.2025.12.005. (2025)
3. Yang, Xiaofan, Yu Chen, Han Qiu, Virgílio A. Bento, Hongquan Song, Wei Shui, Jingyu Zeng, and Qianfeng Wang . “Enhancing Evapotranspiration Estimates Under Climate Change: The Role of CO2 Physiological Feedback and CMIP6 Scenarios.” Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences, 29, no. 20 (2025): 5645–64. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5645-2025. (2025).
4. Tong, Yiming, Yu Chen, Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento, Han Qiu, Wei Shui and Qianfeng Wang. “Evolution and Prediction of Drought-Flood Abrupt Alternation in mainland China Using an Improved Index.” Climate Dynamics 63, no. 10 (2025): 392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07885-4. (2025)
5. He, Mingxia, Jie Niu, William J. Riley, Chaopeng Shen, John M. Melack, Han Qiu, Bill X. Hu et al. “Deep Learning and Remote-Sensed Observations Reveal Global Underestimation of River Obstructions.” Water Resources Research 61, no. 9 (2025): e2024WR039692. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR039692. (2025).
6. Niu, Jie, Mengyu Xie, Yanqun Lu, Liwei Sun, Han Qiu, Chuanhao Wu, Pan Wu. “Refining Marine Net Primary Production Estimates: Advanced Uncertainty Quantification through Probability Prediction Models.” Biogeosciences 22, no. 19: 5463–82 (2025).
7. Qiu, Han*, Ryna Cui, Xin Zhao, Xuesong Zhang, Ming Pan and Min Chen. Uncertain global terrestrial carbon cycles complicate the predictability of global energy transition pathways, Earth’s Future, https://doi. org/10.1029/2024EF005283 (2025).
8. Wang, Qianfeng, Xiaofan Yang, Yanping Qu, Han Qiu, Yiping Wu, Junyu Qi, Hongquan Song, Yu Chen, Huaqiang Chu, and Jingyu Zeng. “Global Climate Change Exacerbates Socioeconomic Drought Severity Across Vegetation Zones During 1901–2018.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, April 7, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00631-8.
9. Chen, Huixia, Han Qiu, Virgílio A. Bento, and Qianfeng Wang. “Representing Low Temperature Events and Uncovering Their Dynamics between 1979 and 2018 amid Climate Change.” Climate Dynamics 63, no. 2 (February 18, 2025): 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07631-w (2025).
10. Xu, Donghui, Gautam Bisht, Dongyu Feng, Zeli Tan, Lingcheng Li, Han Qiu, and L. Ruby Leung. “Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater Table Simulated by an Earth System Model With a Land-Ocean Coupling Scheme.” Earth’s Future 12, no. 8, 2024: e2024EF004479. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004479. (2024)
11. Qiu, Han*, Gautam Bisht, Lingcheng Li, Dalei Hao, and Donghui Xu. Development of Inter-Grid Cell Lateral Unsaturated and Saturated Flow Model in the E3SM Land Model (v2.0). Geoscientific Model development, 17, 143–167, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-143-2024 (2024).
12. Niu, Jie, Yanqun Lu, Mengyu Xie, Linjian Ou, Lei Cui, Han Qiu, and Songhui Lu. Prediction of Aureococcus Anophageffens Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Marine Pollution Bulletin 200: 116148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116148. (2024)
13. Ma, Lei, Chen Zuo, Han Qiu, Haichun Ma, Man Yang, Chunyin Zhou, and Jiazhong Qian. A Multilevel Classification Strategy for the Identification of Discontinuities from 3D Point Clouds of Complicated Rock Surfaces. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-024-04109-9 (2024)
14. Niu, Jie, Wei Xu, Han Qiu*+, Shan Li and Feifei Dong, 1-D Coupled Surface Flow and Transport Equations revisited via the Physics-Informed Neural Network Approach. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130048 (2023)
15. Wells, Jon M., Maricar Aguilos, Xin Huang, Enqing Hou, Han Qiu, Yuan Gao, Lifen Jiang, Yiqi Luo, et al. Attributing Interannual Variability of Net Ecosystem Exchange to Modeled Ecological Processes in Forested Wetlands of Contrasting Stand Age. Landscape Ecology, September 8, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01768-x (2023)
16. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Dean G. Baas, and Mantha S. Phanikumar, An integrated watershed-scale framework to model nitrogen transport and transformations. Science of The Total Environment 882, 163348. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163348 (2023)
17. Niu,Jie, Shan Li, Wei Xu, Feifei Dong, Han Qiu and Fen Huang. An Efficient LSTM Network for Predicting the Tailing and Multi-Peaked Breakthrough Curves. Journal of Hydrology 624 (September): 129914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129914 (2023)
18. Qiu, Han*, Xuesong Zhang, Anni Yang, Kimberly P. Wickland, Edward G. Stets, and Min Chen. 2023. Watershed Carbon Yield Derived from Gauge Observations and River Network Connectivity in the United States. Scientific Data 10 (1): 278. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02162-7 (2023)
19. Qiu, Han*, Dalei Hao, Yelu Zeng, Xuesong Zhang, and Min Chen. Global and northern-high-latitude net ecosystem production in the 21st century from CMIP6 experiments. Earth System Dynamics 14, 1, 1–16. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1-2023 (2023)
20. Campbell, D. Anthony, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Sean P. Charles, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Joaquim Goes, Helga Gomes, Meghan Halabisky, James Holmquist, Steven Lohrenz, Catherine Mitchell, L. Monika Moskal, Benjamin Poulter, Han Qiu, Celio H. Resende De Sousa, Michael Sayers, Marc Simard, Anthony J. Stewart, Debjani Singh, Carl Trettin, Jinghui Wu, Xuesong Zhang, and David Lagomasino. 2022. A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing. Environ. Res. Lett. 17, 2 (February 2022), 025009. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4d4d (2022)
21. Liao, Cuijuan, Wenjuan Huang, Jon Wells, Ruiying Zhao, Keanan Allen, Enqing Hou, Xin Huang, Han Qiu, Feng Tao, Lifen Jiang, Maricar Aguilos, Lin Lin, Xiaomeng Huang, and Yiqi Luo. 2022. Microbe-iron interactions control lignin decomposition in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 173, (October 2022), 108803. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108803 (2022)
22. Xu,Wei, Jie Niu, Wenyu Gan, Siyu Gou, Shuai Zhang, Han Qiu, and Tianjiu Jiang. 2022. “Identification of Paralytic Shellfish Toxin-Producing Microalgae Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods.” Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 40 (6): 2202–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-022-1312-1 (2022)
23. Zhang, Juan, Ziyang Feng, Jie Niu, John M. Melack, Jin Zhang, Han Qiu, Bill X. Hu, and William J. Riley. 2022. “Spatiotemporal Variations of Evapotranspiration in Amazonia Using the Wavelet Phase Difference Analysis.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (10): e2021JD034959. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034959 (2022)
24. Yang, Anni, Matthew Rodriguez, Di Yang, Jue Yang, Wenwen Cheng, Changjie Cai, and Han Qiu. 2022. “Leveraging Machine Learning and Geo-Tagged Citizen Science Data to Disentangle the Factors of Avian Mortality Events at the Species Level.” Remote Sensing 14 (10): 2369 (2022)
25. Hao, Dalei, Yelu Zeng, Zhaoying Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Han Qiu, Khelvi Biriukova, Marco Celesti, et al. 2022. “Adjusting Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Nadir-Viewing Provides a Better Proxy for GPP.” ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 186 (April): 157–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.01.016 (2022)
26. Zeng, Yelu, Min Chen, Dalei Hao, Alexander Damm, Grayson Badgley, Uwe Rascher, Jennifer E. Johnson, Han Qiu , Vera Krieger et al. 2022. “Combining Near-Infrared Radiance of Vegetation and Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Detect Effects of Abiotic Changes and Stresses.” Remote Sensing of Environment 270 (March): 112856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112856 (2022)
27. Zeng, Yelu, Dalei Hao, Grayson Badgley, Alexander Damm, Uwe Rascher, Youngryel Ryu, Jennifer Johnson, Han Qiu, Vera Krieger, and Shengbiao Wu. 2021. “Estimating Near-Infrared Reflectance of Vegetation from Hyperspectral Data.” Remote Sensing of Environment 267: 112723 (2021)
28. Qiu, Han, Junyu Qi, Sangchul Lee, Glenn E. Moglen, Gregory W. McCarty, Min Chen, and Xuesong Zhang. 2021. Effects of temporal resolution of river routing on hydrologic modeling and aquatic ecosystem health assessment with the SWAT model. Environmental Modelling & Software 146, 105232. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105232 (2021)
29. Sun, Liwei, Jie Niu, Fen Huang, Jing-Chun Feng, Chuanhao Wu, Han Qiu, Bill X. Hu. An Efficient Fractional-in-Time Transient Storage Model for Simulating the Multi-peaked Breakthrough Curves, Journal of Hydrology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126570 (2021)
30. Wang, Qianfeng, Junyu Qi, Han Qiu, Jia Li, Jefferson Cole, Stephanie Waldhoff, and Xuesong Zhang. 2021. “Pronounced Increases in Future Soil Erosion and Sediment Deposition as Influenced by Freeze–Thaw Cycles in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.” Environmental Science & Technology 55 (14): 9905–15. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02692 (2021)
31. Ma, Lei, Tingwei Huang, Han Qiu, Zhangxian Yang, Xiaorui He, Jiazhong Qian. Hydrogeochemical characteristic evaluation and irrigation suitability assessment of shallow groundwater in Dangshan County, China. Geosciences Journal, 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-020-0064-1 (2021)
32. Yang, Anni, Jue Yang, Di Yang, Rongting Xu, Yaqian He, Amanda Aragon, and Han Qiu. 2021. “Human Mobility to Parks Under the COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Seasons in the Western and Central United States.” GeoHealth 5 (12): e2021GH000494. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000494 (2021)
33. Yang, Di, Anni Yang, Jue Yang, Rongting Xu, Han Qiu. Unprecedented Migratory Bird Die‐off: A Citizen‐based Analysis on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Mass Mortality Events in the Western United States. GeoHealth, e2021GH000395. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000395 (2021)
34. Hao, Dalei, Yelu Zeng, Han Qiu, Khelvi Biriukova, Marco Celesti, Mirco Migliavacca, Micol Rossini, Ghassem R Asrar, Min Chen. Practical approaches for normalizing directional solar-induced fluorescence to a standard viewing geometry. Remote Sensing of Environment, 255, 112171. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112171 (2021)
35. Qiu, Han, Stephen K Hamilton, Mantha S Phanikumar. Modeling the effects of vegetation on stream temperature dynamics in a large, mixed land cover watershed in the Great Lakes region. Journal of Hydrology, 581, 124283. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j. jhydrol.2019.124283 (2020)
36. Liu, HaiFan, Heng Dai, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu, Dongwei Gui, Han Qiu, Ming Ye, Xingyuan Chen, Chuanhao Wu, Jin Zhang, William Riley. Hierarchical sensitivity analysis for a large-scale process-based hydrological model applied to an Amazonian watershed. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(10), 4971-4996. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4971-2020 (2020)
37. Sun, Liwei, Han Qiu+, Chuanhao Wu, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu. A review of applications of fractional advection–dispersion equations for anomalous solute transport in surface and subsurface water. WIREs Water 7, e1448. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1448 (2020)
38. Sun, Liwei, Han Qiu+, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu, James F Kelly, Diogo Bolster, Mantha S Phanikumar. Comparison of negative skewed space fractional models with time nonlocal approaches for stream solute transport modeling. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124504 (2020)
39. Qiu, Han, Phillip Blaen, Sophie Comer‐Warner, David M Hannah, Stefan Krause, Mantha S Phanikumar. Evaluating a coupled phenology‐surface energy balance model to understand stream‐subsurface temperature dynamics in a mixed‐use farmland catchment. Water Resources Research, 55(2), 1675-1697. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2018WR023644 (2019)
40. Zhang, Juan, Xiaoying Zhang, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu, Mohamad Reza Soltanian, Han Qiu, Lei Yang. Prediction of groundwater level in seashore reclaimed land using wavelet and artificial neural network-based hybrid model. Journal of Hydrology, 577, 123948. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.123948 (2019)
41. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Mantha S Phanikumar. Quantifying the space–time variability of water balance components in an agricultural basin using a process-based hydrologic model and the Budyko framework. Science of the Total Environment, 676, 176-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.147 (2019)
42. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu. Quantifying the integrated water and carbon cycle in a data-limited karst basin using a process-based hydrologic model. Environmental Earth Sciences, 78(11), 1-10. DOI: 10.1007/s12665-019-8324-y (2019)
43. Yang, Di, Anni Yang, Han Qiu, Yao Zhou, Hannah Herrero, Chiung-Shiuan Fu, Qiang Yu, Jingyin Tang. A Citizen-Contributed GIS Approach for Evaluating the Impacts of Land Use on Hurricane-Harvey-Induced Flooding in Houston Area. Land 8, no. 2: 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land8020025 (2019)
44. Zhang, Juan, Han Qiu, Xiaoyu Li, Jie Niu, Meredith B Nevers, Xiaonong Hu, Mantha S Phanikumar. Real-Time nowcasting of microbiological water quality at recreational beaches: A wavelet and artificial neural network-based hybrid modeling approach. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(15), 8446-8455. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1021/acs.est.8b01022 (2018)
45. Ammar Safaie, Chinh Dang, Han Qiu, Hayder Radha, Mantha S Phanikumar. Manifold methods for assimilating geophysical and meteorological data in Earth system models and their components. Journal of Hydrology, 544, 383-396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.11.009 (2017)
46. Shao Sen-Lin, Jiangyun Li, Han Qiu, 2011, “Numerical simulation analysis for improving the performance of Vortex Diode”, Journal of Engineering Thermo-Physics, printed in Chinese. (2011)

MANUSCRIPTS IN REVISION/UNDER REVIEW

1. Jie Niu and Han Qiu. Detecting Anomalies in Karst Aquifer Recharge: A Temporal Convolutional AutoEncoder Framework with High-Frequency Temperature-Conductivity Signals, submitted to Water Resources Research. in revision.
2. Zhu, Yinxia, Bill X. Hu , Han Qiu, Jie Niu. Interpretable Karst Discharge Prediction from Conductivity with SHAP-Based Mechanism Insights. submitted to Journal of Hydrology. in revision.
3. Qiu, Han *. Unveiling the Hydrogeological Drivers of Long-Term Nutrient Water Quality Dynamics in the Great Lakes basin. Submitted to Environmental Science and Technology, in review.
4. Niu, Jie, William J. Riley, Chaopeng Shen, Han Qiu, MingXia Xu. Harnessing Deep Learning for Precise Mapping and Analysis of Worldwide River Obstructions, submitted to Nature Communications, in review.
5. Qianfeng Wang and Han Qiu *. Climate sensitivity plays a key role in shaping the global patterns of tree responses to extreme drought. Submitted to Global Change Biology, in review.
6. Qiu, Han*, Amor V.M. Ines and David Hyndman. Evaluating hydrologic responses of a process based hydrologic model to GCM downscaled climatology using NHMM method. Submitted to Journal of hydrology, in review.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

1. Qiu Han* and David Hyndman. A Hybrid Process-Based and Deep Learning Model for Urban Flood Modeling: Application to the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex.
2. Qiu Han*, Gautam Bisht, Lingcheng Li, Donghui Xu. Impacts of lateral subsurface flow on water and energy partitioning in a k-scale ELMv2.0: A case study in the Upper Colorado Watershed.
3. Qiu, Han, Gautam Bisht and Xingyuan Chen. Developing integrated surface-subsurface flow and reactive transport processes in the high performance subsurface reactive flow and transport model PFLOTRAN.
4. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu. Deep learning informed multi-objective optimization of a process based hydrologic model and the implication of parameter equifinality.

Conference, Presentations and Invited Talks

1. Qiu, Han, Amin Tamadoni, and David Hyndman. Process-Based Hydrologic Modeling of Urban Runoff Dynamics under Climate and Land-Use Change: Application to the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. AGU25 (2025). 34 Tamadoni, A., Qiu, H., & Hyndman, D. (2025). Physics-Informed Deep Learning Urban Flood Forecasting Under Climate Change and Urbanization across the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. AGU25.
2. Qiu, Han. Towards Next-Generation Integrated Earth System and Human System Modeling. Invited Talk, Emory University (2025).
3. Qiu, Han. Unraveling Lake, Land, and Groundwater Interactions Across Hydrological Boundaries, Invited Talk, Central Michigan University (2025).
4. Qiu, Han. Towards Next-Generation Integrated Hydrologic, Ecological, Water Quality, and Geo-Socioeconomic Modeling. Invited Talk, Michigan Technological University (2025).
5. Qiu, Han. Towards next generation coupled hydrologic and land surface models, Invited Talk, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2024).
6. Qiu, Han. Modeling nitrogen transport and transformations in mixed land use watersheds, Kansas Geological Survey, Invited Talk, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (2024).
7. Qiu, Han, David Hyndman. Simulating fine-scale wetland inundation and surface water dynamics with an integrated hydrologic and land surface model. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., December, (2024).
8. Qiu, Han, Xuesong Zhang, Anni Yang, Kimberly Wichland, Edward Stets, Min Chen. Watershed carbon yield derived from gauge observations and river network connectivity in the United States. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December, (2023).
9. Qiu, Han. Future evolutions of net ecosystem production in the Northern high latitudes and its socioeconomic impacts. Invited Talk, University of Texas at Dallas, (2023).
10. Qiu, Han, Modeling Thermal and Nitrogen Dynamics Across the Terrestrial–Aquatic Continuum. Invited Talk, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2023).
11. Donghui Xu, Gautam Bisht, Dongyu Feng, Zeli Tan, Han Qiu, Ruby Leung. Development of Land-Ocean Hydrologic Coupling in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December, (2023).
12. Xuesong Zhang, Han Qiu, Yiming Wang, Kaiguang Zhao. Substantial removal of particulate and dissolved organic carbon through river networks in the Contiguous United States. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December, (2023).
13. Qiu, Han, Modeling Thermal and Nitrogen Dynamics Across the Terrestrial–Aquatic Continuum. Invited Talk, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (2022).
14. Qiu, Han, Dalei Hao, Lingcheng Li, Gautam Bisht, Representing Lateral Subsurface Flow within Unsaturated and Saturated Zone in the E3SM Land Model. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL. December, (2022).
15. Qiu, Han, Modeling Nitrogen Transport and Transformations Across the Terrestrial–Aquatic Continuum. Invited Talk, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (2022).
16. Anni Yang, Di Yang, Matthew Rodriguez, Han Qiu, Wenwen Cheng, Jue Yang. Leveraging Machine Learning and Geo-Tagged Citizen Science Data to Disentangle the Factors of Avian Mortality Events at the Species Level. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, December, (2022).
17. Anthony Campbell, David Lagomasino, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Sean P Charles, Laura L Bourgeau-Chavez, Joaquim I Goes, Helga R Gomes, James Robert Holmquist, Meghan Halabisky, Steven E Lohrenz, Catherine M Mitchell, LM Moskal, Benjamin Poulter, Han Qiu, Celio Helder Resende de Sousa, Michael Sayers, Marc Simard, Anthony J Stewart, Debjani Singh, Carl Trettin, Jinghui Wu, Xuesong Zhang. Wet carbon monitoring with remote sensing: a review of the knowledge and needs. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, December, (2022).
18. Gautam Bisht, Dalei Hao, Lingcheng Li, Han Qiu, Donghui Xu, and Ruby Leung. Ongoing developments towards a topography-resolving E3SM Land Model, Land Surface Modeling Summit, Oxford University, UK. (2022)
19. Qiu, Han. Evaluating a Coupled Phenology-Surface Energy Balance Model to Understand Stream-Subsurface Temperature Dynamics in a Mixed-Use Farmland Catchment. Invited Talk. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (2021)
20. Qiu, Han. Modeling Temperature and nitrogen dynamics in mixed land use watersheds using a process based hydrologic model. Invited talk. Department of Geography and Sustainability. University of Oklahoma. (2021)
21. Wenjuan Huang Cuijuan Liao, Jon Wells, Ruiying Zhao, Xin Huang, Han Qiu, Lin Lin, Aguilos, Maricar, Lifen Jiang, Yiqi Luo. Dual effects of iron on lignin decomposition: A case study from data-model fusion. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, December, (2021).
22. Jon Wells, Maricar Aguilos, Xin Huang, Yuan Gao, Enqing Hou, Wenjuan Huang, Cuijuan Liao, Lin Lin, Ruiying Zhao, Han Qiu, Keanan Allen, John King, Asko Noormets, Lifen Jiang, Yiqi Luo. Separating the Effects of Stand Age and Interannual Variability on Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange: Data-Model Fusion in Loblolly Pine. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, December, (2021).
23. Anni Yang, Di Yang, Jue Yang, Rongting Xu, Han Qiu. Unprecedented Migratory Bird Die‐off: A Citizen‐based Analysis on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Mass Mortality Events in the Western United States. Ecological Society of America Meeting, Virtual meeting, August (2020).
24. Dalei Hao, Yelu Zeng, Han Qiu, Khelvi Biriukova, Marco Celesti, Mirco Migliavacca, Micol Rossini, Ghassem Asrar, Min Chen. Practical Approaches for Normalizing Directional Solar-induced Fluorescence at both red and far-red bands. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Virtual meeting, December (2020).
25. Qiu, Han, Xin Zhao, Yelu Zeng, Min Chen. Future evolutions of net ecosystem production in the Northern high latitudes and its socioeconomic impacts. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Virtual meeting, December (2020).
26. Qiu, Han, Min Chen and Yelu Zeng. Quantifying socioeconomic impacts of natural methane emissions in an integrated Human-Earth system modeling framework. ABoVE science team meeting. (2019).
27. Qiu, Han, Min Chen, Ben-Bond Lamberty and Corinne Hartin. Evaluating simulations of key land surface processes from Community Land Model 5 using ABoVE measurements. NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team meeting, College Park, Maryland, 2019. (2019)
28. Stefan Krause, Giulio Curioni, Phillip Blaen, Mantha S Phanikumar, Han Qiu, David M Hannah, Nicholas Kettridge. BIFoR - Combining sensor network innovations with adaptive modelling approaches for identifying non-linear dynamics in hydrological and biogeochemical responses to global environmental change at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C. (2018)
29. Qiu, Han, Phillip Blaen, Sophie Comer-Warner, David M. Hannah, Stefan Krause and Mantha S. Phanikumar, Evaluating a Coupled Phenology and Surface Energy Balance model to Understand Stream-Subsurface Temperature Dynamics in a Mixed-Use Farmland Catchment, 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C. (2018)
30. Niu, Jie, William J. Riley, Chaopeng Shen, John M. Melack, Qiu, Han, Spatial and temporal variations of evapotranspiration, groundwater and precipitation in Amazonia. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. (2017)
31. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Mantha S. Phanikumar, Modeling Nitrogen Fate and Transport in Agricultural Basins in the Great Lakes Region. International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Annual Conference, Detroit, Michigan, (2017)
32. Safaie, Ammar, Zachary Curtis, Han Qiu, Huasheng Liao, Shuguang Li. Elena Litchman, Mantha S. Phanikumar, The importance of groundwater-lake interactions on stratification in a deep inland lake. International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Annual Conference, Detroit, Michigan, (2017)
33. Kang, Guoting, Han Qiu, Shuguang Li, David Lusch, Mantha S. Phanikumar. 2016 Understanding High-Resolution Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Groundwater Recharge Using Process Based Hydrologic Modeling. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, (2016)
34. Qiu, Han, Narendra Das, Amor VM Ines, Mantha S. Phanikumar, Impact of Spatial Resolution of SMAP Soil Moisture product on hydrologic modeling of Soil Moisture. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, (2016)

Teaching

1. Guest Lecturer. GISC5314 - Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation, UT-Dallas, 38 enrollments, 2024
2. Guest Lecturer. GIS2023: Introduction to Spatial Thinking and Computer Mapping, University of Oklahoma, 22 enrollments, 2022
3. Guest Lecturer. GEOG4183/5183: Landscape Ecology, University of Oklahoma, 20 enrollments, 2022
4. Guest Lecturer. GIST5350: Enterprise GIS, University of Wyoming, 24 enrollments, 2021
5. Workshop Instructor. Application of processed based adaptive hydrologic simulators (PAWS) and model calibrations to real-world watersheds, 2017, 2018
6. Lab Instructor. CE 822: Groundwater Modeling. Michigan State University, 28 enrollments. 2018.
7. Teaching Assistant. ENE 801: Dynamics of Environmental Systems. Michigan State University, 42 enrollments.2017.
8. Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor. CE 321: Introduction to fluid mechanics. Michigan State University, 86 enrollments. 2017.
9. Teaching Assistant. CE 421: Engineering Hydrology. Michigan State University, 74 enrollments.2016.

Tutoring Experience

1. Tamadoni, Amin (PhD student at UT-Dallas), Project: Developing a Near Real-Time Digital Twin of the DFW Region Stormwater Systems for Retrospective Analyses, Long-Term Forecasting, and Sustainable Urban Development in the Dallas Metroplex, 2024-now
2. Karimi, Fatemeh (PhD student at UT-Dallas), Project: Growing Restorative Agroenergy Landscapes, 2025- now
3. Abhijeet Abhishek (Master student at MSU), Project: Modeling stream flow, soil moisture and carbon/nitrogen dynamics in a mixed land use watershed using a process-based hydrologic model, 2018-2019
4. Guoting Kang (Ph.D student at MSU), Project: Modeling

Service and leadership

1. Editorial Services: Guest Associate Editor: Journal of Hydrology (2023), Frontiers in Water (2025- now).
2. Journal Reviews: Water Research, Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letter, Environmental Modeling and Software, Science of the Total Environmental, Journal of Hydrology, Advances in Water Resources, Geoscientific Model Development, Journal of Environmental management, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Earth and Space Science, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
3. Award Judge for Fellowships, Conferences and Competitions
4. Reviewer, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP), 2024.
5. Reviewer, Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA), American Geophysical Union 2023 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, Dec 2023.
6. Reviewer, Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA), American Geophysical Union 2021 Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL, Dec 2022.
7. Student Award Judge, Graduate Research Symposium, Michigan State University, May 2018.