NDMC Welcomes Visiting Scientist from China

Dr. Jinsong Wang, a researcher  from the Institute of Arid Meteorology in Lanzhou, China, is spending the second half of 2009 as a visiting scientist at the National Drought Mitigation Center. She is studying drought monitoring technology and drought impact estimation techniques.

Jinsong is currently working on a paper with Mike Hayes, director of the NDMC, called, “Improving the communication collaboration for drought vulnerability analysis in China.”

She has an M.S. in meteorology from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, and a Ph.D. in physical geography from Lanzhou University. She has been with the Institute for 11 years, and her recent research has focused on the effects of climate change in the past 100 years in an arid region of Central Asia.

Her experience so far in Lincoln, Nebraska, is not exactly what she’d anticipated. From watching television and movies, she envisioned all of the United States as more urban, and was pleasantly surprised by what she found. “I like this city very much,” Jinsong said. “It’s very quiet. I just came back from New York. It’s not so quiet. Lincoln is well-suited for study and research.”

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