University of Connecticut

  Ruiting Zhai

 Research Interests

I am interested in study of what actions can help mitigate the negative consequences of local, regional, and global environmental change and natural resource excessive consumption coupled leverages methodological traditions in geography such as geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, spatial analysis, and fieldwork.

Better understand can help us make better decision on land use.I hope to understand the consequences of changes in land use and land cover at multiple spatial and temporal scales, resulting from the interactions between human activities and natural systems.

 

 

Past Researches

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China                              June 2014 - Agust 2014

The Construction of Surrounding Regional Resources and Environmental Science Database                                                           Instrucor:Dr. Dong Jiang

Ø  Participated in the Construction of Surrounding Regional Resources and Environmental Science Database  

Ø  Collected TM images and basic resources data of Afghanistan

Ø  Corrected and interpreted resources and environmental data

Ø  Drew vector images of roads and rivers of Afghanistan

Marine Biotechnology Institute, NJAU, Nanjing, China                                                                                         Summer 2011 - July 2013

Team leader of SRT(Student Research Training)                                                                                                                                                      Instrucor:Dr. Qingsong Zheng

Project 1: The Biological Basis of Wastewater Treatment: Irrigation of salicornia bigelovii and suaeda salsa with Saline Aquaculture Wastewater

Ø  Studied the biological processes in the sewage along with plant growth: biodegradation, oxygen removal from the water, and the enrichment of heavy metal

Ø  Studied the effects of agriculture use of saline aquaculture wastewater for irrigation on the growth
and quality of salicornia bigelovii and suaeda salsa: plant height, stem width and biomass

Project 2: Effects of exogenous chloride to nitrogen metabolism of brassica campestris

Ø  Measured the enzyme activity of nitrate reductase, Glutamate synthase and Glutamate dehydrogenase