ISSE Staff
Jie (Joe) Zhuang
Research Director
Office Phone: (865) 974-1325
Email: jzhuang@utk.edu
Ph.D., Environmental Soil Physics, Shenyang Agricultural University, China
M.S., Soil Science, Shenyang Agricultural University, China
B.S., Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Shenyang Agricultural University, China
Dr. Zhuang is a research assistant professor in the Center for Environmental Biotechnology and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and the Coordinator of the China-U.S. Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Zhuang worked on many challenging scientific research projects in China, Japan, and the U.S. His research covers a wide range of activities, including fate and transport of viruses, radionuclides, and colloids in porous media; interactions between above- and below-ground ecological processes; surface adsorption of nanoparticles; plant-water relationships; soil hydrology; and soil carbon management.
Currently, Dr. Zhuang is a member of the editorial board of two international journals, Environmental Management and Pedosphere. He also contributes a significant amount of his time to the JIBS-ISSE China-U.S. Initiative, with the aim of promoting U.S.-China collaborations in the areas of global environmental changes, bioenergy, and education.
For more information, visit Dr. Zhuang’s website.
Selected Publications
Jie Zhuang, John F. McCarthy, Edmund Perfect, Lawrence M. Mayer, and Julie D. Jastrow. 2007. Soil Water Hysteresis in Water-Stable Microaggregates as Affected by Organic Matter. Soil Science Society of America Journal 72(2): 212-220.
Jie Zhuang, John F. McCarthy, Edmund Perfect, John Tyner, Markus Flury, Tammo Steenhuis. 2007. In-situ colloid mobilization in Hanford sediments under unsaturated transient flow condition: Effect of irrigation pattern. Environmental Science and Technology, 41(9),3199-3204; DOI: 10.1021/es062757h.
Gui-rui Yu, Jie Zhuang, Keiichi Nakayama, and Yan Jin. 2007. Root water uptake and profile soil water as affected by vertical root distribution. Plant Ecology, 189(1), 15-30.
Jie Zhuang, Jun Qi, and Yan Jin. 2005. Retention and transport of amphiphilic colloids under unsaturated flow conditions: Effect of particle size and surface properties. Environmental Science and Technology, 39(20), 7853-7859; DOI: 10.1021/es050265j.
Jie Zhuang, Yan Jin, and Markus Flury. 2003. Colloid-facilitated cesium transport through water-saturated Hanford sediment and Ottawa sand. Environmental Science and Technology, 37(21), 4905-4911; DOI:10.1021/es0264504.
Jie Zhuang and Yan Jin. 2003. Virus retention and transport as influenced by different forms of soil organic matter. Journal of Environmental Quality, 32(3), 816-823.
Jie Zhuang and Yan Jin. 2003. Virus retention and transport in Al-oxide coated sand columns: effects of ionic strength and composition. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 60(3-4), 193-209.