Xiaonong Hu (Bill X. Hu), Professor and Dean of the School of Water Conservancy and Environment at the University of Jinan. He previously held a tenured professorship and Directorship of the Groundwater Research Center at Florida State University in the United States. Prof. Hu was an inductee into the China National-level Overseas Outstanding Talent Program and a winner of the NSFC’s Outstanding Youth Fund Project (Class B). He has long been dedicated to scientific research in the fields of groundwater dynamics, stochastic hydrogeology, surface water and groundwater circulation and interaction, seawater intrusion, and hydrochemistry. Prof. Hu has secured over 20 national-level research projects from U.S. federal agencies including the Natural Science Foundation, Department of Defense and Department of Energy. In China, he has led more than 40 projects including one Overseas Outstanding Youth Fund Project (Class B) and three key projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a project from the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a team project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Hu has published more than 300 papers in academic journals. He has served as Editor-in-chief, Associate Editor, or Guest Editor for top-tier international water resources journals. Prof. Hu has been elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has won the Peter B. Wagner Medal of Excellence from the Desert Research Institute, Nevada, USA, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Innovation and Promotion Award (Individual), the First Prize of the 2016 Environmental Protection Science & Technology Award (5/15), and the Second Prize of the 2021 Land and Resources Science and Technology Award (6/12).
Physical, chemical, and microbial processes associated with seawater intrusion into groundwater along the southern Laizhou Bay
