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Details of the Faculty or Staff |
Name |
ZHANG Yuran |
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Special-term Associate Professor |
Highest Education |
Ph.D. |
Subject Categories |
Hydrogeology, Geomicrobiology |
Phone |
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Zip Code |
100029 |
Fax |
010-62010846 |
Email |
yuranzhang[at]mail.iggcas.ac.cn |
Office |
No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China |
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Education and Appointments: |
2023.2-present, Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2020.12-2023.2, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
2020.4-2020.12, Postdoctoral Scholar, Depts. of Energy Resources Engineering & Earth System Science, Stanford University, USA
2015.6-2020.4, PhD in Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, USA
2013.9-2015.6, MS in Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, USA
2009.9-2013.7, BS in Mineral Processing Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China |
Research Interests: |
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Microbial community tracing technique for subsurface flowpath characterization
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Groundwater microbial community assembly mechanism
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Transport mechanisms of chemical, DNA and nanoparticle tracers through porous/fractured media
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Honors: |
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Henry J. Ramey Jr. Fellowship Award for Outstanding Research, Stanford University, USA (2019)
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Geothermal Resources Council Graduate Scholarship Award, USA (2018)
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Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting Best Presentation Award, USA (2015)
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Supported Projects: |
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Chinese International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (Talent-Introduction Program)
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Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program at Tsinghua University
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TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy (Stanford University) Seed Grant
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US Department of Energy Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Collab Project, Microbial Tracing Subcontract
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Publications: |
[Google Scholar] [ResearchGate] [ORCID]
Journal Papers (*corresponding author):
2022
- Yuran Zhang*, Roland N. Horne*, Adam J. Hawkins, John Carlo Primo, Oxana Gorbatenko, Anne E. Dekas*: "Geological activity shapes the microbiome in deep-subsurface aquifers by advection", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2022, 119(25), e2113985119, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113985119(Scientific American Feature)
- Yuran Zhang*, Anne E. Dekas*, Adam J. Hawkins, John Carlo Primo, Oxana Gorbatenko, Roland N. Horne*: "Comparison of Microbial Profiling and Tracer Testing for the Characterization of Injector-Producer Interwell Connectivities", Water, 2022, 14(18), 2921, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14182921
- Yuran Zhang*, Tianming Huang*: "DNA-Based Tracers for the Characterization of Hydrogeological Systems —Recent Advances and New Frontiers", Water, 2022, 14(21), 3545, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14213545
2021
- Yuran Zhang*, Marshall B. Hartung, Adam J. Hawkins, Anne E. Dekas, Kewen Li, Roland N. Horne: "DNA tracer transport through porous media —The effect of DNA length and adsorption", Water Resources Research, 2021, 57(2), e2020WR028382, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028382
- Hui Wu, Pengcheng Fu*, Joseph P. Morris, Earl D. Mattson, Ghanashyam Neupane, Megan M. Smith, Adam J. Hawkins, Yuran Zhang, Timothy Kneafsey, EGS Collab Team: "Characterization of flow and transport in a fracture network at the EGS Collab field experiment through stochastic modeling of tracer recovery", Journal of Hydrology, 2021, 593, 125888, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125888
2020
- Yuran Zhang*, Anne E. Dekas, Adam J. Hawkins, Alma E. Parada, Oxana Gorbatenko, Kewen Li, Roland N. Horne: "Microbial community composition in deep-subsurface reservoir fluids reveals natural interwell connectivity", Water Resources Research, 2020, 56(2), e2019WR025916, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025916
- Anna Suzuki*, Junzhe Cui, Yuran Zhang, Satoshi Uehara, Kewen Li, Roland N. Horne, Takatoshi Ito: "Experimental study on nano-/microparticles transport to characterize structures in fractured porous media." Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2020, 53, 4357-4365,https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00603-020-02081-8
Selected Conference Papers:
- Kneafsey, T. J., Blankenship, D., Dobson, P. F., Morris, J. P., White, M. D., Fu, P., Schwering, P. C., Ajo-Franklin, J. B., Huang, L., Schoenball, M., Johnson, T. C., Knox, H. A., Neupane, G., Weers, J., Horne, R. N., Zhang, Y., Roggenthen, W., Doe, T., Mattson, E., Valladao, C., EGS Collab Team: "The EGS Collab Project -Learnings from Experiment 1", Proceedings of the 45th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (Stanford, CA, USA), 2020
- White, M., Johnson, T., Kneafsey, T., Blankenship, D., Fu, P., Wu, H., Ghassemi, A., Lu, J., Huang, H., Neupane, G., Oldenburg, C., Doughty, C., Johnston, B., Winterfeld, P., Pollyea, R., Jayne, R., Hawkins, A., Zhang, Y.: "The Necessity for Iteration in the Application of Numerical Simulation to EGS: Examples from the EGS Collab Test Bed 1", Proceedings of the 44th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (Stanford, CA, USA), 2019
- Mattson, E. D., Neupane, G. H., Plummer, M. A., Hawkins, A.J., Zhang, Y.: "Preliminary Collab Fracture Characterization Results from Flow and Tracer Testing Efforts", Proceedings of the 44th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (Stanford, CA, USA), 2019
- Zhang Y., Zeng Z., Li K., Horne R.N.: "DNA Barcoding for Fractured Reservoir Analysis -An Initial Investigation", Proceedings of the 42nd Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (Stanford, CA, USA), 2017
- Plummer, M. A., Mattson, E., Zhang, Y., Xia, Y.: "Methods for Selective Plugging of Geothermal ‘Short Circuits'", Proceedings of the 42nd Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (Stanford, CA, USA), 2017
- Zhang, Y., Manley, T. S., Li, K., Horne, R. N.: "Uniquely Identifiable DNA-Embedded Silica Nanotracer for Fractured Reservoir Characterization", Proceedings of the 41st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (Stanford, CA, USA), 2016
- Zhang Y., Manley T.S., Li K., Horne R.N.: "DNA-Encapsulated Silica Nanoparticle Tracers for Fracture Characterization", Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 2015, Vol. 39, 967-974
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