User:SourKumquat/Ying Fan Reinfelder

Ying Fan Reinfelder is a hydrologist and a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Career
Reinfelder has been associated with Rutgers University for her entire career in academia. Beyond this, Reinfelder has been connected to many professional organizations. In 2017, Reinfelder was a distinguished speaker with the The Global Institute for Water Security's Distinguished Lecture Series. In 2018, Reinfelder formed an association with the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, a data and research center in Pennsylvania. In 2018, Reinfelder was a keynote speaker for the Computational Methods in Water Resources annual conference series, she spoke at the XXII edition in Saint-Malo, France. In 2019, Reinfelder and her team at Rutgers University were awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation. Furthermore, Reinfelder was also a speaker and moderator at the 2019 at the Vienna Catchment Science Symposium in Vienna, Austria. Reinfelder was the 2022 lecturer for the Boussinesq Center for Hydrology, speaking on "USA: Groundwater-surface water interactions." Reinfelder is also a member of the steering committee of the Canadian non-profit The Groundwater Group.

Reinfelder's research interests include the intersection of hydrology and plant growth, known as soil hydrology.

Honors
Reinfelder was honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a member of its 2021 class of fellows.

Notable publications
Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth Groundwater in the Earth's critical zone: Relevance to large-scale patterns and processes
 * Fan, Y., Clark, M., Lawrence, D. M., Swenson, S., Band, L. E., Brantley, S. L., et al. (2019). Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth system modeling. Water Resources Research, 55, 1737– 1772. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023903
 * Fan, Y., Miguez-Macho, G., Jobbágy, E. G., Jackson, R. B., & Otero-Casal, C. (2017). Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(40), 10572–10577. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712381114
 * Fan, Y. (2015). Groundwater in the Earth's critical zone: Relevance to large-scale patterns and processes. Water Resources Research, 51(5), 3052–3069. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015wr017037