Laosheng Wu

Professor of Soil Physics

CE Water Management Specialist

Measurement and modeling water and solute transport in field soil and water systems; Development of best management practices to maximize water and fertilizer use efficiency and minimize surface and ground water pollution; Water quality and management; Interaction between soil physical, hydrological, and chemical properties; soil salinity; and reclaimed wastewater reuse.

Graduate Students
- Hsin-Yi Chou (Ph.D., Soil and Water Sciences program)
- Dan Cook (M.S. , Soil and Water Sciences program)
Other
- Fredrick Ernst - Staff Research Associate
- Porfirio Pacheco - Staff Research Associate
- Hailing Xiong - Visiting Scientist
- Jian Xu - Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Fucang Zhang - Visiting Scientist

Yiqiang Zhang, Jianhang Lu, Laosheng Wu, Andrew Chang, and William T. Frankenberger Jr. 2007. Simultaneous Removal of Chlorothalonil and Nitrate by Bacillus cereus Strain NS1. Sci. Total Environ. 383: 383-387.
Weiping Chen, Lianqing Li, Andrew C. Chang, Laosheng Wu, Soon-Ik Kwon, and Rick Bottoms. 2007. Modeling the uptake kinetics of cadmium by field-grown lettuce. Environ. Pollut., doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2007.05.004.
Li, Hang and Laosheng Wu. 2007. A generalized linear equation for non-linear diffusion in external fields and non-ideal systems. New J. Phys. 9. 357., doi:10.1088/1367-2630/9/10/357
Wu, Laosheng, R. Green, M. Yates, P. Pacheco, and G. Klein. 2007. Nitrate Leaching in Overseeded Bermudagrass Fairways in Two Southern California Irrigated Soils. Crop Science. 47: 2521-2528.
Li, Hang and Laosheng Wu. 2007. A New Approach to Estimate Ion Distribution between the Exchanger Phase and Solution Phase. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71: 1694-1698.
Shinsuke Haruta, Weiping Chen, Jay Gan, Jirka Simunek, Andrew Chang, and Laosheng Wu. 2008. Leaching risk of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in soil receiving reclaimed wastewater. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf. 69: 374-380.
Chen, W.P., A.C. Chang, L. Wu, and Y.S. Zhang. 2008. Metal Uptake by Corn Grown on Media Treated with Particle-Size Fractionated Biosolids. Sci. Total Environ. 392:166-173.