Name: Zaihua Liu
Gender: male
Nationality: China
Residence: 40 Qixing Rd. Guilin, Guangxi, P. R. China 541004
Date of birth: June 10, 1963
Place of birth: Hunan, China

Major research interests:

1. evolution of hydrochemistry in karst areas;
2. the mechanisms of karst kinetics;
3. global carbon cycle related to karst;
4. reconstruction of paleoclimate by using karst records.
5. pollutants transport in carbonate rock aquifer.

Papers

1. Liu, Z.H., 1989. Restudy on the sources of Niangziguan spring. Carsologica Sinica, 8: 200-207 (in Chinese, with English summary).
2. Liu, Z.H.,1990. Necessities of measusing pH in situ in the study of karst hydrogeochemistry. Carsologica Sinica, 9: 310-317 (in Chinese, with English summary).
3. Liu, Z.H., Dai, A.D. and Mo, X.P., 1991. Application and improvement of Water-tank model in karst areas. In Proc. Prospects for Hydrology of China in 2000 (Hehai University Press), P.232-237 (in Chinese, with English summary).
4. Liu, Z.H., 1991.Characteristics of water temperature in epikarst zone and its comparison with that in lower aeration zone. Carsologica Sinica, 10: 277-282 (in Chinese, with English summary).
5. Liu, Z.H., Yuan, D.X. and Shen, Z.L., 1991. Effect of coal mine waters of variable pH of springwater quality: A case study. Environ. Geol. Water Sci., 17: 219-225
6. Liu, Z..H, 1992. Study on the karst hydrogeochemistry of the Guilin Karst Hydrogeological Experimental Site. Carsologica Sinica, 11: 209-217 (in Chinese, with English summary).
7. Liu, Z.H., Dreybrodt, W., Yuan, D.X., Svensson, U., 1992. Influence of Hydrodynamic conditions and water chemistry on the formation of tufa in Huanglong, Sichuan. Supplementary issue of Carsologica Sinica: World Karst Correlation, p79-93
8. Liu, Z.H., Yuan, D.X., Dreybrodt, W. and Svensson, U., 1993. The formation of tufa in Huanglong , Sichuan. Carsologica Sinica, 12: 185-191 (in Chinese, with English summary).
9. Liu, Z.H. and He, D.B., 1994. The tufa in the grouting tunnels at at Wujiangdu Hydropower Station of Guizhou and its genesis. Carsologica Sinica, 13: 37-40 (in Chinese, with English summary).
10. Liu, Z.H and He, D.B., 1994. Two Mechanisms of tufa formation in the cement grounting tunnels at Wujiangdu Hydropower Station of Guizhou. Chinese Science Bulletin., 39: 1468-1472
11. Liu, Z.H., Svensson, U., Dreybrodt, W., Yuan, D.X. & Buhmann, D.,1995. Hydrodynamic control of inorganic calcite precipitation in Huanglong Ravine, China: Field measurements and theoretical prediction of deposition rates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 59: 3087-3097
12. Dreybrodt, W., Lauckner, J., Liu, Z.H., Svensson, U., & Buhmann, D., 1996. The kinetics of reaction H₂0+CO₂ -> H⁺+HCO₃^- as one of the rate limiting steps for the dissolution of calcite in the system CaCO₃-CO₂^-H₂O. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, V ol. 60, No.18, pp.3375-3381
13. Liu, Z.H. and Dreybrodt, W., 1996. Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate minerals in H₂O-CO₂ solutions in turbulent flow: the role of the diffusion boundary layer and the slow reaction H₂0+CO₂ -> H⁺+HCO₃^- . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (submitted)

Books

1. Liu, Z.H., 1996. Research on the aging of cement grounting curtains at Wujiangdu Hydropower Station of Guizhou. Guangxi Normal University Press, Guilin, China (in Chinese)
2. Liu, Z.H., 1996. The Rate-determining Mechanisms for the Dissolution and Precipitation of Calcite in CO2-H2O Solutions with Turbulent Motion, Ph. D dissertation, Bremen University, Germany (in English)