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Rui Tao

**** ******* **. ********** ** 36117, USA

Phone 334-***-****, Email abnjxa@r.postjobfree.com

RESIDENCY: US permanent resident, Chinese citizen

EDUCATION

Master degree in Engineering Science 2005 GPA=3.7/4.0 Major Professor: John Pardue

Concentration in Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering, Louisiana State University

Report for Master degree: Runoff flow driven by rainfall event and nutrient loadings associated with

water quality in the Boeuf River/Bayou Lafourche watershed

Courses taken at LSU

Civil and Environmental Engineering: W ater Quality Analysis for Natural System, Design of Natural

System for Wastewater Treatment, Hydrology, Ground Water, Hurricane Engineering, Theory and

Operation of Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Sanitary Engineering Operations and Processes Lab,

Masters report.

Experimental Statistics: Statistical Techniques I, Statistical Techniques II, Statistical Theory I,

Experimental Design

Bachelor degree in Hydrological Engineering of Agriculture 1987 GPA=3.6/4.0

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Shenyang University of Agriculture, China

EMPLOYMENT

Research associate 2008 to 2009 Dept. Plant Soil and Environmental Sci, LSU

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Research associate 2006 to 2008 Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute, LSU

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Research assistant 2004 to 2005 Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute, LSU

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Senior Engineer 1998 to 2000 Liaoning Hydraulic Institute, China

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Engineer 1993 to 1998 Liaoning Hydraulic Institute, China

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Engineer Assistant 1987 to 1993 Liaoning Hydraulic Institute, China

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PROJECT

At Louisiana State University

Spatial Influence of Davis Pond Freshwater Reintroduction on Marsh Accretion, Sediment/Nutrient

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Input and Plant Biomass Production in Barataria Basin

Total and Methylmercury in Sediment and Fish at Offshore Platforms and the Hypoxic Zone of the

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Northern Gulf of Mexico.

W ater Quality of Upper Barataria Basin: Impact of Non-point Source Pollution Associated with

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Sugarcane Production, Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary Foundation, Louisiana

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At Liaoning Hydraulic Institute, China

As a Principal Investigator:

Demonstration of a reservoir as the water source for a city water supply

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Proposal for a key water control project of Red River

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Proposal and feasibility study for a reservoir construction project Layouts of river watersheds

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As a major participant:

Layout for development and usage of water resource in a watershed

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Project layout and feasibility study of water transport from Hunjiang River

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Feasibility study and primary design for a hydroelectric station at Huanren county

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Primary design of the water resource at Pingshan county

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PUBLICATIONS

1) Yu KW, DeLanue RD, Tao R and Beine RL, 2008. Nonpoint Source of Nutrients and Herbicides

Associated with Sugarcane Production and Its Impact on Water Quality, Journal of Environmental

Quality 37: 2275-2283

2) Yu KW, DeLanue RD, Devai I, Tao R and Jugsujinda A, 2008. Total and methyl mercury in wetland

sediments of Lake Pontchartrain Basin (USA), Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A –

Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering 43(14): 1657 – 1662

3) Yu KW, Faulkner SP, Tao R, 2006. Non-continuous development of reducing conditions in wetland

soils. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 37:1775–1781

ANALYSIS

Extraction and analysis of total mercury, extraction of methyl-mercury, digestion for ICP analysis of

metals, nutrient analysis (ammonium, nitrate and nitrite, phosphorus, silicate, total P and total N), gas

analysis (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide), Cs137 dating, redox potential (Eh), soil texture

(particle size), vegetation biomass, dissolved oxygen, pH, organic matter, conductivity and salinity, rainfall

record and field runoff flow volume.

INSTRUMENT

Total mercury analyzer (LabAnalyzer 254), gas chromatography (Tremetrics 9001), flow-injection nutrient

analyzer (Lachat QuickChem 8000), UV-visible photometer (Thermo Spectronic), Cs137 counter,

digestion block, centrifuge, oxygen probe, portable redox-pH meter

COMPUTER SKILLS

Software: Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Flowlink (for rainfall and field runoff)

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Statistical Analysis: SAS

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