Reporter Topic: How best to write SCI paper

Reporter: Brent Clothier, Academician (Foreign) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Time: 15:00, Dec.3, 2023

Location: Room 202, Academic Hall of State Key Laboratory

Brief Introduction of Reporter

Brent Clothier is a Principal Scientist with Plant & Food Research in New Zealand, an Editor-in-Chief of the SCI journal Agricultural Water Management. He is a Fellow of Royal Society Te Apārangi, and the New Zealand Society of Soil Science, and the President of Royal Society Te Apārangi. He is also a Fellow of four foreign science academies: Soil Science Society of America; American Agronomy Society; American Geophysical Union and; an Academician (Foreign) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Brent was awarded the Don & Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award of the Soil Science Society of America in 2000. He was awarded the J.A Prescott Medal by Soil Science Australia in 2001, and the L.I. Grange Medal by the New Zealand Society of Soil Science in 2014. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Science New Zealand in 2019.

Brent has published over 300 scientific papers on the movement and fate of water, carbon and chemicals in the root–zones of primary production systems, irrigation allocation and water management, plus sustainable vineyard and orchard practices, including adaptation strategies in the face of climate change. He also published on life-cycle assessment, carbon and water footprinting, environmental policy, investment into ecological infrastructure, plus natural capital quantification and the valuation of ecosystem services.