Dr. Hongtao Zhao is focusing on urban diffuse pollution and its control technology. He has published over 30 scientific papers, including Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research, Environmental Pollution, Journal of Hydrology, Chemosphere, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials and so on.
Urban diffuse pollution mechanism and control technologies
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), The pollutant mobility potential of road-deposited sediment and its retentaion mechanisms on typical urban surface (Grant number 41771529, 2018.01-2021.12, Principal investigator).
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), The pollution index of heavy metal in road-deposited sediment based on grain size threshold (Grant number41141417, 2015.01-2018.12, Principal investigator).
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), Heavy metal in road-deposited sediment along the urban-rural gradient around Beijing and its potential contribution to runoff pollution (Grant number 41171395, 2012.01-2015.12, Principal investigator).
4. The Program of Technology Consultation of Low-Impact Development (LID) Performance Evaluation in urban built-up area (20180083, 2017.12-2018.12, Principal investigator).
5. The Program of Technology Consultation of Low-Impact Development (LID) Performance Evaluation (20160483, 2017.01-2018.06, Principal investigator).