姚荣江，江苏靖江人，博士，中国科学院南京土壤研究所研究员，中国科学院特聘核心岗位研究员、博士生导师，国家科技创新领军人才。现担任中国土壤学会盐碱土专业委员会主任，江苏省土壤学会常务理事。2002年于扬州大学土壤与农业化学专业获学士学位，2007年于中国科学院南京土壤研究所获得博士学位。长期从事土壤水盐循环与水土耦合过程、耕地障碍消减与质量提升等方面理论和技术研究。先后主持国家重点研发计划项目、国家农业重大科技项目、中国科学院盐碱地改造利用重大项目、公益性行业（农业）科研专项课题等国家级重要科研项目20余项；在J Hydrol、Geoderma、Biochar、Soil Sci Soc Am J等期刊发表论文近150篇，其中SCI收录论文逾80篇。主参著/译学术著作8部，获授权发明专利15件，制定行业/省级标准7项，入选主推技术5项，获省部级奖3项。

近年主要成就包括：1）阐明土壤水盐过程多边界耦合调控机理，厘清土壤盐碱退化关键阻控过程与参数，丰富多尺度土壤水盐动稳性调控理论；2）明晰水盐调控伴生的土壤多介质耦合转化、迁移生物物理过程，揭示“炭氮”协作盐碱消障与养分增效协同机理；3）解析流域尺度土壤盐渍化演化与农田生态耦合过程，辨明区域生态系统结构功能和盐碱化对节水的互馈适应机制；4）创制耕地盐碱退化阻控、消障提质关键技术与集成模式，制定系列技术规程、主推技术并应用于盐碱地改造工程。

土壤水盐循环与水土耦合过程、土壤多介质迁移转化过程及其限域调控机制、盐碱生态系统结构功能演变与节水响应

获得江苏省科学技术二等奖（2015）、全国农牧渔业丰收奖（2020）和中国商业联合会科技进步一等奖（2017）；获江苏省高层次人才（“333工程”）第三、二层次培养对象（2018年、2024年）、内蒙古自治区“草原英才”（2020年）、国家“万人计划”科技创新领军人才（2025年）。

1. Wei Zhu, Shiguo Gu, Xin Zhang, Xuan Yu, Shuanghuang Yu, Xiangping Wang, Rui Jiang, Xiangtian Meng, Rongjiang Yao*. Long-term reclamation enhances soil organic carbon accumulation via mitigating salinity and alkalinity in coastal saline soils. Agr Ecosyst Environ, 2026, 400: 110212.

2. Shuangshuang Yu, Qinbo Cheng, XiangpingWang, Wenping Xie, Wei Zhu, Jianjun Han, Xuan Yu, Rongjiang Yao*. Aquaculture impoundment reduces salt leaching efficiency of subsurface drainage systems in neighboring farms. Vadose Zone J, 2025, 24: e70051.

3. Xuan Yu, Lanxuan He, Rongjiang Yao*, Zexuan Xu, George Kourakos, Jie Yang, Franklin W. Schwartz. Saltwater circulation driven by shoreline curvature in coastal aquifers in hydrological processes. Hydrol Process, 2025, 39: e70207.

4. Hongqiang Li, Wei Zhu, Qiancheng Gao, Yuxing Liu, Xiangping Wang, Wenping Xie, Xing Zhang, Rongjiang Yao*. Interactive effects of attapulgite and nitrogen fertilizers on the nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency and residual levels in saline soil. Plant Soil, 2025, 513: 633–647.

5. Xuan Yu, Lanxuan He, Rongjiang Yao*, Tongbi Tu*, Zebin Zhang, Xinfeng Zhao. Effects of beach nourishment on seawater intrusion in layered heterogeneous aquifers. J Hydrol, 2024, 633: 131018.

6. Xuan Yu, Beiyuan Xu, Rongjiang Yao*, Junhong Wei, Tongbi Tu, Zi Chen. Temporal dynamics of soil salinization due to vertical and lateral saltwater intrusion at an onshore aquaculture farm. Agr Water Manage, 2024, 306: 109179.

7. Kai Chang, Haoxuan Feng, Jiahao Xing, XiangpingWang, Rongjiang Yao*, Xuguang Xing*. High salinity prolongs water processes required for soil structure stability during drying–wetting cycles. Soil Sci Soc Am J, 2024, 88: 1100–1108.

8. Rongjiang Yao*, Qiancheng Gao, Hongqiang Li, Xiangping Wang, Wenping Xie, Yanchao Bai, Xing Zhang. Legacy effect of tillage practices on soil ammonia-oxidizers and comammox communities over the sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) growing season in a salt-affected irrigation area. Appl Soil Ecol, 2024, 196: 105283.

9. Rongjiang Yao, Qiancheng Gao, Yuxing Liu, Hongqiang Li, Jingsong Yang*, Yanchao Bai, Hai Zhu, Xiangping Wang, Wenping Xie, Xing Zhang. Deep vertical rotary tillage mitigates salinization hazards and shifts microbial community structure in salt-affected anthropogenic-alluvial soil. Soil Till Res, 2023, 227: 105627.

10. Rongjiang Yao, Jingsong Yang*, Xiangping Wang, Ying Zhao, Hongqiang Li, Peng Gao, Wenping Xie, Xing Zhang. Improving soil salinity simulation by assimilating electromagnetic induction data into HYDRUS model using ensemble Kalman filter. J Environ Inform, 2022, 39(2): 81–96.

11. Rongjiang Yao, Hongqiang Li, Jingsong Yang*, Wei Zhu, Chunyan Yin, xiangping Wang, Wenping Xie, Xing Zhang. Combined application of biochar and N fertilizer shifted nitrification rate and amoA gene abundance of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms in salt-affected anthropogenic-alluvial soil. Appl Soil Ecol, 2022, 171: 104348.

12. Rongjiang Yao, Hongqiang Li, Wei Zhu, Jingsong Yang*, Xiangping Wang, Chunyan Yin, Yupeng Jing, Qiang Chen, Wenping Xie. Biochar and potassium humate shift the migration, transformation and redistribution of urea‑N in salt‑affected soil under drip fertigation: soil column and incubation experiments. Irrigation Sci, 2022, 40: 267–282.

13. Rongjiang Yao, Jingsong Yang*, Wei Zhu, Hongqiang Li, Chunyan Yin, Yupeng Jing, Xiangping Wang, Wenping Xie, Xing Zhang. Impact of crop cultivation, nitrogen and fulvic acid on soil fungal community structure in salt-affected alluvial fluvo-aquic soil. Plant Soil, 2021, 464: 539–558.

14. Yue ZHANG, Jingsong YANG*, Rongjiang YAO*, Xiangping WANG, Wenping XIE. Short-term effects of biochar and gypsum on soil hydraulic properties and sodicity in a saline-alkali soil. Pedosphere, 2020, 30 (5): 694-702.

15. Hai Zhua, Jingsong Yang⁎, Rongjiang Yao⁎, Xiangping Wang, Wenping Xie, Wei Zhu, Xiaoyuan Liu, Yifan Cao, Jianyu Tao. Interactive effects of soil amendments (biochar and gypsum) and salinity on ammonia volatilization in coastal saline soil. Catena, 2020, 190: 104527.

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2. 国家重点研发计划项目，2016YFC0501300，河套平原盐碱地生态治理关键技术研究与集成示范，2016/07−2021/12，主持

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