賴黎明博士，河套學院農學系教授，河套英才，河套灌區土壤研究中心主任。主要研究領域是土壤健康評價與改良、農業生產對土壤與環境的影響。講授課程《土壤地理學》與《土壤改良學》。他專注于土壤質量提升、土壤溫室氣體（CO₂、N₂O、CH₄）減排、DAYCENT模型預測土壤溫室氣體排放、大數據分析等研究。在美國South Dakota State University(南達科他州立大學)工作10年，作為主要完成人參與美國國家自然科學基金項目、美國能源部、農業部、州立項目5項課題的研究。現在主持內蒙古自然基金項目1項、內蒙古科技廳項目2項、巴彥淖爾市項目2項與河套學院課題2項。發表SCI論文18篇。多家外國英文學術期刊評審人。是集土壤改良、土壤溫室氣體減排、大數據分析、團隊與項目管理等于一身的復合型研究與管理人才。電子郵箱：Liming.Lai@qq.com.

發表的代表性論文：

1. Lai, L., Kumar, S., Rastogi, D., & Ashfaq, M. 2022. Temporal variabilities of soil carbon dioxide fluxes from cornfield impacted by temperature and precipitation changes through high-frequent measurement and DAYCENT modeling. The Journal of Agricultural Science. doi:10.1017/S0021859622000132 (網絡首發).

2. Lai Liming, Yilmaz Turhan, Kumar Sandeep, Fennell Anne, Gonzalez Hernandez Jose L. 2022. Influences of grassland to cropland conversion onsoil properties, microbiome and agricultural emissions. Soil Research. https://doi.org/10.1071/SR21112 (網絡首發).

3. 賴黎明, 美麗, 楊旸. 內蒙古河套灌區農業土壤特征與發展分析[J]. 江蘇農業科學, 2022, 50(02): 213-218.

4. 楊旸, 郝水源, 賴黎明. 有機肥氮替代化肥對春玉米土壤養分、酶活性及產量的影響[J]. 內蒙古農業大學學報(自然科學版), 2021, 42(04): 20-26.

5. Lai, L. and Kumar, S., 2020. A global meta-analysis of livestock grazing impacts on soil properties. Plos One, 15(8), p.e0236638.

6. Udayakumar Sekaran, Liming Lai, David A.N. Ussiri, Sandeep Kumar, Sharon Clay.

   2020. Role of integrated crop-livestock systems in improving agriculture production and addressing food security – A review. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 5: 100190.

7. Li, N., P. Kumar, L. Lai, G.O. Abagandura, S. Kumar, T. Nleya, H.L. Sieverding, J.J. Stone, and W. Gibbons. 2019. Response of soil greenhouse gas fluxes and soil properties to nitrogen fertilizer rates under camelina and carinata nonfood oilseed crops. Bioenergy Research, 12: 524-535.

8. Kumar S, Lai L, Kumar P, Feliciano V, Marie Y, Battaglia ML, Hong CO, Owens VN, Fike J, Farris R, Galbraith J. 2019. Impacts of nitrogen rate and landscape position on soils and switchgrass root growth parameters. Agronomy Journal, 111(3):1046-59.

9. Kumar P, Lai L, Battaglia ML, Kumar S, Owens V, Fike J, Galbraith J, Hong CO, Farris R, Crawford R, Crawford J. 2019. Impacts of nitrogen fertilization rate and landscape position onsoil properties in switchgrass field at four sites in the USA. Catena, 180:183-93.

10. Kumar, S., Sieverding, H., Lai, L., Thandiwe, N., Wienhold, B., Redfearn, D., Archer, D., Ussiri, D., Faust, D., Landblom, D., Grings, E.,, Stone, J.J., Jacquet, J., Pokharel, K., Liebig, M., Schmer, M., Sexton, P., Mitchell, R., Smalley, S., Osborne, S., Ali, S., ?entürklü, S., Sehgal, S., Owens, V.N., and Jin, V. 2019. Facilitating crop-livestock reintegration in the Northern Great Plains. Agronomy Journal, 111: 2141–2156.

11. Lai, L., Kumar, S., Osborne, S., & Owens, V. N. 2018. Switchgrass impact on selected soil parameters, including soil organic carbon, within six years of establishment, Catena, 163, 288-296.

12. Lai, L., Hong, C. O., Kumar, S., Osborne, S. L., Lehman, R. M., & Owens, V. N. 2018. Soil nitrogen dynamics in switchgrass seeded to a marginal cropland in South Dakota. GCB Bioenergy, 10(1), 28-38.

13. Lai, L., Kumar, S., Folle, S.M. and Owens, V.N. 2018. Predicting soils and environmental impacts associated with switchgrass for bioenergy production: a DAYCENT modeling approach. GCB Bioenergy, 10, 287–302.

14. Lai, L., Kumar, S., Mbonimpa, E. G., Hong, C. O., Owens, V. N., & Neupane, R. P. 2016. Evaluating the impacts of landscape positions and nitrogen fertilizer rates on dissolved organic carbon on switchgrass land seeded on marginally yielding cropland. Journal of Environmental Management, 171, 113-120.

15. Lai, L., Kumar, S., Chintala, R., Owens, V. N., Clay, D., Schumacher, J., & Rafique, R. 2016. Modeling the impacts of temperature and precipitation changes on soil CO₂ fluxes from a Switchgrass stand recently converted from cropland. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 43, 15-25.

16. Mbonimpa, E. G., Gautam, S., Lai, L., Kumar, S., Bonta, J., Wang, X., and Rafique, R. 2015. Combined PEST and Trial–Error approach to improve APEX calibration. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 114, 296-303.

17. Lai, L., and Ge, S. X. 2014. Meta-analysis of gene expression signatures reveals hidden links among diverse biological processes in arabidopsis. Plos One, 9(11): e108567.

18. Lai L., A. Liberzon, J. Hennessey, G. Jiang, J. Qi, J. Mesirov, and S.X. Ge. 2012. AraPath: a knowledgebase for pathway analysis in Arabidopsis, Bioinformatics, 28, 2291-2292.

19. Wilson T.J., L. Lai, Y. Ban and S.X. Ge. 2012. Identification of metagenes and their interactions through large-scale analysis of Arabidopsis gene expression data, BMC Genomics, 13:237, 1-14.