主持科研项目：
1.国家自然科学基金青年项目，渭河流域农业干旱评估与致灾机理研究，2014-2016，主持
2.国家科技支撑计划专题，示范区效益分析与评估，2013-2016，主持
3.中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助项目，渭河流域蓝水绿水资源评价研究，2013-2015，主持
4.水利部水利信息中心项目，水生态评价技术研究，2016-2017，主持
参与科研项目：
1. 国家自然科学基金重点项目，变化环境下的雅鲁藏布江流域径流响应与水文过程演变机理研究，2017-2020，课题技术负责人
2. 水利部公益性行业科研专项，东北粮食主产区旱灾评估技术及应用平台研究，2014-2016，课题技术负责人
3. 济南市水文局项目，济南市海绵城市水循环演变与水文过程模拟，2017-2018，课题负责人
4. 中国工程院重大咨询项目之课题，西南地区旱涝事件集合应对战略研究，2012-2014，技术负责人
5. 科技部中德国际合作项目之课题，分布式水文模型构建及数值模拟，2012-2015，技术负责人
6. 水生态文明试点科技支撑计划之课题，济南市水生态现状调查与健康评价，2014-2016，技术负责人
7. 辽宁省水文局课题，辽宁省水生态调查与监测及规划编制，2015-2016，技术负责人
8. 水利部发展研究中心项目，完善中国水利现代化进程评估方法研究-2015年度，2015-2015，技术负责人
9. 北京市水文总站项目，北京市水生态调查与研究（北运河第一组），2015-2015，技术负责人
10. 北京市水文总站项目，北京市水生态监测调查与研究（报告汇总、图册编辑、评价体系研究），2015-2015，技术负责人
11. 水利部发展研究中心项目，完善中国水利现代化进程评估方法研究-2014年度，2014-2014，技术负责人
12. 国家水体污染控制与治理科技重大专项子课题，渭河关中段生态基础流量保障技术研究，2009-2012，技术骨干
13. 科技部中瑞国际合作项目，渭河流域生态基流及其保障措施研究，2009-2011，技术骨干
14. 欧盟-中国流域综合管理计划研究项目，黄河流域气候变化及适应性对策研究，2011-2011，技术骨干
15. 国际水资源研究所挑战计划项目，黄河流域水资源评估，2008-2009，技术骨干
16. 国家科技支撑计划专题，基于SWAT模型的黄河上中游水沙变化趋势分析，2006-2008，技术骨干
代表性论文：
1. Zuo Depeng, Cai Siyang, Xu Zongxue, Li Fulin, Sun Wenchao, Yang Xiaojing, Kan Guangyuan, Liu Pin, 2017. Spatiotemporal patterns of drought at various time scales in Shandong Province of Eastern China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-016-1969-5.
2. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, Yao Wenyi, Jin Shuangyan, Xiao Peiqing, Ran, Dachuan, 2016. Assessing the effects of changes in land use and climate on runoff and sediment yields from a watershed in the Loess Plateau of China. Science of the Total Environment, 544: 238-250.
3. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, Peng Dingzhi, Song Jinxi, Cheng Lei, Wei Shouke, Abbaspour Karim C., Yang Hong, 2015. Simulating spatiotemporal variability of blue and green water resources availability with uncertainty analysis. Hydrological Processes, 29(8): 1942-1955.
4. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, Zhao Jie, Abbaspour Karim C., Yang Hong, 2015. Response of runoff to climate change in the Wei River basin, China. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 60(3): 508-522.
5. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, Wu Wei, Zhao Jie, Zhao Fangfang, 2014. Identification of streamflow response to climate change and human activities in the Wei River basin, China. Water Resources Management, 28(3): 833-851.
6. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, Yang Hong, Liu Xingcai, 2012. Spatiotemporal variations and abrupt changes of potential evapotranspiration and its sensitivity to key meteorological variables in the Wei River basin, China. Hydrological Processes, 26(8): 1149-1160.
7. Wei Shouke, Zuo Depeng, Song Jinxi, 2012. Improving prediction accuracy of river discharge time series using a Wavelet-NAR artificial neural network. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 14(4): 974-991.
8. Li Lei, Xu Zongxue, Zuo Depeng, Zhao Jie, 2016. A Grid-based Integrated Surface–Groundwater Model (GISMOD). Journal of Water and Climate Change, 7(2): 296-320.
9. Yu Songyan, Xu Zongxue, Wu Wei, Zuo Depeng, 2016. Effect of land use types on stream water quality under seasonal variation and topographic characteristics in the Wei River basin, China. Ecological Indicators, 60: 202-212.
10. Zhao Jie, Xu Zongxue, Singh Vijay P., Zuo Depeng, Li Mo, 2016. Sensitivity of Potential Evapotranspiration to Climate and Vegetation in a Water-Limited Basin at the Northern Edge of Tibetan Plateau, Water Resources Management, 30(13): 4667-4680.
11. Wu Wei, Xu Zongxue, Yin Xuwang, Zuo Depeng, 2014. Assessment of ecosystem health based on fish assemblages in the Wei River basin, China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 186(6): 3701-3716.
12. Zhao Fangfang, Xu Zongxue, Zhang Lu, Zuo Depeng, 2009. Streamflow response to climate variability and human activities in the upper catchment of the Yellow River Basin. Science in China Series E-Technological Sciences, 52(11): 3249-3256.
13. Zhao Anzhou, Zhu Xiufang, Liu Xianfeng, Pan Yaozhong, Zuo Depeng, 2016. Impacts of land use change and climate variability on green and blue water resources in the Weihe River Basin of northwest China. Catena, 137: 318-327.
14. Wu Wei, Xu Zongxue, Kennard Mark J., Yin Xuwang, Zuo Depeng, 2016. Do human disturbance variables influence more on fish community structure and function than natural variables in the Wei River basin, China? Ecological Indicators, 61(2): 438-446.
15. Sun Wenchao, Wang Yuanyuan, Wang, Guoqiang, Cui Xingqi, Yu Jingshan, Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, 2017. Physically-based distributed hydrological model calibration based on a short period of streamflow data: case studies in two Chinese basins, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(1): 251-265.
16. Chen Sheng, Kan Guangyuan, Liang Ke, Li Jiren, Hong Yang, Zuo Depeng, Lei Tianjie, Xu Weihong, Zhang Mengjie, Shi Wenbin, Chen Xiaona, 2016. Air Quality Analysis and Forecast for Environment and Public Health Protection: A Case Study in Beijing, China. Transylvanian Review, XXIV (12): 3575-3593.
17. Kan Guangyuan, He Xiaoyan, Ding Liuqian, Li Jiren, Hong Yang, Zuo Depeng, Ren Minglei, Lei Tianjie, Liang Ke, 2017. Fast hydrological model calibration based on the heterogeneous parallel computing accelerated shuffled complex evolution method. Engineering Optimization, DOI: 10.1080/0305215X.2017.1303053.
18. Kan Guangyuan, Lei Tianjie, Liang Ke, Li Jiren, Ding Liuqian, He Xiaoyan, Yu Haijun, Zhang Dawei, Zuo Depeng, Bao Zhenxin, Amo-Boateng Mark, Hu Youbing, Zhang Mengjie, 2017. A multi-core CPU and many-core GPU based fast parallel shuffled complex evolution global optimization approach. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(2): 332-344.
19. Kan Guangyuan, He Xiaoyan, Li Jiren, Ding Liuqian, Zhang Dawei, Lei Tianjie, Hong Yang, Liang Ke, Zuo Depeng, Bao Zhenxin, Zhang Mengjie, 2016. A novel hybrid data-driven model for multi-input single-output system simulation. Neural Computing & Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s00521-016-2534-y.
20. Kan Guangyuan, He Xiaoyan, Ding Liuqian, Li Jiren, Hong Yang, Ren Minglei, Lei Tianjie, Liang Ke, Zuo Depeng, Huang Pengnian, 2017. Daily streamflow simulation based on the improved machine learning method. Tecnologia y Ciencias del Agua, 8(2): 51-60.
21. Kan Guangyuan, Zhang Mengjie, Liang Ke, Wang Hao, Jiang Yunzhong, Li Jiren, Ding Liuqian, He Xiaoyan, Hong Yang, Zuo Depeng, Bao Zhenxin, Li Chaochao, 2016. Improving water quantity simulation & forecasting to solve the energy-water-food nexus issue by using heterogeneous computing accelerated global optimization method. Applied Energy, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.017.
22. 左德鹏, 徐宗学, 李景玉, 刘兆飞. 气候变化情景下渭河流域潜在蒸散量时空变化特征[J]. 水科学进展, 2011, 22(4): 9-15.
23. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, Xingcai Liu, Lei Cheng, 2011. Spatiotemporal variation and abrupt changes of potential evapotranspiration in the Wei River basin. IAHS Publ., 350: 28-37.
24. Xu Zongxue, Zuo Depeng, 2014. Simulation of blue and green water resources in the Wei River basin, China. IAHS-AISH Proceedings and Reports, 364: 486-491. DOI: 10.5194/piahs-364-486-2014.
25. Zhao Jie, Xu Zongxue, Zuo Depeng, Wang Xuming, 2015. Temporal variations of reference evapotranspiration and its sensitivity to meteorological factors in Heihe River Basin, China. Water Science and Engineering, 8(1): 1-8.
26. Xu Zongxue, Yang Xiaojing, Zuo Depeng, Chu Qi, Liu Wenfeng, 2015. Spatiotemporal characteristics of extreme precipitation and temperature: a case study in Yunnan Province, China. IAHS-AISH Proceedings and Reports, 369: 121-127.
27. 赵捷, 徐宗学, 左德鹏. 黑河上中游潜在蒸散发模拟及变化特征分析[J]. 水科学进展, 2015, 26(9): 614-623.
28. 马广文, 王圣瑞, 王业耀, 左德鹏, 于洋, 香宝. 鄱阳湖流域面源污染负荷模拟与氮和磷时空分布特征[J]. 环境科学学报, 2015, 35(5): 1285-1291.
29. Yu Songyan, Xu Zongxue, Wu Wei, Zuo Depeng, 2015. Effect of land use on the seasonal variation of streamwater quality in the Wei River basin, China. IAHS-AISH Proceedings and Reports, 368: 454-459.
30. Liu Xingcai, Xu Zongxue, Liu Liu, Zuo Depeng, 2011. Parameterization of land surface processes in the Taihu basin. IAHS Publ., 350: 704-712.
31. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, 2012. Response of Runoff to Climate Change in the Wei River basin. Proceedings of the 5th International Yellow River Forum, 2: 15-26
32. Zuo Depeng, Xu Zongxue, Wenyi Yao, 2009. Radiation-based methods to estimate potential evapotranspiration: Case study in the Qin River Basin. Proceedings of the 4th International Yellow River Forum, 1: 354-364.
33. 左德鹏, 徐宗学, 李福林, 张明芳, 刘品. 基于SWAT模型的母猪河流域水资源时空变化特征[J]. 北京师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2014, 50(5): 461-466.
34. 左德鹏, 徐宗学, 隋彩虹, 武玮, 赵芳芳. 气候变化和人类活动对渭河流域径流的影响[J]. 北京师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2013, 49(2/3): 115-123.
35. 左德鹏, 徐宗学, 赵捷, 杨晓静. 气候变化对渭河流域径流的影响[J]. 水资源研究, 2013, 2(6): 364-370.
36. 左德鹏, 徐宗学. 基于SWAT模型和SUFI-2算法的渭河流域径流分布式模拟[J]. 北京师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2012, 48(5): 490-496.
37. 左德鹏, 徐宗学, 程磊, 赵芳芳. 基于辐射的潜在蒸散量估算方法适用性分析[J]. 干旱区地理, 2011, 34(4): 565-574.
38. 左德鹏, 徐宗学, 程磊, 刘星才. 渭河流域潜在蒸散量时空变化及其突变特征[J]. 资源科学, 2011, 33(5): 975-982.
39. 左德鹏, 徐宗学, 刘兆飞. 基于气温的潜在蒸散发量估算方法在我国西北干旱地区的应用比较[J]. 干旱区资源与环境, 2009, 23(10): 123-131.
40. 蔡思扬, 左德鹏*, 徐宗学, 杨晓静. 基于SPEI干旱指数的东北地区干旱时空分布特征[J]. 南水北调与水利科技, 2017, 15(5): 15-21.
41. 赵刚, 左德鹏*, 徐宗学, 杨晓静, 庞靖鹏. 基于集对分析-可变模糊集的中国水利现代化时空变化特征分析[J]. 资源科学, 2015, 37(11): 2211-2218.
42. 徐宗学, 左德鹏. 拓宽思路，科学评价水资源量——以渭河流域蓝水绿水资源量评价为例[J]. 南水北调与水利科技, 2013, 11(1): 12-16+49.
43. 杨晓静, 左德鹏, 徐宗学. 基于标准化降水指数的云南省近55 年旱涝演变特征[J]. 资源科学, 2014, 36(3): 473-480.
44. 杨晓静, 徐宗学, 左德鹏, 蔡思扬. 东北三省近55a旱涝时空演变特征[J]. 自然灾害学报, 2016, 25(4): 9-19.
45. 杨晓静, 徐宗学, 左德鹏, 赵焕. 云南省1958～2013年极端气温时空变化特征分析[J]. 长江流域资源与环境, 2016, 25(3): 523-536.
46. 杨晓静, 徐宗学, 左德鹏, 刘琳. 云南省1958-2013年极端降水时空变化特征分析[J]. 灾害学, 2015, 30(4): 178-186.
47. 赵捷, 徐宗学, 左德鹏, 王子丰, 余学林, 程建忠. 黑河上中游流域地表植被对干旱的响应[J]. 北京师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2014, 50(5): 543-548.
48. 赵捷, 徐宗学, 左德鹏, 张兰影. 基于辐射的潜在蒸散发量估算方法在黑河流域的适用性分析[J]. 干旱区资源与环境, 2013, 27(10): 107-114.
49. 赵捷, 徐宗学, 左德鹏. 黑河流域潜在蒸散发量时空变化特征分析[J]. 北京师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2013, 49(2/3): 164-169.
50. 唐芳芳, 徐宗学, 左德鹏. 黄河上游流域气候变化对径流的影响[J]. 资源科学, 2012, 34(6), 1079-1088.
51. 武玮, 徐宗学, 左德鹏. 渭河关中段河道生态基流量初步估算研究[J]. 干旱区资源与环境, 2011, 25(10): 68-74.
52. 程磊, 徐宗学, 左德鹏, 李林涛. 基于Landsat TM数据的黄土高原区水体识别方法研究[J]. 北京师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2010, 46(3): 424-430.
出版图书：
徐宗学，彭定志，庞博，左德鹏. 河道生态基流理论基础与计算方法——以渭河关中段为例[M]. 科学出版社，2016.