主持与参加项目
1) 国家自然科学基金面上项目“水动力扰动对太湖反硝化作用及脱氮通量的影响”（41573076），2016-2019，主持人；
2) 国家自然科学基金青年基金“太湖水体氨态氮再生及对浮游植物氮需求的贡献”（41003043），2011-2013，主持人；
3) 江苏省自然科学基金面上项目“太湖蓝藻控制的营养盐策略”（BK2012895），2012-2014，主持人；
4) 国家自然科学基金重点项目“水动力输移对大型浅水富营养化湖泊环境要素时空分异格局的影响机制”（41230744），2013-2017，科研骨干；
5) “十三五”水专项“梅梁湾滨湖城市水体水环境深度改善和生态功能提升技术与工程示范项目”第一课题“梅梁湾蓝藻水华控制与藻源性有机物处置技术集成与工程示范”（2017ZX07203001），2017.01?-2020.06，专题负责人；
6) 中国科学院前沿科学重点研究项目“湖库蓝藻灾害监控与预警”项目第一课题 “蓝藻水华形成和成灾过程的立体监测技术”（课题编号QYZDJ-SSW-DQC008-01），2016.08?-2020.12，科研骨干；
7) 中国科学院南京地理与湖泊研究所“一三五”部署课题“湖库水华模拟及预测预警技术研发与集成”（课题编 NIGLAS2017GH04），2017.01 -2020.12，科研骨干；
8) 国家水体污染控制与治理科技重大专项“太湖“湖泛”与水华灾害应急处置技术研究及工程示范”（2012ZX07101-010），2012-2014，科研骨干；
9) 国家科技部国际科技合作专项项目：“气候与人类影响下太湖有害蓝藻风险变化研究”（2015DFG91980），2012-2015，科研骨干.

代表性论著
1) 秦伯强, 许海, 董百丽. 湖泊富营养化治理的理论与实践. 高等教育出版社, 2011年, 北京（专著）
2) Hai Xu, Hans Paerl, Guangwei Zhu, Boqiang Qin, Nathan Hall, Mengyuan Zhu. Long-term nutrient trends and harmful cyanobacterial bloom potential in hypertrophic Lake Taihu, China. Hydrobiologia, 2017, 787(1): 229-242.
3) Hai Xu, Hans Paerl, Boqiang Qin, Guangwei Zhu, Nathan S Hall, Yali Wu. Determining critical nutrient thresholds needed to control harmful cyanobacterial blooms in hypertrophic Lake Taihu, China. Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49(2): 1051-1059.
4) Hai Xu, Guangwei Zhu, Boqiang Qin, Hans W. Paerl. Growth response of Microcystis spp. to iron enrichment in different regions of Lake Taihu, China. Hydrobiologia, 2013, 700:187-202.
5) Hai Xu, Hans W. Paerl, Boqiang Qin, Guangwei Zhu and Guang Gao. Nitrogen and phosphorus inputs control phytoplankton growth in eutrophic Lake Taihu, China. Limnology & Oceanography, 2010, 55(1): 420 - 432.
6) Hai Xu, Linzhang Yang, Zhaopu Liu, ShixueYin, Gengmao Zhao. Anthropogenic Impact on Surface Water Quality in Taihu Lake Region, China. Pedosphere, 2009, 19(6): 765-778.
7) Yanqing Ding, Hai Xu, Boqiang Qin, Jianming Deng, Youwen He. Impact of nutrient loading on phytoplankton: a mesocosm experiment in the eutrophic Lake Taihu, China. Hydrobiologia, 2019, (1)167-168.
8) Hans W. Paerl, Hai Xu, Nathan S. Hall, Karen L. Rossignol, Alan R. Joyner, Guangwei Zhu & Boqiang Qin. Nutrient limitation dynamics examined on a multi-annual scale in Lake Taihu, China: implications for controlling eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 2015, 30:15-24.
9) Hans W. Paerl, Hai Xu, Nathan S Hall, Guangwei Zhu, Boqiang Qin, Yali Wu, Karen L, Rossignol, Linhan Dong, Mark J. McCarthy, and Alan R. Joyner. Controlling cyanobacterial blooms in hypertrophic Lake Taihu, China: Will nitrogen reductions cause replacement of non-N2 fixing by N2 fixing taxa? PloSOne, 2014. 9(11): e113123.
10) Hans W. Paerl, Hai Xu, Nathan S Hall, Karen L. Rossignol, Alan.R. Joyner, Guangwei Zhu and Boqiang Qin. Nutrient limitation dynamics examined on a multi-annual scale in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for controlling eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 2014, 30(1): 5-24.
11) Tim G Otten, Hai Xu, Boqiang Qin, Guangwei Zhu, and Hans W. Paerl. Spatiotemporal Patterns and Ecophysiology of Toxigenic Microcystis Blooms in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for Water Quality Management. Environmental Science &Technology, 2012, 16:40-46.
12) Hans W. Paerl, Hai Xu, Mark J. McCarthy, Guangwei Zhu, Boqiang Qin. Controlling harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a hypereutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China): The need for a dual nutrient (N & P) management strategy. Water Research, 2011, 45: 1973-1983.
13) Xiaokai Zhang, Boli Li, Hai Xu, Mona Wells, Boris Tefsen, Boqiang Qin. Effect of micronutrients on algae in different regions of Taihu, a large, spatially diverse, hypereutrophic lake. Water research, 2019, 151(15):500-514.
14) Yanqing Ding, Boqiang Qin, Hai Xu, Xiaodong Wang. 2016. Effects of sediment and turbulence on alkaline phosphatase activity and photosynthetic activity of phytoplankton in the shallow hyper-eutrophic Lake Taihu, China. Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2016, 23:16183-16193.
15) Kun Shi, Yunlin Zhang, Hai Xu, Guangwei Zhu, Boqiang Qin, Changchun Huang, Xiaohan Liu, Yongqiang Zhou, and Lv Heng. 2015. Long-term satellite observations of microcystin concentrations in Lake Taihu during cyanobacterial bloom periods. Environmental Science & Technology, 2015,?49(11):?6448-6456.
16) Yanqing Ding, Boqiang Qin, Hai Xu, Baili Dong, Justin Brooks. Comparison of efficacy of two P-inactivation agents on sediments from different regions of Lake Taihu: sediment core incubations. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 2012, 181(4): 271-281.
17) Justyna J. Hampel,?Mark J. McCarthy,?Wayne S. Gardner,?Lu Zhang,?Hai Xu,?Guangwei Zhu,?and Silvia E. Newell. Nitrification and ammonium dynamics in Taihu Lake, China: seasonal competition for ammonium between nitrifiers and?cyanobacteria. Biogeosciences, 2018, 15: 733 -748.
18) Jianming Deng, Hans W.Paerl, Boqiang Qin, Yunlin Zhang, Guangwei Zhu, Erik Jeppesen, Yongjiu Cai, Hai Xu. Climatically-modulated decline in wind speed may strongly affect eutrophication in shallow lakes. Science of The Total Environment, 2018, 645: 1361-1370.
19) Shiming Ding, Musong Chen, Mengdan Gong, Xianfang Fan, Boqiang Qin, Hai Xu, Shuai ShuaiGao, Zengfeng Jin, Daniel C.W.Tsang, Chaosheng Zhang. 2018. Internal phosphorus loading from sediments causes seasonal nitrogen limitation for harmful algal blooms. Science of Total Environment, 2018, 625: 872 - 884.
20) Jianrong Ma, Boqiang Qin, Hans W. Paerl, Justin D. Brookes, Nathan S. Hall, Kun Shi, Yongqiang Zhou, Jinsong Guo, Zhe Li, Hai Xu, Tingfeng Wu, Shengxing Long. The persistence of cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms throughout winter in Lake Taihu, China. Limnology and Oceanography, 2016, 61 (2): 711-722.
21) Kun Shi, Yunlin Zhang, Guangwei Zhu, XiaohanLiu,Yongqiang Zhou, HaiXu, Boqiang Qin, Ge Liu, Yunmei Li. Long-term remote monitoring of total suspended matter concentration in Lake Taihu using 250?m MODIS-Aqua data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2015, 164: 43-56.
22) Jianrong Ma, Justin D. Brookes, Boqiang Qin, Hans W. Paerl, Guang Gao, Pan Wu, Wei Zhang, Jianming Deng, Guangwei Zhu, Yunling Zhang, Hai Xu, Hailin Niu. Environmental factors controlling colony formation in blooms of the cyanobacteria Microcystis spp. in Lake Taihu, China. Harmful Algae, 2014, 31: 136-142.
23) Xiaohan Liu, Yunlin Zhang, Kun Shi, Guangwei Zhu, Hai Xu, Mengyuan Zhu. Absorption and fluorescence properties of chromophoric dissolved organic matter: implications for the monitoring of water quality in a large subtropical reservoir. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2014, 21(24): 14078 -14090.
24) Sulin Xiang, Mengyuan Zhu, Guangwei Zhu, Hai Xu. Water quality responses to accumulation of Microcystis during a cyanobacterial bloom event in different littoral vegetation zones of Lake Taihu, China. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 2014, 26(14): 4427- 4434.
25) Boqiang?Qin, Guang?Gao, Guangwei?Zhu, Yunlin?Zhang, Yuzhi?Song, Xiangming?Tang, Hai?Xu, Jianming?Deng. Lake eutrophication and its ecosystem response. Chinese science bulletin, 2013,?58(9): 961-970.
26) Linlin Cai, Guangwei Zhu, Mengyuan Zhu, Hai Xu, Boqiang Qin. Effects of temperature and nutrients on phytoplankton biomass during bloom seasons in Taihu Lake. Water Science and Engineering, 2012, 5(4): 361-374.

获奖
获2013年度江苏省科学技术奖二等奖“太湖水环境演化过程、驱动机制及生态效应”（排名第5）.