Keynote
Speakers
Dr. Danny C Lee, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat
Assessment Center,
USDA Forest
Service, USA
Using Landscape Ecology to Anticipate and Respond to Emerging Forest Threats
Dr.
Lee is the inaugural Director of the Eastern
Forest Environmental
Threat Assessment
Center, which was established in early
2005 to develop knowledge and tools needed to predict, detect, and assess
environmental threats to forests of the Eastern United
States. In 2006, the Center
merged with the Southern Global Change Program and the National Forest Health
Monitoring Research Unit; Dr. Lee is the Director and Project Leader of the
combined unit. Dr. Lee’s own research
has focused on the application of systems analysis, risk assessment, and
modeling to large-scale ecosystem management issues. Previously positions included Project Leader
with the Pacific Southwest Research Station in Arcata, California, and the
science team leader for the Sierra Nevada Framework for Conservation and
Collaboration from 1998-2000. From 1991
to 1998, Dr. Lee worked at the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Boise, Idaho, on aquatic
and land interactions in the Columbia
River Basin, including
work on the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. His work on integrated ecological and
economic planning efforts began while at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC,
from 1985-1991. Dr. Lee earned a Ph. D.
in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas
A&M University,
a Masters in Applied Statistics from Louisiana
State University,
and M. S. and B. A. degrees in ecology and zoology from the University of Tennessee.
Dr. Jianguo (Jack) Liu,
Michigan State University, USA
Landscapes
as Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Dr.
Jianguo (Jack) Liu is Rachel Carson Chair in
Ecological Sustainability, University Distinguished Professor, and Director of
the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State
University (MSU), USA.
He has been on the MSU faculty since completing his postdoctoral study at Harvard University
(he was on sabbatical at Stanford
University from
2001-2002). Dr. Liu is keenly interested in integrating ecology with
socioeconomics as well as human demography and behavior. His work has been
published in journals such as Nature
and Science, and has been widely
featured in the global media. Dr. Liu has served on various international and
national committees and panels. He is President-Elect (2007-2008) and President
(2008-2010) of US-IALE (US Regional Association, International Association for
Landscape Ecology). In recognition of his efforts and achievements in research,
teaching, and service, Dr. Liu has been given many awards, such as the
Guggenheim Fellowship Award from the Guggenheim Foundation, CAREER Award from
the National Science Foundation, Distinguished Service Award from US-IALE, and
Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship from the Ecological Society of America.
Dr. Bojie Fu, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
Landscape ecology for the sustainable
environment: recent advances in China
Dr. Bojie Fu is
Director–General of Bureau of Sciences & Technology for Resources &
Environment，Chinese Academy of Sciences. He coordinates
researches of Ecology, Environmental Sciences, and Earth Science in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of
Landscape Ecology in Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His major research
interests are Landscape pattern and ecological processes, Land use change and
environmental effects, Ecological and Environmental Impacts Assessment.
Dr. Fu is an executive board member of
International Association for Ecology (INTECOL), and the Chairman of International
Association of Landscape Ecology-China Chapter, Vice Chairman of SCOPE China,
Vice Chairman of CNC-IGBP, Vice Chairman of Scientific Committee of Chinese
Ecosystem Research Network and Vice President of the Chinese Society of
Geography. He was invited as editorial board member of international journals
of ‘Landscape Ecology”, “Soil Use Management”, “Landscape and Urban Planning”
and “Sustainability Science”. He has published more than 260 scientific papers
and 7 books, about 70 papers published in the international journals.
Dr. Eric J. Gustafson, Institute for Applied Ecosystems
Studies, USDA Forest
Service, USA
Using spatial models to support landscape management
Dr. Gustafson is Team Leader for Landscape
Ecology Research at the Institute for Applied Ecosystems Studies in
Rhinelander, WI. Dr. Gustafson was a
primary architect of the Institute, which opened in 2007 within the Northern
Research Station of the US Forest Service.
The mission of the Institute is to focus on the theory and application
of scaling science to provide scientific knowledge at policy-relevant scales
for the benefit of people, their economies, and the environment. Dr Gustafson was Project Leader of the
Landscape Ecology Unit at Rhinelander from 1998 until the formation of the
Institute. He served US-IALE from
1993-2004 in various capacities, including Councillor-at-Large,
Award Committee Chair and President. He
is currently an Associate Editor for the journal Landscape Ecology. Dr. Gustafson’s research is focused on natural
resource management and the consequences of broad-scale ecological phenomena on
the sustainability of biotic resources.
He develops quantitative approaches to the integration of resource
extraction and the conservation of biotic diversity. This involves development of spatial models
and application of other predictive models in a spatial context. These tools are applied to answer strategic
research and management questions about how the factors that structure forest
landscapes can be managed to sustain biotic resources. Dr. Gustafson earned a Ph.D. in landscape
ecology from Purdue University, a Master’s degree in wildlife ecology
from the SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse,
NY) and a B.S. in biology from Wheaton College
(Wheaton, IL).
Dr. Jiquan Chen,
Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science, University of Toledo, USA
Biogeographic Landscapes of China – Ecology, Culture,
Economics, & People
Dr.
Jiquan Chen received his B.S. in plant ecology from Inner Mongolia University,
M.S. in forest ecology from the Chinese
Academy of Science, and a Ph.D. in
ecosystem analysis from University
of Washington
(1991). He has authored over 130
scientific articles and six books (total citation >1700). Dr. Chen is broadly interested in ecosystem
science and landscape ecology. His
research on forest edges, three dimensional canopy structure, ecosystem carbon
and water fluxes, energy balance, riparian zone management, and fire ecology
are very influential in ecology, forest management, and micrometeorology. He has taught landscape ecology, conservation
biology, forest ecology, biophysics, forest modeling, ecosystem management, and
a dozen others in natural science. In
1996, he proposed the Ecological Society of America to establish the Asian Ecology
Section and became its first chair. He
serves as a co-chair of the Landscape Ecology Working Party of the IUFRO
(2004-present), the chief scientist for the US-China Carbon Consortium, the Chair Professor for the Advanced Ecology
Lecture Series at Fudan University (2004 – present),
and one of the team leaders for the Great Lakes NEON Initiatives (GLACEO). He has been an associate editor for several
scientific journals (e.g., Forest Science,
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Forest
Ecology and Management, Journal of Plant Ecology, Journal of Integrative Plant
Biology), past president of Sino-Eco Association (1992-1993), and president
of the Chinese Association of Greater Toledo (2005- present). He received the Sigma Xi/Dion
D. Raftopoulos Award for Outstanding Research in
2004; and the Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2006 at the University of Toledo.