PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

﹞         Editorial Board, Forrest Ecology and Management (9/2007 - present)

﹞         Editorial Board, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (10/2006 - present)

﹞         Handling Editor (Ecology): Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (1/2007 每 present)

﹞         Associate Editor: Journal of Plant Ecology (1/2007 每 present)

﹞         Special Issue Editor, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2004/05)

﹞         Guest Editor, Southeast Naturalists (2005)

﹞         Associate Editor:  Forest Science (4/2001 每 3/2005)

﹞         Editorial Board:  Acta Ecologica Sinica (1998 每 present)

﹞         Editorial Board:  Acta Applied Ecologica (1997 每 present)

﹞         Special Issue Editor, Forest Science 50(3) (2004):  Forest Canopies

﹞         Special Issue Editor, Forest Science (2004-2005):  Teakettle Ecosystem Studies

﹞         Editorial Board Member, TAMU China Database, (2/03 每 present)

﹞         Science Leader, US-China Carbon Consortium (USCCC), (12/03 每 present)

﹞         Panel Member, Research Committee for Canadian Model Forests (1994 每 1998)

﹞         Panel Member, External Advisory Panel, China database, Taxes A&M (5/02 每 2/03)

﹞        Panel Member, EPA STAR/GRO Fellowships (2004, 2005, )

﹞        Panel Member, NICCR/DOE (2006, 2007)

﹞        Panel Member, NASA (2005, 2006)

 

AWARDS:   

﹞         Outstanding Service Award (2006), CAGT

﹞         Outstanding Faculty Research Award (2006), Univ of Toledo

﹞         Research Fellowship for Foreign Specialists, 10/24-10/29/04, FFPRI, Japan

﹞        Sigma Xi/Dion D. Raftapolous Outstanding Research, 2004, University of Toledo

﹞         Research Expert, Korean Forest Service (2003)

﹞         The Charlie C. Bullard Fellowship, 9/1/1999- 8/30/2000, Harvard University, MA.

﹞        Most influential in the development of my scientific career, 1999, Intel Science, Talent Search

 

SERVICE AT SOCIETIES

﹞         Chinese Association of Greater Toledo, President (1/06 每 present)

﹞         IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Party: Co-chair (1/2005 每 present)

﹞         Advanced Ecology Lectures at Fudan University, Chair (2004 每 present)

﹞         NASULGC: Sub-committee Chair, Global Climate Change White Paper (10/2001)

﹞         The IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Group IUFRO.8.01.03: Session chair, 2nd IUFRO Landscape Ecology Workshop, 5//96, Corvallis, OR, Session chair, 3rd IUFRO Landscape Ecology Workshop, 5/11/02, St. Marie, CA, Webmaster (http://research.eeescience.utoledo.edu/lees/IUFRO/), 5/2000 - present

﹞         Ecological Society of America (ESA): International Relationship Committee, Chair (96-99), Chair, Asian Ecology Section (1995-96), Student Award Judge (1993), Member, International Relationships Committee (1993-1996)

﹞         Chinese Ecologists Overseas: President (1993), Board of Directors and editorial board for the News Letter (1990-94), Chair

﹞         Society for Conservation Biology (SCB): Faculty advisor for MTU Chapter (1997-98), Leader, SCB Delegation to P.R. China (9/28 每 10/4, 2000)

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED

Silbernagel, Janet.  1996.  Dialectical sequences between culture and landscape ecological approach.  Ph.D. Thesis.  Michigan Technological University. Currently Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin, WI with tenure.

Brosofske, Kimberley Dawn.  1996.  Effects of harvesting on microclimate from small streams to uplands in western Washington.  MS thesis, Michigan Technological University. Currently Assistant Professor at University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Saunders, Sari.  1998. Multiscale relationships between landscape structure and function in a managed forest. Ph.D. Thesis.  Michigan Technological University. Currently Research Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University, MI

Song, Bo.  1998.  Three-dimensional forest canopies and their spatial relationships to understory vegetation.  Ph.D. Thesis.  Michigan Technological University. Currently Assistant Professor at Clemson University, SC.

Rudnicki, Mark.  1998.  Relations of climate and radial increment of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) in an old-growth Douglas-fir forest in southern Washington.  MS thesis, Michigan Technological University. Currently an assistant professor in the University of Connecticut.

Brosofske, Kimberley Dawn.  1999.  Relationships between understory vegetation and landscape structure across multiple spatial scales in northern Wisconsin.  Ph.D. Thesis.  Michigan Technological University. Currently Assistant Professor at University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Wanggsenthorn, Surachit.  1999. Genetic diversity in isolated bird populations following recent rain forest fragmentation.   MS thesis, Michigan Technological University. Currently Ph.D. student at Michigan Technological University.

Jaiteh, Malanding.  2000. The dynamics of human-induced land cover changed in Miombo ecosystems of southern Africa.  Ph.D. Thesis.  Michigan Technological University. Currently Research Faculty at Columbia University, NY.

Watkins, Radley.  2000.  Road effects on understory vascular plants in a managed forest landscape.  M.S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University. Project manager for bear monitoring at the Glacier National Park, MT.

Gerdes, Lynden B.  2001.  A contribution to the flora of the Rove slate bedrock complex landtype association, Northern Cook County, MN, USA.  MS thesis, Michigan Technological University. Currently Ph.D. student at Michigan Technological University.  Currently Botanist for Minnesota DNR (co-chair with M. Gale).

Ma, Siyan.  2003 (July).  Interactions between microclimate, soil respiration, and disturbances in a forest ecosystem:  Lessons from the Teakettle Experimental Forest.  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toledo, Currently a postdoctoral research associate in UT.

Euskirchen, Eugenie S.  2003 (Sept.).  Carbon fluxes in managed forest landscapes: an empirical and model-based approach.  Ph.D. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.  Currently a postdoctoral research associate in University of Alaska (Dr. Dave Maguire).

Mary K. Bresee.  2004 (May).  Photosynthetic characteristics of dominant tree species in two climatically different landscapes.  M.S. Thesis, University of Toledo.  Currently a RA at the LEES Lab.

John A. Rademacher.  2004 (May). Forest structure and carbon allocation within and between two northern-mixed hardwood edges.  M.S. Thesis, University of Toledo.  Currently a Range Conservationist at the Humboldt-Lioyable National Forest, NV.

James Michael Le Moine.  2004 (Dec.).  Soil respiration across chronosequences of three dominant forest ecosystems in Northern Wisconsin, USA.  M.S. Thesis, University of Toledo.  Currently a research assistant and lab manager at Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Michigan.

Soung-Ryoul Ryu.  2005.  Effect of disturbances on fuel loading, fire spread, and interactions in managed forest landscapes.  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toledo, Currently a postdoctoral research associate in Clemson University.

Amy L. Concilio.  2005.  Interannual Variability in Soil Respiration and Response to Experimental Burning and Thinning in an Old Growth Mixed-Conifer Forest.  M.S. Thesis, University of Toledo.   Currently research fellow at NEON - AIBS.

Jacob Joseph LaCroix.  2006.  Interactions Between Fire and Landscape Structure: Applications of the FARSITE Model.  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toledo, Currently a research fisheries biologist, Auke Bay Lab, Alaska Fisheries Science Center National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA,

Qinglin Li, 2006.  Carbon storage and fluxes in a managed oak forest landscape.  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toledo, Currently Ecologist, Timberline Natural Resources Ltd., Canada

Rachel Henderson.  2007.  Soil Effluxes of verticle profiles at MOFEP Experiments.  M.S. Thesis, University of Toledo.   Currently RA at LEES Lab.

Gwendolyn H. Tenney.  2007.  Quantifying the effects of prescribed burning on soil carbon efflux in an Ohio oak woodland.  M.S. Thesis, University of Toledo.   Currently at LEES Lab.

Wenli Zhang.  2007.  Carbon Fluxes of Typical Steppe and Cropland Ecosystems in the Agri-Pasture Transition Region of Inner Mongolia, China.  Ph.D. Thesis, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Currently Associate Professor of the Three Gorges University (Co-Chair with Dr. Guanghui Lin).

 

 

 

Others:

Marshall, Treneice.  1999-2001.  Contributions of wetland ecotones to the overall species diversity of a northern Wisconsin landscape.  MS thesis, Michigan Technological University. Currently unknown.

Xu, Ming, 1994-1996.  Microclimate and plant diversity in Missouri Ozarks.  Ph.D.  Transferred to UC Berkley.  Currently assistant professor at Rutgers University.