On the afternoon of December 19, Professor Tian Hanqin，director of International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Solon and Martha Dixon Professor at Auburn University attended the Forum of College of Resources & Environment and delivered a speech titled "Understanding and Predicting Global Change and Ecosystem Interactions" at the invitation of HZAU president Li Zhaohu. The lecture was presided over by Professor Hu Ronggui.
First, Professor Tian briefly introduced global climate change and its impact on ecosystems and human society. Then he shared his major research on DLEM model (Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model). Building on the ecosystem process model and big data and combining with ground-based observations and remote sensing the model can be used in integrated simulation of global change and terrestrial ecosystems for quantitative analysis of their complex interactions including climate, land use, land cover changes etc. Next, he explained and predicted the interactions and relationships between global change and ecosystems in the future with figures and examples of carbon-nitrogen cycle, water change and ecological system.
In the end, professor Tian said that he looked forward to cooperating with HZAU faculty and students in the fields and expected them to exchange and study at Auburn University.
Profile: Dr. Tian Hanqin is director of International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Solon and Martha Dixon Professor and Alumni Professor of Ecosystem and Global Ecology in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. He has served as the president of Asian Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America; Board on Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities; science team member of NASA Carbon Monitoring System. His primary research focuses on understanding and quantifying biosphere's roles in global biogeochemical and hydrological cycles and the climate system, and how human activities have affected Earth's ecosystem ability to provide people with goods and services and form a scientific basis for solutions to the major environmental challenges facing humanity and the society. He has published more than 300 papers in SCI journals, including Nature and Science. He won many awards such as Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Harry Murphy Award for Excellence in Research (Auburn University, 2015) Creative Research and Scholarship Award(Auburn University, 2011).
