Speaker: Researcher Wang Siyuan, Research Center for Ecological Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Abstract: The report first introduces the basic principles and methods of terrestrial ecosystem modeling and the current universal terrestrial ecosystem models at home and abroad, and then focuses on some innovative achievements in the research and development of a new generation of terrestrial ecosystem dynamic models and their typical applications.

Profile of the Speaker:

Dr. Wang Siyuan is a second-class researcher at the Center for Ecological Environment Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a chief professor and doctoral supervisor of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice Chairman of the Special Committee on Ecological Model of the Ecological Society of China, member of the Special Committee on Environmental Information System and Remote Sensing of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, and member of the Special Committee on Sustainable Utilization of Resources and Disaster Reduction of the Chinese Society for Natural Resources. He has been long dedicated to the study of global change remote sensing and terrestrial ecosystem pattern and process. He has presided over more than 30 national projects or topics, including the National Natural Science Foundation, the National 863 and 973, the key research and development of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the research and development of major national scientific devices. He has published more than 180 academic papers in academic journals at home and abroad, completed six monographs and translated one. He has won such honors as the first prize of scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Education, the scientific and technological progress award of the Yellow Committee and the title of "excellent" postdoctoral fellow in Tsinghua University, as well as the most influential paper award and highly cited paper award of the Geographical Society of China. He serves on the editorial board of three international SCI academic journals and two domestic academic journals.