Detailed Schedule for
Advanced Ecology Lectures: Global Change and Soils
Fudan University
(May 23 - June 4, 2010, Fudan University)
Date
Time
5/23
(Sun.)
p.m.
Topic
Students’ arrival and registration
Opening ceremony
5/24
(Mon.)
a.m.
p.m.
a.m.
5/25
(Tues.)
p.m
a.m.
5/26
(Wed.)
p.m.
e.v.
5/27
(Thu.)
a.m.
p.m.
a.m.
5/28
(Fri.)
p.m.
e.v.
5/29
(Sat.)
a.m.
Global climatic change: an overview
A systems perspective: biogeochemical
transfers
and
transformations
across
landscapes from atmosphere to soil to water
Carbon cycle of terrestrial ecosystems
Lecturers/Organizers
Dr. Lifen Jiang
Drs. Bo Li & Lifen Jiang
Prof. Jiquan Chen
(Univ. of Toledo)
Prof. Kathleen C. Weathers
(IES)
Prof Jiquan Chen
(Univ. of Toledo)
Surface-atmosphere exchange: opportunities
Prof. Monique Y. Leclerc
and
challenges
on
eddy-covariance
(Univ. of Georgia)
measurements
Assessment of methodology for measuring
Prof. Changming Fang
soil respiration in situ and in the laboratory
(Fudan University)
Diversity with a capital D and the
Prof. Kathleen C. Weathers
advancement of science
(IES)
Women in Science
Weathers, Leclerc, & Wu Jihua
Prof. Bo Li
Mycorrhiza and plant nutrition
(Fudan Univ. )
Climate change and sustainability: the
Prof. Monique Y. Leclerc
fundamentals
(Univ. of Georgia)
Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to air
Prof. Kathleen C. Weathers
pollution in the face of global change
(IES)
Soil organic carbon in agricultural soils in
Prof. Genxing Pan
China: history, present and future
(Nanjing Agric. Univ. )
Education of graduate students in Ecology in Research fellows and graduate
Taiwan
students from Taiwan
Climate change: necessity is the mother of
Prof. Monique Y. Leclerc
invention or the advent of powerful
(Univ. of Georgia)
contributing solutions
p.m.
The spatial-temporal
respiration in China
5/30
(Sun.)
6/1
(Tues.)
p.m.
a.m.
p.m.
a.m.
6/2
(Wed.)
p.m.
6/3
(Thu.)
Optical remote sensing: basics,
data processing, applications
Coupling climate, human impact,
and socioeconomics in ecosystem
studies
Using global long-term time series
land surface satellite datasets
The response of soil organic carbon
to climate change
Experimental study of global
change impacts on ecosystem and
soil processes
The distribution of soil organic
carbon and its response to climate
change in the paramos grassland of
Tibetan plateau
a.m.
Soil respiration
p.m.
Root ecology
a.m.
6/4
(Fri.)
of
Soil
Prof. Guirui Yu
(Chinese Academy of
Sciences)
Break
a.m.
5/31
(Mon.)
pattern
p.m.
e.v.
Soil biological researches under
global climate change
Ecological modeling (14:00 - 15:30
p.m.)
Final exam (15:40 - 17:00 p.m.)
Closing ceremony and graduation
a.m. 8:30-11:30; p.m. 14:00-17:00; e.v. 18:30-20:00
Dr. Garik Gutman
(NASA)
Prof. Jiquan Chen
(Univ. of Toledo)
Dr. Garik Gutman
(NASA)
Prof. Changming Fang
(Fudan University)
Prof. Yiqi Luo
(Univ. of Oklahoma)
Prof. Jinsheng He
(Beijing Univ. )
Prof. Yiqi Luo
(Univ. of Oklahoma)
Prof. Pu Mo
(Beijing Normal Univ. )
Prof. Shenglei Fu
(Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Yiqi Luo
(Univ. of Oklahoma)
Lifen Jiang
Changming Fang & Lifen Jiang