In order to further strengthen the recruiting work of the overseas talents and intelligence, build effective collaboration teams with excellent researchers from China and the foreign countries, improve the innovation capacity of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), and stimulate the development of the inter-disciplines and new disciplines, CAS launched the “International innovation partnership program” in 2001. The program relies on State or CAS key laboratories that have good work foundation and research conditions, and has built and supported a number of innovation teams. The key members are the excellent domestic scientists and excellent overseas Chinese scholars.
The team members generally are 5-8 excellent young and middle-aged researchers in the related disciplines in China and 5-8 associate professorsand above, or equivalent in well-known foreign universities or research institutions.
"Ecosystem Change and Human Activity" innovation team was built in 2005, affiliated with Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, which comprise 7 excellent researchers from IGSNRR and 8 excellent overseas Chinese scholars.
Following is the introduction of the 8 excellent overseas Chinese scholars.
Dr. Chen JingMing
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto,Canada
http://faculty.geog.utoronto.ca/Chen/Chen's%20homepage/main_bio.htm
Dr. Lee XueHui
Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, USA
http://environment.yale.edu/profile/lee
Dr. Liang SunLin
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, USA
http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Liang.html
Dr. Luo YiQi
Professor, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, USA
http://ecolab.ou.edu/?member_info&id=1
Dr. Qi JiaGuo
Professor, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, Michigan State University, USA
http://www.globalchange.msu.edu/qi.html
Dr. Peng ChangHui
Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences University of Quebec, Canada
http://www.crc.uqam.ca
Dr. Sun LaiXiang
Professor, Department of Financial and Management Studies,SOAS, University of London, UK
http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31883.php
Dr. Xiao XiangMing
Professor, Complex System Research Center,Institute for the Study of Earth,Oceans and Space Unversity of New Hamshire,USA
http://remotesensing.unh.edu