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Dr. Hanqin Tian is Alumni Professor of Ecology in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University, one of major research universities in the United States of America.  He did his postdoctoral study in the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole after finishing his Ph.D. from the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry and Syracuse University.  Before joining Auburn University, he was Associate Professor in Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.  Before that, he was Staff Scientist in MBL Ecosystems Center and Research Affiliate in MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts.

Dr. Tian is an ecosystem scientist and systems modeler worked at a broad scale and examined ecosystem processes and exchanges (energy, carbon, nitrogen and water) that occur at the interfaces of the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere.  He has become increasingly interested in coupled biogeochemical cycles in the Earth’s ecosystems and dynamics of coupled natural and human systems.  Dr. Tian’s work has been published in prestigious journals, including NATURE and SCIENCE, and featured in various media including newspapers (e.g. Boston Global, Washington Post, New York Times), TV programs (e.g. ABC, CNN) and radio (e.g. BBC-London), and included in the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the United States of America.  Dr. Tian was among the early scientists who documented how ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) affects tropical ecosystem dynamics and the global carbon cycle.

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  Education      Experience     Group     Research     Teaching     Service     Publication

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D. (1991-1995), Environmental and Forest Biology (Systems Ecology), State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) and Syracuse University, New York. 

Doctor of Science Candidate (1988-1991), Forest Ecology, College of Forest Resources, Beijing Forestry University, China.

M.S. (1983-1986), Agronomy and Soil, The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing.

B.S. (1978-1982), Agronomy, Zhejiang University (Former Zhejiang Agricultural University), Hangzhou/Ningbo.

EXPERIENCE: 

A.U. Alumni Professor (2007 - ), School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

Professor (6/2003 - present), School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

Associate Professor (8/2001-5/2003), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.

Staff Scientist I (7/1998–7/2001), Research Associate (5/1998-7/1998), Postdoctoral Research Scientist (9/1995-4/1998), The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. 

Research Affiliate (1/1998-present), MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Research Assistant (1/1992-8/1995), College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, USA.

Assistant Professor (7/1986-8/1988), China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China.

Research Associate (8/1982-8/1983), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Jinyun, Zhejiang, China.

Affiliate Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (2000-present), Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (2003-present), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

RESEARCH:

-         Research Interests:

            Dr. Tian is an ecosystem scientist and systems modeler worked at a broad scale and examined ecosystem processes and exchanges (energy, carbon, nitrogen and water) that occur at the interfaces of the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere.  His primary interest is in the understanding of coupled biogeochemical cycles in the Earth’s ecosystems and dynamics of coupled natural and human systems by using a systems approach and modern high technology (GIS, GPS, RS and Computer Simulation).  He works at a spectrum of spatial scales that range from plot to watershed to regional to global, and a spectrum of organisms from microbes to trees. His research fields have covered a range of topics, including studies of carbon, nitrogen and water cycles in a range of ecosystems across the globe including boreal and temperate forests in North America and East Asia, tropical forests in the Amazon Basin and Southeast Asia, savannas in Africa, grasslands in United States and Mongolia, and croplands in China and United States.

-          Research Approaches:

The work in Tian’s laboratory is necessarily multidisciplinary and collaborative.  Much of the research has utilized an integrated approach that is a combination of systems thinking, systems modeling, computer simulation, spatial analysis (GIS, GPS & RS), and ecosystem theory. While we focus on model development for data analysis and hypothesis testing, we seek close collaborations with colleagues for experiments and field observations.

-         Research Projects:

The current research projects include studies of quantifying biotic, climatic and anthropogenic controls on terrestrial ecosystem dynamics and the global carbon cycle; characterizing and identifying the feedback mechanisms between terrestrial ecosystems and the climatic system; modeling dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems involving exchanges (energy, water, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus) that occur at the interfaces of the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere; and investigating dynamics of human-ecosystem interactions at the urban-rural interface.

-         Research Performance:

            Dr. Tian’s work has been published in prestigious journals, including NATURE and SCIENCE, and featured in various media including newspapers (e.g. Boston Global, Washington Post, New York Times), TV programs (e.g. ABC, CNN) and radio (e.g. BBC-London), and included in the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the United States of America.  Dr. Tian was among the early scientists who documented how ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) affects tropical ecosystem dynamics and the global carbon cycle. 

TEACHING:

-         Courses Taught at Auburn University (Spring, 2004 - )

FORY 7930 - Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Ecosystems 

FORY 7970 - Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis

            FORY 7210 - Ecosystem Ecology

-         Courses Taught at the University of Kansas, Lawrence (2001-2003)

BIOL 414 – Principles of Ecology

            BIOL 415 – Field and Laboratory Methods in Ecology

            BIOL 656 – Ecosystem Ecology

            BIOL 701 - Terrestrial Ecology

            BIOL 714 – Community and Ecosystem Ecology

-         Course Taught at State University of New York, Syracuse (1991-1995)

EFB 518 - Systems Ecology

-         Course Taught at Beijing Forestry University, Beijing (1988-1991)

Landscape Ecology

SERVICES:

-         Reviewer for papers:

            - Nature (London)

            - Science (Washington, D.C.)

            - Ecological Applications

            - Journal of Ecology

            - Geophysical Research Letters

            - Tellus

            - Ecosystems

            - Forest Ecology and Management

            - Global Ecology and Biogeography

            - Science in China (Chinese Academy of Science).

-         Reviewer for proposals:

            - USA: NASA, NSF, NOAA, DOE

            - Canada: NSERC, SSHRC and MRC

            - China: NSFC, CAS

            - United Kingdom: NERC

-         Public Outreach:

      -   Interview with BBC and ABC

            -   Work featured by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report.

-  Work featured in National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the United States.

-   Work featured in IGBP Newsletter

-   Work featured in CDIAC Communications

-  Co-author of Chapter 3, TAR, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group I.

-   Work featured in Global Climate Change Digest

-   Work featured in EOS-WEBSTER

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Tian, H.Q., S. Wang, J. Liu, S. Pan, H. Chen, C. Zhang, and X. Shi (2006), Patterns of soil nitrogen storage in China, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 20, GB1001, doi:10.1029/2005GB002464.

Chen, H., H.Q. Tian, M. Liu, J. M. Melillo, S. Pan, and C. Zhang (2006). Effect of land-cover change on terrestrial carbon dynamics in the southern USA. Journal of Environmental Quality (in press).

Lu, A., H.Q. Tian, M. Liu, J. Liu, and J. M. Melillo (2006), Spatial and temporal patterns of carbon emissions from forest fires in China from 1950 to 2000, J. Geophysical Research, 111, D05313, doi:10.1029/2005JD006198.

Zhang, C., H.Q. Tian, S. Pan, M.Liu, G. Lockaby, E.B. Schilling and John Stanturf (2006). Effects of forest regrowth and urbanization on ecosystem carbon storage in a rural-urban gradient in the Southeast US. Ecosystems (in press).

Tian, H.Q., J. Liu, J. M. Melillo, M. Liu, D. Kicklighter, X. Yan and S. Pan. 2005. The  Terrestrial Carbon Budget in East Asia: Human and Natural Impacts.  In: C. Fu, J. Freney and J. Steward (eds). Changes in the Human-Monsoon System of East Asia in the Context of Global Change.  SCOPE Series, Island Press, Washington DC.

Liu, J., H.Q. Tian, M. Liu, D. Zhuang, J.M. Melillo and Z. Zhang. 2005. China’s changing landscape during the 1990s: Large-scale land transformation estimated with satellite data. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L02405, doi:10.1029/2004GL021649.

Liu, J., M. Liu, H.Q. Tian, D. Zhuang, Z. Zhang, W. Zhang and X. Tang, X. Deng. 2005. Spatial and temporal patterns of China’s cropland during 1990-2000: An analysis based on Landsat TM data. Remote Sensing of Environment 98: 442-456.

Zhang, C., H.Q. Tian, J. Liu, S. Wang, M. Liu, S. Pan and X. Shi. 2005. Pools and distributions of soil phosphorus in China. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19, GB1020, doi:10.1029/2004GB002296.

Garcia-Montiel DC, Melillo JM, Steudler PA, Tian HQ, Neill C, Kicklighter DW, Feigl B, Cerri CC. 2004.  Emissions of N₂O and CO₂ from forests in Rondônia, Brazil. Ecological Applications 14: 214-220.

Tian, H.Q., J.M. Melillo, D.W. Kicklighter, S. Pan, J. Liu, A.D. McGuire and B. Moore III.  2003. Regional carbon dynamics in monsoon Asia and its implications to the global carbon cycle.  Global and Planetary Change 37:201-217.

Wang, S., H.Q. Tian, J. Liu and S. Pan.  2003. Pattern and change in soil organic carbon storage in China: 1960s-1980s.  Tellus 55B:416-427.

Tian, H.Q. 2002. Modeling dynamics of the terrestrial biosphere in changing global environments: models, data, and validation. J.  of Geographical Science 57:378-388.

Luo, T., R. Neilson, H.Q. Tian, C. Vörösmarty, H. Zhu, and S. Liu.  2002.  A model for seasonality and distribution of leaf area index of forests and its application to China.  J. of Vegetation Sciences 13:817-830.

Melillo, J.M., P.A. Steudler, B.J. Feigl, C. Neill, D. Garcia, C.C. Cerri, M.C. Piccolo and H.Q. Tian. 2001. Nitrous oxide emission from forests and pastures of various ages in the Brazilian Amazon.  J. of Geophysical Research Vol. 106, No. D24, p. 34,179

McGuire, A. D., S. Sitch, R. Dargaville, G. Esser, J. Foley, M. Heimann, F. Joos, J. Kaplan, D. W. Kicklighter, R. A. Meier, J. M. Melillo, B. Moore III, I. C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, T. Reichenau, A. Schloss, H.Q. Tian, L.J. Williams and U. Wittenberg. 2001.  The effects of CO₂, climate and land-use on terrestrial carbon balance, 1920-1992: An analysis with four process-based ecosystem models.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles 15(1): 183-206

Tian, H.Q., C. A. S. Hall and Y. Qi.  2000.  Increased biotic metabolism of the biosphere inferred from observed data and model.  Science in China, Series B (Chemistry), 43(1):58-68. (Chinese Version)

Tian, H.Q., J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, A. D. McGuire, J. Helfrich, B. Moore III and C. J. Vörösmarty.  2000.  Climatic and biotic controls on annual carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 9:315-336.

Schimel, D., J. Melillo, H.Q. Tian, D. McGuire, D. Kicklighter, T. Kittel, N. Rosenbloom, S. Running, P. Thornton, D. Ojima, W. Parton, R. Kelly, M. Sykes, R. Neilson and B. Rizzo. 2000.  Contribution of increasing CO₂ and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States. Science 287:2004-2006.

Tian, H.Q., J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, A. D. McGuire, B. Moore III and C. J. Vorosmarty. 1999.  Parameters for global ecosystem models.  Nature 399:536 (London).

Tian, H.Q., J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, A. D. McGuire and J. Helfrich.  1999. The sensitivity of terrestrial carbon storage to historical atmospheric CO₂ and climate variability in the United States.  Tellus 51B:414-452.

Tian, H., J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, A. D. McGuire, J. Helfrich, B. Moore III and C. J. Vörösmarty. 1998.  Effect of interannual climate variability on carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems. Nature 396:664-667 (London).

Tian, H.Q., C. A. S. Hall and Y. Qi.  1998.  Modeling primary productivity of the terrestrial biosphere in changing environments: Toward a Dynamic Biosphere Model. Critical Review in Plant Sciences 17(5):541-557.

Tian, H.Q., H. Xu and C. A. S. Hall. 1995. Pattern and change of a boreal forest landscape in the northeastern China.   Water, Air and Soil Pollution 82:465-476.

Hall, C. A. S., H.Q. Tian, Y. Qi, G. Pontius and J. Cornell. 1995. Modeling spatial and temporal pattern of tropical land-use change.  J. of Biogeography, 22:753-757.

Peterson, A. T., H.Q. Tian, E. Martínez-Meyer, J. Soberón, V. Sánchez-Cordero. Modeling Distributional Shifts of Individual Species and Biomes.  In: Lovejoy T. and Hannah, L. (eds).  Climate Change and Biodiversity.  Yale University Press.

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