Events
NSFC and FAPESP kick-off: Speakers
In November 2021, the mutual interest of NSFC and FAPESP in strengthening efforts and building on collective expertise and resources to advance research on Climate Change was converted into the workshop The Synergy on Climate Change Research in China and in São Paulo, in which invited researchers from both regions showed how scientists were involved into actions to combat climate change and its impacts, aligned with UN SDG 13.
Not much later, in February of 2021, the two agencies launched as a first collaborative action a call for joint projects on Climate Change between researchers from the State of São Paulo and from China, focused on the topic “The dynamics of surface earth system and their relationship with sustainable development”.
The initiative followed NSFC’s Program on Sustainable Development International Cooperation (SDIC) to contribute to the global effort for a sustainable future. On FAPESP’s side, the call was a promotion of the Research Programme on Global Climate Change, a thematic program developed by the Agency to leverage opportunities for researches that can contribute to the development of new technologies, advancement and applicability of methodologies that provide effective actions to combat global climate change.
For this kick-off, we have invited researchers of the approved projects and international scientific experts to exchange knowledge and expertise, share the expectations for the development of the projects and look for ways to create impact with this research.
Speakers
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Paulo Artaxo He dedicated 40 years studying the effects of deforestation on carbon and hydrological cycles and in the functioning of the Amazonian ecosystem. He worked at NASA, Lund and Stockholm Universities. Prof. Artaxo published more than 400 papers, 26 of them in the Science and Nature group. He is one of the most cited Brazilian researchers with an h-index of Google Scholar of 104, and 81 in the Web of Science. Among the prizes received, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), received the TWAS Earth Science Prize, received the title of Doctorate of Philosophy Honoris Causa of the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He received in 2010 the Ordem do Mérito Científico Nacional medal, and in 2016 received the "Premio Almirante Álvaro Alberto" from MCTI, the most prestigious scientific prize in Brazil. He is listed in Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. Recently, participated in the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-26). |
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Paulo Artaxo He dedicated 40 years studying the effects of deforestation on carbon and hydrological cycles and in the functioning of the Amazonian ecosystem. He worked at NASA, Lund and Stockholm Universities. Prof. Artaxo published more than 400 papers, 26 of them in the Science and Nature group. He is one of the most cited Brazilian researchers with an h-index of Google Scholar of 104, and 81 in the Web of Science. Among the prizes received, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), received the TWAS Earth Science Prize, received the title of Doctorate of Philosophy Honoris Causa of the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He received in 2010 the Ordem do Mérito Científico Nacional medal, and in 2016 received the "Premio Almirante Álvaro Alberto" from MCTI, the most prestigious scientific prize in Brazil. He is listed in Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. Recently, participated in the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-26). |
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Tianjun ZHOU Prof. & Dr. Tianjun Zhou is a senior research scientist in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Adjunct Professor in the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He is the deputy-Director General of IAP/CAS. He served as the Lead Author on the 5th and 6th Assessment Reports by the Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is also a member of the CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change) Working Group on Coupled Modelling and co-chair of CMIP6 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Projectphase 6) Global Monsoon Model Inter-comparison Project (GMMIP). He is the Advisory Editor of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, a member of Panel of Experts for Special Foundation for State Major Basic Research Program of China entitled “Earth System and Global Change”. Tianjun ZHOU works on climate modeling and climate dynamics, with focus on monsoon and how the climate system responds to anthropogenic and natural forcing agents. He was named to the prestigious Highly Cited Researcher list from Clarivate Analytics for Geosciences (2018-2022), the prestigious Highly Cited Chinese Researcher list from Elsevier (2014-2022). |
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Tianjun ZHOU, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS Prof. & Dr. Tianjun Zhou is a senior research scientist in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Adjunct Professor in the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He is the deputy-Director General of IAP/CAS. He served as the Lead Author on the 5th and 6th Assessment Reports by the Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is also a member of the CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change) Working Group on Coupled Modelling and co-chair of CMIP6 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Projectphase 6) Global Monsoon Model Inter-comparison Project (GMMIP). He is the Advisory Editor of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, a member of Panel of Experts for Special Foundation for State Major Basic Research Program of China entitled “Earth System and Global Change”. Tianjun ZHOU works on climate modeling and climate dynamics, with focus on monsoon and how the climate system responds to anthropogenic and natural forcing agents. He was named to the prestigious Highly Cited Researcher list from Clarivate Analytics for Geosciences (2018-2022), the prestigious Highly Cited Chinese Researcher list from Elsevier (2014-2022). |
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Grantees
The fate of Holocene blue carbon in the Yangtze and Amazon coastal wetlands in response to precipitation and sea level changes
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Xiaomei Nian Dr. Nian is Associate Professor at State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University. She is also the head of SKLEC’s Luminescence Dating Laboratory. Nian's current research interests include establishing chronological frameworks for Quaterneary sediments, geomorphic evolution and paleoclimate change over a range of timescales, with a focus in coastal areas. She has published more than 30 papers. She acts as a reviewer for international journals in the fields of Quaternary Geology, Quaternary Chronology, paleoclimate change, and has reviewed grants for various Chinese and international funding agencies. |
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Xiaomei Nian, East China Normal University Dr. Nian is Associate Professor at State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University. She is also the head of SKLEC’s Luminescence Dating Laboratory. Nian's current research interests include establishing chronological frameworks for Quaterneary sediments, geomorphic evolution and paleoclimate change over a range of timescales, with a focus in coastal areas. She has published more than 30 papers. She acts as a reviewer for international journals in the fields of Quaternary Geology, Quaternary Chronology, paleoclimate change, and has reviewed grants for various Chinese and international funding agencies. |
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Resilience and adaptation to climate change in cities: time for action with nature-based solutions
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Weiqi Zhou, Research Center for Eco-Environment Sciences, CAS Dr. Weiqi Zhou is a professor of urban ecology, and deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for EcoEnvironmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the director of the Beijing Urban Ecosystem Research Station. Dr. Zhou is interested in spatial heterogeneity of the landscape. He integrates field observations, remote sensing and modeling to understand the structure of urban socio-ecological systems, and its link to ecological function. He works across many disciplines including landscape ecology, urban ecology, remote sensing, and GIS, and interact with various collaborators from different fields through his involvement with various collaborative projects. The interdisciplinarity of his work has allowed him to develop innovative approaches and tools to better understanding the structure of urban socio-ecological systems, and its link to ecological function, and to interact with practitioners and policy makers to help cities like Beijing and Shenzhen accomplish sustainable urban transformations. Dr. Zhou serves as the associate editor for Landscape and Urban Planning, and editorial members for the journals such as Landscape Ecology and Journal of Urban Ecology. He is a co-leader of the Urban Ecosystem Group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and three books. |
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Weiqi Zhou, , Research Center for Eco-Environment Sciences, CAS Dr. Weiqi Zhou is a professor of urban ecology, and deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for EcoEnvironmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the director of the Beijing Urban Ecosystem Research Station. Dr. Zhou is interested in spatial heterogeneity of the landscape. He integrates field observations, remote sensing and modeling to understand the structure of urban socio-ecological systems, and its link to ecological function. He works across many disciplines including landscape ecology, urban ecology, remote sensing, and GIS, and interact with various collaborators from different fields through his involvement with various collaborative projects. The interdisciplinarity of his work has allowed him to develop innovative approaches and tools to better understanding the structure of urban socio-ecological systems, and its link to ecological function, and to interact with practitioners and policy makers to help cities like Beijing and Shenzhen accomplish sustainable urban transformations. Dr. Zhou serves as the associate editor for Landscape and Urban Planning, and editorial members for the journals such as Landscape Ecology and Journal of Urban Ecology. He is a co-leader of the Urban Ecosystem Group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and three books. |
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Denise Helena Silva Duarte, School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU/USP) DeniseHelenaSilvaDuarteDr. Duarte is Full Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo, and Visiting Professor at the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master´s Degree on Urban Climate and Sustainability (EU). She works in interdisciplinary projects funded by FAPESP, CNPq and USP, regarding climate change adaptation for cities and buildings, and by EU/H2020, linking nature-based solutions to urban sustainability. She serves as Expert Reviewer for IPCC/WGII and in technical counselling for the public administration DeniseHelenaSilvaDuarte |
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Denise Helena Silva Duarte, School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU/USP) Dr. Duarte is Full Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo, and Visiting Professor at the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master´s Degree on Urban Climate and Sustainability (EU). She works in interdisciplinary projects funded by FAPESP, CNPq and USP, regarding climate change adaptation for cities and buildings, and by EU/H2020, linking nature-based solutions to urban sustainability. She serves as Expert Reviewer for IPCC/WGII and in technical counselling for the public administration |
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Flash drought event evolution characteristics and the response mechanism to climate change considering the spatial correlation
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Qianjin Dong, Wuhan University Dr. Qianjin Dong is an associate professor of school of water resources and hydropower engineering, Wuhan University. He is mainly engaged in hydrological and water resources response mechanism and adaptation strategy to changing environment, water resources planning and management, multi-objective decision making and economic operation, regulation and control of hydropower energy system, etc. Recently, he has hosted the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program, the Third XinJiang Comprehensive Science Survey of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and other projects. He has also participated in major and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as many other projects from the companies. He has published more than 70 academic papers, including more than 20 SCI and EI indexed papers. He has been awarded with the 3rd National Outstanding Postgraduate Dissertation Supervisor of Higher Education in Water Resources, the 1st Prize of the 5th National Lecture Competition for Young Teachers of Water Resources (Hydrology Group), and the Outstanding Paper Award of Natural Science in Hubei Province. |
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Qianjin Dong, Wuhan University Dr. Qianjin Dong is an associate professor of school of water resources and hydropower engineering, Wuhan University. He is mainly engaged in hydrological and water resources response mechanism and adaptation strategy to changing environment, water resources planning and management, multi-objective decision making and economic operation, regulation and control of hydropower energy system, etc. Recently, he has hosted the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program, the Third XinJiang Comprehensive Science Survey of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and other projects. He has also participated in major and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as many other projects from the companies. He has published more than 70 academic papers, including more than 20 SCI and EI indexed papers. He has been awarded with the 3rd National Outstanding Postgraduate Dissertation Supervisor of Higher Education in Water Resources, the 1st Prize of the 5th National Lecture Competition for Young Teachers of Water Resources (Hydrology Group), and the Outstanding Paper Award of Natural Science in Hubei Province. |
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The impact of climate variability and weather extremes on tropical vegetation phenology and its implications on biodiversity
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Yongshuo Fu, Beijing Normal University Full professor; Director of the Institute of water security College of water sciences, Beijing Normal University. Interest and Publications: Focusing on vegetation phenology and its feedback on terrestrial carbon and water cycles, using manipulative experiments, satellite/ UVA imagery, long-term monitoring plots, as well as process-based models and DGVM (LPJ-model) to explore how environmental changes affect vegetation phenology across different spatial and temporal scales, and explore how these differences can ultimately determine community and ecosystem responses to environmental change. The publication list including 1 nature, 7 nature family journals (NCC, NEE, NC), 3 PNAS, 16 Global change biology and in total 73 peer review papers, and more than 3433 citations over the past 5yrs. Projects involved: 1. National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, NSFC, 2021- 2025, 4,000,000 yuan, PI 2. Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities, 2018-2022, 9,000,000 yuan, PI 3. Thousand Talent Program for Young Outstanding Scientists, Vegetation phenology and climate change, NSFC, 2017-2022, 3,000,000 yuan, PI 4. Response and modelling of forest phenology to climate change in temperate China, NSFC, 2018-2021, 610,000 Yaun, PI 5. National Key Research and Development Program of China, Carryover effect of vegetation phenology on land surface processes, 2017-2022, 1,050,000 Yuan, co-PI. Award: 1. Distinguished Young Scholars (NSFC), 2020 2. The Talents Plan- Young Professionals, 2016 3. Pegasus Marie Curie Fellowship, 2015-2016 4. Excellent postdoc Peking University, 2015 |
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Yongshuo Fu, Beijing Normal University, Full professor; Director of the Institute of water security College of water sciences, Beijing Normal University. Interest and Publications: Focusing on vegetation phenology and its feedback on terrestrial carbon and water cycles, using manipulative experiments, satellite/ UVA imagery, long-term monitoring plots, as well as process-based models and DGVM (LPJ-model) to explore how environmental changes affect vegetation phenology across different spatial and temporal scales, and explore how these differences can ultimately determine community and ecosystem responses to environmental change. The publication list including 1 nature, 7 nature family journals (NCC, NEE, NC), 3 PNAS, 16 Global change biology and in total 73 peer review papers, and more than 3433 citations over the past 5yrs. Projects involved: 1. National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, NSFC, 2021- 2025, 4,000,000 yuan, PI 2. Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities, 2018-2022, 9,000,000 yuan, PI 3. Thousand Talent Program for Young Outstanding Scientists, Vegetation phenology and climate change, NSFC, 2017-2022, 3,000,000 yuan, PI 4. Response and modelling of forest phenology to climate change in temperate China, NSFC, 2018-2021, 610,000 Yaun, PI 5. National Key Research and Development Program of China, Carryover effect of vegetation phenology on land surface processes, 2017-2022, 1,050,000 Yuan, co-PI. Award: 1. Distinguished Young Scholars (NSFC), 2020 2. The Talents Plan- Young Professionals, 2016 3. Pegasus Marie Curie Fellowship, 2015-2016 4. Excellent postdoc Peking University, 2015 |
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Speleothem isotopic reconstruction of interhemispheric monsoon precipitation patterns under different warming backgrounds in the past 140 ka and the Anthropocene epoch
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Haiwei Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Full Professor, Doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Global Environmental change, Xi'an Jiaotong University; He focuses on stalagmites and global climate change, multiscale East Asian and South American monsoon changes recorded by stalagmites and their influence mechanisms, climate change and human activities. He published more than 60 SCI papers, with a total of ~3200 citations and H index of 26. Presided over 10 projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation and China Postdoctoral Foundation and international cooperation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Received the 2016 Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Chinese Universities, the Second Prize of Natural Science of Shaanxi Province, the First Prize of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Academy of Sciences, and the Top Ten Research Advances of Chinese Geographical Society. Guest editor of Quaternary Science Reviews, editorial board of Frontier in Earth Science , Sustainability, and reviewer of Science Advances, PNAS, Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters, Quaternary Science Reviews, Global and Planetary Change, Climate Dynamics; served as a member and special convener of the organizing committee of international and domestic academic conferences for many times. |
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Haiwei Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Full Professor, Doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Global Environmental change, Xi'an Jiaotong University; He focuses on stalagmites and global climate change, multiscale East Asian and South American monsoon changes recorded by stalagmites and their influence mechanisms, climate change and human activities. He published more than 60 SCI papers, with a total of ~3200 citations and H index of 26. Presided over 10 projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation and China Postdoctoral Foundation and international cooperation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Received the 2016 Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Chinese Universities, the Second Prize of Natural Science of Shaanxi Province, the First Prize of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Academy of Sciences, and the Top Ten Research Advances of Chinese Geographical Society. Guest editor of Quaternary Science Reviews, editorial board of Frontier in Earth Science , Sustainability, and reviewer of Science Advances, PNAS, Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters, Quaternary Science Reviews, Global and Planetary Change, Climate Dynamics; served as a member and special convener of the organizing committee of international and domestic academic conferences for many times. |
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Xiyan Xu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS Xiyan Xu is a full professor at Institute of Atmospheric physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D from City University of New York in 2013 followed by postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Xu’s primary research interest is using remote sensing datasets, climate reanalysis and numerical models to investigate land-climate interactions. Her current work focuses on terrestrial ecosystem vegetation dynamics and carbon cycle in response to climate change and human activities. She is also interested in climate feedbacks to vegetation dynamics through biogeochemical and biogeopysical processes. She leads projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She serves as the lead author of the IPBES thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health, and UNEP seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook. She was the lead author of the fourth national climate assessment report of China and chapter scientist of IPCC special report on climate change and land. She won World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award in 2012. |
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Xiyan Xu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS Xiyan Xu is a full professor at Institute of Atmospheric physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D from City University of New York in 2013 followed by postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Xu’s primary research interest is using remote sensing datasets, climate reanalysis and numerical models to investigate land-climate interactions. Her current work focuses on terrestrial ecosystem vegetation dynamics and carbon cycle in response to climate change and human activities. She is also interested in climate feedbacks to vegetation dynamics through biogeochemical and biogeopysical processes. She leads projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She serves as the lead author of the IPBES thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health, and UNEP seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook. She was the lead author of the fourth national climate assessment report of China and chapter scientist of IPCC special report on climate change and land. She won World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award in 2012. |
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