UMD and Chinese Scientists To Launch Global Change Research Partnership Feb. 28

WHAT:

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Researchers from the University of Maryland and Beijing Normal University will officially launch a new Joint Center on Global Change and Earth System Science to investigate, among other things, the impact of climate change on crop productivity. The research will be conducted in both countries.

Key participants will discuss initial projects - including a new comprehensive database tracking and projecting variations in crop production worldwide. Other research will focus on changes in land cover and foliage, as well as land use.

Following the announcement, key scientists from the project will hold a mini-symposium to discuss new and ongoing research.

The new center grows out of successful past collaborations between the researchers, and talks conducted by University of Maryland President Wallace Loh last year when he visited China with Governor O'Malley.

Agenda and Symposium topics: http://ter.ps/fc

WHO

Center Inauguration

Wallace D. Loh, president, University of Maryland;
Yanhua Liu, president, Geographical Society of China, and former vice minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R. of China;
Jonathan Wilkenfeld, asociate provost and associate vice president for international programs, University of Maryland;
Chaochen Li, minister counselor, Chinese Embassy, Washington D.C.;
Maotian Fang, minster counselor, Chinese Embassy, Washington D.C.;
Peijun Shi, executive vice president, Beijing Normal University;
John Townshend, dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

Research Symposium

Yanhua Liu, Geographical Society of China;
Christopher Justice, Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD;
Matthew Hansen, Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD;
Zhanqing Li, Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, UMD;
Xinzhong Liang, Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, UMD;
Shunlin Liang, Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD;
Eric Vermote, Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD;
Chengquan Huang, Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD;
Wenjie Dong, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, BNU.

WHEN:

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. - Inauguration of Joint Center
3 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. - Research Symposium

WHERE:

Orem Hall, Samuel Riggs Alumni Center, University of Maryland 20742
Directions and Parking: http://ter.ps/fb

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