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Hanqin Tian, Ph.D. Solon and Martha Dixon Professor Director, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research Leader, The Climate, Human, and Earth System Science Cluster
Contact Information: Dr. Hanqin Tian, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences 4337 SFWS Building, 602 Duncan Drive AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Auburn, AL 36849-5418, USA Phone: (334) 844-1059, Fax: (334) 844-1084, E-mail: tianhan@auburn.edu |
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SERVICE: Dr. Tian
also serve as the Leader
for the newly established Climate, Human and Earth System Sciences
(CHESS)
Cluster, which is one of 5 clusters selected and funded
by Auburn University. The CHESS Cluster consists of over 40
faculty members from 5 colleges/School. He
has
served on multiple grant review panels, scientific and advisory committees at
both national and international levels, and
the Editorial Board of
several prestigious scientific journals.
He
has
served as
the President of Asian
Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America;
Board on Oceans, Atmosphere,
and Climate, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities; Science Team
Member of NASA Carbon Monitoring System.
Serving in such capacities
has allowed him
to develop unique abilities for research leadership, to
establish a strong research partnership and network within the USA and
internationally.
He
has
a long-term collaboration with faculty from leading institutions such as MIT,
Harvard, Stanford,
Princeton, George Tech,
Woods Hole-MBL, and many other Universities.
In the past decade, He have established a strong
international partnership and network with leading scientists from 20 countries
worldwide. He has been very active
in
providing scientific leadership and expertise to many national and international
organizations.
Ph.D. (1996), Environmental and Forest Biology (Systems Ecology), State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) and Syracuse University, New York.
M.S. (1986), Agronomy and Soil, The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing.
B.S. (1982), Agronomy, Zhejiang University (Former Zhejiang Agricultural University), Hangzhou/Ningbo.
Director, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Auburn University, USA
Solon and Martha Dixon Professor (2010 - ), School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, AL, USA
University Alumni Professor (2007 - ), School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, AL, USA.
Adjunct Professor (2008 - ), Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University
Professor (6/2003 - present), School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, AL, USA.
Associate Professor (8/2001-5/2003), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 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.
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.
AWARD and RECOGNITION
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) , 2016.
SEC Faculty Achievement Award, the Southeastern Conference Universities (SECU), 2016.
Harry Murphy
Award for Excellence in Research, Auburn University, 2015.
Creative Research and Scholarship Award, Auburn University, 2011.
Global Change Science Prize,
Ye Duzheng Global Change Science Foundation and Chinese Academy of Sciences,
2008.
National Young Scientist Award (Oversea), National Science Foundation of China, 2001
Alumni Distinguished Professorship (2007-2012), Auburn University Alumni Association
Solon and Martha Dixon Endowed Professorship (2010 - present), Auburn University
Oversea Distinguished Scholar Award, Chinese Academy of Science
Pao Yu-Kong Chaired Professor (2008-2010), Zhejiang University, China
Recognition of Contribution to National Climate Assessment by White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (Google Scholar)
Nature and Science Papers
Tian, H.,
J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, A. D. McGuire, J. Helfrich, B. Moore III and
C. J. Vorosmarty (1998) Effect of interannual climate variability on carbon
storage in
Amazonian ecosystems. Nature 396: 664-667.
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
Tian, H., C. Lu, P. Ciais, A.M. Michalak, J.G. Canadell, E. Saikawa, D.N. Huntzinger, K. Gurney, S. Sitch, B. Zhang, J. Yang, P. Bousquet, L. Bruhwiler, G. Chen, E. Dlugokencky, P. Friedlingstein, J. Melillo, S. Pan, B. Poulter, R. Prinn, M. Saunois, C.R. Schwalm, S.C. Wofsy (2016) The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, Nature 531, 225-228.
Schwalm, C.R., W. R. L. Anderegg, A. M. Michalak, J. B. Fisher, F. Biondi, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J. D. Shaw, A. Wolf, D. N. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, R. Cook, Y. Wei, Y. Fang, D. Hayes, M. Huang, A. Jain & H. Tian (2017) Global patterns of drought recovery, Nature 548, 202-205.
Buermann, W., M. Forkel, M. O'Sullivan, S.S. Sitch, P. Friedlingstein, V. Haverd, A. K. Jain, E. Kato, M. Kautz, S. Lienert, D.
Lombardozzi, J.E. M. S. Nabel, H. Tian, A. J. Wiltshire, D. Zhu, W. K. Smith, A.
D. Richardson
(2018)
Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant
productivity, Nature 562, 110-114.
Other
Representative Papers:
1.
Dangal SRS, H. Tian, B. Zhang,
S. Pan, C. Lu, J. Yang (2017) Methane emission from global livestock sector
during 1890-2014: Magnitude, trends and spatiotemporal patterns. Global
Change Biology 23:4147-4161.
2.
Yang, J., S Pan, S Dangal, B Zhang, S Wang, H. Tian (2017) Continental-scale
quantification of post-fire vegetation greenness recovery in temperate and
boreal North America, Remote Sensing
of Environment, 199, 277-290.
3.
Lu, C and H Tian (2017) Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for
agriculture production in the past half century: shifted hot spots and nutrient
imbalance, Earth System Science Data,
9 (1), 181-192.
4.
Zhang, B.,
H.Tian,
C.Lu,
G. Chen,
S.Pan,
C. Anderson and
B. Poulter
(2017) Methane emissions from global wetlands: An assessment of the uncertainty
associated with various wetland extent data sets, Atmospheric Environment 165,
310-321.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.07.001
5.
Tian, H, W. Ren, B. Tao, G. Sun, A. Chappelka, S. Pan, X. Wang, J. Liu,
B. Felzer, J. Melillo, and
J. Reilly (2016)
Climate
extremes and Ozone pollution:
a growing threat to China's food security,
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
2(1):e01203. doi: 10.1002/ehs2.1203
.
6.
Zhang, B., H. Tian, W. Ren, B. Tao, C. Lu, J. Yang, K. Banger, and S.
Pan (2016) Methane emissions from global rice fields: Magnitude, spatiotemporal
patterns, and environmental controls, Global
Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, 1246-1263.
7.
Yang, Q., H. Tian, X. Li, W. Ren, B. Zhang, X. Zhang and J. Wolf (2016)
Spatiotemporal patterns of livestock manure nutrient production in the
conterminous United States from 1930 to 2012.
Science of The Total Environment,
541, 1592-1602.
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.044
8.
Tian, H.,
C. Lu, J. Yang, K. Banger, D. N. Huntzinger, C. R. Schwalm, A. M. Michalak, R.
Cook, P. Ciais, D. Hayes, et al. (2015) Global patterns and controls of soil
organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models:
Current status and future directions, Global Biogeochemical Cycles,
29, 775-792.
9.
Tian, H.,
W. Ren, J. Yang, B.Tao, W. Cai, S. E. Lohrenz, C.S. Hopkinson, M. Liu, Q. Yang,
C. Lu, B. Zhang, K. Banger, S. Pan, R. He and Z. Xue (2015) Climate extremes
dominating seasonal and interannual variations in carbon export from the
Mississippi River Basin,
Global Biogeochemical Cycles,
29, 1333-1347.
10.
Tian, H.,
Yang, R. G. Najjar, W. Ren, M. A. M. Friedrichs, C. S. Hopkinson, and S. Pan
(2015) Anthropogenic and climatic influences on carbon fluxes from eastern North
America to the Atlantic Ocean: A process-based modeling study. Journal of
Geophysical Research 120, 757-772.
11.
Tian, H.,
G. Chen, C. Lu, X. Xu, D. J. Hayes, W. Ren, S. Pan, D.N. Huntzinger, S.C. Wofsy
(2015) North American terrestrial CO2 uptake largely offset by CH4
and N2O emissions: Toward a full accounting of the greenhouse gas
budget. Climatic Change
129 (3): 413-426.
12.
Tian H., G. Chen, C. Lu, X. Xu, W. Ren, B. Zhang, K. Banger, B. Tao, S. Pan, M.
Liu, C. Zhang, L.
Bruhwiler, S. Wofsy (2015)
Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems due to
multiple environmental changes.
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1: 1-20
http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/EHS14-0015.1
13.
Yang, J., H. Tian, B. Tao, W. Ren, C. Lu, S. Pan, Y. Wang, and Y.
Liu (2015) Century-scale patterns and trends of global pyrogenic carbon
emissions and fire influences on terrestrial carbon balance,
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, 1549-1566
14.
Yang, J., H. Tian, B. Tao, W. Ren, S. Pan, Y. Liu and Y. Wang (2015) A growing
importance of large fires in the Conterminous United States during 1984-2012,
Journal of
Geophysical Research,
120, 2625-2640.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015JG002965
15.
Ren, W., H. Tian, B. Tao, J. Yang, S. Pan, W.-J. Cai, S. E. Lohrenz, R. He,
and C. S. Hopkinson (2015) Large increase in dissolved inorganic carbon flux
from the Mississippi River to Gulf of Mexico due to climatic and anthropogenic
changes over the 21st century. J. Geophys.
Res. Biogeosci., 120, 724-736
16.
Banger, K., H. Tian, B. Tao, W. Ren, S. Pan, S. Dangal, J.Yang (2015)
Terrestrial net primary productivity in India during 1901-2010: Contribution
from multiple environmental changes.
Climatic Changes DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1448-5
17.
Banger K., H. Tian, B. Tao, C. Lu, W. Ren, B. Zhang, J. Yang (2015) Magnitude
and drivers for soil organic carbon stocks in India during 1901-2010.
Soil Science Society of America Journal
79 (3), 864-875.
18.
Banger, K., H. Tian, B. Zhang, C. Lu, W. Ren and B. Tao (2015)
Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of methane in India during 1901-2010 as influenced
by multiple environmental changes.
Atmospheric Environment, 119, 192-200.
19.
Yang, Q., H. Tian, M. A. M. Friedrichs, C. S. Hopkinson, C. Lu, and R. G.
Najjar (2015) Increased nitrogen export from eastern North America to the
Atlantic Ocean due to climatic and anthropogenic changes during 1901-2008, J.
Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 120, 1046-1068.
20.
Tian, H.,
K. Banger, B. Tao, V. K Dadhwal (2014) History of land use in India during
1880-2010: Large-scale land transformation reconstructed from satellite data and
historical achieves Global and Planetary Change 121, 76-88.
21.
Tao, B., H. Tian, W. Ren, J. Yang, Q. Yang, R. He, W. Cai, and S. Lohrenz
(2014), Increasing Mississippi river discharge throughout the 21st century
influenced by changes in climate, land use, and atmospheric CO2,
Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 4978-4986
22.
Lu, C. and H. Tian (2013) Net greenhouse gas balance in response to nitrogen
enrichment: Perspectives from a coupled biogeochemical model.
Global Change Biology,
19: 571-588.
23.
Liu, M., H. Tian, Q. Yang, J.
Yang, X. Song, S.E. Lohrenz, W. Cai (2013) Long-term trends in
evapotranspiration and runoff over the drainage basins of the gulf of Mexico
during 1901-2008. Water Resources Research 49, 1988-2012.
24.
Zhang, C, H Tian, S Pan, G Lockaby, A Chappelka (2013)
Multi-factor controls on terrestrial carbon dynamics
in urbanised areas. Biogeosciences
11 (1), 7107-7124.
26.
Melton, J.R., R. Wania, E. L. Hodson, B. Poulter, B. Ringeval, R. Spahni, T.
Bohn, C. A. Avis, D. J. Beerling, G. Chen, A. V. Eliseev, S. N. Denisov, P. O.
Hopcroft, D. P. Lettenmaier, W. J. Riley, J. S. Singarayer, Z. M. Subin, H.
Tian, S. Zurcher, V. Brovkin, P. M. van Bodegom, T. Kleinen, Z. C. Yu and J. O.
Kaplan. 2013. Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane
modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP).
Biogeosciences, 10, 753-788
27.
Tian, H.,
C. Lu, G. Chen, B. Tao, S. Pan, SJ. Del Grosso, X. Xu, L. Bruhwiler, S.C. Wofsy,
EA Kort and SA Prior (2012) Contemporary and projected biogenic fluxes of
methane and nitrous oxide in terrestrial ecosystems of North America,
Front Ecol Environ, 10: 528-536.
28.
Tian, H.,
C. Lu, J. Melillo, W. Ren, Y. Huang, X. Xu, M. Liu, C. Zhang, G. Chen, S. Pan,
J. Liu and J. Reilly (2012) Food benefit and climate warming potential of
nitrogen fertilizer use in China. Environmental Research Letters 7
(2012) 044020 (8pp)
29.
Tian, H.,
G. Chen, C. Zhang, M. Liu, G. Sun, A. Chappelka, W. Ren, X. Xu, C. Lu, S. Pan,
H. Chen, D. Hui, S. McNulty, G. Lockaby and E. Vance (2012) Century-scale
response of ecosystem carbon storage and flux to multifactorial global change in
the Southern United States. Ecosystems 15:674-694.
30.
Banger K., H. Tian and C. Lu
(2012) Do nitrogen fertilizers stimulate or inhibit methane emissions from rice
fields? Goble Change Biology 18: 3259-3267.
31.
Chen, G., H. Tian, C. Zhang, M. Liu, W. Ren, W. Zhu, A. Chappelka, S. Prior and
G. Lockaby (2012)
Drought in the Southern United States over the 20th century:
Variability and its impacts on terrestrial ecosystem productivity and carbon
storage.
Climatic Change 114 (2):
379-397.
32.
Ren, W., H. Tian, B. Tao, Y.
Huang, and S. Pan. (2012) China's crop productivity and soil carbon storage as
influenced by multifactor global change. Goble Change Biology 18
(9): 2945-2957.
33.
Xu, X. and H. Tian (2012) Methane exchange between marshland and the atmosphere
over China during 1949-2008, Global Biogeochem. Cycles,
doi:10.1029/2010GB003946.
34.
Xu, X., H. Tian, M. Liu, W. Ren, G. Chen and C. Lu and C. Zhang (2012)
Multiple-factor controls on terrestrial
N2O flux over North America.
Biogeosciences 9,
1351-1366,
35.
Lu, C., H. Tian, M. Liu, W. Ren, X. Xu, G. Chen and C. Zhang (2012) Effects of
nitrogen deposition on China's terrestrial carbon uptake in the context of
multiple environmental changes.
Ecological Applications 22:53-75.
36.
Liu, M., H. Tian, C. Lu, X. Xu, G. Chen, W. Ren (2012) Effects of Multiple
Environmental Stresses on Evapotranspiration and Runoff over the Eastern China.
Journal of Hydrology
Vol 426-427, 39-54.
.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.01.009.
40.
Tian, H.,
J. Melillo, C. Lu, D. Kicklighter, M Liu, W. Ren, X. Xu, G. Chen, C. Zhang, S.
Pan, J. Liu and S. Running (2011) China's terrestrial carbon balance:
Contribution of multiple global change factors. Global Biogeochemical
Cycles 25: GB1007-GB1022.
42.
Tian, H.,
X. Xu, C. Lu, M. Liu, W. Ren, G. Chen, J. Melillo and J. Liu (2011) Net
exchanges of CO2, CH4, and N2O between China's terrestrial ecosystems and the
atmosphere and their contributions to global climate warming. Journal of
Geophy. Research 116 (G2).
43.
Tian H.Q., C.Q. Lu, G. Chen, X. Xu, M. Liu, W. Ren, B. Tao, G. Sun, S. Pan, J.
Liu (2011) Climate and land use controls over terrestrial water use efficiency
in monsoon Asia. Ecohydrology,
4, 322-340.
44.
Ren, W., HQ Tian, X. Xu, M. Liu, C. Lu, G. Chen, J. Melillo, J.
Reilly and J. Liu (2011) Spatial and temporal patterns of CO2 and CH4
fluxes in China's croplands in response to multifactor environmental changes,
Tellus B DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00522.x
45.
Ren, W., H. Tian, B. Tao, A. Chappelka, G. Sun, C. Lu, M. Liu, G. Chen and X. Xu
(2011) Impacts of ozone pollution
and climate change on net primary productivity and carbon storage of China's
forest ecosystems as assessed by using a process-based ecosystem model.
Global Ecology and Biogeography
20 (3), 391-406
46.
Liu, M. and H. Tian (2010)
China's land-cover and land-use change from 1700 to 2005: estimations from
high-resolution satellite data and historical archives, Global
Biogeochemical Cycles 24: 285-286
47.
Tian, H.,
X. Xu, M. Liu, W. Ren, C. Zhang, G. Chen, and C. Lu (2010) Spatial and temporal
patterns of CH4 and N2O fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
of North America during 1979-2008: application of a global biogeochemistry
model, Biogeosciences 7, 2673-2694.
48.
Tian, H.,
GS Chen, C. Zhang, JM Melillo and C Hall (2010) Pattern and variation of C: N: P
ratios in China's soils: A synthesis of observational data.
Biogeochemistry 98:139-151.
49.
Tian, HQ, G. Chen, M. Liu, C. Zhang, G. Sun, C. Lu, X. Xu, W. Ren, S. Pan and A.
Chappelka (2010) Model Estimates of Ecosystem Net Primary Productivity,
Evapotranspiration, and Water Use Efficiency in the Southern United States
during 1895-2007. Forest Ecology and
Management 259: 1311-1327.
50.
Xu, X., H. Tian, C. Zhang, M. Liu, W. Ren, G. Chen, and C. Lu (2010) Attribution
of spatial and temporal variations in terrestrial methane flux over North
America, Biogeosciences 7,
3637-3655
51.
Lu, D., HQ Tian, G. Zhou, H. Ge (2008) Regional mapping of human settlements
with multisensory remotely sensed data.
Remote Sensing of Environment 112:3668-3679.
52.
Song, C. X. Xu, HQ Tian and Y. Wang (2009) Exchange of CH4 and N2O
between atmosphere and ecosystem and ecosystem respiration in three wetlands of
the Sanjiang Plain, Northeastern China. Global Change Biology. 15,
692-705.
53.
Xu X, H. Tian and D. Hui. (2008)
Convergence in the relationship of CO2 and N2O exchanges between soil and
atmosphere within terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology
14, 1651-1660.
54.
Lu, C and H.Q. Tian. (2007) Spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen deposition
in China: Synthesis of observational data. Journal of Geophysical Research
112(D22S05).
55.
Ren, W., H. Tian, M. Liu, C.
Zhang, G. Chen, S. Pan, B. Felzer and X. Xu. (2007) Tropospheric ozone pollution
and its influence on net primary productivity and carbon storage in terrestrial
ecosystems of China. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D22S09.
56.
Lu, A.F., H.Q. Tian, M.L. Liu, J. Liu and J.M. Melillo. (2006) Emissions of
carbon from forest fires from 1950 to 2000 in China.
Journal of Geophysical Research
111, D05313, doi:10.1029/2005JD006198.
57.
Liu, J., M. Liu, H.Q. Tian, D. Zhuang, Z. Zhang, W. Zhang and X. Tang, X. Deng
(2005) Current status and recent changes of cropland in China: an analysis
based on Landsat TM data. Remote
Sensing of Environment 98: 442-456.
58.
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. Geophys. Res.
Lett., 32, L02405, doi:10.1029/2004GL021649.
59.
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.
60.
Tian, H.Q.,
J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, A. D. McGuire, J. Helfrich, B. Moore III and
C. J. Vorosmarty. (2000) Climatic
and biotic controls on annual carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems.
Global Ecology and Biogeography
9:315-336.
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