Louisiana State University(LSU)

　　Organizing Institution：Key Lab of Wetland Ecology and Environment, CAS

　　Location： Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS NEIGAE), Changchun, Jilin

　　Topics： Wetland ecological processes, functions, services,

　　response to global climate change

　　Workshop Dates： July 28 – August 3, 2013

　　Forum Schedule

　　July 28： Arrival

　　July 29, morning： Forum theme presentation

　　July 29, afternoon： Presentations and discussion

　　July 30, morning: Presentations and discussion

　　July 30, afternoon： Field visit to Changchun wetlands

　　July 31 – August 3: Field expedition to various research stations in the

　　Sanjiang Plain; Field trip topics include wetlands, agricultural development, wildlife, and land use and climate change effects in Northeast China, China’s major grain base with most abundant wetlands.

　　JULY 29

　　Opening ceremony

　　Theme presentation

　　Confirmed Participants：

　　Foreign:

　　1. Christopher Francis D’Elia (Dean of the School of the Coast and Environment LSU）---Wetland Science and Education in Louisiana

　　2. Irv Mendelssohn (Wetland Ecologist and Plant Physiologist)

　　--- Assessing Wetland Resilience and Ecosystem Health

　　3. Andy Nyman (Wetland Soils and Biogeochemistry)--- Predicted Changes in Habitat Quality for Fish and Wildlife in Louisiana Coastal Wetlands during the Next 50 Years

　　4. Beth Middleton（USGS NWRC, Wetland Ecologist）

　　5. Christopher Craft (Wetland Soils and Biogeochemistry；Former Chair of SWS)--- Whither Wetlands: Sentinels or Saviors of Environmental Change

　　6. Denice Heller Wardrop (Executive Director of Penn State’s Sustainability Institute，Pennsylvania State University)--- Freshwater Wetland Monitoring and Assessment at Multiple Scales: Concepts, Case Studies, and Lessons Learned

　　7. Karen Mckee (USGS NWRC, Wetland Plant Ecologist)--- Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Soil Organic Carbon in Mangrove Ecosystems

　　8. V. V. Chakov：（Institute for Water and Ecology Problems, Far East Branch RAS）--- Influence of melioration on state of wetland ecosystems in the Lower Amur Basin

　　9．V. A. Kuptsova（Institute for Water and Ecology Problems, Far East Branch RAS）--- Sphagnum moss ecology on undisturbed and meliorated mires of the Lower Amur Basin

　　10. Tudor Iuliana Mihaela（Danube Delta National Institute for Research）

　　11. Tudor Marian（Danube Delta National Institute for Research）--- Recovery of the natural ecological functions Of Babina and Cernovca restored wetlands from the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve/Romania

　　12. Darold Batzer（University of Georgia）--- The Floodplain Continuum: A template for understanding how floodplain ecology changes from headwaters to deltas

　　13. SASAGAWA Koichi（Hosei University）--- On Cultures of Wetland in Japan and East Asia

　　14. 朱杞载（Busan University of Korea）--- Importance of Urban Wetlands in a changing world

　　15. Lawrence Elliott Datnoff(LSU)

　　CAS Visiting Scholars：

　　16.Y. Jun Xu (LSU)--- Long-term Riverine Discharge and Material Transport to Coastal

　　Ecosystems

　　17.Aixin Hou (LSU)

　　18.Qinxin Lin (LSU)--- Effect of Burning of Wetlands on Their Carbon Storage Potentials

　　19.Guangzhi Sun (School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, James Cook University)---Design of surface and subsurface flow constructed wetlands for water pollution control

　　20.Quansong Tong (George Mason University；National Aeronautics and Space Administration,NASA)

　　21.Lin Li(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)--- Deriving vegetation water content with imaging spectroscopy

　　Report from NEIGAE is not on the list yet!

　　Invited Chinese Officials：

　　Yiyu Chen (CAS Member，Chinese Natural Science Foundation)

　　Guangren Ma (Director, Wetland Center, Chinese State Administration of Forestry)

　　Xingtu Liu (CAS Member，Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

　　Kelin Chen（Director, China Office, Wetlands International）

　　Baoshan Cui（Professor/Vice President，Beijing Normal University）

　　Yonghong Xie（Professor，Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences）

　　Yuwei Chen（Professor，Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences）

　　Contact

　　Ms. Zhu Jinhua

　　Phone： 86-431-85542257

　　E-mail：zhujh@neigae.ac.cn

　　Ms. Li Shuang,Ms. Chen Aihua

　　86-431-85542267

　　E-mail：chenaihua@neigae.ac.cn