The 11th ISDE International Lectures

The 11th ISDE International Lectures, with the theme of “Innovative Perspectives and Practical Experience of Publishing Scientific Papers in Top Journals”, was given on July 25, 2024, 19:00-20:30 pm (Pacific Daylight Time). The audience engaged in presentations delivered by two distinguished speakers. They revealed the innovative perspectives of publishing in top-tier journals from different perspectives, not only providing practical academic writing and publishing skills, but also sharing rich practical cases to everyone.

Theme:  Innovative Perspectives and Practical Experience of Publishing Scientific Papers in Top Journals

Date & Time: 25 July 2024, 19:00-20:30 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Organized by: International Society for Digital Earth

Supported by: 

Beijing International Science and Technology Exchange Center

International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals

International Journal of Digital Earth

Big Earth Data

Invited Speakers:

Baojing GU (Zhejiang University, China)

Shuli CHEN (University of Arizona, USA)

Programme:

Short Bio of Invited Speakers:

Baojing GU

Zhejiang University, China

Baojing Gu is a professor of sustainability at Zhejiang University, China. He was trained as an ecologist with an emphasis on biogeochemical nitrogen cycling analysis and economics from Zhejiang University in China and the University of Alberta and McGill University in Canada. He is currently the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Earth Critical Zone, Editor of The Innovation and Associated Editor of Earth’s Future. He serves as the deputy director of East Asia Center of International Nitrogen Initiative (INI). He is co-leading the cost and benefit analyses of global nitrogen use under the framework of International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) to improve our understanding on the interactions between human and the nitrogen cycles. He is leading several research projects on SDGs and climate change, including National Key R&D Program, China-Austria Government Cooperation Project, National Distinguished Youth Fund Project, and NSFC-UNEP International Cooperation Key Project. He has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature, The innovation, etc. He was the international champion of the 2023 Frontiers Planet Prize.

Shuli CHEN

University of Arizona, USA

Shuli Chen is a Ph.D candidate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, working with Prof. Scott Saleska. Her research focuses on understanding the biogeography of Amazon forest drought resilience and vulnerability, combining insights from environmental resource and trait-based ecology to inform remote sensing strategies for investigating ecosystem responses. She has published articles in esteemed peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, New Phytologist, and TGRS etc. During her Ph.D, she has been awarded several prestigious grants, including the NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship and the University of Arizona Galileo Circle Scholarship. Chen earned her bachelor's degree from the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University and pursued a master's degree in the Faculty of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University, where she received the National Scholarship and first prize in the CPGIS Student Paper Competition, among other accolades.