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We thank the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) for supporting the Colorado State University Confucius Institute and theWater and Environmental Sustainability symposium series, plus Dr. Xiaoyu Chen and Professor Qing Zhao of East China Normal University for their help in coordinating this special column.
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Dr. Steven R. Fassnacht is a professor of Watershed Science, Department of Ecosystem and Sustainability, Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2000 after receiving a B.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering-Water Resources) in 1992 and M.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering) in 1995 from the same institution. From 2000 to 2002 he was a Research Associate in the Hydrology and Water Resources Department at the University of Arizona. Since then he has been faculty at Colorado State University. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, a Senior Research Scientist in the Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory and the Associate Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects Program at CSU. He is also the Water and Environmental Sustainability Coordinator for the Confucius Institute at Colorado State University. Over the 2016–2017 academic year, he was a visiting professor in the Cartography, GIS & Remote Sensing Department of the Geography Institute at Georg-August–Universität Göttingen in Germany. Dr. Fassnacht’s research interests include improving our understanding of snow and cold land hydrological processes into different type of models, the spatial and temporal variability of earth system properties, and the impacts of a changing climate on water resources. To examine how a changing climate affects water resources, his work is integrating human observations of change with station and geospatial information.
Dr. Mingguo Ma is a professor of Land Surface Process Monitoring and Simulation, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University. He received his B.Sc. degree (Economic Geography and Urban and Rural Regional Planning) in 1998 from Lanzhou University, China, and the Ph.D. degree (Cartography and Geographical Information Systems) in 2003 from Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He had carried out the cooperation research and post-doctoral fellowship in 2004 from Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Vito) Center for Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Processes (TAP), Belgium. He had worked as a professor at the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Science, CAREERI, CAS from 2009 to 2014. His main research interests have been in ecological remote sensing and land surface process remote sensing. He joined two famous comprehensive experiments at a watershed scale, Watershed Airborne Telemetry Experimental Research (WATER) and Heihe Watershed Airborne Telemetry Experimental Research (HiWATER), and organized the ground-based synchronous and intensive observations. Recently his work mainly focuses on the land surface process observation and analysis using multi-scale observation system and monitoring and simulation using the long time series remote sensing data in southwest China.
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Fassnacht, S.R., Ma, M. Multi-disciplinary approaches to water systems: introduction to the special column. Front. Earth Sci. 14, 251–255 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-020-0824-2
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