Dr. Jianguo (Jack) Liu
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
115 Manly Miles Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
517-432-5025 (phone)
517-432-1699 (fax)
jliu@panda.msu.edu

Current Position and Background
Dr. Jianguo (Jack) Liu is Rachel Carson Chair in Ecological Sustainability and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife as well as Director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University (MSU). He has been on the MSU faculty since he completed his postdoctoral study at Harvard University in 1995 (from 2001-2002, he was on sabbatical in the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University). In recognition of his efforts and achievements in research, teaching, and public service, Dr. Liu has been given a number of awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship Award from Guggenheim Foundation, Distinguished Service Award from US-IALE, NSF’s CAREER Award, Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship from the Ecological Society of America, Lilly Teaching Fellowship, and Teacher-Scholar Award from MSU.

Research Interests
Dr. Liu's research interests include conservation ecology, landscape ecology, human-environment interactions, systems modeling and simulation, and impacts of human population and activity on spatio-temporal dynamics of endangered species such as the giant panda in China. He is keenly interested in integrating ecology with socioeconomics as well as human demography and behavior for understanding and managing patterns, processes and sustainability of biodiversity and natural resources/ecosystem services across multiple temporal and spatial scales.

His work has been published in journals such as Nature and Science, and has been featured in numerous newspapers (e.g., New York Times, The Washington Post), magazines (e.g., Newsweek), radio (e.g., National Public Radio), and TV programs (e.g., CNN).

Teaching
Dr. Liu teaches "Systems Modeling and Simulation" and "Emerging Issues in Landscape Ecology". In addition, he gave/gives guest lectures in a variety of courses at Harvard University, United Nations Environment Programme, and Michigan State University.

Service
Dr. Liu serves or has served on various committees and panels, including those of the National Academy of Sciences, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation,. He is currently serving on editorial boards of six journals, such as Ecosystems, Ecological Modeling, Population and Environment, and Landscape and Urban Planning. He is also an assigning editor for the journal Conservation Biology. He is the President-elect of US-IALE (US Regional Association, International Association for Landscape Ecology) and will be President from 2008-10.

Selected Recent/Current Professional Activities

• Keynote speaker, international conference on “Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Science and Society”.
• Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress, National Academy of Sciences
• Keynote Speaker, Ecology Symposium, University of Georgia
• Weaver Lecturer, Auburn University
• Invited Speaker, Stanford University
• Invited Speaker, University of California at Berkeley
• Advisory Panel, Biocomplexity in the Environment Program, National Science Foundation
  Review Panel, National Institutes of Health
• Chair, NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards Committee
• Organizer, Paper Session on Population, Water Resources, Health and Development, 2004 Annual Meeting of Population Association of America
• Organizer (with Rebecca Clark at NIH as co-organizer), Complex Interactions between Human Population and the Environment: Integrating Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Ecological Perspectives. 2004 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
• Organizer (with Thomas J. Baerwald at NSF as co-organizer), Frontiers in Biocomplexity Science: Reciprocal Interactions Between Human and Natural Systems 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Proposal Reviewer for agencies such as Australia Science Fund, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and National Science Foundation.
• Manuscript Reviewer for journals such as Science and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA).
• Councilor at Large, US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE).
• Member, Public Affairs Committee, Ecological Society of America.
• Member, Nominating Committee, Ecological Society of America.
• Member, Steering Committee, the Population-Environment Research Network (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.