Early Career Editorial Board
Members
Dr. Xianghui Cao
Early Career Editorial Board Member
Interests: climate change and water resources; water balance; environmental science and sustainable development; multiple-media transport of pollutants; climate change
Interests: coastal remote sensing; coastal wetlands; deep learning; coastal geomorphology
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Interests: urban–rural planning and nature-based solutions; land use/land cover and forest landscape patterns; ecosystem service value of forests and urban green spaces; urban climate and thermal environment; spatial analysis and remote sensing
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Interests: geophysical instrumentation; rotational seismology; earthquake observation; seismic imaging; earth science applications of optics
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Interests: disaster management; social vulnerability; earthquake reconnaissance; social media; climate change adaptation; health inequality; social justice; equality, diversity and inclusion; mental health wellbeing
Dr. Qingsong Du
Early Career Editorial Board Member
Interests: permafrost distribution mapping and permafrost degradation under climate change; surface deformation inversion; monitoring of major frozen soil engineering diseases in cold regions; cataloging of rock glaciers and their environmental effects; deep learning/machine learning; remote sensing; information mining
Interests: plant ecology; desert ecology; arid zone eco-hydrology
2. Associate Laboratory TERRA, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, P-1600276 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: geographic information systems; land use science; collaborative simulation; spatial planning; complexity science
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Dr. Chunyi Li
Early Career Editorial Board Member
Interests: environmental science and wetland ecology
Interests: multi-modal LLM; multi-modal machine learning; knowledge graph reasoning; multi-modal knowledge graph representation learning; satellite intelligent computing
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Interests: extreme events and utilization of wind and solar resources; climate-ecological big data and artificial intelligence; social-ecosystem carbon inventory
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Interests: air water interface; bioaerosol; aerosol ph; aerosol particle; aerosol reaction; air quality; aerosol heterogeneous/multiphase chemistry; interface mechanisms; artificial intelligence; machine learning; microplastics/nanoplastics; atmospheric chemistry; environmental catalysis; aerosol science
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Interests: soil ecohydrology; efficient utilization of water and soil resources; territorial space protection and restoration; ecological carbon sink
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Interests: vegetated soil; unsaturated soil; geotechnics; geomechanics; geotechnical engineering; natural based solutions; climate change, landslides; flow-like landslides; triggering and propagation of landslides; geohazards; volcanic soil; experimental tests; soil behavior; constitutive models; numerical simulation; civil engineering
Interests: plant ecology; orchid ecology; landscape ecology; forestry
Interests: coastal subsidence; sea level rise; hyperspectral remote sensing
Dr. Jie Tang
Early Career Editorial Board Member
Interests: environmental hydrogeology; interactions among water, rock, soil, gas, and biota
Interests: catchment; water balance; nutrient cycle; modeling; remote sensing
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Interests: soil aggregate; soil carbon; soil nutrient; soil microorganism; soil enzyme
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Interests: cloud physics; aerosol cloud precipitation interactions; cloud remote sensing
Interests: disaster detection and risk assessment; earth remote sensing; surface deformation monitoring; environmental parameter monitoring
Dr. Ting Wei
Early Career Editorial Board Member
Interests: phage therapy; anti-bacterial agents; caudovirales magnetism; paleosols; loess neodymium isotopes; ferro-manganese alloys; rare earth elements
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Interests: water environmental models; machine learning; hydro-ecology; water quality simulation; remote sensing; turbulence research; image data quantification; water resource
Interests: agricultural ecology; microplastic contamination in soils; nutritional diagnosis; fertilization
Interests: holocene climate change in the southern tibetan plateau and its surroundings
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Interests: terrestrial vertebrate ecology; biodiversity and wildlife conservation; Biological invasions of terrestrial vertebrates; conservation ecology; forest ecology; conservation and management of agroecosystems
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Interests: hyperspectral image processing; remote sensing image information extraction and application; cloud detection; urbanization; land use and land cover monitoring and simulation
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Interests: urban sensing and computing; environmental exposure; GeoAI
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Dr. Yang Zhang
Early Career Editorial Board Member
Interests: regional ecological security; spatial system regulation
Interests: land-use change; environmental impacts of human activities on river and riverine (heavy metals and microplastics) and environmental health assessment; stream restoration; environmental geochemistry; freshwater ecology; ecological engineering























