China-U.S. Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change

Through an initiative launched in July of 2006, scientists from the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have joined researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to establish the China-US Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change.

The JRCEEC, which occupies research facilities at UT/ORNL and CAS, addresses the combined effects of climate change and human activities on regional and global ecosystems and explores technologies for restoration of degraded environments.

New Publications

JRCEEC researchers have articles featured in a special issue of Plant Science, Bioenergy Plants in the United States and China. [See Plant Science 181(6): 621-716 (December 2011).]

Proceedings from the 2010 Annual Workshop (a PDF file, ~7MB) held in Beijing, China, September 22-24, 2010 is now available.

Mi Zhang, Gui-Rui Yu, Jie Zhuang, Randall W. Gentry, Yu-Ling Fu, Xiao-Min Sun, Lei-Ming Zhang, Xue-Fa Wen, Qiu-Feng Wang, Shi-Jie Han, Jun-Hua Yan, Yi-Ping Zhang, Yan-Fen Wang, Ying-Nian Li . 2011. Effects of cloudiness change on net ecosystem exchange, light use efficiency, and water use efficiency in typical ecosystems of China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151(7): 803-816 (doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.01.011).

Hong-Bo He, Wei Zhang, Xu-Dong Zhang, Hong-Tu Xie, Jie Zhuang. 2011. Temporal responses of soil microorganisms to substrate addition as indicated by amino sugar differentiation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43: 1155-1161 (doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.02.002 ).

 

2011 Annual Workshop

The 2011 Annual China-US Joint Workshop was held September 25-28, 2011 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (USA). The theme of this year's workshop was Global Sustainability Issues in Energy, Climate, Water, and Environment.

Five-Year Report

Read the JRCEEC's five year report.

The New EcoPartnership

The U.S. State Department has selected the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Purdue University as participants in one of six new US-China EcoPartnerships. The partnerships will spur collaboration among US and Chinese researchers and focus on sustainability issues in the two nations, including the environmental challenges posed by alternative energy development and climate change. Read more about this exciting new opportunity.