Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS

Shufen Pan

Biography

Dr. Shufen (Susan) Pan has an interdisciplinary educational background with a Ph.D. in ecology, a M.S. degree in economics, and undergraduate training in literature, with more than a decade of work experience in applying environmental sensing (particularly remote sensing), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and ecological modeling to the research of environmental and climate change. Dr. Pan primary research interest is to use emerging technologies in environmental sensing, GIS, and computer simulation as tools for investigating the impacts of land use, urbanization, and climate change on ecosystem productivity, water resources, food security, and human health. In the past 20 years, She developed and applied these emerging technologies to the understanding and quantification of how multiple global changes in climate, land use/land cover (LU/LC), and atmospheric chemistry have affected carbon and nitrogen cycles, greenhouse gas emissions, and hydrological processes in a range of ecosystems across the globe including boreal and temperate forests in North America and East Asia, tropical forests in the Amazon Basin and Southeast Asia, savannas in Africa, grasslands in United States and Mongolia, urban and croplands in China and United States and at a spectrum of spatial scales that range from watershed to regional to continental to global.

Research Interest

Climate Change Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation; Climate-Ecosystem-Human Interactions; Water and Food Security; Climate-Food-Water-Energy Nexus; Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing Applications; Environmental Sensing and Monitoring Technologies; Ecosystem Modeling; Natural Resources Management.