On March 29-30, Dr. Daniel Bebber, head of climate change research group at the Earthwatch Institute, and Dr. Cindy Cheng, director of Regional Program Development (Asia) of the institute, visited Dinghushan Forest Ecosystem Research Station (DFERS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Mr. LIU Shizhong and Dr. TANG Xuli, the research staff of DFERS accompanied them both to visit the field experiment sites and introduced the monitoring projects and some long-term experiments of the station. As they have known the long-term research of global change and ecosystem ecology at DFERS, the purpose of the visit is to seek cooperation between Earthwatch and DFERS in the field of impacts of global climate changes on forest ecosystems.

Earthwatch Institute, founded in 1971, is the world’s environmental volunteer nonprofit agency. Its goal is to assist the research of global change and sustainable environment. Many long-term field research sites were founded by Earthwatch in Europe, America, Africa and Australia and other places. Earthwatch funds scientific field research and enables regular people to take part in research projects. 85,000 volunteers around the world have engaged in the research of thousands of scientists’ projects.