Officers
Current Officers
2023 – present
Chair: Jiafu Mao, Senior Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
E-mail: maoj@nullornl.gov
Vice-Chair: Lixin Wang, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA.
Email: lxwang@nulliupui.edu
Secretary and Speaker: Wei Ren, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
Email: wei.ren@nulluconn.edu
Student Liaison: Vasavi Prakash, PhD student, College of Forestry, Wildife and Environment, Auburn University, USA.
Email: vzp0026@nullauburn.edu
Previous Officers
2021 – 2023
Chair: Dafeng Hui, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA.
E-mail: dhui@nulltnstate.edu
Vice-Chair: Lixin Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA.
Email: lxwang@nulliupui.edu
Secretary: Wei Ren, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
Email: wei.ren@nulluky.edu
Student liaison: Navneet, MS student, Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Email: fnavneet@nulltnstate.edu
2019 – 2021
Chair: Lin Jiang, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
E-mail: lin.jiang@nullbiology.gatech.edu
Secretary: Shaopeng Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China
E-mail: shaopeng.wang@nullpku.edu.cn
Student liaison: Qianna Xu, Ph.D. candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
E-Mail: qxu85@nullgatech.edu
2015-2017
Chair: Changhui Peng, Professor, Department of Biology Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada
E-mail: peng.changhui@nulluqam.ca 
Secretary: Songlin Fei, Associate Professor, Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, USA
E-mail: sfei@nullpurdue.edu
Liaison Officer: Shuli Niu, Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
E-Mail: sniu@nulligsnrr.ac.cn
Newsletter Editor: Han Wang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwest A & F University, Yanling, China
E-mail: wanghan_sci@nullyahoo.com
Webmaster: Zelin Liu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada
E-mail: zelinliu2015@nullgmail.com
2013-15
Chair: Shuijin Hu, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State Univeristy, shu4@nullncsu.edu
Secretary: Bin Zhu, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Hartford , zhu@nullhartford.edu
Liaison Officer: Lingli Liu, Principal Investigator, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, lingli.liu@nullibcas.ac.cn
Newsletter Editor: Jiaqi Tan, PhD candidate, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, jtan@nullgatech.edu
Webmaster: Anny Chung, PhD candidate, Department of Biology University, University of New Mexico yyachung@nullunm.edu
2010-2012
Chair: Hanqin Tian, Director of International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Solon and Martha Dixon Professor and University Alumni Professor of Ecology in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University, tianhan@nullauburn.edu
Secretary: Lingli Liu, Principal Investigator at the State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, lingli.liu@nullibcas.ac.cn
Liaison officer: Bin Zhu, Assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, zhu@nullhartford.edu
Newsletter officers:
Chi Yuan, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, cyuan@nullemail.arizona.edu
Jiaqi Tan, PhD candidate at the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, jtan@nullgatech.edu
Web administrator: Peicong Zhou, Joint training doctoral candidate on Jiangxi Agricultural University and Forest Hydrology at the University of British Columbia, pc.zhou@nullme.com
2008-2010
Chair: Yude Pan, Research Scientist, Northern Global Change Program, US Forest Service, ypan@nullfs.fed.us
Secretary: Anping Chen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University, anpingc@nullPrinceton.edu
2006-2008
Chair: Qinfeng Guo, USDA – Southern Research Station Eastern Forest Threat Center, qguo@nullfs.fed.us
Secretary: Charlie Huang, Staff Eco-Toxicologist, Scientific Branch California Department of Fish and Game Office of Spill Prevention and Response, chuang@nullospr.dfg.ca.gov
2005-2007
Chair: ShiLi Miao, South Florida Water Management District, Everglades Division, smiao@nullsfwmd.gov
Secretary: Ben Gu, Everglades Division, South Florida Water Management District, bgu@nullsfwmd.gov
2004-2006
Chair: ShiLi Miao, South Florida Water Management District, Everglades Division, smiao@nullsfwmd.gov
Secretary: Bo Song, Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University, bosong@nullclemson.edu
2002-2004
Chair: Harbin Li, USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Research Station Center For Forested Wetlands Research, hli@nullfs.fed.us
Secretary: Jacoby Carter, USGS National Wetlands Research Center, jacoby_carter@nullusgs.gov
2000-2002
Chair: Young Choi, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Calumet, ydchoi@nullnwi.calumet.purdue.edu
Secretary: Jacoby Carter, USGS National Wetlands Research Center, jacoby_carter@nullusgs.gov
1999-2000
Chair: Jianguo Wu, Department of Life Sciences, Arizona State University-West, Jingle.Wu@nullasu.edu
Secretary: Jacoby Carter, USGS National Wetlands Research Center, jacoby_carter@nullusgs.gov
1998-99
Chair: Weixin Cheng, Desert Research Institute, Biological Sciences Center, wcheng@nulldri.edu
Secretary: Jacoby Carter, USGS National Wetlands Research Center, jacoby_carter@nullusgs.gov
1997-98
Chair: Xinyuan (Ben) Wu, Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, b-wu@nulltamu.edu
Secretary: Xiaoming Zou, Terrestrial Ecology Division,San Juan, PR, xzou@nullsunceer.upr.clu.edu
1996-97
Chair: Paul P. Mou, Department of Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, pmou@nullvt.edu
Secretary: Ting Dai, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William & Mary
1995-96
Chair: Jiquan Chen, School of Forestry & Wood Products, Michigan Tech University, jiq@nullmtu.edu
Secretary: Yude Pan, Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service
1994-95
Chair: Xiaoming Zou, Terrestrial Ecology Division, San Juan, PR, xzou@nullsunceer.upr.clu.edu
Secretary: Yude Pan, Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service