NSF-NSFC Biodiversity Workshop

A biodiversity workshop was held in Beijing on July 27-28 at the Institute of Botany of CAS, the host organizer of this workshop with the Center of Tropical Forest Sciences of Harvard University, co principle Investigators of this project.

A team of NSF environmental Biology officers led by Penelope Firth, Deputy Director, participated in the workshop including: Program Directors, Alan Tessier and Sarah Mathews, AAAS Fellow, Sara Chun, and James Wang, China Program Manager from OISE. Firth gave a welcoming address and William Chang gave a presentation on China- U.S. scientific collaboration at the plenary session. 

Following the workshop, the NSFC and NSF team visited two research sites at Changbaishan in Jilin and Xishuangbanna in Yunnan to obtain a better understanding of the diversity of Chinese forests.

The NSF team also met with NSFC biodiversity program officers to discuss future areas of collaboration.