Dr.Chansheng
He, Professor
Department of Geography
3234 Wood Hall
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5424
Phone:(269)-387-3425
Fax:(269)-387-3442
Dr. He’s academic interests are in water resources management, watershed hydrology , nonpoint source pollution modeling, hydrology of the Great Lakes watersheds, ecosystem indicators, GIS and remote sensing applications, water resources issues in China, and comparative analysis of Sino-U.S. water resources policies.
He has received numerous external research grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, (NSF), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) , Michigan Departments of Environmental Quality and Natural Resources, Kalamazoo Foundation, and The Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published over 70 articles and proceedings papers in leading national and international journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Environmental Modeling and Software, Geographical Analysis, Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal of The American Water Resources Association, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Control Engineering Practice, and Journal of Environmental Sciences, etc. His current research projects focus on development and refinement of a watershed scale water quality model (distributred large basin runoff model or DLBRM) to support water resources research and decision making in the Great Lakes Basin, in collaboration with the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and analysis of hydrologic impacts of climate change and human activities in Northern China, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Dr. He serves as a reviewer for research proposals for U.S. EPA, USDA, NSF, NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other national and international institutions such as The State Natural Science Award and National Office for Science and Technology Awards of China, and Australian and Belgium institutions. He reviews manuscripts for neaerly 20 national and international journals. He is Chair of the Association of American Geographers Water Resources Specialty Group, and serves on the editorial boards of Resources Science and Chinese Geographical Science (English edition). As a Fulbright Specialist, he is also an Adjunct Professor of The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Lanzhou University.