Our PhD candidate, Mr. Zijing Shen's paper entitled "Framing Urban Living Labs as a Multi-dimensional Knowledge Model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park", advised by Dr Qian Junxi, has been selected as the Winner of Best Doctoral Student Paper Award of the Urban China Research Network Conference 2023 at Peking University. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Professor Yuyu Zhou for publishing as one of the authors in Nature Communications! The title of the article is “Impacts of climate change, population growth, and power sector decarbonization on urban building energy use”, and it is now available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41458-5.
Reference: Wang, C., J. Song, D. Shi, J. L. Reyna, H. Horsey, S. Feron, Y. Zhou, Z. Ouyang, Y. Li and R. B. Jackson (2023). "Impacts of climate change, population growth, and power sector decarbonization on urban building energy use." Nature Communications 14(1): 6434. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41458-5
For more details, please visit https://www.geog.hku.hk/post/nature-zhou-202310
8 of our esteemed department faculty members, including Professor Wendy Y Chen, Professor Peng Gong, Professor Bo Huang, Professor Shunlin Liang, Professor George C S Lin, Professor Becky P Y Loo, Dr Junxi Qian and Professor Yuyu Zhou, are among the latest annual report of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world published by Stanford University.
Please join us to send our warmest congratulations for their great accomplishment!
HKU Geography Alumnus & Chair Professor Emeritus Jim Chi-yung ranked Top World Scientist in Forestry
In the latest annual report of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world published by Stanford University, Professor Jim Chi-yung ranked first out of over 30,000 scholars in the field of "Forestry" (on both listings: career-long and one-year 2022), representing the high citation rate and significant impact of his research work.
Professor Jim Chi-yung is a distinguished HKU geography alumnus (BA First Class Honours, Geography and Geology, 1975) and Chair Professor Emeritus currently serving as Advisor and Adjunct Chair Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Warmest congratulations to Professor Jim!
Congratulations to Dr Peng Zhu for publishing as one of the author in Nature Ecology & Evolution! The title of the article is “Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures”, and it is now available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02187-6.
Reference: Zeng, Y., Hao, D., Park, T., Zhu, P., Huete, A., Myneni, R., ... & Chen, M. (2023). Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02187-6
For more details, please visit https://www.geog.hku.hk/post/nature-zhu-202310.
Congratulations to Dr Zhenci Xu for publishing as the corresponding author in Nature Communications! The title of the article is “Sustainably developing global blue carbon for climate change mitigation and economic benefits through international cooperation”, and it is now available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41870-x.
Reference: Ye, G., Xu, Z. et al. Sustainably developing global blue carbon for climate change mitigation and economic benefits through international cooperation. Nature Communication 14, 6144 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41870-x
For more details, please visit https://www.geog.hku.hk/post/nature-xu-202310.
