2011年7月12~8月27号，美国哈佛大学博士后Erin Kurten博士访问我组，访问期间Kurten博士与我组成员讨论了长白山样地物候观测项目，并面向全所做了题为“Patterns of reproductive phenology in Southeast Asian forests”的学术报告。另外，Kurten博士还与我组王绪高博士进行了合作研究并帮助其余人员修改论文。

Kurten博士此次访问是基于中美基金委联合资助项目“多样性与森林动态”青年科学家互访计划，此后几年还将有若干美方基于CTFS、中方基于CForBio的年轻研究人员到对方的研究单位进行交流和合作研究。

CTFS相关链接：

http://ctfsnews.blogspot.com/2011/08/nsf-supported-scientific-exchange.html

NSF-Supported Scientific Exchange Fellow Erin Kurten Expands CTFS-SIGEO Partnerships in China

 The National Science Foundation grant to CTFS-SIGEO (DEB-1046113), in addition to supporting the recent workshop and symposium, provides support for a program of scientific exchange between the US and China. Young US-based researchers are spending periods of one to three months in collaborating labs in China to pursue studies on the dimensions of biological diversity in the world’s forests. Dr. Erin Kurten, post-doctoral fellow with CTFS at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, is the first of these fellows and will spend one month in Shenyang, home of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute for Applied Ecology.

While in Shenyang, Erin is working directly with Dr. Zhanqing Hao (Professor and Head of the Research Center of Forest Ecology and Forestry Eco-Engineering at CAS) and his research group. Erin is helping develop of a set of guidelines for focal tree-based monitoring of tree phenology in CForBio forest plots. Additionally, she is collaborating with group members Dr. Xugao Wang and graduate student Yuqiang Zhao on a project to understand the mechanisms underlying a set of previously described positive and negative tree species associations.