ABSTRACT
Chansheng He is a professor in the Department of Geography at Western Michigan University. He received both his BS and MS in agronomy from Northwestern Agricultural University in China and his PhD in resources development from Michigan State University with a minor in system science. His academic interests are in water resources management, watershed hydrology, nonpoint source pollution modeling, hydrology of the Great Lakes watersheds, water resources issues in China, and comparative analysis of Sino-US water resources policies. He has published over 100 articles in leading national and international journals. A GIS-nonpoint source pollution modeling interface (ArcView Nonpoint Source Modeling or AVNPSM) he developed has been used in 12 countries. During the past decade, a distributed large basin runo¥ model (DLBRM) he has jointly developed with the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has been applied in North America’s Great Lakes Basin and other countries. He serves on several editorial boards, including Science China Earth Sciences, Journal of Resources and Ecology, and Chinese Geographical Science (English edition). He served as the chair of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Water Resources Specialty Group and is a member of the AAG Publication Committee, and a member of the Steering Committee of Commission for Water Sustainability, International Geographical Union (IGU). As a Fulbright Specialist, he is also an adjunct professor of Lanzhou University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and £e Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research.
