Jiquan Chen will receive a Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, or IUFRO. Through various awards, IUFRO honors those who advance science and promote international cooperation in all fields of research related to forestry. The Scientific Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by IUFRO every five years and is presented for research results published in scientific journals, proceedings of scientific meetings or books, or appropriate patents or other relevant evidence that demonstrates the importance of the scientific or technical achievement to the advancement of regional or world forestry or forest research.
Chen is a professor of Geography in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences and the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations. He obtained his Ph.D. in Ecosystem Analysis at the University of Washington, Seattle. Chen was awarded the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award by MSU in 2020 and served as a Fulbright Global Scholar during 2021-2022.
Chen is a distinguished scholar in landscape ecology and ecosystem science, focusing on forested landscapes. He has made significant contributions to international scholarship through his groundbreaking research on edge effects in fragmented landscapes, biosphere-atmosphere exchanges in carbon and water in terrestrial ecosystems, and the dynamics of social-environmental systems, or SES.