Wenjun Chen
EDUCATION
March 1997: Ph.D., Biometeorology & Soil Physics, University of British Columbia, Canada, March 1997.
March 1988: M. Sc., Agro-meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, PR China,
June 1983: B. Sc., Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, PR China.
Contact Information: Wenjun Chen
AWARDS
Nobel Peace Prize (2007), as an IPCC author, recognized by Co-chairs of IPCC Working Group III, Ogunlade Davidson and Bert Metz (October 2007); Environment Canada Minister John Baird and Deputy Minister Michael Horgan (March 2008); NRCan Minister Gary Lunn and Deputy Minister Cassie Doyle (May 2008).
Public Service Award of Excellence (2009), Government of Canada, Innovation category for: “Permafrost Thaw Impact Assessment Team”.
NRCan Departmental Merit Awards: 2008 for: “A tool for Assessing Permafrost Thaw Impact on Land and Infrastructure”; 2005 for: “Canadian Council of Forest Minister’s Framework of Criteria and Indicator review team”
NRCan Sector Merit Awards: 2003 (ESS) for : “CCRS team on Environment and Sustainable Development Indicators (Forest Cover Indicator and Extent of Wetland Indicator)”; 2004 (CFS) for: “Canadian Council of Forest Minister’s Framework of Criteria and Indicators review team”; 2006 (ESS) for: “Land use change and greenhouse gases inventory over Canada’s North”; 2007 (ESS) for: “A tool for Assessing Permafrost Thaw Impact on Land and Infrastructure”; 2008 (ESS) fro: “Monitoring ecological integrity of national parks using satellite remote sensing”.
Certificate of Appreciation (2004), Chair of Canadian Council of Forest Minister (CCFM) Archie Lang, for “CCFM’s Framework of Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management”.
Tu Zhangwang Meteorological Science and Technology Award (1990), 1st Class (one only), Chinese Meteorological Society, P.R. China, for “Simulation of tillering and earring dynamics of winter wheat based on the cybernetic theory”.
CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH – Using satellite remote sensing and geospatial data, detecting land cover changes and its impacts in the Canadian north.
- Habitat indicators for migratory tundra caribou under a changing climate, under the auspices of the CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment network (CARMA). Wenjun’s research focuses on the Bathurst caribou herd and the Porcupine caribou herd.
- Climate impacts on Canadian Arctic Tundra Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary and Multi-scale Assessments (CiCAT), one of Canadian International Polar Year (IPY) projects. In addition to being a lead on the vegetation mapping and change detection theme, Wenjun’s main research interests focus on seasonal and long-term changes of arctic tundra ecosystems detected using satellite remote sensing time series and ground measurements
- ParkSPACE, a joint project with Parks Canada Agency and financially supported by the Government Research Initiative Program (GRIP) of Canadian Space Agency. In addition to being the CCRS lead on this project, Wenjun’s interests in this project include the development of operational protocols for monitoring changes in plant growth, phenology, wetland extents, and permafrost dynamics on northern national parks.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Chen, W., Blain D., Li J., Keohler K., Fraser R., Zhang Y., Leblanc S., Olthof I., Wang J., McGovern M. 2009. Biomass measurements and relationships with Landsat-7/ETM+ and JERS-1/SAR data over Canada’s western sub-arctic and low arctic. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(9): 2355 — 2376.
Chen, W., Blain D., Li J., Keohler K., Fraser R., Zhang Y., Leblanc S., Olthof I., Wang J., McGovern M. 2009. Estimating carbon release caused by land use changes over Canada’s north during 1985–1990 and 1990–2000 using satellite earth observation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, G01017, doi:10.1029/2007JG000631
Chen, W., Li J., Zhang Y., Zhou F., Koehler K., Leblanc S., Fraser R., Olthof I., Zhang Y., Wang J. 2009. Relating biomass and leaf area index to non-destructive measurements for monitoring changes in arctic vegetation. Arctic, 62(3): 281–294
Chen W., R.H. Moll, B.D. Haddon, S. Leblanc, G. Pavlic, R. Fraser, R. Fernandes, R. Latfovic, J. Cihlar, and S. Bridge, 2006, Canada’s forest cover indicator: definition, methodology, and early results, Natural Resources Modeling, 19: 91-116.
Chen, W., Chen, J.M., Price, D.T., Cihlar, J., Liu, J. 2000. Carbon offset potentials of four alternative forest management strategies in Canada: A simulation study. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 5:143-169.
List of publications for Wenjun Chen in GEOSCAN