Dr. Chansheng He, professor of geography, is a Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Western Michigan University. He is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of American Association of Geographers (AAG), and has received Fulbright – University of Leeds Distinguished Scholar Award, AAG Water Resources Specialty Group Gilbert F. White Distinguished Career Award, and Fulbright Senior Specialist Awards. He serves on the editorial boards of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, and Geography and Sustainability. His research involves watershed hydrology, soil hydrology, nonpoint source pollution, land-atmosphere interactions, and water resources management, but mainly focuses on integration of in situ observations, remote sensing, GIS, and simulation models to better observe, understand, and analyze how land use/cover change resulting from human- environmental interactions affects the watershed hydrological processes and water cycles at multiple spatial scales and provides feedback to the land-atmosphere interactions. He is a reviewer for over 20 international funding agencies and for >50 journals.