CHANS-Net leader honored by AAAS

Jianguo "Jack" Liu, principal investigator of CHANS-Net, has been named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Liu is a Michigan State University Distinguished Professor of fisheries and wildlife who holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and is director of the MSU Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability. He was honored for his pioneering research that integrates ecology, various social sciences and policy to understand and achieve environmental sustainability at local, national and global scales.

"It is very encouraging to see that the interest in CHANS research has been rapidly growing around the world and more people are realizing that understanding CHANS complexity lays a foundation for achieving global sustainability," Liu said. "A major purpose of CHANS-Net is to enhance communications and collaborations across the CHANS community worldwide.

In addition to receiving his fellow certificate and rosette at the AAAS annual meeting in February in Washington, D.C., Liu and other CHANS-Net scientists are leading six symposia at the event.

"To nurture a new generation of CHANS scholars, CHANS-Net will also support 11 CHANS Fellows (junior researchers, postdocs, and graduate students) to attend the symposia and interact with senior researchers.

This year 503 AAAS members were named fellows on the basis of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The tradition of naming AAAS Fellows began in 1874.