Ge Sun is Research Hydrologist with EFETAC's Southern Global Change Program (SGCP) and is Adjunct faculty of Forestry of North Carolina State University, Auburn University, and University of Toledo. He joined SGCP through North Carolina State University in 1997, and became a federal scientist in 2003. Over the past fifteen years, he has conducted forest hydrological research on various ecosystems, from Florida’s cypress swamps in the humid southeastern U.S. to northern China’s Loess Plateau dry lands. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. His current research focus is on regional and national assessments of climate change and forest management impacts on water resources using eddy flux towers, paired watersheds, and integrated simulation models. He serves as guest editor of the Journal of American Water Resources Association and the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, and is a board member of Frontier of Forestry in China. He was the co-founder of the US-China Carbon Consortium and served as forestry expert of Forest Service International Program mission in Asia. He received his B.S. (Soil Water Conservation, 1985) and M.S. (Forest Hydrology, 1988) degrees from Beijing Forestry University and his Ph.D. (Forest Hydrology, 1995) from the University of Florida. He resides in Cary, NC, with his wife Haiyan Tong, daughter Michelle, and son Victor.


Contact Ge Sun at gesun@fs.fed.us or 919-515-9498.