Xiaolu Zhou Ph.D. (Forest Management)

(in 2002)

Address: 203-365 Lake Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario P6B 3K8, Canada

Phone: +1 (705) 942-6012 (H); (705) 946-2981 ext 259 (O)

E-mail:

eMPLOYMENT:

Apr. 2001 – PresentPostdoctoral researcher

Faculty of Forestry and Forest Environment, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver road Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada

Apr. 1996- Nov. 2000Research group leader

Public Planning & Policy Studies, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Mar. 1993 - Mar. 1996Visiting scholar

Environment and Resource Department, Agriculture Faculty

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Dec. 1986 - Mar. 1993 Lecturer

Forest Management Department, Nanjing Forestry University, P. R. China

Sept. 1983 - Dec. 1986Research Assistant

Information Division, Nanjing Automation Research Institute, P.R. China

Education:

  • Ph.D. (Forest Management) 1996. Agriculture Faculty, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
  • Advanced Studies (Forest Management) 1988. Forest Management Department,Nanjing Forestry University, P.R. China
  • Advanced Studies (Computer Science) 1987. Nanjing University, P.R. China
  • B.Sc. (Information processing) 1983. Electron and Information Engineering Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China

RESEARCH and work Experience:

Apr. 2001 – Present Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

Research Activities:

1.Development of forest growth and carbon dynamics model (TRIPLEX).

2.Model construction and simulation of carbon and nitrogen dynamics under future climate change.

3.Model construction and simulation of forest ecosystem management.

Mar. 1996 to Nov. 2000: Public Planning & Policy Studies, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Research Activities:

  1. Environment impacts assessment using statistics and GIS method.
  2. Development of models predicting the effect offorest on absorbing CO2.
  3. Development of models (with a spatial madule) simulating land-use and environment-impacts.
  4. Policy assessment for forest planning and CO2 emissionreducing.
  5. Routine data accessing and statistical analysis for the company (PPPS)

Mar. 1993 to Mar. 1996: Agriculture Faculty, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Research Activities:

1.Development of dynamic forest register system – Integrated management of forest information (Forest growth, yield schedule model, and forest operation assessment approach with GIS).

2.Modeling of optimizing the yield schedule with 0-1 integer linear programming.

3.Development of a method to accelerate the numeration speed of 0-1 integer linear programming.

4.Using Visual Basic and GIS SPANS to create a forest information system of KUSAKI experimental forest in Gunmaken Japan.

5.Construction of a statistics program and database for the stand survey.

Dec. 1986-Mar. 1993: Forest Management Department, Nanjing Forest University, China

Research Activities:

1.Development of a prediction system of timber supply and demand in South China.

2.Development of a forest growth prediction model for the forest in south China

3.Simulation of the forest growth & yield with a Dynamic Model.

Sep. 1983-Dec. 1986: Database and Programming, Nanjing Automation Research Institute, China

Research Activities:

1.Design of the database of rainfall condition for environment management.

2.Programming for database management.

3.Programming for data communication.

TEACHINGExperience:

Mar. 1993 - Mar. 1996: Agriculture Faculty, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

1.Application of the GISkit

2.Modeling method of GIS SPANS

Dec. 1986-Mar. 1993: Forest Management Department, Nanjing Forest University, China

1.Forest Management Information System

2.Database Application on Forest Management

3.Application of dBase III

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

 Chinese, English and Japanese

PUBLICATIONS:

Papers:

1.Xiaolu Zhou and Yukichi Konohira: The dynamic forest register system (I) -- A forest information management tool supported by system yield tables. Journal of the Japanese Forestry Society, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 131-136, 1995.

2.Xiaolu Zhou: The forest forecast map based on system yield table -- Spatial retrieval and forecast. Japanese Journal of forest Planning, Vol.25, pp.27-31, 1995.

3.Xiaolu Zhou, Yukichi Konohira and Hirohiko Minematsu: The dynamic forest register system (II) -- Forest information management based on an operation plan. Journal of the Japanese Forestry Society, Vol.77, pp.527-534, 1995.

4.Changhui Peng, Jinxun Liu, Qinglai Dang, Xiaolu Zhou and Michael J. Apps: Modelling Complex Forest Ecosystems: A Hybrid Model Simulation Approach. Proceedings of the Conferenceheld in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 12 to 17, 2001.

5.Changhui Peng, Jinxun Liu, Qinglai Dang, Xiaolu Zhou and Mike Apps: Developing Carbon-Based Ecological Indicators to Monitor Sustainability of Ontario’s Forests. Ecological Indicators, Vol. 2002.

6.Xiaolu Zhou, Changhui Peng, and Qinglai Dang:Assessing the Generality and Accuracy of the TRIPLEX Model Using In situ Data of Boreal Forests in Central Canada. Environmental Modelling & Software. (In review)

Book:

Deyin Zhou and Xiaolu Zhou: XENIXoperation system.191 pages, Nanjing University Press, 1991. (in Chinese).

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