Keynote Speakers

Dan Binkley is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University.  His work on forest ecology and sustainability blends basic science with application to landscape-scale issues.  Some of the applied perspectives have focused on sustaining the productivity of forests by sustaining soil fertility, providing useful information in textbooks and courses for people who manage forests, and working with collaborative citizen groups on forest restoration at landscape scales.  Dan has degrees from Northern Arizona University (B.S. in Forestry), University of British Columbia (M.Sc. Forest Ecology), Oregon State University (PhD Forest Ecology, Soils, Botany), and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (honorary doctorate).  He was a professor of forest ecology and soils at Duke University and Colorado State University for 35 years.  He has coauthored over 160 journal articles (>40 on Eucalyptus plantations in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Brazil) and several books (including The Ecology and Management of Forest Soils (with R.F. Fisher).   For the past 10 years he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Forest Ecology and Management.

Masayuki Kondo is an assistant professor at the Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, Japan since 2017. He has been a leading scientist of the carbon budget assessment study founded by the Ministry of Environment of Japan since 2014.

With undergraduate and master degrees in High Energy Particle Physics at University of Texas at Dallas Kondo pursued a brief career in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) before pursuing a career as a Geoscientist. He earned a PhD in Environmental Science from Hokkaido University, Japan.

His research aims to assess reliable carbon budgets at regional and global scales using terrestrial ecosystem models, atmospheric inversions including GOSAT CO₂/CH₄ inversions, and empirical upscaling of CO₂ fluxes from eddy flux observations, and to provide insight into future prospects of biogeochemical cycles of Earth. To date, Kondo has produced achievements including the identification of the significant sink-source change of Southeast Asian CO₂ budget between decades and role of plant regrowth on recent enhancement of terrestrial CO₂ uptake.

Currently, his research focuses on filling a gap between carbon budgets from ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches, particularly in tropical regions. Also he is leading a synthesis of global and regional carbon budget assessment from multiple approaches and processes, aiming to contribute IPCC AR6 Chapter.

Kondo takes special delight in discussing the subject of climate change and carbon cycle with scientific and general audiences including K-12 students.

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