Invited by Prof. LIANG Chao and Prof. ZHANG Xudong of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), James M. Tiedje, the member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, visited the IAE from May 20 to 22, 2018.

The Institute of Applied Ecology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAE, CAS) and Campbell Scientific Inc. (CSI) reached cooperation intention to co-establish Ker Joint Laboratory for monitoring forest fluxes of trace gases and isotope elements (referred to as ‘Ker Joint Lab’ hereinafter).

On May 14, the Institute of Applied Ecology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAE, CAS), and Xin’ao Petroleum Technical Service Co., Ltd. of Karamay City, Xinjiang Province (referred to as ‘Xin’ao Co., Ltd.’ hereinafter), signed a S&T cooperation agreement, aiming to collaborate to apply for S&T programs, establish Practice Base for graduate students and to reinforce personnel training.

The institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), CAS and the North China Pharmaceutical Group (NCPG) AINO Co., Ltd., signed a cooperation agreement on research and development of biofungicides.

In 2017, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and The Royal Society collected projects which would cooperate between researches from China and British.

The newly published data by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) showed that CAS institutes and Chinese Universities performed excellent.

The meeting was held on 18 March 2018 in Northeast Institute of Geography and Agro-ecology, CAS. The project was hosted by IAE.

On 6-7 March, 2018, the workshop was held in IAE. The workshop was hosted by the CAS Key Lab of Forest Ecology and Management. About 60 persons attended, including 20 well known scientists in the field of Nitrogen cycling coming from Kyoto University Japan, University of Puerto Rico USA, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Universities in China and Institutes in CAS.

Group leader: Prof WANG Shaofeng. Group members: Associate Prof WU Xing, CHI Guangyu, LI Bo. Research assistant: ZENG Xiangfeng, ZHANG Danni, YUAN Zidan and ZHAO Feng.

Leader: Prof YAN Jun. Members: Prof LIU Rui, Associate Prof: AN Jing, CHEN Xijuan, SHI Rongjiu, Research Assistant YANG Weichao.