Name:Jian Bi
Title: Associate Professor  Master advisor 
Gender:male
Graduate College:Boston University
Education:Graduate
Academic degree:PhD
On-the-job information:Incumbency
Unit:Remote Sensing and GIS
Initiation time:
Office location:Guanyun Building
Mail box:bijian@lzu.edu.cn
Learning Experience
2015 PhD in Geography, with a focus on remote sensing Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA 2011 MS in Cartography and Geographic Information System School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 2006 BS in Geographic Information System School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Research Direction
Remote Sensing of Vegetation, Climate Change
Work Experience
2018-Now Associate Professor, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, China 2016-2018 Postdoctoral scholar at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 2015-2016 Postdoctoral scholar at the Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
Part-time Academic Job
Reviewer of the journals: Remote Sensing, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Earth System Dynamics Discussions, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Water, Climate, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
Achievement Of Honor
NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowship
Publishing Works
1. Keeling, R. F., H. D. Graven, L. R. Welp, L. Resplandy, J. Bi, S. C. Piper, Y. Sun, A. Bollenbacher & H. A. Meijer (2017) Atmospheric evidence for a global secular increase in carbon isotopic discrimination of land photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 10361-10366. 2. Bi, J., R. Myneni, A. Lyapustin, Y. Wang, T. Park, C. Chi, K. Yan & Y. Knyazikhin (2016) Amazon Forests’ Response to Droughts: A Perspective from the MAIAC Product. Remote Sensing, 8, 356. 3. Welp, L., P. Patra, C. Rodenbeck, R. Nemani, J. Bi, S. Piper & R. Keeling (2016) Increasing summer net CO2 uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and remote sensing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 4. Bi, J., Y. Knyazikhin, S. Choi, T. Park, J. Barichivich, P. Ciais, R. Fu, S. Ganguly, F. Hall, T. Hilker, A. R. Huete, M. O. Jones, J. S. Kimball, A. Lyapustin, M. Mottus, R. Nemani, S. Piao, B. Poulter, S. Saleska, S. S. Saatchi, L. Xu, L. Zhou & R. Myneni (2015) Sunlight mediated seasonality in canopy structure and photosynthetic activity of Amazonian rainforests. Environmental Research Letters, 10, 064014. 5. Ukkola, A. M., I. C. Prentice, T. F. Keenan, A. I. van Dijk, N. R. Viney, R. B. Myneni & J. Bi (2015) Reduced streamflow in water-stressed climates consistent with CO2 effects on vegetation. Nature Climate Change. 6. Xu, L., S. S. Saatchi, Y. Yang, R. B. Myneni, C. Frankenberg, D. Chowdhury & J. Bi (2015) Satellite observation of tropical forest seasonality: spatial patterns of carbon exchange in Amazonia. Environmental Research Letters, 10, 084005. 7. Poulter, B., D. Frank, P. Ciais, R. Myneni, N. Andela, J. Bi, G. Broquet, J. Canadell, F. Chevallier, Y. Liu, S. Running, S. Sitch and G. Werf (2014) The contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual global carbon cycle variability. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature13376 8. Park, T., R. E. Kennedy, S. Choi, J. Wu, M. A. Lefsky, J. Bi, J. A. Mantooth, R. B. Myneni & Y. Knyazikhin (2014) Application of physically-based slope correction for maximum forest canopy height estimation using waveform LiDAR across different footprint sizes and locations: Tests on LVIS and GLAS. Remote Sensing, 6, 6566-6586. 9. Hilker, T., A. I. Lyapustin, C. J. Tucker, F. G. Hall, R. B. Myneni, Y. Wang, J. Bi, Y. M. de Moura, and P. J. Sellers (2014), Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity of the Amazon, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201404870. 10. Bi, J., L. Xu, A. Samanta, Z. Zhu & R. Myneni (2013) Divergent Arctic-Boreal Vegetation Changes between North America and Eurasia over the Past 30 Years. Remote Sensing, 5, 2093-2112. 11. Zhu, Z., J. Bi, Y. Pan, S. Ganguly, A. Anav, L. Xu, A. Samanta, S. Piao, R. R. Nemani & R. B. Myneni (2013) Global data sets of vegetation leaf area index (LAI) 3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) 3g derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the period 1981 to 2011. Remote Sensing, 5, 927-948. doi:10.3390/rs5020927 12. Xu, L., R. Myneni, F. Chapin III, T. Callaghan, J. Pinzon, C. Tucker, Z. Zhu, J. Bi, P. Ciais & H. T?mmervik (2013) Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/nclimate1836