Co-hosted by Yale Club of Beijing, Harvard Club of Beijing, Dandelion School, and Yale Center Beijing.
Event Time
Saturday, July 15, 2023
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Venue and Time for Pick-Up
8:00 am at Exit E1, Junshi Bowuguɑn (The Military Museum) subway station, Haidian District, Beijing
Note: Please be punctual. If you miss the bus, you must arrange your own transportation to the Beijing Forest Ecosystem Positioning Research Station.
Registration and Fees
Registration
Please click “HERE” further below to register.
Alumni & Friends: RMB 249
*Registration fee covers bus, lunch, and professional explanation fee. The registration fee is not refundable. In the case of unexpected circumstances (such as rainstorm warning, mudslides, etc.), the event will be canceled and refunded. Please feel free to contact your respective school's organizers with any questions.
Seats are limited to 30 and available on a first-come-first-served basis for alumni of Ivy-League Schools and their children.
The Event
Yale and Harvard Beijing alumni and their families, along with students of Dandelion School from peasant-worker families, will gather at Donglingshan, a summer resort in the west of Beijing, to visit the Donglingshan forest dynamics plot of the Beijing Forest Ecosystem Positioning Research Station of the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to enjoy nature and learn about the biodiversity found in Donglingshan forest.
Guides
Yan Zhu Postdoc '17
Associate Professor in Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science
Yan Zhu, a '17 Postdoctoral Research at the Yale School of the Environment, is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the PI of the Donglingshan forest dynamics plot in Beijing. Dr. Zhu focuses on understanding the maintenance mechanisms of diverse-species coexistence and the relationship of biodiversity and ecosystem functions (e.g. forest carbon stocks) in large-scale forest communities, especially in the field of tree interactions. Her research is mainly based on the Donglingshan forest plot in Beijing, together with the Chinese Forest Biodiversity Network (CForBio) and the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), and looks at the change, maintenance and protection of biodiversity, as well as ecological restoration within the context of global change.
Yang Wang
Engineer of Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Wang is an engineer at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as the executive director of the Beijing Forest station. His research interests are in vegetation protection and environment observation in warm temperate forest ecosystems.
Bo Liu
Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China
Bo Liu graduated from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a Ph.D. and is on faculty at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China. He is also a member of the Conservation Planning Specialist Group, the Society for Economic Botany, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the Species Survival Commission. He is mainly engaged in plant system and evolution research.
Please Note
By signing up for this activity, you acknowledge you are fully aware of its arrangements, promises to obey all its rules, fully understands the uncontrollable factors of outdoor activities, and have confirmed that your health condition and outdoor experiences permit your participation in this activity. Patients with heart diseases, hypertension, asthma, and other diseases that may threaten their safety during outdoor activities shall not sign up for this activity. The organizer of this activity shall not be held responsible for any injuries or accidents arising from the concealment of individual health conditions. The person who signs this declaration will be liable for any consequences incurred herefrom. Feel free to purchase insurance for yourself. The insurance company, and not the organizer of this activity, shall be liable for the unpredictable or unavoidable accidents arising therefrom. On occasions where participants are injured by force majeure, the organizer and all the participants shall be obliged to help as much as possible, and the organizer shall not be held responsible for any legal or economic liabilities arising from the accidents in this activity.
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