Conghe Song

About

Dr. Conghe Song is a Professor of Geography and Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves as the Department Chair. He is a member of the Remote Sensing and Ecological Modeling Group. His research interests include remote sensing, ecological modeling, and geographic analysis. Dr. Song has a comprehensive educational background with a Ph.D. in Geography from Boston University, an M.S. in Forest Ecology from Beijing Forestry University, and a B.S. in Forestry from Anhui Agricultural University. He also holds a Certificate in Education from Capital Normal University and a Certificate of Training from the Center for Creative Leadership. His professional experience includes serving as a Lecturer at Beijing Forestry University, an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and now Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. He has also been a Charles Bullard Fellow at Harvard University. Since 2023, Dr. Song has been the Chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at UNC Chapel Hill. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the fields of geography and ecological modeling through research, teaching, and leadership roles.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Geography
• Economic growth
• Political Science
• Environmental science
• Computer Science
• Business
• Natural resource economics
• Economics
• Biology

Selected publications

• Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China

  Journal of Rural Studies · 2021 · 99 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Vegetation structural change and CO2 fertilization more than offset gross primary production decline caused by reduced solar radiation in China

  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2020 · 88 citations

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• Reviewing the evidence on the roles of forests and tree-based systems in poverty dynamics

  Forest Policy and Economics · 2021 · 75 citations

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• Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data

  Remote Sensing · 2022 · 60 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The majority of the aboveground biomass on the Earth’s land surface is stored in forests. Thus, forest biomass plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Yet accurate estimate of forest aboveground biomass (FAGB) remains elusive. This study proposed a new conceptual model to map FAGB using remotely sensed data from multiple sensors. The conceptual model, which provides guidance for selecting remotely sensed data, is based on the principle of estimating FAGB on the ground using allometry,…

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• Changes in the associations between heatwaves and human mortality during two extreme hot summers in Shanghai, China

  Sustainable Cities and Society · 2023 · 41 citations

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Recent grants

• Scaling Up Forest Ecosystem Carbon Budget from Stand to Landscape: Impacts of Forest Structures

  NSF · $160k · 2004–2008

• CNH: The Effects of China's Grain-for-Green Program on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human System in Rural China

  NSF · $1.2M · 2013–2018

• DISES: Influence of Community Forestry on the Dynamics of the Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems

  NSF · $1.6M · 2021–2026

Frequent coauthors

• Yulong Zhang

  China North Industries Group Corporation (China)

  34 shared

• Fangfang Yao

  Ningbo No. 2 Hospital

  30 shared

• Shuai Zhang

  29 shared

• Quanfa Zhang

  Wuhan Botanical Garden

  28 shared

• Xiao Yang

  Southern Methodist University

  27 shared

• Lawrence E. Band

  University of Virginia

  25 shared

• Junxiang Li

  Xi'an Jiaotong University

  25 shared

• Qi Zhang

  24 shared

Education

• PhD, Geography

  Boston University

  2001

• MS, Forestry

  Beijing Forestry University

  1991

• BS, Forestry

  Anhui Agricultural University

  1988

Awards & honors

• Charles Bullard Fellow, Harvard University (2005-2006)

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