Prof. Tandong Yao is one of the world’s foremost authorities on glaciers and environment as well as their impacts on human society. Since the 1980s, he has based his life and research in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region, also known as the Third Pole o...

Prof. Zhengyu Liu is an intellectual leader at the intersection of climate dynamics, Earth system modeling, and paleoclimate reconstruction who has developed a deep understanding of Earth system interactions and global climate and environmental ch...

Dr. Lai-Yung (Ruby) Leung has been a real force advancing the science and modeling frontiers of environmental change. She is an influential researcher and an outstanding community leader. She has pioneered modeling of regional and global climate chan...