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Aug 2026 Talk 2026 Earth Science Frontier Academic Salon +

Geographic Environmental Change and Human Behavioral Responses

@ Lanzhou · Invited talk

Aug 2026 Conference 2026 Science & Intelligence Conference +

@ Beijing · Attended conference

Aug 2026 Keynote 4th Int. Conf. on Urban Science and Intelligence +

Cities That Feel: Sensing Human Responses to Environmental Change

@ Guangzhou · Keynote Speaker

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Jul 2026 Conference 2026 Annual Conference of the Cartography & GIS Committee, GSC +

@ Nanchang · Conference organizer

Jun 2026 Session chair 4th China Digital Earth Conference +

@ Qingdao · Session convener: "GIS Fundamentals and Methods"

May 2026 Session chair 8th Workshop on Cartographic Theory & Methods +

@ Nanjing · Session convener: "Human–Computer Interaction and Map Visualization"

Apr 2026 Seminar LSGI & RILS Research Seminar, HK PolyU +

Understanding Geographic Environmental Change and Human Behavioral Responses Through Big Data Analytics

@ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Apr 2026 Invited talk South China Normal University · Invited talk +

@ Guangzhou

Apr 2026 Session chair 10th Young Earth Scientists Forum +

@ Guangzhou · Session convener: "Remote Sensing and GIS"

7 Apr 2026 Paper Indoor air purification to ease the health toll of wildfire smoke +
Indoor air purification illustration

Global health benefits and cost-effectiveness of indoor air purification to mitigate PM2.5 from wildfire smoke

Published in Nature Health — quantifies the global health and economic gains of indoor air purification against wildfire PM2.5.

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2 Feb 2026 Paper Night light & expressed sentiment across Chinese cities +
Night light and sentiment illustration

Wavelength-specific urban nighttime light modulates expressed sentiment across China

Published in Nature Cities — shows how the colour of city night light shapes expressed sentiment.

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Nov 2025 Keynote 20th Annual Conference on GIScience: Theories & Methods +

Geographic Environmental Change and Human Behavioral Responses from Big Data Analysis

@ Xiamen · Keynote speech

Nov 2025 Forum 441st Shuangqing Forum (Young Scholars) +

AI and Complex Earth Systems: Fundamental Theory, Key Technologies, and Scientific Frontiers

@ Beijing

Oct 2025 Lecture Guest lecture, "Seminar on Human Geography" course, Peking University +

Causal Identification of Geographic Human–Land Systems from Big Data

@ Peking University

Oct 2025 Conference 2025 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of China +

@ Wuhan · Attended conference

Oct 2025 Conference 2nd Conference on GIS Education +

@ Wuhan · Attended conference

Oct 2025 Conference 3rd National Symposium on Data-Driven Geoscience Development +

@ Zhuhai · Attended conference

Oct 2025 Paper Rising temperatures degrade global sentiment unequally +
Rising temperatures and sentiment illustration

Unequal impacts of rising temperatures on global human sentiment

Published in One Earth — warming erodes expressed well-being, and some populations bear far more of the burden.

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11 Aug 2025 Paper Projecting heat-related mortality in Europe +
Heat-related mortality in Europe illustration

Future heat-related mortality in Europe driven by compound day-night heatwaves

Published in Nature Communications — projects European heat mortality under compound day-and-night heatwaves.

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16 May 2025 Paper Indoor wildfire-PM2.5 exposure and who pays to clean the air +
Wildfire PM2.5 exposure disparities illustration

Global Disparities in Indoor Wildfire-PM2.5 Exposure and Mitigation Costs

Published in Science Advances — quantifies unequal exposure to indoor wildfire fine particles and the costs of cleaner air.

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