Ge Sun

Ge Sun is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, affiliated with the USDA. His expertise focuses on forest hydrology and global change, with research emphasizing ecosystem responses to climate variability, water-carbon interactions, and wetland degradation. Sun’s work integrates remote sensing, ecohydrological modeling, and field data to address critical environmental challenges such as water resource management, carbon sequestration, and forest resilience under global change.

His research spans diverse ecosystems including southeastern US forests, Himalayan watersheds, and coastal wetlands, with a particular emphasis on quantifying hydrological processes, methane emissions, and the impacts of urbanization/afforestation on water and carbon cycles. Sun collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop decision-support tools for climate-smart forestry and sustainable water management.

Key contributions include modeling inter-basin water transfers, evaluating forest restoration benefits for water yield, and advancing methods for gap-filling soil respiration data in wetlands. His publications highlight the importance of structural diversity in carbon storage, the coupling of ecosystem productivity and evapotranspiration, and the vulnerability of coastal wetlands to sea-level rise.

Awards and recognitions are unspecified, though his extensive publication record and USDA affiliation suggest active engagement in federal research initiatives. Sun’s advising and grants focus on ecohydrological modeling, with projects supported by agencies like the USDA Forest Service and NOAA. He leads efforts in the Center for Geospatial Analytics and collaborates with experimental forests such as Coweeta and the Southern Appalachian Mountains.