Xiangming Xiao earned a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Xiamen University, China in 1982, and a Master's degree in Plant Ecology from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science and University of Science and Technology, China in 1987, and a UNEP/UNESCO's Diploma of Environmental Management and Protection from University of Technology, Dresden, Germany in 1988, and a Ph.D degree in Ecosystem Science from Colorado State University in 1994. During 1994-1997 he was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate both at the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, and at the Joint Program on Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Xiao is leading the global land remote sensing program and the Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at the Complex Systems Research Center. His research interests span a wide range of biological science, geo-science and health science, including climate change, land use and land cover change, global carbon cycle, remote sensing, and epidemiology and ecology of infectious diseases.

His current projects include (1) ecology-based risk assessment and early warning of highly pathogenic avian influenza, (2) ecology of Lyme disease, (3) remote sensing of biophysical and biochemical parameters and vegetation productivity, and (4) carbon fluxes and water fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. His research group is producing a suite of global land products using MODIs satellite imagery, including land surface phenology (cropping intensity, crop calendar, phenology), agricultural and wetlands, and gross and net primary production of vegetation and transpiration. For additional information http://remotesensing.unh.edu