Dr. Hsing-Juh Lin is interested in ecosystem ecology and trying to solve ecological problems from a holistic view, especially under climate change and human disturbance. He obtained Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (USA) in 1994, was promoted to “Distinguished Professor” in the Department of Life Sciences at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in 2007 and “Lifetime Distinguished Professor” in 2018. He served as the President of Taiwan Wetland Society, (2) the chair of the department, (3) the Director of NCHU’s Research Center for Global Change Biology, (4) an Adjunct Research Fellow at Academia Sinica’s Biodiversity Research Center and (5) an Adjunct Professor at Chinese Medical University (Taichung). Currently, he is (1) Adjunct Professor at the National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung), (2) Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan Ocean University (Keelung) and (3) the Director of NCHU’s Center for Environmental Restoration and Disaster Reduction. His specialty is on the structure, function, and service of coastal and aquatic ecosystems, particularly in the tropical/subtropical region. Over the past 25 years, he has been studying on a variety of tropical aquatic ecosystems, including ponds, rice paddies, tea plantations, streams, estuaries, coastal lagoons, mangroves, seagrass beds, algal reefs and coral reefs, particularly Blue Carbon ecosystems. He was charged in making the standard operation procedure for ecologically monitoring wetlands and marine systems and the methodology of blue carbon for the Regulations for Voluntary Emission Reduction Project Management in Taiwan. He published the first book regarding tropical seagrass ecosystems in the South China Sea and the wetlands textbook in Taiwan. He also removed a dam from a tropical mountain stream in Taiwan for conserving the endangered landlocked salmon. He was awarded the 2015 Dedicator of Forestry and Nature Conservation by Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taiwan and 2015 Alumni Award by National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He was invited to join IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature) Mangrove Specialist Group and the Lead Author for Red List of Ecosystems Assessments and for Regional assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, UNEP), the first and the only one from Taiwan. In 2022, he was awarded Marine Education Contribution Award in Taiwan and the Sustainability 2022 Carbon Neutrality Award granted by MPDI publishing. He was awarded National Agricultural Science Award in 2023 and Outstanding Research Award of National Science and Technology Council in 2024.