Taian Li is a Ph.D candidate in ecology (road ecology), from the Life Science School of Lanzhou University, Gansu Province, China.

He recently spent six months as a visiting scholar at the UC Davis Road Ecology Center in the John Muir Institute of the Environment.

Li, we called him "Roy," made many friends during his stay in Davis and taught his American friends lots of interesting things about how we are the same and how we are different.  This blog will allow us to continue to learn from Roy, and to follow his efforts to bring ecology to his province and beyond.

We look forward to bringing him back to Davis for a postdoc, where he can continue to serve as a bridge between Davis and China, promoting ecology and environmental considerations in his professional and scholarly life.

Roy