刘曙光，中南林业科技大学生态学科带头人，****，博士生导师。中南林业科技大学第九届学术委员会副主任委员。国际期刊 Annuals of Forest Science副主编、Chinese Geographical Science等编委成员， 50多种国际学术期刊 (包括SCIENCE) 审稿人。经常被中国、美国、英国及其它国际资助部门邀请评审 (函评和会评专家) 研究方案和项目。
1984年毕业于中南林业科技大学（前中南林学院）林学专业，获农学学士学位；1984年至1987年在北京林业大学攻读森林生态学硕士学位，1987年获森林生态学硕士学位；1996年毕业于美国弗罗里达大学(University of Florida)，获生态水文学博士学位。曾任美国地质局地球资源观测与科学中心顶级生态学家、南达科达州立大学空间地理科学卓越中心兼职教授、美国科学应用国际公司SAIC高级首席科学家、美国国家学院国家研究委员会顾问等。
研发领域主要包括区域生态系统碳储量和碳通量时空演变(碳源和碳汇)的监测和模拟、区域生态系统服务GEP定量监测与评估方法创新、技术集成与应用等。目前的研究任务包括洞庭湖流域1980s以来的土地利用变化遥感反演；洞庭湖流域20多种生态系统服务（如碳储量和碳通量）时空演变、以及未来流域生态服务能力的提升机制与路径；湖南省森林演变历史、现状以及固碳供给函数的推演；中国城市化过程、代谢耦合、规模效应、区域差异以及生态环境变迁。主持由中国自然科学基金、美国航天航空局、美国国防部、美国自然科学基金、美国地质局等部门资助的研究项目20余项。在SCIENCE、美国科学院院刊PNAS、NATURE子刊 和Science Advances 等SCI学术期刊发表200多篇。
代表性的学术论文（学生为第一作者；通讯作者*）
Shi, Y., Liu, S.*, Yan, W., Zhao, S., Ning, Y., Peng, X., Chen, W., Chen, L., Hu, X., Fu, B. and Kennedy, R., 2021. Influence of landscape features on urban land surface temperature: Scale and neighborhood effects. The Science of the Total Environment, 771, pp.145381-145381.

Wang, Z., Liu, S.*, Wang, Y., Valbuena, R., Wu, Y., Kutia, M., Zheng, Y., Lu, W., Zhu, Y., Zhao, M. and Peng, X., 2021. Tighten the Bolts and Nuts on GPP Estimations from Sites to the Globe: An Assessment of Remote Sensing Based LUE Models and Supporting Data Fields.Remote Sensing,13(2), p.168.

Liu, M., Liu, S.*, Ning, Y., Zhu, Y., Valbuena, R., Guo, R., Li, Y., Tang, W., Mo, D., Rosa, I. and Kutia, M., 2020. Co-Evolution of Emerging Multi-Cities: Rates, Patterns and Driving Policies Revealed by Continuous Change Detection and Classification of Landsat Data.Remote Sensing,12(18), p.2905.

Feng, S., Liu, S.*, Huang, Z., Jing, L., Zhao, M., Peng, X., Yan, W., Wu, Y., Lv, Y., Smith, A.R. and McDonald, M.A., 2019. Inland water bodies in China: Features discovered in the long-term satellite data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(51), pp.25491-25496.

Liu, S., Bond-Lamberty, B., Boysen, L.R., Ford, J.D., Fox, A., Gallo, K., Hatfield, J., Henebry, G.M., Liu, Z., Loveland, T.R. and Norby, R.J., 2017. Grand Challenges in Understanding the Interplay of Climate and Land Changes. Earth Interactions, 21(2), pp.1-43.

Zhao, S., Liu, S. and Zhou D., 2016. Prevalent vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences p..

Tan, Z, S Liu*, T L. Sohl, Y Wu, and C J. Young, 2015. Ecosystem carbon stocks and sequestration potential of federal lands across the conterminous United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(41), 12723-12728.

Liu, S., J. Liu, Y. Wu, C. J. Young, J. M. Werner, D. Dahal, J. Oeding and G. L. Schmidt, 2014. Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage, Carbon Sequestration, and Greenhouse-Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Eastern United States. In: Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-Gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of the Eastern United States, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1804

Yuan, W, S Liu*, S Liang, X Li, other EC site PIs, 2014. Differentiating Moss from Higher Plants is Critical in Studying the Carbon Cycle of Boreal Biome. Nature Communications 5:4270.

Liu, S, B Bond-Lamberty, J A Hicke, R Vargas, S Zhao, J Chen, S L Edburg, J Liu, A D McGuire, J Xiao, R Keane, W Yuan, J Tang, Y Luo, C Potter, and J Oeding, 2011. Simulating the Impacts of Disturbances on Forest Carbon Cycling in North America: Processes, Data, Models, and Challenges. Journal Of Geophysical Research, VOL. 116, doi:10.1029/2010JG001585

Yuan, W, S Liu*, G Zhou, G Zhou, L L Tieszen, D Baldocchi, C Bernhofer, H Gholz, A H Goldstein, M L Goulden, D Y Hollinger, Y Hu, B E Law, P C Stoy, T Vesala, S C Wofsy, 2007. Deriving a Light Use Efficiency Model From Eddy Covariance Flux Data For Predicting Daily Gross Primary Production Across Biomes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 143: 189-207, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.12.001.

Zhou, G, S Liu, Z Li, D Zhang, X Tang, C Zhou, J Yan, and J Mo, 2006. Old growth forests can accumulate carbon in soils. Science 314: 1417 (the first two authors contributed equally)

在研项目
洞庭湖流域生态服务时空演变与调控机制研究，264万，国家自然科学基金重点支持项目 (2021.01-2024.12)

湘江流域物质横向移动对碳氮循环的影响，67万，国家自然科学基金面上项目 (2020.01-2023.12)