Ling Ma is a professor of Forest Conservation at the School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, with a doctoral degree in Agronomy. Ling Ma has been engaged in teaching and research in forest conservation for a long time. She has led and participated in five provincial- and ministerial-level teaching reform projects. She has won the first prize of the Heilongjiang Province Teaching Achievement Award (ranked third) and two second prizes (ranked first). Her main research fields include the integrated management of forest pests, bio-source pesticide science, insect molecular biology, wetland insect ecology, and wetland evaluation. Furthermore, she has successively led and participated in more than 30 projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, forestry public welfare industry research special projects, and Heilongjiang Provincial Key Research Projects. She has published over 130 academic papers, including more than 40 SCI and EI papers. In addition, she initiated research work on wetland insect ecology, using the diversity of insects to conduct wetland ecological evaluation, and received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.