Dr. Xulin Guo is a professor at the Department of Geography and Planning. She has a BSc in Forest Management, a MSc. in Forest Economics from the Beijing Forest University, and a PhD in Remote Sensing and Biogeography from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the remote sensing of grasslands, beginning with her PhD program on the tall grass prairie, and moving to the mixed grass prairie in 2001. She participated in special international collaborative projects for grasslands in Inner Mongolia and Tibet, and has collaborated on grassland and forest management and monitoring plans with the Ministry of Saskatchewan. She has also conducted grassland research for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for many consecutive years. In 2019, she received the John H. Warkentin Award for Scholarly Contributions to Geography in the Western Interior by the Prairie Division’s Canadian Association of Geographers.