The 2023 International Workshop on Surface-Earth System Science was held in Tianjin on 6th-9th August with the theme of "Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Advancing Earth System Science". The workshop brought nearly 400 participants home and abroad to explore the surface earth system and the sustainable development.
10 plenary talks given by 5 Academecians of CAS and 5 world-known scientists presented the utilization of systems science theories and methodologies to study the changes in the Earth system and to advance the Earth system science. 38 featured speakers from Peking University, Tsinghua University, City University of Hong Kong, Nanjing University and Chinese Academy of Sciences etc. gave invited talks covering 4 frontier topics of "Earth System Observations, Data Integration, and Modeling","Processes of earth system and the relative eco-environmental impacts", "The interactions between Earth’s spheres and global environmental change" and "Social-ecological system and sustainability science".