At the invitation of Academician Chen Fahu, Professor Dong Guanghui and Professor Zhou Aifeng from the Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Professor Zhang Hucai of Yunnan University and Researcher Zhu Liping of the Institute of Qinghai Tibet Plateau of Chinese Academy of Sciences visited Lanzhou University from May 8 to 10 and made an academic report.
Reporter: Professor Zhang Hucai
Title: Evolution of human and fauna in late Pleistocene and its relationship with climate and environment in Songnen Plain
Reporter: Researcher Zhu Liping
Title: Qinghai Tibet plateau lakes and global change: response, trend and solution
Time: May 9th, 9:00 - 11:30
Site: Lecture room 502, Qilian Building, Lanzhou University
Lecturer profile 1
Zhang Hucai is a distinguished professor of Yunnan University, a winner of the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a winner of Yunnan Province's high-end talent introduction and leading talent project, a member of the expert service group (lakes and water resources) of the Organization Department of the provincial Party committee, and a director of the provincial innovation team of Lake sedimentation and environmental change in Yunnan Province. Mainly engaged in Lake sedimentation and climate change, Lake Ecology and pollution control. He has participated in the DFG Africa Sahara special research project SFB69 and the international ocean discovery project IODP361. He has undertaken key projects of NSFC, key international cooperation projects, general projects, leading talent plan of Yunnan Province and high-end talent introduction projects, and published more than 300 papers in Cell, Nature C, JGR, Chinese science and other academic journals. He won the second prize of National Natural Science Award, the first prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of education, the first prize of science and technology progress award of the State Education Commission, the special allowance of the State Council, and the innovation award of China Association for promoting industry-university-research cooperation in 2018. He was selected as the expert grass-roots scientific research workstation of Yunnan Province in 2018 (Fuxian Lake, Xingyun Lake and Qilu Lake), and was rated as an excellent grass-roots expert workstation in 2020. He also serves as the director of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau Research Association, the director of the China Quaternary Science Research Association, the deputy editor of the international journalWatershed Ecology and the Environment(WEE), the director of the China Quaternary Science Research Association, and the adjunct professor of the Great Lakes Research Institute (GLIER), University of Windsor, Canada.
Lecturer profile 2
Zhu Liping, researcher of Institute of Qinghai Tibet Plateau, Chinese Academy of Sciences, national outstanding scientific and technological worker, advanced worker of China Association for science and technology, and recipient of special allowance from the State Council. He served as vice president of China Qinghai Tibet Plateau Research Association, vice president of science and Technology Association of Tibet Autonomous Region, executive director of China Geographic Society, editorial board member of Lake Science and other publications, and director of the observation and Research Network Center for surface processes and environmental changes in alpine regions of Chinese Academy of Sciences. More than 60 SCI papers have been published, among which more than 20 have been published by the first or corresponding author in Scientific Reports, Chinese Science Bulletin, The Holocene and other journals.
Researcher Zhu Liping is mainly engaged in the study of Quaternary lake sediments and global change in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. It is found that under the current climate warming background, lakes in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau continue to expand, Lake transparency generally increases, Lake salinity generally decreases, and biodiversity increases, which makes the structure of the plateau lake ecosystem relatively complex; It is suggested that the plateau lakes have experienced five evolutionary stages since Oligocene, reflecting the evolution process of the natural environment before and after the uplift of the plateau from being controlled by the planetary wind system (westerly belt) to being affected by the monsoon; The theory and application of rock weathering in cold and dry areas of Qinghai Tibet Plateau are studied. It is considered that freeze-thaw, salt effect and thermal damage are the main mechanisms of rock weathering in cold areas.
