At the invitation of Professor Nie Junsheng from the Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Professor Wang Yongjin from Nanjing Normal University came to our university for a visit and gave an academic report on July 23rd.

Title: Monsoon climate background of the origin and evolution of Central Plains Civilization

Time: July 23rd, 10:00 - 12:00

Site: Lecture room 502, Qilian Building, Lanzhou University

Lecturer profile

Wang Yongjin, male, born in April 1959, Ph.D. In 1982, he obtained a bachelor's degree in rock and mineral engineering from the Department of geology of Nanjing University; In 1987, he obtained a master's degree in sedimentary petrology from the Department of geology of Nanjing University; In 2000, he received a doctoral degree in physical geography from Nanjing Normal University. In 1988, he went to the Department of planetary Geosciences of the University of Pittsburgh to study paleomagnetism. Since 1987, he has taught in the Department of geography of Nanjing Normal University. Now he is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Geographical Sciences of Nanjing Normal University, a distinguished professor of "Changjiang Scholars" of the Ministry of education and a winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund.

He is mainly engaged in the study of cave deposition and climate environment evolution. Through the comparative study of cave paleoclimate records in East Asian monsoon area and Greenland ice core records, he discusses the history and dynamic mechanism of Asian monsoon change and its relationship with global change from different time scales and constructs a relatively complete research system of stalagmite isotopic climate stratigraphy in China in the past 200000 years.

He has published three academic papers in Science and Nature successively. In 2002, he won the Distinguished Youth Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research team was selected as the innovation team of the "Changjiang Scholars and Innovation Team Development Plan" in 2005, and his research results were selected as the "top ten scientific and technological progress of Chinese universities in 2008" and "top ten news of basic research in China in 2008". He won the first prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education in 2013 and the second prize of National Natural Science Award in 2014.