At the invitation of Professor Gou Xiaohua from the Key Laboratory of Western Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Academician Chen Fahu, the director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, will visit Lanzhou University on February 24th and give an academic report.

Reporter: Academician Chen Fahu

Title: Westerly wind patterns, transcontinental communication and their impact on early social development in Northwest China

Time: February 24, 2022 (Thursday), 15:00-17:00 pm

Site: Lecture room 502, Qilian Building

Tencent Conference ID: 322 760 822

Lecturer profile

Chen Fahu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, Distinguished Professor of the "Changjiang Scholars" of the Ministry of Education, and National Advanced Worker. He is currently the director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the chairman of the Chinese Geographical Society, the vice-chairman of the Environmental Evolution Committee of the International Geographical Union, the vice-chairman of the China Quaternary Research Association, the vice-chairman of the China Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Association, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Chief scientist of the basic science of earth system science on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, chief scientist of the National Key R&D Program. From 1980 to 1990, he completed his undergraduate, master and doctoral studies in physical geography at Lanzhou University. He has long been engaged in the study of dust loess records, late Quaternary environmental evolution, climate change, environmental archaeology, prehistoric civilization evolution and the interaction of climate and environmental changes. Published more than 640 papers in domestic and foreign academic journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, etc., and successively won 2 second-class national natural science awards (both for the first completers) and 12 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards (including 6 first-class awards).