The First High-level Forum on Geoscience held at PKU
Oct 29, 2019
Peking University, Oct 28, 2019: On October 19, 2019, PKU School of Earth and Space Sciences held the First High-level Forum on Geoscience. Wang Yanglin, vice president of Peking University, and Zhang Lifei, dean of the School of Earth and Space Sciences attended the opening ceremony. Nearly 200 scholars participated in the forum.
After entering the 21st century, faced with new opportunities and challenges, geoscience is open to revolutionary changes. What stands in the frontline of geoscience is the development in the interrelated systematic direction, which reveals the earth's operation mechanism, and provides resources and environmental protection for human beings. This forum is the first high-level forum focusing on the earth system. It aims to strengthen the communication of different disciplines and better promote the research of earth science.
Zhang Lifei briefly introduced the purpose and significance of this forum, hoping to promote exchanges and integration among different subjects and promote the development of geoscience research by holding such high-level forums.
Four members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were invited to make reports at the conference. They conducted extensive and in-depth discussions around the sustainable development supported by big data, the integration process of geo-sphere dynamics, the origin of continents, and other frontier issues in related fields, and emphasized that new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence had brought opportunities for geoscience research.
In the afternoon, six scholars from the School of Earth and Space Sciences shared their research results and scientific research experience. Their discussion covered the exploration of magnetosphere space and solar system margin, the detection and analysis of building damage caused by earthquakes using high-resolution satellite images, the growth rate and spurting of DOPA supervolcano magma house. The accumulation of magma, the inversion of the rupture process of disastrous earthquakes, the evolution theory and examples of supercontinents, and the deep circulation evolution of the sub-Antarctic Pacific Ocean during the climate transition period from Pliocene to Pleistocene.
The group photo
Being conducive to promoting geoscience research and strengthening interdisciplinary integration, the forum helps the construction of first-class geoscience disciplines in Peking University.
Written by: Chen Yubing
Edited by: Wei Yunqi
Source: PKU News (Chinese)
