At the invitation of Professor Mou Cuicui and Professor Peng Xiaoqing from the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lanzhou University, Professor Lin Zhao from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology will visit our campus on October 30 to exchange ideas and deliver an academic lecture. All faculty and students are welcome to attend.

Speaker: Professor Lin Zhao, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Title: Exploring Several Issues in Permafrost Research on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Moderator: Professor Cuicui Mou, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University

Time: October 30, 2023 (Monday) at 10:00

Venue: Room 1615, Guanyun Building

Expert Profile:

Professor Lin Zhao, a double-creative talent in Jiangsu Province, is a professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He served as a director of the Chinese Society of Cryosphere Sciences and was previously a researcher at the Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration. He has conducted research in the field of permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. He was an invited contributing author for the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has also participated in the preparation of the State of the Climate report, published annually in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 13 times. Professor Zhao has authored over 300 academic papers and two monographs. His work has been cited over 8,000 times, and he holds an H-index of 50.

Professor Zhao has led more than 10 major national research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Project, National Basic Work Special Project, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Major Research Program. His major contributions include establishing an observational system and network for high-altitude permafrost and releasing a comprehensive dataset of permafrost observations on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. He has also proposed laws of coupled water and heat during active freeze-thaw processes, developed permafrost models considering freeze-thaw processes, subsurface ice melting, and surface deformation. Moreover, he has studied the storage of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in permafrost areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and evaluated changes in soil organic carbon and their source-sink effects.

College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University

October 28, 2023