Student from School of Earth Sciences Conduct Academic Exchange at The University of Hong Kong
2024-10-21
From July 17 to September 17, 2024, Chen Yixuan, an undergraduate student from the School of Earth Sciences at Zhejiang University, participated in a summer research exchange program at the Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). His research focused on land use change in Shenzhen and the development of the Geographically Weighted Regression (GTWR) software, and he succes...
Student from School of Earth Sciences Conduct Academic Exchange at The University of Texas at Austin
2024-10-21
From August 1 to September 30, 2024, Hu Jiachen, an undergraduate student from the Class of 2022 in Geology (Qiushi Honors Program) at Zhejiang University, was invited to participate in a two-month academic research project at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), focusing on AI-based P-wave first-motion polarity picking methods for microseismic events.The University of Texas at Austin (U...
2024-10-21
Recently, Mengli Shi, a student from School of Earth Sciences at Zhejiang University, successfully completed a two-month summer research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During this period, she not only received comprehensive and professional research training but also made significant progress in academic communication and personal development.Throughout the research, M...
2024-06-12
On June 3, 2024, the 154th ‘Global Lecture Series’ at Zhejiang University took place successfully at the School of Earth Sciences. Professor Yinon Rudich, an academician of the European Academy of Sciences, delivered an academic lecture titled ‘Connecting Aerosol Composition to Health Effects’. The report revealed the differences in toxicity of various types of aerosols to cells and demonstrat...
2024-06-05
On June 3, 2024, Prof. Hans Thybo and Prof. Irina Artemieva, elected members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, and fellows of the Geological Society of America, were invited by Dr. Haibin Yang to visit the School of Earth Sciences at Zhejiang University. During their visit, they delivered engaging lectures to the faculty and students.Professor Hans Thybo gave a lecture ti...
Department of Atmospheric Sciences Held A Study Abroad Experience Sharing Session for Undergraduates
2024-04-30
In order to broaden students' international vision, foster students' academic development and improve their learning skills, a study abroad experience sharing session for undergraduates of Atmospheric Sciences was held on the evening of April 22. SHU Shoujuan, Deputy Head of Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and DAI Panxi, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, attended this s...
2024-04-10
On April 3rd, 2024, Professor Ray Weldon from the University of Oregon, USA, delivered a captivating lecture titled The Discovery of Plate Tectonics: Unexpected Sources of Key Data and the Hard Road to its Eventual Acceptance to the freshman cohort of the Qiu Shi Class within the Geology Major at Chu Ko-Chen Honors College.Professor Weldon's presentation engaged students by delving into intrig...
2022-03-16
Recently, Prof. LI Weijun and Doctoral student WANG Yuanyuan from the School of Earth Sciences and Prof. HUANG Jin from the College of Computer Science and Technology co-published their research findings about the optical absorption of black carbon (BC) aerosols in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.BC, emitted by the incomplete ...
2022-01-12
The Taklamakan Desert, located in the Tarim Basin of northwest China, is seen as the driest area of the Asian mid-latitude arid zone and one of the major sources of global dust. But it is in this remote desert where the brocade antiquity, well-known for its Chinese seal characters dated back to the Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD), was unearthed and hailed as one of China’s greatest discoveries in the...
Professor Long Cao Served as a Lead Author of the Just Released IPCC Six Assessment Report
2021-08-12
IPCC(The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) just released the Sixth Assessment Report Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.The IPCC does not carry out its own research. Instead, hundreds of scientists volunteer their time to assess evidence from scientific, technical and socio-economic publications. Governments and experts review successive drafts of the reports. The Sixth Asses...
2021-03-09
In the beginning of March, the General Office of the Ministry of Education has released the list of national and provincial first-class undergraduate programs in 2020. Two degree programs, Geology and Geographic Information Science of School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, have been selected as national first-class undergraduate programs.According to “Double Ten Thousand Initiative”, the...
New multidisciplinary course in the School of Earth Sciences
2021-01-19
During the Winter Semester of 2020-2021 Associate Professor Lydia Mackenzie taught a new course titled ‘Biogeography and Palaeoecology’ in the School of Earth Science. Eight students were enrolled across four disciplines: Geology, Human Geography and Urban and Rural Planning, Chemical Engineering and Applied Biological Sciences. Additionally, two students attended the class online from Mexico an...
2021-01-04
School of Earth Sciences (SES) held 2021 New Year gala show in Yongqian Theatre on December 25, 2020. Deputy head Zhang Fan and administration office director Yu Yijie from the First Geology Group of Zhejiang Province, dean of SES Xia Qunke, secretary of the Communist Party Committee Wang Yuan, vice dean Cheng Xiaogan,, Cao Long, Du Zhenhong, vice secretary of the Communist Party Committee Chen Ni...