The First Online Class Meeting in 2020
2020-03-02
On February 17th, Li Weijun, the head teacher, and Zhao Mengying, the part-time counselor, organized a special class meeting for the students of class 1701, majoring in Atmospheric Sciences. The whole class gathered together before the beginning of the new semester through a video conference. Isolate the virus but not love. Through the new way of meeting, Dr. Li Weijun learned about the winter qua...
SES Successfully Summons a Session in AGU 2019 Fall Meeting
2020-01-08
Professor CHEN Hanlin from the tectonic geology team of School of Sciences, Zhejiang University successfully summoned the session "Circum-Tibetan Plateau Basin and Orogen Systems: Archives of Tectonic Deformation and Surface Processes" as primary convener during the 2019 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. The session included two oral sessions (T53A, T54A) and a poster session (T51...
SHI Xuhua reveals the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake rupture complexity
2019-12-23
Deciphering complex rupture behaviors of great earthquakes and associated driving mechanisms is critical to relieving seismic/geological hazards and understanding geodynamics of specific regions. This scientific issue is particularly important to the twin islands of New Zealand. This region shows frequent volcanic and earthquakes activities, including the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake with moment magni...
SES Attends 2019 AGU Fall Meeting to Recruit Global Talents
2019-12-20
2019 AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting was successfully held in San Francisco from December 9th to 13th. School of Earth Sciences of Zhejiang University attended the meeting as exhibitor and recruiter. During the exhibition, several hundreds of scholars and students from universities and research institutions around the world came by our booth to consult about job oppo...
Mihály Pósfai Visits SES and Gives a Series of Lectures
2019-12-03
Invited by Professor LI Weijun from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of SES, Member of Hungarian Academy of Science Mihály Pósfai from University of Pannonia visited our university from November 26 to 29, 2019. During his visit, Prof. Mihály Pósfai gave a series of lectures.On November 26, Prof. Mihály Pósfai talked about “Synthesis and characterization of magnetic iron oxide and iron...
SES Holds Information Session on Cooperative Education Program at UIUC, IUB and UHM
2019-10-28
October 18th,more than 50 undergraduate students from SES attended the information session on cooperative education program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) and University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM). Vice Dean of SES Professor Cao Long introduced the requirements of these cooperative programs. Student Chen Weiye and Su Bin who are currently ...
2019-10-09
USArray, a pioneering project for the dense acquisition of earthquake data, provides a semi- uniform sampling of the seismic wavefield beneath its footprint and greatly advances the understanding of the structure and dynamics of Earth. Despite continuing efforts in improving the acquisition design, network irregularity still causes spatial sampling alias and incomplete, noisy data, which imposes m...
SES Attends Goldschmidt2019 to Recruit Global Talents
2019-09-02
Goldschmidt2019 was successfully held in Barcelona from August 18th to 23th. School of Earth Sciences attended the conference for the first time as exhibitor and recruiter. During the exhibition, a number of scholars and students from universities and research institutions around the world came by our booth to consult about job opportunities and potential cooperation, w...
SES Students Attend Summer School at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2019-08-26
The School of Earth Sciences of Zhejiang University(SES) organized a summer school at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) from July 26th to August 12th, 2019 for undergraduate students. 30 students participated in the summer school, and 23 of them were from our school. Associate Professor Du Zhenhong from the Department of Geography and Ms.Zhu Jianli from Teaching and Education Office...
SES Participates in the 20th INQUA Congress
2019-08-11
The 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress was held in Dublin from July 25th to 31st 2019. It attracted more than 2400 scholars from more than 70 countries. The theme of the congress is “Life on the Edge”. It focuses on five research areas including“Terrestrial Processes, Deposits and History”, “Stratigraphy and Chronology”, “Palaeoclimate”, “Huma...
BI Lei receives the Early Career Scientist Medal at the 100th Annual Meeting of IAMAS
2019-07-21
July 10th, 2019, ZJU100 Young Professor Bi Lei from Department of Atmospheric Sciences of School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University received the Early Career Scientist Medal at the 100th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) in Montreal, Canada for his outstanding contribution to research on light scattering by non-spherical and in...
Jannick Ingrin joins Zhejiang University as Pao Yu-Kong Visiting Chair Professor
2019-07-17
On the morning of July 15, 2019, the welcome ceremony of Pao Yu-Kong Visiting Chair Professor of Zhejiang University was held in School of Earth Sciences. Professor Jannick Ingrin, Professor Etienne Deloule of French National Centre for Scientific Research, the school leadership and faculty members and students of related disciplines attended the ceremony. Wang Yuan, Secretary of the Communist Par...
The School offers English taught Course Crystallography and Mineralogy
2019-07-08
Department of Geology has set up an English taught course "Crystals and Mineralogy" for freshmen who major in Geology in order to meet the goals of the "Double First-class" initiative and internationalization, and to equip undergraduates with international vision and innovative ability. The course is led by Chair Professor Jannick Ingrin, Prof. Rao Can and Prof. Wang Qinyan.The...