Student Weiye Mei's Research Experience in University of Alberta
2019-06-27
Editor's note: Student Weiye Mei majors in Geo-information Scicence and Technology from School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University participated in the program University of Alberta Research Experience (UARE). She wrote about her memorable experience after she came back to ZJU. It has been nearly two months since I came back from Edmonton, Canada, where I participated in the ...
The 18th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference held in ZJU
2019-06-27
The 18th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering conference (ELS-XVIII) was held at the Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University from June 10 to June 14, 2019. The conference was hosted by the School of Earth Sciences of Zhejiang University and co-hosted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Elsevier. The conference was chaired by Dr. Lei Bi from the School of Earth Scie...
Professor Renguang Wu joins Zhejiang University
2019-06-17
Welcome Ceremony for Professor Renguang Wu was held in the School of Earth Sciences On June 13th. Professor Renguang Wu, Xu Wei, Director of the Talents Office of Zhejiang University, the School leadership, faculty members and students attended the ceremony. Wang Yuan, Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of School of Earth Sciences, presided over the ceremony.Xia Qunke, Dean of th...
AINSE Gold Medal awarded to Associate Professor Lydia Mackenzie
2019-06-03
Former Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Post Graduate Research Scholar A/Prof. Mackenzie was awarded the AINSE Gold Medal for excellence in research on the 22nd of May 2019. The Gold Medal is awarded based on the past 5 years of publications which acknowledge AINSE support. Michele Durant, the Managing Director of AINSE, also noted A/Prof. Mackenzie’s support o...
Professor Ken Caldeira’s Talk on How to Develop a Successful Career as Climate Scientist
2019-05-23
May 16th, Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science, gave a talk on career choices and strategies in climate science and shared his life experience with students at the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University. Ken’s research is related to climate, carbon, and energy systems. He is also a Professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Earth System Science, Stanford ...
APSCO and GEO Experts Visits SES
2019-03-26
More than 30 representatives and experts from the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) visited the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University on March 20th, 2019. The two sides discussed the cooperation on earth observation and data sharing services. Dr. Du Zhenhong, the deputy director of the Department of Geography and Zhejiang Pro...
2019-03-04
90 undergraduate students from SES participated in the information session on cooperative education program and summer school program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) on March 1st. Vice Dean of SES, Professor Cao Long introduced the cooperation between SES and School of Earth, Society and Environment (SESE) of University of Illinois, the programs and the requirements. As Outstan...
ZJU shortlisted for THE's International Strategy of the Year
2019-02-25
ZJU has been shortlisted in the International Strategy of the Year category in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia 2019.The THE Awards Asia celebrate and publicize excellence in five key areas of university activity, namely Leadership and Management Team, International Strategy, Teaching and Learning Strategy, Outstanding Support for Students and Technologi...
Vice Dean Cao Long Attends the Second Lead Author Meeting of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
2019-01-08
Professor Cao Long attended the second Lead Author Meeting (LAM2) of the IPCC Working Group I Sixth Assessment Report in Vancouver, Canada.The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to provide policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for ...
SES Attends 2018 AGU Fall Meeting and Actively Recruits Global Talents
2018-12-21
2018 AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting was successfully held in Washington DC from December 10th to 14th. School of Earth Sciences attended the meeting for the first time as exhibitor and recruiter for global talents. During the exhibition, several hundreds of scholars and students from universities and research institutions around the world came by our boo...
SES Attends the Inaugural United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress
2018-11-27
The inaugural United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) is being held in Deqing, east China's Zhejiang Province, from Nov. 19 to 21. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent a video message to the congress Monday, expecting the UNWGIC to "use geospatial information to build a safer, better world where no one is left behind."1Themed "The Geospatial Way to a ...
Wojciech Nemec Teaches Short-term Course at SES
2018-11-15
At the invitation of Associate Professor Zhang Fengqi from SES, world renowned sedimentologist, Professor Wojciech Nemec from University of Bergen offered a two-week short-term course named “Clastic Sedimentology and Facies Analysis” for postgraduate students at SES. The short-term course was from October 15th to 30th and it was divided into three parts. The first part consisted of dep...