At the invitation of Professor Nie Junsheng from the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University and the Key Laboratory of Western China's Ministry of Environment and Education,ProfessorPeter Clift, Louisiana State University, USA, will give an academic exchange and online academic presentation on 9 February 2023. All students and teachers are welcome to attend!
Speaker: Professor Peter Clift, Louisiana State University
Title: Evolution of the Asian Monsoon and its Impact on Erosion and Tectonics of the Himalaya
Host: Professor Nie Junsheng, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University
Time: February 9, 2023 (Thursday), 10:00-12:00
Zoom Conference Number: 873 6212 5777 Conference Password: 3236
Conference link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87362125777?pwd=ajZrb1dFNDNLUGQzWnpUeVBBSVE5QT09
Bilibili live link: https://live.bilibili.com/27053276
Expert Introduction:
Professor Peter Clift received his BSc and MSc from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University. He is currently the Charles T. McCord Professor of Petroleum Geology at Louisiana State University, USA, where he focuses on the stratigraphic development of continental margins, the history of the Asian monsoon and its influence on Asian orogeny and the origin of continental crust and the recycling of continental material through subduction zones. Professor Peter Clift is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, was Chief Scientist on IODP 355, a Fellow of the Hansel Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, a Distinguished Lecturer at ECORD, a Distinguished Lecturer at USAC-IODP, a recipient of the Murchison Prize of the Geological Society of London and the Worcester College Award for Excellence, University of Oxford. He has held visiting professorships at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanography, Nanjing Normal University, Yunnan University, and the University of Hong Kong. To date, Professor Clift has published over 260 papers in international journals such as Nature, PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Earth-Science Review, Geology, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters. He has published more than 260 papers in high-level international journals and his papers have been cited more than 12,700 times.
