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CUG and China Geological Survey (CGS) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, both sides will cooperate in various aspects including education, innovation, and research of earth science to improve both abilities to solve major resource and environmental problems and earth system science problems, and to promote the development of CUG and CGS. Both sides will w...

The June 8th issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published a paper “Massive formation of early diagenetic dolomite in the Ediacaran ocean: Constraints on the “dolomite problem”. It's an international collaborative work authored by doctoral student CHANG Biao of the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology CUG, Prof. LI ...

(On June 3rd, 2020, after finishing his field work with a joint team measuring Mount Everest, Prof. CHEN, Gang came back to Wuhan. The editor of http://en.cug.edu.cn interviewed Prof. CHEN on June 7th. The following is the interview script.)Q: Please briefly introduce the “measuring Mount Everest expedition”A: This joint expedition team was organized by The First Land Measurement Team (a subs...

​The team of the 2020 measurement of the height of Mt. Everest formed by survey members and mountaineers reached the summit of the mountain at 11 a.m. on May 27. Then they set a beacon and a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver to conduct measurements. On the same date 45 years ago, Chinese brought a beacon to the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.CUG alumni Tsring Norbu...

According to the list of government-sponsored senior fellows, visiting scholars, and postdocs in 2020 announced by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), 45 CUG teachers will receive full funds for studying abroad from the CSC.The 45 teachers are 1 senior fellow, 36 visiting scholars, and 8 postdocs. This year, 93.7% of all the CUG applicants are selected, setting new record highs.(Edited and tra...

“What is an earthquake?” “How to prevent earthquake damage?” “How do we take the right protective measures and choose the right escape route when a disaster happens?” Prof. XIANG Wei from CUG answered these questions during his lecture on a streaming platform on May 12, the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day.This year’s theme of the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigatio...

Faheem, a Pakistani PhD candidate from the School of Environmental Studies, passed his oral defense remotely on May 12 and became the first international student of CUG to complete online oral defense of his PhD dissertation in 2020.Faheem has published four SCI papers as the first author in the past three years, demonstrating outstanding learning ability and research potential. Despite the COV...

Mount Everest, the main peak of the Himalayas, is the highest mountain in the world. It is the dream of many people to climb onto the top of the Earth. Its name in Tibetan, Qomolangma, means “Goddess Mother of the World” or “Goddess of the Valley”. 10 CUG members have reached the summit of Mount Everest 9 times since the establishment of CUG.WANG Fuzhou, CUG alumnus from the Geology Departm...

The team of the 2020 measurement of the height of Mount Everest formed by survey members and mountaineers, which contained 12 CUG members, set out at the base camp of the world’s highest peak on the afternoon of May 6.A group photo of some CUG members in front of Mount Everest on departureThe team started doing mountaineering and adaptive training from January 12 this year.The new measurement,...

​ The planetary geology team in which Associate Professor HUANG Jun and Prof. XIAO Long work in has published “Diverse rock types detected in the lunar South Pole–Aitken Basin by the Chang’E-4 lunar mission” in the prestigious journal Geology. They identify a variety of rock types including plagioclase- and pyroxene-rich materials in the landing region of the Chang’E-4 (CE-4), but not the...