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CUG team led by Prof. TONG Jinnan, in partnership with Dr. CUI Ying from Montclair State University and Prof. Paul B. Wignall from the University of Leeds, presents a continuous pCO2 record across the PTME reconstructed from high-resolution δ13C of C3 plants from southwestern China, which suggests that carbon dioxide is probably the main cause of global warming during the Permian-Triassic mass...

The project launch conference of “Basic Research on Prediction and Forecast of Large Landslides” was held in Wuhan on April 10. The project, funded by the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), is led by CUG Prof. TANG Huiming and joined by researchers from Chang’an University, Chengdu University of Technology, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Acad...

CUG and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing.HUANG Xiaomei, Secretary of the Party Committee of CUG, andZHANG Yuzhuo, Chairman of Sinopec Group, witnessed the signing. According to the agreement, the two parties will join hands in education and research & development to contribute to national energy security.ZHANG Yuzhuo hoped that...

CUG and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. held the signing ceremony of “Intelligent Base” on April 6. “Intelligent Base” is an education program which combines the efforts of the university and the enterprise. XU Yingtong, President of Ascend Computing Business, Huawei, LIU Xiangqing, General Manager of Hubei Cloud and Computing Business, Huawei, HUANG Xiaomei, Secretary of the Party Committee...

CUG team led by Prof. XIAO Long, Associate Professor XIAO Zhiyong from Sun Yat-sen University, and researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Austria, and other countries discovered shock-deformed zircon from the Chicxulub impact crater for the first time. They revealed the shock features of zircon in the impact crater, such as the deformation history of reidite, zircon twins, and gran...

The Chinese government has displayed a sense of responsibility, a quick response to people’s needs and the ability to manage and coordinate during the COVID-19 epidemic, especially during the days when Wuhan, the hardest hit city on the Chinese mainland, was sealed off last year, said African students who stayed at their universities in Wuhan during the outbreak.Tiandos Damien, a PhD candidate...

CUG held 2021 Annual Conference of Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Geological Resources on March 29 and 30. Three members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), CUG leadership, and teachers and students from the School of Marine Science and Technology attended the conference.CUG invited 17 scholars from the Second Institute of Oceanography, Minister of Natural Resources (MNR), Thi...

During the Seminar on Solid Earth Science Big Data held at CUG on March 28, the Research Center for Solid Earth Science Big Data (hereinafter referred to as the Research Center) was established. Five members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Director of the Second Department of Earth Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), CUG leaderships, and over 200 expert...

CUG team led by Prof. XIA Fan from the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and School of Materials Science and Chemistry published “Towards explicit regulating-ion-transport: nanochannels with only function-elements at outer-surface” in Nature Communications on March 10, 2021. The first author is doctoral student MA Qun from the School of Materials Science and Chemist...

“The oldest eugaleaspiform (Galeaspida) from the Silurian Fentou Formation (Telychian, Llandovery) of Wuhan, South China”，published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology on March 9, 2021, introduces a new genus of Eugaleaspidiformes (Galeaspida, Agnatha), Jiangxialepis gen. nov., from the Llandovery (Silurian) Fentou Formationin Wuhan, Hubei, China. The first author of the paper, LIU Yi...