Director of Academic Committee: An Zhisheng

An Zhisheng, male, born in February 1942; Quaternary Geologist, Academician of CAS, Research Fellow and Doctoral Supervisor of CAS Earth Environment Research Institute.

Previous and Current Part-time Appointments

President, CAS Xi’an Branch
President, Shanxi Academy of Sciences
Director, State Key Lab of Loess and Quaternary Geology
Head, CAS Earth Environment Research Institute
Deputy Director, China Association for Quaternary Research
Vice Chairman, International Union for Quaternary Research
Vice Chairman, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

Principle Academic Achievements

(1) In terms of the quaternary geology and previous global change, with loess and relevant quaternary sediment as the main object, academician An systematically studied the sediment and evolution of Chinese loess and its relationship with Palaeo-climate and Palaeo-environment, and associated it with global climate change;

(2) Introduced the quaternary magnetostraitigraphy in China, academician An pointed out the major geological climate events in China 2.4 million years ago, surveyed and evaluated the age of Lantian Man and Australian Desertification;

(3) In collaboration with Academician Liu Dongsheng, academician An successfully compared the Chinese loess with the sequence of abyssal deposit, rebuilt the climate history of loess plateau and wrote the Loess and Environment;

(4)Academician An proposed the evolution mode of loess deposit and its relationship with environmental evolution;

(5)Academician An put forward of the East Asian monsoon theory of controlling Chinese palaeo-environment changes, established the sequence of Chinese palaeo-environment changes over the last 2.4 million years, 130,000 years and 20,000 years, rebuilt the prospect of the environmental changes in China over the last 20,000 years and discussed systematically the changing mechanism of palaeo-monsoon;

(6) Academician An put forward the evidence and law for instability and emergency of winter monsoon climate in the last glacial age and interglacial age, and conducted comparative studies on the palaeo-climate of the southern hemisphere and northern hemisphere, which have been internationally accepted.

Publications

More than 180 articles academician An wrote have been published on such magazines as Nature, Science, Geology, Quaternary Research and Sciences of China. In 2005, in terms of theses citation, An Zhisheng ranked the first in China’s Geo-Science and the ninth in the world Geo-Science.

Awards

2nd and 3rd Prizes of National Natural Science Awards
1st Prize of CAS Natural Science Award

Members of Academic Committee

Name	Title	Position in Academic Committee	Research Interests	Affiliation
AN Zhisheng	Academician	Director	Quaternary Geology and Global Change	CAS Earth Environment Research Institute
YAO Tandong	Academician	Deputy Director	Cryosphere and Global Change	The Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS
QIN Dahe	Academician	Member	Cryosphere and Global Change	The Institute of Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Meteorological Administration
TIAN Junliang	Research Fellow	Member	Soil Environment and Soil Erosion	The Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS & MWR
FU Bojie	Academician	Member	Natural Geography and Landscape Ecology	Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS
LI Xiubin	Research Fellow	Member	Land Cover/Use Change	The Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS
ZHANG Dayong	Professor	Deputy Director	System Ecology	Beijing Normal University
LIU Baoyuan	Professor	Deputy Director	Soil Erosion and Water-Soil Conservation	Beijing Normal University
GAO Qiong	Professor	Deputy Director	Ecological Model	Beijing Normal University
SHI Peijun	Professor	Member	Environmental Change and Land Utilization	Beijing Normal University
YAN Shidu	Professor	Member	Utilization of Biological Resources	Columbia University,  USA
SHAO Yaping	Professor	Member	Erosion Process	University of Cologne, Germany
WU Jianguo	Professor	Member	Landscape Ecology	Arizona State University, USA