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On February 10, 2022, the Department of Earth Science System (DESS) and the Institute of Global Change of Tsinghua University held the "Earth System Science Forum: Nobel Prize and Climate Change Science" online, to promote the development of earth system science and inspire young students' interest in research on climate change. Also attending the forum was Academician Qin Dahe of the China Met...
1. The Tsinghua DESS supercomputing team won the Gordon Bell Prize for the third timeOn the afternoon of November 18 (U.S. time), the 2021 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize, the highest international honor in the field of supercomputing application, was announced at a hybrid virtual/in person supercomputing (SC21) conference held in St. Louis, U.S. state Missouri. The...
Li Wei’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University has recently published a research paper online, revealing the biophysical effects of growing bioenergy crops at large scale in the world, and exploring the impact of different bioenergy crop types, distributions and planting areas on biophysical effects.Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS...
On November 29, Zhang Qiang’s Research Group and Tong Dan’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University jointly published a paper titled “Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls” online in Nature Climate Change, revealing that the health co-benefits of carbon emission reduction in th...
On the afternoon of November 18, US time, the winning team of the Gordon Bell Prize in 2021 was announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC21) in St. Louis, Missouri. The Chinese supercomputing team won this honor for its achievement “Closing the Quantum Supremacy Gap: Achieving Real-Time Simulation of a Random Quantum Circuit Using a New Sunway Supercomputer” (SWQSIM). The m...
On November 10, 2021, the award ceremony of "Xie Yibing Youth Meteorological Science & Technology Award" was held in Peking University. Wang Yong, Associate Professor of the Department of Geosciences of Tsinghua University, who had won the "Xie Yibing Youth Meteorological Science & Technology Award" in 2021, delivered an academic report at the award ceremony.Wang Yong Delivered Academic ReportA...
On October 21, 2021, the National “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” Scientific and Technological Innovation Achievement Exhibition was held in the Beijing Exhibition Center, which would last until the 27th of the month. Themed “Innovation-Driven Development Towards a Science and Technology Power”, the Achievement Exhibition highlighted the major scientific and technological achievements made by C...
Nature-based solutions are one of the important measures to achieve carbon neutrality. In order to enhance the interdisciplinary cooperation between Department of Earth System Science and Department of Energy and Power Engineering, on the morning of July 6, the relevant teams of Department of Earth System Science and Department of Energy and Power Engineering of Tsinghua University conducted co...
Tropical forests are an important part of global carbon cycle. In the past few decades, they have suffered severe deforestation and forest degradation, leading to forest fragmentation and the formation of a large number of forest edge areas. Forest edge effect refers to the phenomenon that the biomass of the edge of the forest is significantly lower than that of the internal forest due to high ...
On July 2, Department of Earth System Science of Tsinghua University held an annual review exchange meeting for independent scientific research institutions. The review team is composed of 7 experts from the joint committee members of Department of Earth System Science and representatives of co-constructed institutions, including Professor JIANG Jingkun, Vice Dean of School of Environment, Prof...
In the afternoon of June 25, the 2021 graduate graduation ceremony of Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University was held in the multifunctional hall of the MENG Minwei Science and Technology Building. Professor LUO Yong, Dean of the Department of Earth Sciences, attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. More than 50 people, including all graduates of Department of Earth System...
2021 Tsinghua University faculty basketball game kicked off in midsummer June. The basketball team composed of 14 teachers and employees from Department of Earth System Science participated for the competition for the first time. The basketball team of Department of Earth System Science was distributed to Group C of the first group, and played against the School of Aerospace Engineering, School...
