Geoscience

Joint Conference of Tibetan Plateau Held

From Aug. 11 to 14, the Joint Conference of the 5th Tibetan Plateau International Symposium and the 24th Himalaya- Karakorum-Tibet International Symposium (HKT) (hereinafter referred as the “Joint Conference”) was held. Ding Zhongli, Sun Honglie and Li Tingdong, members of CAS, Zheng Mianping, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering and some well-known foreign scientists, including Prof. Volker Mosbrugger from the Senckenberg Natural Museum of Germany, Prof. Mike Searle from the University of Oxford, Prof. Toshio Koike from Tokyo University and Prof. Andreas Schild from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, and Li Zhao, Vice Chairman of People’s Government of Tibet Autonomous Region were present at the conference. Sun Honglie, Honorary President of the China Society on Tibetan Plateau and Member of CAS chaired the opening ceremony and some of plenary lectures. The participants carried out in-depth academic exchanges on the theme “uplifting process, environmental evolution and regional development in Tibetan Plateau”. The main topics include: deep process of Tibetan Plateau and continent-continent collision, geologic evolution and formation of mineral resources, uplifting process of plateau and environmental evolution, course of change of climatic environment in plateau and its mechanism, effect of surface process on and its response to global change and resource environment and eco-social development in the plateau.

Rotorcraft Flying Over the Sea

On Aug. 26, the “Nanhai” autonomous rotorcraft flying robot developed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation, CAS successfully underwent series of deck take-off, landing and oversea flight tests at the South China Sea. This was the first oversea test with ship and first application in oversea flight of this rotorcraft flying robot independently developed by this Institute. It was also the first time for China to carry out such test. At the operating sea area, the “Nanhai” autonomous rotorcraft flying robot carried out on-the-spot flight test and demonstration application in 6 flights. It accomplished test items of “autonomous take-off and landing at mobile deck”, “autonomous flight under the interference of strong wind over the sea”, “collection of multi-source information over the sea” and “observation and tracking of mobile targets over the sea” and underwent verification test in repeated flights.