Leading professor visits, speaks at Yunnan University

Zhang Yunlin, deputy director of the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Lakes at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on Oct 15 visited the Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes at Yunnan University, or YNU – located in Kunming, capital city of Southwest China's Yunnan province.

Zhang delivers an academic report to teachers and students at Yunnan University on Oct 15. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

At a meeting there, he delivered an academic report entitled "Lake Thermal Process and Ecological Environment Effects in the Context of Global Warming" to teachers and students at YNU.

As deputy director of the Lake and Wetland Branch of the Geographical Society of China and the deputy editor or editorial board member of seven Science Citation Index journals – including Limnology and Oceanography, Remote Sensing and Aquatic Sciences – Zhang has a wide-ranging influence at home and abroad.

At the YNU meeting, Zhang systematically introduced background research and expounded on its significance.

He discussed the warming of lakes in the context of global change, lake heat waves, lake thermal stratification mechanisms and the ecological and environmental effects of thermal processes.

Students talk to Zhang at the meeting. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

Attending teachers and students discussed with Zhang the issues of the response of thermal stratification to asymmetric warming, the impact of thermal processes on lake ecosystems, the carbon cycle, organic matter changes and heavy metal pollution – as well as the research and development of practical instruments.

After the meeting, Zhang, accompanied by YNU professors, visited a laboratory at the institute.

Zhang visits a laboratory at the institute. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]