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One of USTC Students returned from the South Pole |
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2005-08-14 |
| One of USTC Students returned from the South Pole |
One of three USTC students, Zhu Renbin, a doctoral student who joined the South Pole Scientific Expedition Team, returned from the South Pole by plane via Paris. The other two students will arrive at Shanghai with the Snow Dragon ship in April 2nd.
The three students left for the South Pole last November and worked at the Greatwall Station, the Zhongshan Station and the Snow Dragon ship respectively. Their primary tasks are studying the relationship between the seabirds around the Pole, the Palaeozoic mammals and the environmental changes; continuously monitoring the green house gas in the Pole; monitoring the progress and retreat of the Icecap and the environmental revolution. They not only successfully conducted some experiments but finished their papers. This was the first time that USTC joined in the expedition of western and eastern parts of the Pole.
The primary task for Zhu Renbin was to collect the geographical samples such as soil, dirt, groundsheets, mosses and so on in wild area near the Greatwall Station to decipher the effects of human activities on the South Pole. He brings back 150kg samples for further research.
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