China News Service, Chongqing, July 3 (Reporter Zhong Yan) The reporter learned from Southwest University on the 3rd that at the Eurokarst 2022 conference held at the University of Malaga in Spain recently, Yuan Daoxian, the first academician in the field of karst geology in my country and a professor at the School of Geographical Sciences of Southwest University, won the award. The "50-year Lifetime Achievement Award" of the Karst Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, becoming one of the three scientists in the world to receive this honor.
Yuan Daoxian, 89 years old this year, is a professor and doctoral tutor of the School of Geographical Sciences of Southwest University. He is also a famous geologist, hydrogeologist and karst scientist in my country.
The picture shows Yuan Daoxian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, doing an outdoor inspection.
Photo courtesy of Southwest University
"Although he has already reached the age of rejuvenation, Yuan Daoxian, who is full of silver hair, starts work every morning and has been thinking about karst issues for 70 years." According to the relevant person in charge of Southwest University, Yuan Daoxian attaches great importance to international cooperation in karst research, and uses the With the advantages of his own English and geology majors, he went abroad and traveled to 45 countries with karst phenomena in the world.
Since the 1990s, he has successively presided over a number of international projects in the field of karst science, which has brought my country's karst science to the forefront of world academics and has also promoted global karst research.
In addition, he has presided over a number of Sino-US cooperative research projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Doctoral Program of the Ministry of Education, the former Ministry of Land and Resources Geological Survey Project, and the Chongqing Municipal Science and Technology Commission key projects.
"Our country is a rare 'natural karst archive' in the world. With such a large treasure house, we should make greater contributions to the world's karst science." Yuan Daoxian proposed to UNESCO in 1990 that "geology, climate, hydrology and Karst Formation" International Geological Comparison Program was approved after rigorous peer review by experts from many countries, and he was elected as the chairman of the international working group.
Under Yuan Daoxian's proposal and through the unremitting efforts of all parties, in 2008, the International Karst Research Center settled in Guilin, which is the first geoscience research center authorized by the United Nations in my country.
The picture shows Yuan Daoxian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Photo courtesy of Southwest University
Since 2005, Yuan Daoxian has also actively promoted the application of the "South China Karst" world natural heritage with karst experts at home and abroad, and the application was successful in June 2007.
Since 2012, he has made every effort to promote the application of the second batch of "South China Karst" world natural heritage projects by Chongqing Jinfo Mountain, Guizhou Shi Bing, Guangxi Guilin and Guangxi Huanjiang.
In June 2014, as an expansion of the "South China Karst" project, the "South China Karst Phase II" project was successfully selected as a World Natural Heritage in the 38th World Heritage Conference.
It is reported that for decades, the research on karst environment with Professor Yuan Daoxian as the academic leader has focused on many domestic and international major issues when solving various engineering geology, hydrogeology, ecological environment and regional development problems in karst areas. , has formed unique research characteristics, greatly enriched the theory of karst discipline, and provided useful ideas and methods for solving karst resource and environmental problems faced by all parts of the world.
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