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Yan Liu (scientist)
Liu Yan () is a Chinese Antarctic researcher best known for her work on Ice calving, iceberg calving. She is an associate professor of geography in the College of Global Change and Earth System Science (GCESS) and Polar Research Institute, Beijing Normal University. Early life and education Liu received her B.Sc., as an outstanding graduate, in photogrammetry and remote sensing from Wuhan University in 2003, her M.Sc. in cartography and geographical information system from the Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006, and her Ph.D. in global environmental change from Beijing Normal University in 2013. She carried out post-doctoral research work at the GCESS between 2013 and 2015 and took charge of NSFC project: Mass balance and its change of Antarctic ice shelves in 2014. Career and impact Liu began her Antarctic research in 2009 after working as a technical manager in the field of remote sensing applications for three years. Her research foc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |