Shi Yafeng

Shi Yafeng , is a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He's an expert on geography and glaciology, and regarded as the "Father of Chinese Glaciology" .

Life

Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu Province on Mar.21 1919. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University. He led the Batoula Glacier Investigation Team, Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of Chinese Academe Science in 1978, which was the first modern Chinese team to systematically investigate glaciers.

Chronologically, he was a researcher, the vice-director, , honorary director of the Lanzhou Glacier Frozen Earth Institute , Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Works

monograph: ''Glacier Conspectus of China''
monograph: ''Glaciers and Glacial Geomorphology in China''