Shi Yafeng
{{Short description|Chinese geographer and glaciologist}}
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Shi Yafeng ({{zh|s=施雅风|t=施雅風}}; March 21, 1919 – February 13, 2011) was a Chinese geographer and glaciologist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an expert on geography and glaciology, and regarded as the "Father of Chinese Glaciology".[http://gsrb.gansudaily.com.cn/system/2006/09/05/010122983.shtml 中科院资深院士施雅风：中国冰川学之父]
Life
Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu on March 21, 1919.[http://www.chinavitae.org/biography/Shi_Yafeng China Vitae: Shi Yafeng] 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.
He was a researcher, vice-director, director, honorary director of the Lanzhou Glacier Frozen Earth Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Works
- monograph: Glacier Conspectus of China (Shi et al., 1988)
- monograph: Glaciers and Glacial Geomorphology in China (Shi, 1992)
References
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Category:Chinese glaciologists
Category:Academic staff of the East China Normal University
Category:Educators from Nantong
Category:Academic staff of Hohai University
Category:Academic staff of Lanzhou University
Category:Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Category:Academic staff of Nanjing Normal University
Category:Academic staff of Nanjing University
Category:Scientists from Nantong
Category:Zhejiang University alumni
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