Shi Yafeng
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Refimprove Shi Yafeng (Template:Zh; 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".[1]
Life
Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu on March 21, 1919.[2] 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
- 1919 births
- 2011 deaths
- Chinese geographers
- Chinese glaciologists
- Academic staff of the East China Normal University
- Educators from Nantong
- Academic staff of Hohai University
- Academic staff of Lanzhou University
- Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Academic staff of Nanjing Normal University
- Academic staff of Nanjing University
- People from Haimen
- Scientists from Nantong
- Zhejiang University alumni