Seminars

• Fractal lake areas in Badain Jaran Desert, China and its implication for origin of water

  • Date

    May 10,2018

  • Time

    4:00PM-4:30PM

  • Venue

    JL104

  • Speaker

    Mr. ZHANG Xiaolang Department of Earth Sciences, HKU

  The Badain Jaran desert (BJD) occupies parts of Alxa, China covering a big area of 49,000 km2 making it the second ...

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• Our earliest ancestors: Cambrian deuterostomes or just weird wonders?

  • Date

    May 4,2018

  • Time

    11:00AM - 12:00PM

  • Venue

    KB115

  • Speaker

    Professor Simon Conway Morris Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

  Abstract: As deuterostomes ourselves we have a parochial interest in our deep ancestry but this superphylum is also ...

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• Holocene climate change in inland Asia inferred from paleolimnological indicators

  • Date

    May 2,2018

  • Time

    1:00PM

  • Venue

    JL104

  • Speaker

    Mr. MENG Bowen Department of Earth Sciences, HKU

  Inland Asia, an arid/semi-arid region with limited water resources and fragile ecological system, is sensitive to climat ...

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