On October 10, the Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (hereinafter referred to as "TPESER") held the fifth Masters' Frontier Lecture. Prof. Mark Harrison, Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, was invited to give an academic report entitled "How to Build a Habitable World". Over 80 researchers and graduate students from our institute, including Academician Ding Lin, Deputy Director of Academic Affairs and Director of TPESER, attended the report meeting on the spot. The meeting also attracted nearly 1,500 online participants through the live streaming platform.
In his lecture, Prof. Mark Harrison talked about the 10 controlling factors that make a planet habitable, and then systematically introduced the growth history of continental crust, the evidence proving that Hadean has living things, and the method of dating early life activities.
During academic exchanges, Prof. Mark Harrison had an energetic discussion with participants online and on the sport on several issues, including "how to distinguish the biological and abiotic causes of graphite inclusions in zircon, and whether transmission electron microscopes can be used to distinguish these two causes" and "how to understand the new view expressed in recent Nature articles that rock weathering increases carbon dioxide emissions".
Prof. Mark Harrison gives a lecture
Photo of the academic exchanges
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