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Ying Wang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of Nanjing University, Director of Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, and Honorary Director of Key Laboratory of Coast & Island Development (Nanjing University), Ministry of Education China.
Her major research is in coastal ocean geomorphology and sedimentology. She specializes in multi-disciplinary study of ocean dynamics, geological geomorphology and sedimentology to investigate the formation and trend of land-sea interactive zone — Coastal Ocean.
Her scientific contribution predominates over the coastal ocean science includes the research on the evolution of muddy flat coasts, the drumlin coast, the river-sea system and the sedimentation of continental shelf, and has also expanded research on deep sea turbidity sedimentation of Atlantic abyssal plain. She has summarized tidal dynamic environment, sedimentary processes and ecological coast patterns, and then applied the result to the analyses of ancient tidal environment of muddy-silty strata of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic period. Her research on tidal flat sedimentation has reached the leading edge of the world coastal science. The study on major river inputs to the continental shelf of China seas, especially the case study on evolution of radiative sandy ridge field of the South Yellow Sea, has developed further to the river-sea system, sediment transport and terrigenous fluxes to the world coastal ocean. As a result, it has improved a multi-disciplinary land-sea interactive science of the Asia-Pacific Marginal Seas, and applies the results to coastal ocean development in China. Recently, she concentrates the research on river-sea interaction with sea level changes to trace the evolution of huge paleo delta complex of Changjiang-Yellow River system. As a chief editor, she has published 28 books and as the major author published more than 273 papers.
She has applied her coastal research to about 30 harbour sites selection successfully, and had owned the 1st National Scientific Congress Award of China with other 2 collaborators in 1978. She was awarded China’s outstanding experts in 1984, present she services as the Director of Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing University.
In 2001, Wang was elected as an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Based on her contribution to international Earth Science, she has owned the Honorary Fellowship from the Geographical Society of France in 2010, Honorary Fellowship from International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) in Aug. 2013, and also the Honorary Life Fellowship from International Union for Quaternary Research (IAQUA).
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