Recently, Professor Chao Li Receives the Johannes Walther Medal from the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) in 2024. The IAS will present the medal and honor certificate to Professor Chao Li at the 37thInternational Sedimentology Congress in Aberdeen, United Kingdom in June 2024, where Professor Chao Li will also be giving a keynote talk.
The Johannes Walther Medal is established by the International Association of Sedimentologists in honor of the German geologist J. Walther (Johannes Walther, the proposer of Walther's Law), and is given every two years to a scientist who is considered to have made a major impact in the field of sedimentology. Professor Chao Li is the first Chinese scientist to receive this prestigious award.
Professor Chao Li's research focuses on the early Earth's oceanic environmental evolution and its impacts on life, mineral resources, and energy (sedimentary geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and Earth biology). He has made innovative contributions to the spatial structure of early Earth oceans, the co-evolution of ocean chemistry and complex life, biogeochemical cycling of key life elements in the stratified ocean environment, and the geochemistry of ancient ocean carbonate sedimentation (for more details, see Professor Chao Li's resume: https://sgbg.cdut.edu.cn/en/info/1127/1024.htm). His research findings have been published as first/corresponding author in academic journals such as Nature, Science, NG, PNAS, NC, Geology, EPSL, and GCA, and have been positively reviewed by Science for “elucidating the crucial connection between the evolution of ocean-atmosphere chemistry in the Neoproterozoic era and the early evolution of animals.” Professor Chao Li has also been invited to serve as associate editor or editorial board member for 9 important international and domestic journals such as GCA, Geobiology, Science Bulletin, and “Chinese Science: Earth Sciences,” demonstrating his significant international influence.
More information on the awards of the International Association of Sedimentologists can be found at https://www.sedimentologists.org/awards.
Attached: the award information is taken from"The Newsletter of the International Association of Sedimentologists, Issue 04, 2024"
