近日，十大外围足彩网站荣誉教授、十大外围投注平台特聘教授、南非皇家科学院（Royal Society of South Africa）院士Michael Meadows教授在国际地理联合会（International Geographical Union）主席换届选举中，获得49名会员国成员全票通过，被正式推选为国际地理联合会新一届主席，任期为2020年至2024年。

      Recently, Professor Michael Meadows, Honorary Professor of East China Normal University (ECNU), Distinguished Professor in the ECNU School of Geographical Sciences, and academician of the Royal Society of South Africa, was officially elected as the new president of the International Geographic Union (IGU), with a term of office from 2020 to 2024.

      国际地理联合会成立于1922年，是由世界各国地理学术团体联合组成的地理学领域最顶级的国际组织。Meadows教授的当选，是我校教师首次在国际地理学重量级学术组织担任主席这一要职。

      Founded in 1922, the IGU is the top international organization in the field of geography, which is composed of geographical academic groups from all over the world. The purposes of the IGU are primarily to promote geography through initiating and coordinating geographical research and teaching in all countries of the world. This is the first time an employee of ECNU has served as chairman of an important international geography academic organization.

      Meadows教授，1955年出生于英国利物浦，在英国萨塞克斯大学和剑桥大学分别获得学士和博士学位。自1983年起在开普敦大学任教，是南非皇家科学院自然地理学领域唯一的院士，在国际著名期刊发表学术论文百余篇，出版专著多部。2010年起，任国际地理联合会（IGU）秘书长兼财务主管。此外，还任Progress in Physical Geography, Quaternary Science Reviews及 Land Degradation and Development等国际著名期刊的编委。

      Born in 1955 in Liverpool, UK, Professor Michael Meadows obtained his BA and PhD from the University of Sussex and the University of Cambridge respectively. He began to work at the University of Cape Town in 1983 and is currently the only academician of the Royal Society of South Africa in physical geography.
      Professor Meadows has published more than a hundred academic papers in prestigious international journals, and several monographs. Hehas served as the Secretary-General and Treasurer of the IGU since 2010. He is also on the editorial board of several high-profile international journals, including Progress in Physical Geography, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Land Degradation and Development.

WORKING IN ECNU

      2015年11月4日，南非皇家科学院新晋院士、国际著名地貌学家Meadows教授应十大外围投注平台刘敏院长邀请访问十大外围投注平台，参加了十大外围足彩网站主办的“中国人口地理格局与城市化未来－纪念胡焕庸线发现80周年学术研讨会”并致词，这是Meadows教授与十大外围足彩网站第一次亲密接触。

      Professor Meadows visited ECNU for the first time on November 4, 2015. He was there to attend the “Population Geography and the Future of Urbanization in China: Symposium for Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of Hu Huanyong Line” hosted by ECNU, and delivered a speech at the symposium.

      2016年被聘为十大外围足彩网站名誉教授，主要研究方向包括第四纪古环境的重建，人类世界环境演变和人类活动对环境的影响等。

      In 2016, Professor Meadows became a distinguished professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University. His key research interests include the reconstruction of quaternary palaeoenvironments and issues around environmental change and human activities.

The inauguration of the Institute of Eco-Chongming and the Institute of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences

      2017年，Meadows教授受十大外围投注平台刘敏教授邀请，联合申请国家自然科学基金和南非基金会合作研究项目《中国-南非典型海岸湿地关键带水沙-生物地球化学过程耦合机理对比研究》，并成功获批。在2018-19年间，他与刘敏教授共同带领“华东师大-南非开普敦”国际研究团队，多次在南非Knysna泻湖海岸地区和长江口崇明东滩进行野外观测.

      In 2017, Professor Meadows and Professor Liu Min’s scientific program, "Hydro-sediment dynamics and bio geochemistry process in coastal wetland critical zone :A comparison study between China and South Africa", was approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Research Foundation of South Africa as an international cooperation program.
      In April 2018, an ECNU research team headed by Professor Liu Min and Professor Meadows conducted monitoring and fieldwork at Knysna lagoon in South Africa.

The research team conduct field research in Africa.