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NEW ENGLAND WILD FLOWER SOCIETY PRSRT-STD gentians and on the kora circuit at Namco lots 180 Hemenway Road • Framingham, MA 01701-2699 U.S. Postage of saxifrage and others. www.newfs.org • [email protected] • 508-877-7630 P AID TheTIBETAN Plateau Although the Tibet Plateau is quite high, we have Ashland, MA arranged the itinerary so that we will spend Permit No. 7 most of our time at moderate elevations. We will Western Sichuan&Tibet sleep in towns where the elevation is 11,000 to TIME VALUE 12,000 feet above sea level. During the second June 14-30, 2009 part of the program, we will travel in the Tibet Autonomous Region, spending most of our time around Lhasa (11,700 feet elevation). We anticipate that group members will be well-acclimatized. Our highest elevation overall is the pass that Dear Members & Friends: leads to Namco at 16,900 feet. Since we will cross the pass briefly in the course of a day’s The Tibetan Plateau has for centuries travel, we do not anticipate that this will present been a place of fascination for Western any altitude problems, even if it will most likely naturalists and explorers. Nowhere else in set a few personal altitude records. the world even comes close to putting so much terrain so high into the sky. Tibet is We sincerely hope that you will be able to join also home to a free-spirited pastoralist us in Tibet in 2009! Space is limited, so please people with a distinctive Tantric Buddhist let us know right away. -
Study on the Stable Isotopes in Surface Waters of the Naqu River Basin, Tibetan Plateau
ESEARCH ARTICLE R ScienceAsia 44 (2018): 403–412 doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2018.44.403 Study on the stable isotopes in surface waters of the Naqu River basin, Tibetan Plateau a,b b b b, b b Guoqiang Dong , Baisha Weng , Tianling Qin , Denghua Yan ∗, Hao Wang , Boya Gong , Wuxia Bib,c, Jianwei Wangb a College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620 China b State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038 China c College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098 China ∗Corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected] Received 30 Jan 2018 Accepted 3 Nov 2018 ABSTRACT: To enhance our understanding of the regional hydroclimate in the Central Tibetan Plateau, different types of water samples were collected across the Naqu River basin in the summer (July, August) and winter (January, December) of 2017 for isotopic analysis. With Cuona Lake as the demarcation point, the δ18O values of the river water increased initially and then decreased from upstream to downstream along the river’s mainstream. In the Naqu River system, a general decrease of δ18O values in the trunk stream of the lower reaches (from the head of Cuona Lake) was revealed owing to the gradual dilution of increased isotopically-depleted tributary inflow. Lakes play an important role in regulating runoff and changes in the levels of stable isotopes in rivers or streams. Additionally, the decrease of δ18O is controlled by processes involved in the ‘isotopic altitude effect’. -
The Political Potency of Tibetan Identity in Pop Music and Dunglen
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Volume 38 Number 1 Article 16 June 2018 The Political Potency of Tibetan Identity in Pop Music and Dunglen Anna Morcom Royal Holloway, University of London, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya Recommended Citation Morcom, Anna. 2018. The Political Potency of Tibetan Identity in Pop Music and Dunglen. HIMALAYA 38(1). Available at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol38/iss1/16 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Research Article is brought to you for free and open access by the DigitalCommons@Macalester College at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Political Potency of Tibetan Identity in Pop Music and Dunglen Acknowledgements The author is grateful to Thierry Dodin, Stuart Wright and Gerald Roche who provided useful input into drafts of this article and numerous helpful comments in the anonymous reviews. She remains indebted to all the Tibetans who helped during fieldwork vo er the years in a myriad ways. She would like to emphasize that the views expressed in this article are her own synthesis and analysis. This research article is available in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol38/iss1/16 The Political Potency of Tibetan Identity in Pop Music and Dunglen Anna Morcom Since their beginnings in the 1980s, Tibetan and dissemination. -
Dangerous Truths
Dangerous Truths The Panchen Lama's 1962 Report and China's Broken Promise of Tibetan Autonomy Matthew Akester July 10, 2017 About the Project 2049 Institute The Project 2049 Institute seeks to guide decision makers toward a more secure Asia by the century’s mid-point. Located in Arlington, Virginia, the organization fills a gap in the public policy realm through forward-looking, region-specific research on alternative security and policy solutions. Its interdisciplinary approach draws on rigorous analysis of socioeconomic, governance, military, environmental, technological and political trends, and input from key players in the region, with an eye toward educating the public and informing policy debate. About the Author Matthew Akester is a translator of classical and modern literary Tibetan, based in the Himalayan region. His translations include The Life of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, by Jamgon Kongtrul and Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule by Tubten Khetsun. He has worked as consultant for the Tibet Information Network, Human Rights Watch, the Tibet Heritage Fund, and the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, among others. Acknowledgments This paper was commissioned by The Project 2049 Institute as part of a program to study "Chinese Communist Party History (CCP History)." More information on this program was highlighted at a conference titled, "1984 with Chinese Characteristics: How China Rewrites History" hosted by The Project 2049 Institute. Kelley Currie and Rachael Burton deserve special mention for reviewing paper drafts and making corrections. The following represents the author's own personal views only. TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Image: Mao Zedong (centre), Liu Shaoqi (left) meeting with 14th Dalai Lama (right 2) and 10th Panchen Lama (left 2) to celebrate Tibetan New Year, 1955 in Beijing. -
Wind Can Keep Mountains from Growing 28 March 2011
Wind can keep mountains from growing 28 March 2011 basin, central Asia: implications for tectonics, paleoclimate, and the source of the Loess Plateau," is in the April/May issue of GSA Today. Kapp's co-authors are Jon D. Pelletier and Joellen Russell of the UA; Alexander Rohrmann, formerly of the UA and now at the University of Potsdam in Germany; Richard Heermance of California State University, Northridge; and Lin Ding of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund and a UA Faculty Small Grant funded the research. The geoscientists figured out wind's rock-sculpting Researchers sit atop a wind-formed ridge called a abilities by studying gigantic wind-formed ridges of yardang located in the Qaidam Basin of Central Asia. The yardangs in that area can be as much as 40 meters rock called yardangs. (about 130 feet) tall and about a football field (100 meters) apart. Credit: Paul Kapp, University of Arizona. Kapp first learned about yardangs when reviewing a scientific paper about Central Asia's Qaidam Basin. To see the geology for himself, he booted up Google Earth -- and was wowed by what he saw. Wind is a much more powerful force in the evolution of mountains than previously thought, "I'd never seen anything like that before," he said. "I according to a new report from a University of didn't even know what a yardang was." Arizona-led research team. Huge fields of yardangs that can be seen from Bedrock in Central Asia that would have formed space look like corduroy. -
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ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TAR:PRC 31175 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (Financed by the Cooperation Fund in Support of the Formulation and Implementation of National Poverty Reduction Strategies) TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR PARTICIPATORY POVERTY REDUCTION PLANNING FOR SMALL MINORITIES August 2003 CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 31 July 2003) Currency Unit – yuan (CNY) Y1.00 = $0.1208 $1.00 = Y8.2773 ABBREVIATIONS ADB – Asian Development Bank FCPMC – Foreign Capital Project Management Center LGOP – State Council Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development NGO – nongovernment organization PRC – People's Republic of China RETA – regional technical assistance SEAC – State Ethnic Affairs Commission TA – technical assistance UNDP – United Nations Development Programme NOTES (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government ends on 31 December (ii) In this report, "$" refers to US dollars. This report was prepared by D. S. Sobel, senior country programs specialist, PRC Resident Mission. I. INTRODUCTION 1. During the 2002 Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Programming Mission to the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Government reconfirmed its request for technical assistance (TA) for Participatory Poverty Reduction Planning for Small Minorities as a follow-up to TA 3610- PRC: Preparing a Methodology for Development Planning in Poverty Blocks under the New Poverty Strategy. After successful preparation of the methodology and its adoption by the State Council Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP) to identify poor villages within the “key working counties” (which are eligible for national poverty reduction funds), the Government would like to apply the methodology to the PRC's poorest minority areas to prepare poverty reduction plans with villager, local government, and nongovernment organization (NGO) participation. -
High-Resolution Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Huaitoutala Section
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258 (2007) 293–306 www.elsevier.com/locate/epsl High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Huaitoutala section in the eastern Qaidam Basin on the NE Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Province, China and its implication on tectonic uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau ⁎ Xiaomin Fang a,b, , Weilin Zhang a, Qingquan Meng b, Junping Gao b, Xiaoming Wang c, John King d, Chunhui Song b, Shuang Dai b, Yunfa Miao b a Center for Basin Resource and Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 2871, Beilin North Str. 18, Beijing 100085, China b Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education of China & College of Resources and Environment, Lanzhou University, Gansu 730000, China c Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA d Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, URI Bay Campus Box 52, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI 02882-1197, USA Received 31 December 2006; received in revised form 23 March 2007; accepted 23 March 2007 Available online 31 March 2007 Editor: R.D. van der Hilst Abstract The closed inland Qaidam Basin in the NE Tibetan Plateau contains possibly the world's thickest (∼12,000 m) continuous sequence of Cenozoic fluviolacustrine sedimentary rocks. This sequence contains considerable information on the history of Tibetan uplift and associated climatic change. However, work within Qaidam Basin has been held back by a paucity of precise time constraints on this sequence. Here we report on a detailed paleomagnetic study of the well exposed 4570 m Huaitoutala section along the Keluke anticline in the northeastern Qaidam Basin, where three distinct faunas were recovered and identified from the middle Miocene through Pliocene. -
Origin and Character of Loesslike Silt in the Southern Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China
Origin and Character of Loesslike Silt in the Southern Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1549 Cover. View south-southeast across Lhasa He (Lhasa River) flood plain from roof of Potala Pal ace, Lhasa, Xizang Autonomous Region, China. The Potala (see frontispiece), characteristic sym bol of Tibet, nses 308 m above the valley floor on a bedrock hill and provides an excellent view of Mt. Guokalariju, 5,603 m elevation, and adjacent mountains 15 km to the southeast These mountains of flysch-like Triassic clastic and volcanic rocks and some Mesozoic granite character ize the southernmost part of Northern Xizang Structural Region (Gangdese-Nyainqentanglha Tec tonic Zone), which lies just north of the Yarlung Zangbo east-west tectonic suture 50 km to the south (see figs. 2, 3). Mountains are part of the Gangdese Island Arc at south margin of Lhasa continental block. Light-tan areas on flanks of mountains adjacent to almost vegetation-free flood plain are modern and ancient climbing sand dunes that exhibit evidence of strong winds. From flood plain of Lhasa He, and from flood plain of much larger Yarlung Zangbo to the south (see figs. 2, 3, 13), large dust storms and sand storms originate today and are common in capitol city of Lhasa. Blowing silt from larger braided flood plains in Pleistocene time was source of much loesslike silt described in this report. Photograph PK 23,763 by Troy L. P6w6, June 4, 1980. ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF LOESSLIKE SILT IN THE SOUTHERN QINGHAI-XIZANG (TIBET) PLATEAU, CHINA Frontispiece. -
Estimations of Undisturbed Ground Temperatures Using Numerical and Analytical Modeling
ESTIMATIONS OF UNDISTURBED GROUND TEMPERATURES USING NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL MODELING By LU XING Bachelor of Arts/Science in Mechanical Engineering Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan, China 2008 Master of Arts/Science in Mechanical Engineering Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK, US 2010 Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY December, 2014 ESTIMATIONS OF UNDISTURBED GROUND TEMPERATURES USING NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL MODELING Dissertation Approved: Dr. Jeffrey D. Spitler Dissertation Adviser Dr. Daniel E. Fisher Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar Dr. Richard A. Beier ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Jeffrey D. Spitler, who patiently guided me through the hard times and encouraged me to continue in every stage of this study until it was completed. I greatly appreciate all his efforts in making me a more qualified PhD, an independent researcher, a stronger and better person. Also, I would like to devote my sincere thanks to my parents, Hongda Xing and Chune Mei, who have been with me all the time. Their endless support, unconditional love and patience are the biggest reason for all the successes in my life. To all my good friends, colleagues in the US and in China, who talked to me and were with me during the difficult times. I would like to give many thanks to my committee members, Dr. Daniel E. Fisher, Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar and Dr. Richard A. Beier for their suggestions which helped me to improve my research and dissertation. -
Changes of Water Clarity in Large Lakes and Reservoirs Across China
Remote Sensing of Environment 247 (2020) 111949 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Remote Sensing of Environment journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/rse Changes of water clarity in large lakes and reservoirs across China observed T from long-term MODIS ⁎ Shenglei Wanga,b, Junsheng Lib,c, Bing Zhangb,c, , Zhongping Leed, Evangelos Spyrakose, Lian Fengf, Chong Liug, Hongli Zhaoh, Yanhong Wub, Liping Zhug, Liming Jiai, Wei Wana, Fangfang Zhangb, Qian Shenb, Andrew N. Tylere, Xianfeng Zhanga a School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China b Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China c University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China d School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA e Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK f State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China g Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China h China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China i Environmental Monitoring Central Station of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Water clarity is a well-established first-order indicator of water quality and has been used globally bywater Secchi disk depth regulators in their monitoring and management programs. Assessments of water clarity in lakes over large Lakes and reservoirs temporal and spatial scales, however, are rare, limiting our understanding of its variability and the driven forces. -
DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Notes
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Notes on Sedimentary Basins in China Report of the American Sedimentary Basins Delegation to the People's Republic of China A. W. Bally 1 , I-Ming Chou2, R. Clayton3, H. P. Eugster4, S. Kidwell5, L. D. Meckel6, R. T. Ryder7, A. B. Watts8, A. A. Wilson9 1. Rice University, Houston 2. U. S. Geological Survey, Reston 3. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 5. University of Chicago 6. L. D. Meckel Company, Houston 7. U. S. Geological Survey, Reston 8. Lament Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New York 9. National Academy of Sciences, Washington Open-File Report 86-327 This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U. S. Geological Survey editiorial standards. 1986 NOTICE The views expressed in this report are those of the members of the Sedimentary Basins Delegation and are in no way the official views of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China or its sponsoring organizations the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Social Science Research Council. The visit consisting of a bilateral workshop and field trip was part of the exchange program between the two countries and was supported by the National Academy of Sciences in the United States and the China Association for Science and Technology in China, with the Chinese Petroleum Society bearing special responsibilities as host. U.S. funding was provided by the National Science Foundation. The Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China was founded in 1966 by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Social Science Research Council. -
Loess‐Like Dust Appearance at 40 Ma in Central China
RESEARCH ARTICLE Loess-Like Dust Appearance at 40 Ma in Central China 10.1029/2020PA003993 Niels Meijer1 , Guillaume Dupont-Nivet1,2,3 , Natasha Barbolini4,5 , 5 6 3 7 Key Points: Amber Woutersen , Alexander Rohrmann , Yang Zhang , Xiang-Jun Liu , 8 9 5 10 • The onset of Asian dust is identified Alexis Licht , Hemmo A. Abels , Carina Hoorn , Rik Tjallingii , 10 10 10 at 40 Ma within a longer continuous Christoff Andermann , Michael Dietze , and Norbert Nowaczyk record 1 2 • Shifts in the dust, cyclostratigraphy Institute for Geosciences, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes - UMR and pollen suggest the Siberian High CNRS 6118, Rennes, France, 3Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, School of at 40 Ma Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, 4Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences • The coeval proto-Paratethys Sea 5 retreat triggered the onset of the and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Ecosystem and Siberian High Landscape Dynamics (ELD), Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 7College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China, 8Department of Earth and Supporting Information: Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 9Department of Geosciences and Engineering, Delft • Supporting Information S1 University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 10GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany • Data Set S1 • Data Set S2 • Data Set S3 • Data Set S4 Abstract Asian mineral dust has been studied extensively for its role in affecting regional-to global- scale climate and for its deposits, which enable reconstructing Asian atmospheric circulation in the Correspondence to: past.