A cooperation agreement was signed this Thursday, October 27, 2011, between ITP director Prof. YAO Tandong and University of Arizona Department of Geosciences head Prof. Karl W. Flessa. A brief introduction of faculty and their research interests was made by Prof. Flessa before the agreement, to seek for common ground in academic research.

Associate Prof. Paul Kapp was invited to report on his study of “ Wind erosion in the Qaidam basin: implications for tectonics, paleoclimate and the source of the loess plateau", which shed light on the formation of such wind erosion landforms as yardangs in the Qaidam basin, and illustrated the relationship between wind erosion and the transformation of the Qaidam basin tectonics.

Following the presentation, ITP staff conducted active exchanges with Dr. Kapp inarea interested s to both sides.