Dr. Enriqueta Barrera, Director of Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry Program Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation (NSF), visited ITP on September 3, 2012.

Her visit was warmly welcomed by ITP deputy director YANG Yongping, who hosted a meeting to acquaint Dr. Enriqueta of the research programs and major international cooperation program at ITP. During the meeting, Prof. ZHANG Fan introduced the TPE program, the ongoing international cooperation program promoted by ITP/CAS.

Dr. Enriqueta was interested in the field observation network in the Third Pole region, and the young scientists training project with the TPE program. She also briefed ITP scientists the NSF program entitled “Critical Zone Observatory Program”, which aims to address pressing interdisciplinary scientific questions concerning geological, physical, chemical and biological processes and their couplings that govern critical zone system dynamics. ITP participating scientists then conducted deepened academic exchanges with her, and both sides expressed hopes to further cooperate.