During the 2013 AGU fall meeting in December, ITP professors FANG Xiaomin and ZHAO Junmeng joined hand with Dr. Eric Kirby from the Oregon State University, USA., and Prof. Rainer Kind from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, in calling upon a session entitled “Evolution of the Northern Tibetan Plateau: Lithospheric Geodynamics, Plateau Uplift and Links o Climate Change.” This session was sponsored by the ITP’s Creative Research Group  led by Prof. FANG Xiaomin on Climate-tectonic Interactions over the northern Tibetan Plateau.

The session included 14 oral presentations, including invited lectures by Prof. An Yin from the UCLA and a new AGU fellow, Prof. WANG Chengshan, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Erwin Appel from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. In addition, there were 30 poster presentations. Presentations in both forms generally summarized recent international academic achievement in studying deep and shallow tectonic structures of the northern Tibetan Plateau, their possible interactions with and influences on the Plateau uplift and climate changes.