Dr. Wen Yang
Wen Yang is a senior scientist of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), and now is taking charge of the big aerosol laboratory which contains SIA. He is expertized in experimental skills, especially in physical mechanism of instruments. In the beginning, he was seeking people who can be collaborated with when he met Jing Ming. They share the same opinion that ‘We join and we share’, and then it comes SIA. Wen Yang is now the director of SIA.
Dr. Jing Ming
Jing Ming's information is fairly complete in his biography, and here is his idea of building SIA. In the beginning, He dreamed to host a lab that can provide a platform to process the analysis of impurities (black carbon, dust, and other contents) in snow and ice core samples. When he was told by his friend, Dr. Wen Yang that they could do something together, he thought that would be a chance. So under the cover and protect of the big laboratory project funded by CRAES, this little lab, SIA was built. SIA is expected to have the capability of storing aerosol from urban and remote sites and snow and ice samples from mountain and polar glaciers, pretreating them including decontaminating, melting, and filtering, and some preliminary analaysis including optical measurements.
Dr. Minghu Ding
Minghu Ding, born on Sept. 4 1983, is working at Climate system institute, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. His interests are focused on Antarctic sciences, including polar precipitation, polar meteorology, surface mass balance, stable isotopes, snow chemistry, ice-atmosphere interaction, ice core, etc.. These works are mainly carried out in the Lambert Glacier Basin, where the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition and Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition did the most of field work. For the next 3-5 years, he will try to figure out the anthropogenic aerosols distribution over Antarctica, the contribution to sea level change of antarctic ice sheet and moisture transport in Antarctica, co-funded by the NSFC, MOST and SKLCS. He was involved in SIA in 2012, and now is the deputy director of SIA.