WANG Pinxian, a Chinese marine geologist, is a professor of the School of Marine and Geosciences of Tongji University, and director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology. He was elected academician of CAS) in 1991. He was vice president of the International Scientific Committee for Ocean Research (SCOR), 1994–1998. He has served as vice-chairman of the Division of Earth Sciences of CAS, and president of the Chinese Committee on Ocean Research.
He has been engaged in research on marine micropaleontology and the evolution of its environmental pattern for decades and has made creative contributions to the development of marine geology in China. He started the research on the burial of microfossils in China and has developed the research on paleoceanography considerably. His research on Dynamic Progression and Development Trend of the Evolution of Environment in the last 150,000 years in Drought and Semi-drought Areas won the first prize for the Advancement of Science and Technology awarded by the Chinese Academy of Science in 1998. In 2007, he was awarded the Milutin Milankovic Medal by the European Geosciences Union.
WANG discovered the amplification effect of the South China Sea on environmental signals in the glacial cycle and the significant influence of the marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean on the evolution of China's land environment. As the chief scientist, he led the first ODP184 deep-sea scientific drilling in the South China Sea by an international deep-sea scientific drilling vessel and obtained the best record of Late Cenozoic environmental evolution in the Western Pacific region. His representative works include Marine Micropaleontology of China, the South China Sea Since 150,000 Years Ago (Chinese), Major Pleistocene Stages in Carbon Perspective: The South China Sea Record and Its Global Comparison, etc. In 2000, he won the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award.
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