Home Page | Xiao Cunde Xiao Cunde State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences Institute of Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Institute of Climate System, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing Dr. Xiao Cunde has worked in the fields of polar glaciology and meteorology since 1997. His major research focus has been ice core studies relating to paleo-climate and paleo-environment, and present day cold region meteorological and glaciological processes that impact environmental and climatic changes. He is Deputy Director of the Institute of the Climate System, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. He has undertaken observational scientific programs in the high mountains of the Himalayas; the Tibetan Plateau, at Dome A, the highest point of the Antarctic ice sheet, and other regions of the Antarctic; and at the North Pole. He has served as team leader on recent field expeditions. Dr. Xiao has spent extended periods as a visiting research scholar at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS, France; at the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA; and at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem-Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart. Recent international and national prizes include the "Young Scientist Award" from the World Meteorological Organization (2005), and from the Central Government of China, the "National Excellent Career Medal", from the Chinese Meteorological Administration, "Outstanding Young Meteorologist of China" and from the Geographical Society of China, the Eighth "Science Cup" Chinese National Prize for Geography Science and Technology (all from 2005.) Dr. Xiao received his B.S. in Physical Geography from Lanzhou University, China in 1992, his M.Sc in Polar Glaciology from the Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology (LIGG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1994, and his PhD in Polar Glaciology, also from LIGG - CAS in 1997.