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Citation for presentation of the 2013 Shen-su Sun Award to Peng Peng
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Awards Ceremony Speech
Citation for presentation of the 2013 Shen-su Sun Award to Peng Peng
The Shen-su Sun Award recognizes exceptional contributions by geoscientists younger than 40 years, who work in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The award is in commemoration of Dr. Shen-su Sun for his pioneering and tremendous contributions to the geochemistry of the solid Earth and mantle dynamics, and for his unselfish and boundless mentorship to younger generations of scientists in the field of geochemistry. The Shen-su Sun Award Committee decided to give the 2013 Shen-su Sun Award to Dr. Peng Peng. Peng received his Bachelor of Science from Peking University and Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Peng is a field geologist who focuses his research on Precambrian dyke swarms and greenstone belts. He uses mafic dyke swarms to reveal the lithospheric evolution as well as paleogeography in the Precambrian. In the past decade, he has surveyed hundreds of dykes in North China and discovered some new generations. With these data, he has compiled a 1:2,000,000 Precambrian dyke map of the North China Craton, which is crucial in reconstructing global supercontinents with cratons in space and time. Peng has illustrated that the distribution of dyke swarms reflecting different settings can be used to define the tectonic subdivisions of the North China Craton. He has noticed that the lithospheric mantle of the Craton has been rebuilt at the Late Paleoproterozoic through magmatism recorded by dykes through time. He has found that these Proterozoic dyke swarms are affinitive with those in the North European and South American Cratons. Currently, he is
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.047
collaborating with paleomagnetists to test this hypothesis with a successful promise. This big-thinking project manifests his research potential with ensured research output of great impact ahead and in the years to come. Since his Ph.D. in 2005, Peng worked in the same institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow for two years and then as a Research Fellow. During this period, he endeavored to map all the Precambrian dyke swarms in the North China Craton. In 2009, he visited the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa for 6 months, where he acquired interest and skills for global supercontinent reconstruction. Another half-year’s visit to the University of Western Australia in 2013 has strengthened this interest. In 2012, he was promoted to Senior Research Fellow (Full Professor), which made him the youngest professor of the institute at that time. He also serves as the Secretary-General of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the director of Rock-Mineral Preparation and Analysis Lab, and vice chairman of Youth Working Committee of the Geological Society of China. He has worked in North China, the Korean peninsula, India, South Africa, Brazil and Canada. In 2012, he was elected into the National Program for Special Support of Eminent Professionals, which aims to nominate and support ten-thousand national awards for excellent and outstanding talents of science, technology, education, philosophy and art over 10 years. In 2013, their program on ‘Forming and evolution of early continental crust of the North China Craton’ won a ‘State Natural Science Award’. Chair and members of the Goldschmidt organizing committee, members of the Shen-su Sun Award Committee and members of our geochemical community, it is my great pleasure indeed to present Dr. Peng Peng to you as the recipient of the 2013 Shen-su Sun Award.
Weidong Sun CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China E-mail address: [email protected]
ScienceDirect Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 159 (2015) 308 www.elsevier.com/locate/gca
Awards Ceremony Speech
Citation for presentation of the 2013 Shen-su Sun Award to Peng Peng
The Shen-su Sun Award recognizes exceptional contributions by geoscientists younger than 40 years, who work in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The award is in commemoration of Dr. Shen-su Sun for his pioneering and tremendous contributions to the geochemistry of the solid Earth and mantle dynamics, and for his unselfish and boundless mentorship to younger generations of scientists in the field of geochemistry. The Shen-su Sun Award Committee decided to give the 2013 Shen-su Sun Award to Dr. Peng Peng. Peng received his Bachelor of Science from Peking University and Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Peng is a field geologist who focuses his research on Precambrian dyke swarms and greenstone belts. He uses mafic dyke swarms to reveal the lithospheric evolution as well as paleogeography in the Precambrian. In the past decade, he has surveyed hundreds of dykes in North China and discovered some new generations. With these data, he has compiled a 1:2,000,000 Precambrian dyke map of the North China Craton, which is crucial in reconstructing global supercontinents with cratons in space and time. Peng has illustrated that the distribution of dyke swarms reflecting different settings can be used to define the tectonic subdivisions of the North China Craton. He has noticed that the lithospheric mantle of the Craton has been rebuilt at the Late Paleoproterozoic through magmatism recorded by dykes through time. He has found that these Proterozoic dyke swarms are affinitive with those in the North European and South American Cratons. Currently, he is
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.047
collaborating with paleomagnetists to test this hypothesis with a successful promise. This big-thinking project manifests his research potential with ensured research output of great impact ahead and in the years to come. Since his Ph.D. in 2005, Peng worked in the same institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow for two years and then as a Research Fellow. During this period, he endeavored to map all the Precambrian dyke swarms in the North China Craton. In 2009, he visited the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa for 6 months, where he acquired interest and skills for global supercontinent reconstruction. Another half-year’s visit to the University of Western Australia in 2013 has strengthened this interest. In 2012, he was promoted to Senior Research Fellow (Full Professor), which made him the youngest professor of the institute at that time. He also serves as the Secretary-General of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the director of Rock-Mineral Preparation and Analysis Lab, and vice chairman of Youth Working Committee of the Geological Society of China. He has worked in North China, the Korean peninsula, India, South Africa, Brazil and Canada. In 2012, he was elected into the National Program for Special Support of Eminent Professionals, which aims to nominate and support ten-thousand national awards for excellent and outstanding talents of science, technology, education, philosophy and art over 10 years. In 2013, their program on ‘Forming and evolution of early continental crust of the North China Craton’ won a ‘State Natural Science Award’. Chair and members of the Goldschmidt organizing committee, members of the Shen-su Sun Award Committee and members of our geochemical community, it is my great pleasure indeed to present Dr. Peng Peng to you as the recipient of the 2013 Shen-su Sun Award.
Weidong Sun CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China E-mail address: [email protected]