In December 2021, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the list of projects under the National Key R&D Program “Key Scientific Problems of Transformative Technologies”, and the project “Theory and Methodology of Multi-Process Drilling in Complex Geological Environment under Antarctic Ice” applied by our college as the project leader was approved.
The lead institution of this project is China University of Geosciences (Beijing), and the total project funding is 14.9 million RMB. As the convener of Jilin University, Prof. Wang Rusheng of our college is in charge of the third topic “Multi-process core drilling mechanism and method for ice-rock interface and bedrock under ice”, and the approved funding is 3.5 million RMB.
Transformative technology refers to the innovation and breakthrough of science or technology, which is an alternative innovation to the existing traditional or mainstream technology, process, etc., and has a revolutionary and mutational progress to economic and social development. “The key scientific issues of transformative technologies” focus on supporting the relevant important scientific frontier or Chinese scientists to achieve original breakthroughs, with clear application prospects, and is expected to produce a transformative impact on the technological prototype, with a significant impact on economic and social development of forward-looking, original basic research and cutting-edge cross-sectional research.
Our college has a strong and solid foundation in polar science and technology research. Under the leadership of team leader Prof. Talalay, the team has developed multi-process drilling core (sampling) methods and technologies for complex subglacial environments such as polar ice, subglacial bedrock and subglacial lakes, which are at the leading level internationally. Under the funding of this project, the project team will continue to carry out the basic theoretical and methodological research on multi-process core drilling at the Antarctic ice and rock interface and subglacial bedrock, to help the key technology research, to accelerate the process of China’s Antarctic subglacial geological research, and to build a solid technical foundation for China’s polar research.
