On the evening of June 29, 2019 (Beijing time), both the drilling depth and coring of the East Greenland Deep Ice Core Drilling Program organized by the Ice and Climate Research Center of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, participated by Associate Professor Zhang Nan and his team from the Polar Research Center of the College of Construction Engineering of our university, exceeded 2,000 meters. This is the second time that our university sends personnel to participate in this program.

Last year, Zhang Nan participated in the program for two months during the summer Arctic expedition; and this year, Zhang Nan and Li Bing, a postdoctoral fellow, participate in the field work. The program aims to conduct core drilling on the Arctic Greenland Ice Sheet. The team plans to drill through the ice sheet and obtain continuous ice cores for in-depth research in multiple fields including climate evolution and glacier movement. Professor Dorth Dahl Jensen, the program leader, is the director of the Ice and Climate Research Institute, the University of Copenhagen. She was appointed as an honorary professor of Jilin University in April this year.

As the academic exchange and cooperation between Jilin University and the University of Copenhagen gets deeper and deeper, more people will participate in the fieldwork and further promote the comprehensive cooperation of our university with the University of Copenhagen in polar technology field and scientific research field.