According to the reporters from Sci-tech Daily News on May, 16^th, ITP professor Xv Baiqing would head for Yakou, 6500 m above sea level, to drill ice cores for synthetic analysis of anthropogenic influence on regional environment and climate.

Prof. Xv told reporters that ice cores have been perfectly kept for a long time, therefore have recorded a large amount of climatic environmental information. These features thus lend themselves to our understanding of climate change in this region.

Compared with former studies from ice cores, the study this time of the obtained ice core would focus on the anthropogenic influence on climatic environment and the livelihood of microbiology under radical environment. Prof. Xv introduced.

Having participated in many scientific explorations to places more than 7000 m in elevation on the Plateau, Prof. Xv was fully aware of the hardship in handling the 15 kg drill for the 25-30-meter-long ice core. In spite of that, however, he told reporters that the ice cores would be obtained and stored in ice boxes after preliminary observation. Then they would be ferried to laboratories in Beijing for further analysis. The final results were expected to get released by the end of this year.