Sponsored by the CAS, the International Quaternary Glaciation Workshop themed ‘Timing and Nature of Mountain Glaciation, from High Asia to the World’ was held consecutively in Xi’ning and Lhasa during September 14-21, 2006.

The workshop has registered the participation of 31 foreign experts and over thirty national scholars from the ITP, CARREERI, Peking University, Lanzhou Universtiy and etc. During the academic reports, participant research staff exchanged views on glacial study and expedited to glacial moraines in Mt Laji, Qinghai. After that, they studies the quaternary glaciers along the Qinghai-Xizang high way while field-tripping to Lhasa, where they concluded the meeting by generalizing latest achievements about quaternary glacial advancing rate, time, and snowline variation. With those scientific and technological data, they hope to further their research in regional difference of the quaternary glacial growth and its mechanisms.