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Biography
Su Jilan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Youxian, Hunan Province. He graduated Taiwan University in 1957 and obtained a master's degree from Science and Technology College of Virginia in 1961. He later received a doctor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Su is an expert on physical oceanography.
Su has extensive involvement with the State Oceanic Administration. He directed the administration's No. 2 Institute of Oceanology as well as the oceanic dynamic and satellite oceanography open laboratory. Since the 1980s, his research has concentrated on offshore dynamic and estuary dynamic oceanography. During this time, he presided over a cooperative study group between China and Japan that studied the influence of kuroshio current to offshore circumfluence of China.
Su later supported marine ecological dynamics research and cooperatively presided over the National Natural Science Funds. He then oversaw the National Natural Science Award key funds.
His academic contributions have been recognized internationally. He is a member of the International Marine Science Research Committee Executive Committee and also chairs the United Nations Oceanography Committee. In 1999, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Science.
In China, he has also received several academic honors. Su was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and became an academician of the Third World Academy of Science in 1994.
Career Data
| Member, International Marine Science Research Committee, Executive Committee | ||
| Chairman, United Nations Oceanography Committee | ||
| 1999— | Foreign Academician, Russian Academy of Science | |
| Director, State Oceanic Administration, Oceanic Dynamic and Satellite Oceanography Open Laboratory | ||
| Head, State Oceanic Administration, No. 2 Institute of Oceanology | ||
| 1994— | Academician, Third World Academy of Sciences | |
| 1994—1999 | Researcher, State Oceanic Administration, No. 2 Institute of Oceanology | |
| 1991— | Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| 1967 | Graduate, University of California USA, California, Berkeley (Received Doctorate) | |
| 1957 | Graduate, National Taiwan University Taiwan |
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