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Asunto: [gpmag-l] Remembering Shihong Zhang
Fecha: 2025-01-07 19:00
De: dunlop en physics.utoronto.ca
Destinatario: gpmag-l en ucsd.edu
Cc: David Dunlop <dunlop en physics.utoronto.ca>, Catherine Constable 
<cconstable en ucsd.edu>

I would like to post the following message to gpmag-l.

The original In Memoriam message from David Evans was posted to the  
AGU's GPE e-digest, which I don't know how to use.  If possible,  please 
post both my response and David Evans' original message.

I have also attached the text as a Word file, properly formatted.

Thanks, David


 From: David Dunlop
  Tuesday January 7, 2025
Subject; Remembering Shihong Zhang
Shihong Zhang hosted a visit to the China University of Geosciences,  
Beijing (CUGB) by Ozden Ozdemir and me in 2010.  He was a wonderful  
host and a most kind and generous person.  He made us feel part of the  
family, both his own wife and daughter and the group of CUGB faculty  
and graduate students.  He took us on two memorable excursions, to the  
Great Wall for a day's exploration and to the Peking Man archeological  
excavations.  I remember his daughter taking photos with her new  camera 
with great enthusiasm.  Ozden and I felt honoured and warmed by  their 
friendship.
   I am saddened to learn of Shihong's untimely passing.  At the 2023  
AGU meeting in San Francisco, we had a long chat, not knowing it would  
be our last.  My profound sympathy goes to his family and friends.
   David Dunlop, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Toronto

 From: David Evans
  Friday December 27, 2024
  Subject: In Memoriam

   Last week, our paleomagnetism community lost a bright star, Prof.  
Shihong Zhang.  Following his return to China from the AGU Annual  
Meeting, Shihong died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest during normal  
daily activities.  All those who knew him are deeply mourning his loss.
   Shihong Zhang () was born in 1964, in Henan Province.  After  
attending Changchun University for undergraduate and postgraduate  
studies in Applied Geophysics, he earned his doctoral degree in 1992  
from Nanjing University.  By 1994 he joined the faculty of China  
University of Geosciences, Beijing, where he was promoted in 2000 to  
Professor, a position that he held until his death.
   Shihong's research spanned many topics, including a recurring theme  
of tectonic synthesis  especially the paleomagnetism of distinct  
crustal blocks and intervening orogenic belts across China  but always  
with respect for stratigraphy, structural geology, and geophysics.   The 
timescales of his investigations covered most of Earth's  accessible 
history: Mesozoic accretion in Tibet and northeast China,  and 
reconstruction of North and South China cratons in Paleozoic  
Gondwanaland, as well as the older Proterozoic supercontinents Rodinia  
and Nuna.  One of his most cited papers was the first  paleomagnetically 
viable, global-scale Nuna reconstruction, published  in 2012 and forming 
the basis for all subsequent models of that ca.  1.6 Ga supercontinental 
assemblage.  His studies of the spectacularly  preserved late 
Neoproterozoic ("Sinian") strata of the South China  craton further 
delved into U-Pb chronostratigraphy and  cyclostratigraphy and 
astrochronology, with implications for Snowball
  Earth ice ages and deep-time orbital dynamics.  Among other  accolades, 
his scientific contributions and community spirit were  honored by 
Fellowship of the Geological Society of America.
   Shihong always enjoyed scientific collaboration and personal  
camaraderie.  In conversations, Shihong would commonly shine his  
youthful smile, as he relished all that life could offer.  In addition  
to being a gracious colleague, he was also an inspiring mentor to many  
students.  For those of us left behind: we treasure our memories with  
Shihong and can only ponder what insights would have been left for him  
to discover and teach us.  Now, the best we can do is try to carry his  
light forward.
David Evans (he/him/his)John B. Madden Head of Berkeley College
Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University
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