Sichuan University’s two research teams of the Geo-Information Detection Experiment (GeoDEX) and China in situ Deep-underground Facility and Life Observatory (China-DeUFO) got stationed in China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) on December 7th.
On the same day, Tsinghua University and Yalong River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. held the official inauguration ceremony of the "Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments (DURF)" at the A2 Experimental Hall of the Jinpingfacility.The hosts handed keys over to the 10 research teams from Tsinghua University, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing Normal University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sichuan University, China Institute of Atomic Energy, the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics (CAS), and so forth. The research teams will fully utilize the unique conditions of the CJPL, stand by the "four orientations", and carry out cutting-edge exploration and crucial core technology research.
Being led by Xie Heping (academician of CAE), the GeoDEX team of Sichuan University, draws on the CJPL to construct a deep earth in-situ exploration station, initiating cutting edge scientific experiment such as deep earth surface in-situ multi field time-varying key information detection and interpretation, "listening" to the "sound" from the Earth's interior. The GeoDEX team will employ a "one center + multiple nodes" detection layout and carry out macro and micro multi field active and passive detection with same point, same source, and synchronization in a bid to reveal the causes, processes, and outcomes of geological variability, assisting the resolution of major scientific issues related to human development, such as resource development, spatial utilization, disaster assessment, and environmental evolution, etc.
The China-DeUFO research team is composed of the West China Hospital and relevant disciplines ofSCU. The team constructs deep earth in-situ life observation stations at different depths in CJPL. Equipped with mobile cabins, model animal areas, and ultra clean cell culture incubation rooms, the team will focus on the frontier cutting-edge scientific issues of livable underground environmental hygiene and health. The researchers will use the theories and methods of Biology, Medicine, Engineering, and Physics to understand the degree and pattern of the impact of underground space environments at different depths on the physiology, pathology, and psychology of living organisms, and clarify the safety depth of underground environments suitable for human life, production, and scientific research.
