Li Huamei, born in 1936, was born in Sichuan Zizhong. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to Changchun Institute of Geology. Besides studying professional courses well, she also likes playing volleyball and long-distance running. She used to be the main player and excellent athlete of the university women's volleyball team. 1956 After graduating from Changchun Institute of Geology, he has been engaged in the research on the structure, paleomagnetism and geochemistry of rare element deposits. Currently, he is an associate researcher at Guiyang Institute of Geochemistry, China Academy of Sciences, and the head of paleomagnetism laboratory. She is a female geologist trained in China.
Over the past 40 years, Li Huamei has successively conducted field geological surveys in more than 10 provinces and regions, and set foot in inaccessible areas such as Qinling Mountains and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. She took the lead in studying strata by demagnetization method in China, and solved many difficult problems about stratigraphic sequence and age in production practice. In particular, the study of Quaternary paleomagnetism in North China Plain won the praise of foreign counterparts and was commended by the field work conference of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1983 65438+From February 4th to1984 65438+1October 4th, Li Huamei, a famous geologist in China, was sent by the Chinese Antarctic Survey Committee and China Academy of Sciences to work in Scott Station, Antarctica, New Zealand for 32 days at the invitation of the New Zealand government. Li Huamei became the first middle-aged female scientist in China to visit the Antarctic.
Antarctica, like the North Pole, has an eternal day and night phenomenon. Li Huamei's visit to Antarctica coincides with 32 days of day and night. Therefore, this expedition cannot be recorded by day. We must calculate by the hour.
Li Huamei took a jet from Beijing in the middle of the night on 65438+February 1, landed at Sydney Airport in Australia after dawn, and transferred to Christchurch, New Zealand. She received many warm clothes: down jacket, windbreaker, wool hat, wool socks, winter boots and so on. She put on her boots and boarded the military transport plane. After a four-day flight, she was sent to the southern hemisphere polar region, which is more than 0/600 kilometers away from the motherland/KLOC-. She stepped down from the cabin and wore four or five catties of boots, leaving the footprints of the first China woman on the Antarctic continent.
Li Huamei lifted up his eyes and saw that the Antarctic continent was full of ice sources, icebergs and ice barriers, with an average temperature of minus 56 degrees Celsius. Regardless of enjoying the strange scenery, she began to work. In addition to wearing heavy winter clothes, she also takes a compass, a geological hammer, a steel shovel, a camera and food. It is difficult to walk on a smooth road, let alone trudge long distances between glaciers and gullies, and its hardships can be imagined. Eat mashed potatoes, compressed biscuits, canned food and cold drinks when you are hungry; Get into the sleeping bag when you are sleepy. Because you can't eat fruits and vegetables, your gums are inflamed and you can't swallow food. One day I only ate two fruit candies. With a strong spirit of exploration and a high sense of responsibility, Li Huamei completed the investigation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic volcanic geology, Quaternary geology, glacial landforms and paleoliths, and collected more than 60 kilograms of paleomagnetic samples, isotope samples and other rock samples, which accumulated precious data for studying the Victorian geological survey in Antarctic continent and the characteristics of Mesozoic and Cenozoic volcanic activity in Ross Island.
During his Antarctic expedition, Li Huamei once swam in the icy Lake Huada and took photos as a souvenir, which became a memorable event. Therefore, she was awarded a medal by Fanda Station Swimming Club. In the album of Fanda Station in Antarctica, Li Huamei, the first daughter of China, written in English that year, is still preserved.
As a emaciated middle-aged woman, Li Huamei stayed in the Antarctic for 32 days, but she didn't even catch a cold except for inflammation of her gums. What is the reason? Li Huamei said humorously, "It all depends on eating the body's capital".
After returning from an expedition to Antarctica, Li Huamei completed a 450,000-word research monograph, Geology and Geochemistry of Hengduan Mountain and Ross Island in Antarctica, in half a year, which is a great contribution to the geology of China.
In the early days, Li Huamei participated in the work of "An Introduction to Tectonics in China" edited by Professor Zhang Wenyou. 1978 participated in the Quaternary geological research of North China Plain and won the major achievement award of China Academy of Sciences; 1979 participated in the study of loess accumulation evolution and Quaternary chronology, and won the second prize of China Academy of Sciences. In addition, he has published more than 30 influential and important papers at home and abroad. Li Huamei attended the Guizhou Provincial Model Workers Congress and was awarded the title of "March 8th Red Flag Bearer" in Guizhou Province and the whole country.