Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) announced its list of newly elected foreign academicians. Among them, Lin Jian, distinguished researcher at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, was elected for his outstanding achievements in the field of global earth sciences. He was honoured also because of his contributions to scientific and technological cooperation between China and Pakistan.
He served as the chief scientist of the IODP drilling expeditions in the South China Sea and participated in over twenty international oceanographic expeditions to the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans.
