黄进教授简介

黄进教授，广东省丰顺县人，1927年生，1952年中山大学地理系毕业，1984 ~ 1987年任中山大学地理系主任，1985~1991年任中国地理学会地貌与第四纪专业委员会副主任。1991年和北京大学陈传康教授发起并创立全国丹霞地貌旅游开发研究会，任第一和第二届理事长，组织召开了5届学术讨论会，主编出版了3本论文集，1998年退位，任名誉理事长。
黄进教授自20世纪60年代开始研究丹霞地貌，但系统研究开始于文化大革命以后的1978年，1982年发表了关于丹霞地貌坡面发育的经典论述。1989 ~ 1990年黄进教授得到中山大学自然科学基金的资助，1990~ 1994及1997 ~ 1999年又得到国家自然科学基金资助，先后对陕、甘、宁、川、黔、黑、冀、豫、鄂、湘、浙、皖、赣、闽、粤、桂、青、蒙、新、滇等省区进行丹霞地貌考察，到目前为止，在全国已经发现的500多处丹霞地貌中，黄进教授已实地考察了450余处。
黄进教授先后发表丹霞地貌研究论文40余篇，于60年代初第一次对丹霞地貌作了科学定义。80年代以来，他在系统考察的基础上，对丹霞地貌的坡面特征和发育规律、丹霞地貌特殊的风化作用、地壳上升与地貌发育过程的关系、减压节理与丹霞地貌发育的关系、丹霞洞穴地貌、丹霞喀斯特地貌、土林式丹霞地貌、低等生物对丹霞地貌坡面风化的影响、丹霞地貌的分布与区域差异、丹霞地貌分类等方面的研究均属于开创性工作，是当代中国丹霞地貌研究领域的学术带头人。
黄进教授至今出行仍然是一身中山装，一双解放鞋，一把黑雨伞，一个发白的帆布地质包，构成了他朴素鲜明的外表形象。而他一丝不苟的治学态度、坚韧不拔的献身精神、实事求是的工作作风、朴实正直的处世准则，确是激励后辈进取向上的宝贵财富。

Brief Account of Prof. Huang Jin

Huang Jin was born in August 1927. His native place is Fengshun County of Guangdong Province. He graduated from Geographical Depart-ment of Zhongshan University in 1952, and was the Dean of Geographical Department in 1984-1987, and the Vice Chairman of Commission on Geomorphology and the Quaternary in Geographical Society of China. He, together with Prof. Chen Chuankang of Beijing University, initiated and set up The Danxia Landform and Tourism Development Research Society of China, in which he was president of the 1st and 2nd councils. He organized and convened five symposia, supervise the publication of three volumes of proceedings. He gave up the post in 1998 and was appointed as the honorary president of the council.
Although Prof. Huang Jin began his study of Danxia geomorphology as early as in the 1960s, his systematic study did not start until 1978, i.e. posterior to the “Cultural Revolution”. In 1982 he published his classic paper on the development of slope in Danxia geomorphology. Financially supported by 1989-1990 Natural Science Foundation of Zhongshan University and by 1990-1994 and 1997-1999 State Natural Science Foundation, Prof. Huang Jin carried out successively Danxia geomorphologic investigations in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Hebei, He’nan, Hubei, Hu’nan, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Qinghai, Neimenggu, Xinjiang and Yunnan. Up till now he has conducted on-the-spot examination in more than 450 out of the 540 Danxia geomorphologic sites found so far in China.

Prof. Huang Jin has earlier or later published over 40 papers concerning Danxia geomorphology. In the beginning of 1960s, he gave for the first time a scientific definition for Danxia geomorphology. Since the 1980s, through systematic investigation, he carried out research work on slope characteristics and development regularities in Danxia geomorphology, special weathering in Danxia geomorphology, relation between crustal uplift and the process of geomorphologic development, relation between decompressional joint and the development of Danxia geomorphology, Danxia cave geomorphology, Danxia karstic geomor-phology, earth forest type Danxia geomorphology, influence of lower organisms on slope weathering in Danxia geomorphology, distribution and regional difference of Danxia geomorphology, and classification of Danxia geomorphology, all of these are part of his initiative work. He is the academic foregoer in the Danxia geomorphologic research field in current China.
Up till now, when going out, Prof. Huang Jin is still in Chinese tunic suit and canvas shoes, carrying a black umbrella and a geologist's old canvas bag, displaying a simple and unadorned bearing. However, his meticulous scholarship, persistent devotion, practical and realistic style of work, and plain and honest ways of life, are really precious spiritual wealth encouraging the younger generation to keep forging ahead.