Prof. Paul Taylor from the Natural History Museum, London, UK was invited to give lectures on the oceanic paleoecology from 17^th – 20^th October. He was awarded the NIGPAS visiting professorship when the lectures were finished, considering his contributions to adding more knowledge on the principles and methods of oceanic paleoecology, evolutionary ecology, etc. to the knowledge reservoir of the students in NIGPAS. 

                                                                                                     (Information Source: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS)