On July 30, the seminar on environmental change and human activities in plateau and arid areas was held in Qinghai Normal University. The seminar was hosted by Qinghai provincial key laboratory of physical geography and environmental processes of Qinghai Normal University, and co-organized by the group of youth Innovation of ISL.

The seminar focused on the evolution of the landforms, desert landforms, climate and environmental changes, and environmental archaeological directions in the Tibetan Plateau and arid regions, and the researchers, from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Qinghai Salt Lake Institute, University of Illinois, and Linyi University, gave 9 academic reports. Some teachers and students from Qinghai University, the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also participated in the seminar.