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 The State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering founded in
1992 is an important laboratory of international significance in the
permafrost research. The Lab occupies a building of 3864m2 for
experiment and research, including a room of 520m2 configured with various material
testing machines and advanced instrument, for low temperature experiment.
There is also a guesthouse for the guest scientists. The Lab has done all the
preparation to attract scientists from both domestic and overseas for the
research collaboration in the field of fundamental, forward-looking and
integrated scientific issues relating to engineering, resource and
environment of the national concern in the economic development in the cold
regions.
The Laboratory
of Ice Core and Cold Regions Environment was founded in 1991 and was accepted
as an open laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996. The lab is
the hardcore part of the Section for Cryosphere and Global Change Research
and is one of the important supporting sections for the Knowledge Innovation
Pilot Project of the Institute.  The lab has been authenticated to provide for Master Degree and
Doctor Degree Programs, and post doctorial research. Aiming at the global
change research, the lab plough into the research on the storing mechanism of
climatic and environmental information in the three cold polar regions
(Antarctic, Greenland and Tibetan Plateau) and the establishment of climatic
sequences with various time scales, in order to reveal the relationship
between glacier fluctuations and climatic change and forecast the future
trend of climatic and environmental changes and variations of glacier
resources.
The Lab For
Wind Tunnel Experiment
 Tianshan Glaciological Station is one of the open field stations
of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences and the only field station in China which conducting the
monitoring of cryosphere and relevant field experiment. It is also a representative station of the
world for the glacier dynamic monitoring in the inland Central
Asia continent.
Shapotou
Desert Experiment and Research Station is an open field station of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, too, which is also  belonging to the China Ecological System Research Network. This
station is presently a research site of the Human and Biosphere Project of
the UNESCO and a training center of the International Desertification
Harnessing.
 Naiman Station for Desertification Experiment and Research is one
of the field stations of the China Ecological System Research Network. Its
main focus is on the monitoring and harnessing of desertification in the
interleaving areas of agriculture and animal husbandry, and on the
restoration ecological experiment and research.
Besides, the
Institute also directs its research emphasis towards the typical geography
and ecological environment in the west China by supporting the field stations
like the Station for the Integrated Observation and Research on the Tibetan
Plateau (mainly conducting the observation and research on permafrost, cold
regions environment and atmospheric physics on the plateau), Pingliang
Thunder Lightning and Windstorm Experimental Station (mainly on the
observation and research of the convective windstorm and thunder lightning
physics), Linze Water-land Resource and Ecological Experimental and Research
Station (mainly on the experiment and research of the sustainable development
in the inland basin), and Gaolan Ecological Experimental and Research Station
(mainly on the ecological monitoring and research in the transition area of
semi arid to arid regions).
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