Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS

The Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was established in 2016 through the merger of five former CAS institutes, namely Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou Center for Oil and Gas Resources affiliated to the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Lanzhou Branch of the National Science Library, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, and Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes. The NIEER is a multidisciplinary research institute, specializing in study of eco-environment, natural resources, and national key environmental engineering; focusing on, among other things, cryosphere and global climate change, frozen ground and cold regions engineering, desert and desertification, plateau atmospheric physics and meteorology, water and land resources and environmental rehabilitation, ecology and agriculture, remote sensing information system, oil and gas geology, plateau biology, salt lake resources, and scientific information service.