EDUCATION
May 2008
University of Rhode Island, PhD, Oceanography
July 2003
Lanzhou University, China, MS, Physical Geography
July 2003
Lanzhou University, China, BS, Physical Geography
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Thesis: The magnetic susceptibility record of the Chinese red clay sequence: Enhancement mechanisms, temporal variations, and its relationship to climatic and tectonic forcing;
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Advisor: Dr. John King.
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Thesis: Paleomagnetic and rock magnetic constraints on the appearance of the Yellow River in the Guide and Linxia Basins of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and its tectonomorphologic implications;
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Advisor: Dr. Xiaomin Fang.
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Thesis: High resolution multi-parameter paleoclimatic records on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the Pliocene-Pleistocene climatic transition;
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Advisor: Dr. Xiaomin Fang.
POSITIONS
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Dean, School of Sciences, Lanzhou University, China, Jan. 2024–present.
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Professor, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, China, Dec. 2011–present.
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Visiting Scholar, Geological Sciences, Rochester University, Sept. 2014-Aug. 2016.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological Sciences, University of Kansas, Sept. 2010–Nov. 2011.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological Sciences, UT Austin, Sept. 2008–Aug. 2010.
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Research Assistant, University of Rhode Island, Sept. 2006–May 2008.
CLASSES TAUGHT
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Paleoclimatology, for graduate and upper level undergraduate students,
Lanzhou University, 2012—2014. -
Progress in Quaternary Geology, for graduate and upper level undergraduate students, LanzhouUniversity, 2014.
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
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Paleoclimatology; provenance analysis; paleomagnetism and rock magnetism
AWARDS & HONORS
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Excellent Tutor of Graduate Education，Gansu Province of China, 2023.
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Guohua Outstanding Scholar , Lanzhou University, 2022.
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Top leading talent, Gansu Province of China, 2020.
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Natural Science Award (1st Prize), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2019.
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National“Ten-thousand Talents Program” leading talents in scientific and technological innovation, the Organizing Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 2019.
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Young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leaders, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, 2018.
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Liu Tungsheng Prize for Young Earth Scientists, Chinese Association for Quaternary Research, 2015.
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Outstanding Reviewer Award, Global and Planetary Change, 2015.
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National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientist, NSF of China, 2014.
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Excellent Reviewer Award, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2013.
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Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Youth Science and Technology Award, Chinese Society of Tibetan Plateau Research, 2013.
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Fuchengyi Young Scientist Award, Chinese Geophysical Union, 2013.
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“New Century Excellent Talent”, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2010.
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Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota, 2007.
INVITED LECTURES
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INQUA annual meeting, 2015: Pacific freshening drives Asian monsoon intensification and
onset of the Quaternary ice age. -
UT Arlington, 2014: What happened on the Chinese Loess Plateau before the Northern
Hemisphere glaciations: a story of rain, ice, and dust. -
Chinese University of Geosciences, 2013: Late Miocene-Pliocene provenance and climate
history of the Chinese Loess Plateau. -
Loess and Asian dust provenance Symposium, 2013: Novel magnetic unmixing technique
reveals provenance and paleoclimatic history on the Chinese Loess Plateau. -
Hong Kong University, 2013: Provenance and climate history of the Chinese Loess Plateau
during the past 8 Myr. -
AGU Meeting of the Americans, 2013: Six million years of magnetic grain-size records reveal
that temperature and precipitation were decoupled on the Chinese Loess Plateau during ~4.5–2.6 Ma. -
Northern Arizona University, 2012: Provenance and climate history of the Chinese Loess
Plateau during the past 8 Myr. -
EGU annual meeting, 2012: A review of recent advances in red clay environmental magnetism
on the Chinese Loess Plateau.
Fort Hays State University, 2011: Six million years of temperature and rainfall history on the
Chinese Loess Plateau: evidence from a novel application of two magnetic grain size proxy
parameters to the Chinese loess record. -
Institute of Earth and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010: The magnetic
susceptibility record of the Chinese red clay sequence: Enhancement mechanisms, temporal
variations, and its relationship to climatic and tectonic forcing. -
Lanhou University, 2009: Validity and limitations in using loess magnetic susceptibility to infer
East Asian summer monsoon's evolution. -
UT Austin, 2008: Tibetan uplift and Pliocene climatic change revisited.
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Brown University, 2008: Chinese red-clay magnetic susceptibility and paleoclimate.
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University of Minnesota, 2007: Preliminary rock magnetic studies of the Red-Clay sediments
(~8-~2.6 Ma) from the Chinese Loess Plateau. -
Brown University, 2007: The possible link between Tibetan uplift and Pliocene climate change.
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Boston University, 2006: Pliocene uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, appearance of the-400-kyr cycle
in paleoclimate proxy records, and intensification of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation. -
2nd Global Change Young Scientist Conference, 2006: Intensification of the 400 kyr signal in
paleoclimate records at 4 Ma.
EXTERNAL FUNDING
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NSF of China: 2021-2025, Study on formation age, material source and dry and wet change pattern in Mu Us Sandy Land, $407,000 (Sole PI)
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NSF of China: 2021-2024, Reconstruction and regional correlation of Pliocene large spatial precipitation in mid-latitudes of Asia, $278,000 (Collaborator)
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Gansu Provincial Party Committee Organization Department: 2020-2023, Top leading talents in Gansu Province, $418,000 (Sole PI)
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Ministry of Science of Technology China: 2019-2024, The second Comprehensive Scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Paleogeographic pattern and tectonic geomorphology evolution since the collision), $2,380,000 (Collaborator)
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NSF of China: 2018-2020, Effects of Pliocene-Quaternary climate change on geomorphic evolution in Southern Africa: a case study of the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers, $278,000 (Sole PI)
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Ministry of Science of Technology China: 2018-2022, The fourth batch of "10,000 Thousand Plan" scientific and technological innovation leading talent support project - Nie Junsheng, $111,500 (Sole PI)
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NSF of China: 2015-2017, Science Foundation for Outstanding Youth - Quaternary Geology, $139000 (Sole PI)
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NSF PIRE: DUST stimulated drawn-down of atmospheric CO2 as a trigger for Northern
Hemisphere Glaciation, $4,300,000 (Collaborator) -
NSF of China Geology: 2015-2017, Cenozoic paleoenvironmental evolution of the Qaidam
Basin, $160,000 ( Sole PI). -
NSF EAR: 2014-2017, RUI/Collaborative Research: Plio-Quaternary history of basin evolution,
climate change, and fold-growth in the Qaidam basin-Investigating wind-enhance climate-tectonic
feedback relationships, $367,538 (Collaborator). -
NSF of China Geology: 2012-2015, Orbital-scale climatic changes recorded by the Huaitoutala
fluvio-lacustrine sediments from the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibet, across the late Miocene
climatic transition period (10-5.5 Ma), $110,000 (Sole PI). -
NSF EAR: 2012-2014, Collaborative Research: High-resolution, multi-proxy MiocenePleistocene climate and environmental records from the high-elevation Zhada basin, SW Tibetan
Plateau, $225,800 (Collaborator). -
Ministry of Education of China: 2012.1-2014.12, Orbital cyclostratigraphy of the Miocene
Youshashan Formation, Qaidam Basin, $20,000 (Sole PI).