I. BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Prof. Zhongping LAI
Ph.D. (Oxford University)
Head of the Luminescence Chronology Laboratory and the Watershed and Delta Evolution Team at Shantou University.
E-mail: zhongpinglai@stu.edu.cn
Shantou University Teachers' Personal Page: https://sci.stu.edu.cn/info/1135/2407.htm (College of Science website)
https://www.stu.edu.cn/mbi/Content.aspx?type=content&Content_ID=1535 (Laboratory website)
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhongping-Lai
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-9346
Educational Background:
1. 1988/09-1992/07 East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), Bachelor of Science in Geography
2. September 1994 to September 1997: Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Xi'an, China), Quaternary Geology, Master of Science
3. 2001/10-2005/09 Oxford University (Oxford, UK), Geography and Environment, PhD in Philosophy
Work experience:
1. 1997/10-2001/09 Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, research intern, assistant researcher
2. 1998/03-1999/03 Indian Institute of Physics, Visiting Scholar
3. 2004/10-2005/12 Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark, Visiting Scholar
4. 2006/01-2007/10 Humboldt Scholar, Marburg University and Bayreuth University, Germany
5. 2007/11-2014/09 Qinghai Salt Lake Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of the "Hundred Talents Program for Introducing Foreign Outstanding Talents" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
6. Professor (Level 2) at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) from October 2014 to October 2018
7. From November 2018 to present, Professor (Level 2) at the Institute of Marine Science, Shantou University
Awards and honors:
1997: Scholarship for South South Cooperation from the Third World Academy of Sciences in Italy
2. 2001: Clarendon Scholarship, Oxford University, UK
3. 2002: Graduate Scholarship from Jesus College, Oxford University, UK
4. 2004: Chinese Ministry of Education Outstanding International Student Scholarship
5. 2005: Humboldt Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
Main academic part-time jobs:
Editor in Chief of Catena (2023/2-)
2. Associate Editor of International SCI Journals Quaternary Research (2010-2017) and Aeolian Research (2010-2017), Editorial Board Member of Geochronometria (SCI) and International Journal of Luminescence and Applications
3. Editorial board members of Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Salt Lake Research, and Lake Science
4. Director of the China Qinghai Tibet Plateau Research Association
5. Director of the Chinese Society of Cryospheric Sciences (preparatory)
6. Member of the Geography Science Education Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education (2018 present).
II.REASEARCH
Main Research Interests:
1. Quaternary geochronology (photoluminescence dating and cosmogenic nuclide dating), paleoanthropological geochronology
2. Coupling evolution of global climate change, sea level, delta, river systems, and surface processes (watershed and delta evolution)
3. Global Change and Carbon Cycle
4. Landforms and Quaternary Environment of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and Arid Regions
5. Sedimentary Environment and Groundwater Arsenic Pollution Mechanism
Projects Undertaken:
The coupling relationship between the evolution of alluvial plains in large river basins and sea level changes during the last glacial cycle Shantou University Research Talent Introduction Fund (NTF19003), 3 million yuan, 2019-2021
2. Establishing a Quaternary stratigraphic age sequence in the Jianghan Basin using photoluminescence and burial dating techniques, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project (41877438), 620000 yuan, 2019-2022
3. Evolution of Western Wind Climate in Cenozoic Sedimentary Records of the Qaidam Basin, Major Second level Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41290252), 3.5 million yuan, 2013-2017
4. Seismic Luminescence Chronology of Yushu and Adjacent Areas in the Eastern Qinghai Tibet Plateau, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project (41172168), 850000 yuan, 2012-2015
5. Central and eastern deserts/sandy lands, Chinese Academy of Sciences pilot project (XDA05120500; co hosted), 3.4 million yuan, 2011-2015
6. Photoluminescent Chronological Study on the Salt Formation Period of Cha'erhan Salt Lake in Chaidamu Basin, National Natural Science Foundation of China (40872119), 570000 yuan, 2009-2011
7. Qinghai Tibet Plateau Environmental Change and Salt Lake Evolution, 100 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (A0961), 3 million yuan, 2008-2012.
Guided graduate students:
The doctoral students under his guidance won two excellent doctoral theses of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one Humboldt scholar from Germany, one Marie Curie scholar from the European Union, UK Research and Innovation Scholarship to study for a doctoral degree in Cambridge University, the full prize of Purdue University, one President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the "National Excellent Team", provincial excellent master's thesis, provincial excellent undergraduate thesis, etc. of the social practice report of college students' three trips to the countryside in summer.
Published international SCI academic papers (* as corresponding author)
1. Zhi Zhang, Zhibin Zheng, Xiangqiang Meng*, Zhongping Lai*, Yue Li, Yandong Hou, Yougui Song, Junfeng Ji. Gradually increasing precipitation during the Holocene as evidenced by loess dolomite abundance in the Ili Basin, Central Asia core. Catena, in revision
2. Qinjing Shen†, Yinjun Zhou†*, Yantian Xu, Yuansen Lai, Xia Yan, Xianmei Huang, Xiaobin Liu, Jiemei Zhong, Shuai Zhu, Zhijing Li, Zhongping Lai*. 2023. Late Quateranry fluvial response of the Upper Mekong River in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau to climate changes revealed by OSL dating. Geomorphology, in revision
3. Jiemei Zhong, Bohui Liu, Yang Ou, Ruonan Tian*, Jingxiang Shan, Yantian Xu, Feng Wang, Mahmoud Abbas, Ke Zhang, Zhongping Lai*. 2023. An erosive neritic area of Shantou in coastal NE South China Sea since at least MIS 5 revealed by OSL dating of cores. Frontiers in Earth Science, in press
4. Yang, X.Y., Yu, L.P.*, Chang, Q.F., Lai, Z.P.*, 2023. Flood activity revealed millennial-scale climatic changes during the late Holocene in the Qaidam Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary International, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.06.011
5. Feng Wang, Fei Wang*, Weiguo Zhang, Songhua Xu, Zhongping Lai*. 2023. A novel machine learning fingerprinting method using sparse representation for provenance detection in delta sediments. Catena, 107095, in press, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107095
6. Xiangjun Liu*, Xiaodong Miao*, Junsheng Nie, Xiaojian Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xiangzhong Li, Xianjiao Ou, Zhongping Lai. 2023. Distribution and fate of Tibetan Plateau loess. Catena, 225, 107022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107022
7. Chang Huang, Lupeng Yu*, Zhongping Lai*. 2023. Holocene millennial lake-level fluctuations of lake Nam Co in Tibet using OSL dating of shorelines. Journal of Hydrology, 618, 128643. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128643
8. Penghui Lin, Yingjin Song, Weiqi Zhan, Ruonan Tian, Zhongbo Wang*, Xiaolin Xu, Lan Luo, Mahmoud Abbas, Zhongping Lai*. 2023. Late Pleistocene to Holocene sedimentary history in the Pearl River Delta revealed by OSL and radiocarbon dating. Catena, 224, 106972. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2023.106972
9. Chang Huang, Yun Guo, Lupeng Yu, Min Cao, Hua Tu*, Zhongping Lai*. 2023. Holocene hydrological history of a Tibetan glacier-fed lake Taro Co in response to climate change. Catena, 220, 106686. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2022.106686.
10. Penghui Lin, Xiaolin Xu*, Chaoyang Yan, Lan Luo, Zhongping Lai*. 2022. Holocene Sedimentary History of the Pearl River Delta in South China: OSL and Radiocarbon Dating of Cores from Zhuhai. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 1031456. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1031456
11. Jiemei Zhong, Ken Ling, Meifei Yang, Qinjing Shen, Mahmoud Abbas, Zhongping Lai*. 2022. Radiocarbon and OSL dating on cores from Chaoshan delta in the coastal South China Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 1030841. DOI:0.3389/fmars.2022.1030841
12. Xiangjun Liu*, Yixuan Wang, Xiaodong Miao, Xianjiao Ou, Chunyan Zheng, Yantian Xu, Zhongping Lai*. 2022. Holocene lake level variations of Dagze Co in central Tibetan Plateau revealed by OSL dates on palaeoshorelines. Catena, 219, 106645. doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106645.
13. Shen, Q.J., Ao, S., Xu, Y.T., Liu, S.W.*, Wang, Y.X., Lai, Y.S., Miao, X.D., Lai, Z.P.*, 2022. Aeolian landform processes since the last deglaciation revealed by OSL chronology and stratigraphy in the Hulunbuir dune field in NE China. Quaternary Geochronology, 72, 101352. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101352.
14. Li, G.*, Wang, Y., Li, S., Wang, T., Liao, W., Deng, B., Lai, Z.*, 2022. Biotic Response to Rapid Environmental Changes During the Permian - Triassic Mass Extinction. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 911492. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.911492
15. Zhou, Y., Gao, Y., Shen, Q., Yan, X., Liu, X., Zhu, S., Lai, Y., Li, Z, Lai, Z., 2022. Response of Channel Morphology to Climate Change over the Past 2000 Years Using Vertical Boreholes Analysis in Lancang River Headwater in Tibetan Plateau. Water, 14, 1593. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14101593
16. Zhongbo Wang, Shouye Yang, Haiyan Tang, Yilin Zheng, Hongyue Wang, Zhixun Zhang, Yong Zhang, Xi Mei, Qiang Wang, Zhongping Lai. 2022. Revisit the sedimentary stratigraphic evolution and environmental changes on the outer shelf of the East China Sea since MIS 5. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 863245. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.863245.
17. Xianmei Huang, Zhongping Lai*, Liubing Xu*, Lan Luo, Jiemei Zhong, Jinming Xie, Yinjun Zhou, Darryl Granger*. 2022. Late Pleistocene lake overspill and drainage reversal in the source area of the Yellow River in the Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 589, 117554. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117554.
18. Xiaolin Xu, Jiemei Zhong, Xianmei Huang, Hongwei Li*, Zhaojing Ding, Zhongping Lai*, 2022. Age comparison by luminescence using quartz and feldspar on core HPQK01 from the Pearl River Delta in China. Quaternary Geochronology, 71, 101320. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101320
19. Zhiru Long, Zhongbo Wang, Hua Tu, Rihui Li, Zhenhe Wen, Yixuan Wang, Yong Zhang, Zhongping Lai, 2022. OSL and radiocarbon dating of a core from the Bohai Sea in China and implications for Late Quaternary transgression pattern. Quaternary Geochronology, 70, 101308. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101308.
20. Guanhua Li, Dunsheng Xia, Youjun Wang, Hao Lu, Zhongping Lai, 2022. A combined study of magnetic, granulometric and geochemical properties from lacustrine sediment in the arid Central Asia: Implications for paleoenvironmental variations. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 199, 104589. doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2022.104589.
21. Tu, H., Luo, L., Deng, C.L., Ou, Z.L., Lai, Z.P.*, Shen, G.J., Bae, C.J.*, Granger, D., 2022. Isochron 26Al/10Be burial dating of the Xiashagou Fauna in the Nihewan Basin, northern China: Implications for biogeography and early hominin dispersals. Quaternary Science Reviews, 283, 107447. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107447
22. Pervez, Rashid, Zhongping Lai*, 2022. Spatio-temporal variations of litter on Qingdao tourist beaches in China. Environment Pollution, 303, 119060. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119060.
23. Liu, X.J.*, Li X.Z.*, Lai, Z.P.*, Cheng, F.*, 2022. Editorial: Late Quaternary Hydrological, Paleoenvironmental and Geomorphological Processes in the Tibetan Plateau and Its Adjacent Areas. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 839663. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.839663.
24. Huang, X.M., Miao, X.D.*, Chang, Q.F., Zhong, J.M., Mason, J.A., Hanson, P.R., Ou, X.J., Xu, L.B., Lai, Z.P.*, 2022. Tibetan dust accumulation linked to ecological and landscape response to global climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL096615. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL096615. (SCI)
25. Feng Wang*, Weiguo Zhang, Tuqin Huang, Yantian Xu, Zhongping Lai*, 2022, Particle-size dependent magnetic property variations in the Yangtze delta sediments of late Holocene: Effects of pedogenesis and diagenesis. Catena, 209, 105832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105832. (SCI)
