Basic Information

Prof. Hai Cheng

 Member of

The Austrian Academy of Sciences(2022)

 

AGU Fellow (2017)

Contact Information

Institute of Global Environmental Change

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Address: No.19 Building, Western China Science and Technology Innovation Harbour, No.999 Siyuan Round South Road, Fengxi New City, Xixian New Area,  Xi'an, 712000, Shaanxi, China

Tel: 86-29-88965119

E-mail: cheng021@xjtu.edu.cn

 

 

 

Education

Nanjing University, China, Geochemistry, Ph.D.1988

Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China , Geochemistry , M.S.1985

Nanjing University, China ,Geochemistry ,B.S.1982

Technical specialization

Thermal ionization mass spectroscopy;

MC-ICP mass spectroscopy;

Trace metal separation techniques;

U-series dating techniques;

Temperature reconstruction by speleothem fluid inclusions;

Triple oxygen isotope analytical technique for speleothem

Gradual students/Postdocs

 Master degree students: 13

 PhD degree students: 17

 Postdocs:  10

         

Honors and Awards

​​​​​Member of The Austrian Academy of Sciences (2022)

EGU Milutin Milancovic Medal  (2022)

Highly Cited Researches (2014-2023) (Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics)

Highly Cited Scholars in China (2015-2023) (Elsevier)

The 10 Most Astonishing Archaeological Discoveries of 2021 (by Archaeology) (2021)

First-class Science and Technology Award  Shaanxi Academy of Sciencean  (2020)

MEL Distinguished Visiting Fellowship  (2020)

MEL Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (2019)

AGU Eminiani Lecture (2019) (to honor the life and work of the renowned paleoceanography/paleoclimate researcher)

Best Researcher Award    Xi’an Jiaotong University (2018)

AGU Fellow (2017)

Ten major scientific and technological progresses of China's colleges and Universities (2016)

National Distinguished Professor(2015)

Geochemical Fellow of Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry (2015)

2014 Highly Cited Researcher  Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureates

2014 International Citation Impact Award  Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureates (The only one from the entire Chinese geoscience community up to now)

Sanqin Friendship Award (2014)

The Gary C. Comer Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship (2007)

The Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Oversea Young Scholars (2003)

 

 

 

 

 

Positions

Xi’an Jiaotong University             Professor                                             2010-present

University of Minnesota               Senior Research Scientist                    1993-2009

Macquarie University                   Research Fellow                                  1991-1992

Kyoto University                          Research Fellow                                  1989

Academica Sinica, Beijing           Postdoctoral Fellow                             1988

 

 

Professional Society Memberships

The Austrian Academy of Sciences

American Geophysical Union 

Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry

Chinese Geological Society

Chinese Association for Quaternary Research

Recent Service

Executive editor of geoscience for The Innovation(IF 32.1); 

Editors-in-Chief of The Innovation geoscience;

Associate Editor of Science Bulletin (IF 20.577);

Editorial board member of Quaternary Geochronology, Speleology, Journal of Earth Environment, Science China-Earth Sciences, Scientific Report, Geological Review, and Quaternary Sciences;

Member of the Earth System Panel of the European Research Council;

Member of the Geochemical Fellows Award Committee of the Geochemical Society and the European Association for Geochemistry;

Member of the ACS (American Chemistry Society) Earth & Space Chemistry Editor Search Committee;

Members of several panels of Chinese National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.

 

Recent significant publications

      Prof. Hai Cheng has published more than 620 papers, citations >80000, h-index 113, including 29 in Science and Nature, and more than 70 in PNAS, Nature and Science Series Journals. More details see:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cv3SRfMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

 

Tian, Y., Fleitmann, D., Zhang, Q., Sha, L.J, Wassenburg, J.A., Axelsson, J., Zhang, H.W., Li, X.L., Hu, J., Li, H.Y., Zhao, L., Cai, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Cheng, H.*, Holocene climate change in southern Oman deciphered by speleothem multi-proxy records and climate model simulations, Nature Communications, 14 (2023), 4718;

Cheng, H.*, Li, H.Y., Sha, L.J., Sinha, A., Shi, Z.G., Yin, Q.Z., Lu, Z.Y., Zhao, D.B., Cai, Y.J., Hu, Y.Y., Hao, Q.Z., Tian, J., Kathayat, G., Dong, X.Y., Zhao, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Milankovitch theory and monsoon, The Innovation, 3(6)(2022), 100338;

Kathayat, G., Sinha, A., Breitenbach, M. F., Tan, L. C., Spötl, C., Li, H. Y., Dong, X. Y., Zhang, H.W., Ning, Y.F., Allan, R.J., Damodaran, V., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, Protracted Indian monsoon droughts of the past millennium and their societal impacts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(39)(2022), e2207487119;

Dong, X.Y., Kathayat, G.*, Rasmussen, S.O., Svensson, A., Severinghaus, J.P., Li, H.Y., Sinha, A., Xu, Y., Zhang, H.W., Shi, Z.G., Cai, Y.J., Pérez-Mejías, C., Baker, J.L., Zhao, J.Y., Spotl, C., Columbu, A., Ning, Y.F., Stríkis, N.M., Chen, S.T., Wang, X.F., Gupta, A.K., Dutt, S., Zhang, F., Cruz, F.W., An, Z.S., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics during Heinrich Stadial 2, Nature Communications, 13(2022), 1-14;

Cheng, H.*, Zhang, H.W., Cai, Y.J.*, Shi, Z.G., Yi, L., Deng, C.L., Hao, Q.Z., Peng, Y.B., Sinha, A., Li, H.Y., Zhao, J.Y., Tian, Y., Baker, J., Perez-Mejias, C. Orbital-scale Asian summer monsoon variations: Paradox and exploration, Science China Earth Sciences, 64(2021), 529-544;

Cheng, H.*, Zhang, H.W., Spötl, C., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Li, H.Y., Bartolomé, M., Moreno, A., Kathayat, G., Zhao, J.Y., Dong, X.Y., Li, Y.W., Ning, Y.F., Jia, X., Zong, B.Y., Brahim, Y.A., Pérez-Mejías, C., Cai, Y.J., Novello, V.F., Cruz, F.W., Severinghaus, J.P., An, Z.S., Edwards, R.L., Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(2020), 23408-23417;

Sha, L.J., Mahata, S., Duan, P.Z., Luz, B., Zhang, P., Baker, J., Zong, B.Y., Ning, Y.F., Brahim, Y.A., Zhang, H.W., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, A novel application of triple oxygen isotope ratios of speleothems, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 270(2020), 360-378;

Li, H.Y., Sinha, A.*, André, A.A., Spötl, C., Vonhof, H.B., Meunier, A., Kathayat, G., Duan, P.Z., Voarintsoa, N.R.G., Ning, Y.F., Biswas, J., Hu, P., Li, X.L., Sha, L.J., Zhao, J.Y., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, Science Advances, 6(2020), eabb2459;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Southon, J., Matsumoto, K., Feinberg, J.M., Sinha, A., Zhou, W.J., Li, H.Y., Li, X.L., Xu, Y., Chen, S.T., Tan, M., Wang, Q., Wang, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Atmospheric 14C/12C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave, Science, 362(6420)(2018), 1293-1297;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Yi, L., Chen, S.T., Kelly, M., Kathayat, G., Wang, X.F., Li, X.L., Kong, X.G., Wang, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Zhang, H.W., The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations, Nature, 534(7609)(2016), 640-646;

Cheng, H.*, Spötl, C., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Sinha, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Li, X.L., Yi, L., Peng, Y.B., Lv, Y.B., Zhang, P.Z., Votintseva, A., Loginov, V., Ning, Y.F., Kathayat, G., Edwards, R.L., Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales, Scientific Reports, 6(2016), 36975;

Kathayat, G., Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, H.W., Li, X.L., Yi, L., Ning, Y.F., Cai, Y.J., LuiLui, W.G., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales, Scientific Reports, 6(2016), 24374;

Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Verheyden, S., Nader, F.H., Li, X.L., Zhang, P.Z., Yin, J.J., Yi, L., Peng, Y.B., Rao, Z.G., Ning, Y.F., Edwards, R.L., The climate variability in northern Levant over the past 20,000 years, Geophysical Research Letters, 42(20)(2015), 8641-8650;

Sinha, A.*, Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Berkelhammer, M., Mudelsee, M., Biswas, J., Edwards, R.L., Trends and Oscillations and Anomalies in the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall over the Last Two Millennia, Nature Communications, 6(2015), 6309;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Shen, C.C., Polyak, V.J., Asmerom, Y., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Spötl, C., Wang, X.F., Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U-Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 371-372(2013), 82-91;

Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Cruz, F.W., Wang, X., Edwards, R.L., d’Horta, F.M., Ribas, C.C., Vuille, M., Stott, L.D., Auler, A.S., Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity, Nature Communications, 4(2013), 1411;

Cheng, H.*, Zhang, P.Z., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Cai, Y.J., Zhang, D.Z., Sang, W.C., Tan, M., An, Z.S., The climate cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years, Geophysical Research Letters, 39(2012), L01705

Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Wang, X.F., Cruz, F.W., Edwards, R.L., The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas, Climate Dynamics, 39(2012), 1045-1062

Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L.*, Broecker, W.S., Denton, G.H., Kong, X.G., Wang, Y.J., Zhang, R., Wang, X.F., Ice Age Terminations, Science, 326(248)(2009), 248-252;

Cheng, H.*, Fleitmann, D. *, Edwards, R.L., Wang, X.F., Cruz, F.W., Auler, A.S., Mangini, A., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from d18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman and Brazil, Geology, 37(11)(2009), 1007-1010;

Wang, Y.J.*, Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Kong, X.G., Shao, X.H., Wu, J.Y., Jiang, X.Y., Wang, X.F., An, Z.S., Millennial- and orbital- scale changes in the East Asian Monsoon over the past 224,000 years, Nature, 451(2008), 1090-1093;

Zhang, P.Z., Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Chen, F.H., Wang, Y.J., Yang, X.L., Liu, J., Tan, M., Wang, X.F., Liu, J.H., An, C.L., Dai, Z.B., Zhou, J., Zhang, D.Z., Jia, J.H., Jin, L.Y., Johnson, K.R., A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from a 1810-year Chinese Cave record, Science, 322(5903)(2008), 940-942;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Ming, Y.F., Kelly, M.J., Wang, X.F., Gallup, C. D., Liu, W.G., A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations, Geology, 34(3)(2006), 217-220;

Wang, Y.J., Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., He, Y.Q., Kong, X.G., An, Z.S., Wu, J.Y., Kelly, M.J., Dykosk, C.A., Li, X.D., The Holocene Asian monsoon: links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate, Science, 308(5723)(2005), 854-857;

 

Synergistic Activities

Role in development of mass spectrometric 231Pa dating techniques of carbonates (coral and speleothems) and 231Pa/235U measurement of igneous rocks.

Re-determine half-live of U-234 and Th-230 for 230Th dating.

Development of Uranium-thorium-protactinium dating systematics.

Development of MC-ICP MS U-series dating technique

Development of triple-oxygen-isotope analytical technique

Speleothem study and paleo-climate reconstruction

Establishing the Asian monsoon and the Westerlies climate changes over the past 650 ka and their correlations to global climate change on orbital-decadal timescales.

 

Recent Collaborators

J. Adkins (US), K.D. Adams (US), Z.S. An (China), Y. Asmerom (US), A.S. Auler (Brazil), S. Bayari (Turkey), M. Bender (US), R. Boch (Austria), W. S. Broecker (US), G.A. Brook (US), S.J. Burns (US), C.D. Charles (US), P. Clark (US), K.M. Cobb (US), F.W. Cruz (Brazil), G.H. Denton (US), D. Domínguez-Villar (Spain), J.A. Dorale (US), R. Drysdale (Australia), H.N. Edmonds (UK), R.L. Edwards (US), V. Ersek (UK), D. Fleitmann (Swiss), M. Gagan (Australia), C.D. Gallup (US), Z.T. Guo (China), P. Hearty (Australia), J. Hellstrom (Australia), Inoue (Japan), A. Klimchouk (Ukraine), M.S., Lachniet (US), Z.H. Li (US); D. McGee (US), A. Mix (US), F.H. Nader (Lebanon), B. Plessen (Germany), R. Potts (US), H. Qing (Canada), J. Quade (US), M.K. Reagan (US), D.A. Richards (UK), B. Sebastian(Swiss), C.C. Shen (Taiwan, China), A. Sinha (US), K. Sieh (Singapore), J. Southern (US), R. Speed (US), C. Spotl (Austria), G.S. Springer (US), L.D. Stott (US), V.C. Tewari (India), M. Tan (China), S. Verheyden (Belgium), R.C. Walter (US), Y.J. Wang (China), X.F. Wang (Singapore), J.F. Wehmiller (US), K.S. Woo (Korean), J. Woodhead (Australia), F.Y. Wu (China), D.X. Yuan (China), P.Z. Zhang (China), B. Luz (Israel), Q.Z. Yin (US), Krause, C.E. (Australian). Y.F. Zheng (China), F.H. Chen (China), H.Y. Lv (China), N.Q. Wu(China). H.Y. Lu (China), H.C. Zhang (China), C.Y. Hu (China).

 

Invited speeches and lectures

1996 Spring AGU Meeting; 1997 Fall AGU Meeting; 2000, 2002 and 2009 Institute of Karst Geology; 2003 University of Paris;  2004 and 2006, Lanzhou University; 2004 Nanjing University; 2005 Taiwan National University; 2005  Institute of Geology;  2005 University of Southern California; Taiwan; 2005  Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; 2005 Southern China Normal University; 2005 and 2009 Institute of Geochemistry, Guangzhou; 2006; IQUA Congress; 2006 Goldschmidt Conference;  2007 Institute of Speleology and Karstology, Simferopol, Ukraine; 2007 EGU Meeting, Vienna; 2007 9th International Conference on Paleoceanography;  2008 University of Bern; 2008 EGU Meeting, Vienna; 2008 European Science Foundation; 2009 L'Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives, France;  2009 U-series and sea-level workshop, WHOI;  2009 University of Sau Poulo. 2010 AGU Taipei Meeting, Taiwan. 2010 AGU Brazil Meeting, Iguassu, Brazil; 2010 Shanghai Global Monsoon Meeting; 2010 Oregon Syntrace Synthesis Workshop; 2011 Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2011 Global climate change workshop, Chinese NSF; 2011 INQUA (Geochronology session); 2012 Modes of Variability in the Climate System: Past-Present-Future, Obergurgl, Austria (PAGES). AOGS-AGU (WPGM), Singapore, 2012. Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GFZ, Germany, 2012. Symposium on the interplaying between high and low latitude climate systems, Fuzhou, China, 2012. International Symposium on Climate Change- Past, Present and Future, Trends, Variations and Impacts, Agadir, Morocco, 2012. Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia Climate: Clues to Understanding the Hydrological Cycle, Workshop, Xian, China 2012; 2013. 02 Wadia Institute Of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India; 2013. 04, International Symposium on Karst Water under Global Change Pressure, Guilin, China,  2013.08, Conference on Isotopes of Carbon, Water, and Geotracers in Paleoclimate Research, Bern, Switzerland; 2013.11, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; 2013.11, Geography Department, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany2014.10, Comer Abrupt Climate Change Meeting, Wisconsin, US; 2015.10, Comer Climate Conference, Wisconsin, US; 2016 Goldschmidt Conference, Japan; 2016.8, 35th International Geological Congress, Capetown, South Africa; 2016.7, 4th Conference on Earth System Science, Shanghai, China; 2016.12, AGU Fall Meeting, US; 2017.5, IntCal Working Group Meeting, Belfast, UK; 2017.06, SISAL Workshop, Duplin, Ireland; 2017.09, IODP-PAGES Workshop on Global Monsoon in Long-term Records, Shanghai, China; 2019.11, University of Science and Technology of China, He Fei, China; 2019 AGU Fall Meeting, Sanfrancisco, US; 2020.10, Workshop of Abrupt Climate and Ecosystem Transitions in Paleoclimate, Copenhagen. 2021.11, 2020 Northeast Asian Symposium Program, online. 2022.5, PAGES 6th OSM, Agadir. 2022.05, EGU2022, Vienna. 2022.06, Sustainability Researh+Innovation Conference, online. 2023.05, Caribbean – Mesoamerican Climate Science Workshop, Puerto Rico. 2023.07, The XXI INQUA Congress, Rome.

 

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