Editor-in-chief: The Innovation Geoscience

Associate Editor: The Innovation (IF: 33.1); Science Bulletin (IF: 18.9).

Editorial board member: 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 selection board of the AGU Eminiani Lecturer.  Member of selection board of the EGU Milutin Milankovic Medal.  Members of many panels of Chinese National Natural Science Foundation of China. Member of USERN (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network). Scientific Committee member of International Research Center on Karst under the Auspices of UNESCO, etc.

      Prof. Hai Cheng has published more than 680 papers, citations >89000, h-index 119, including 30 in Science and Nature, and more than 80 in PNAS, Nature and Science Series Journals. More details see:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cv3SRfMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Tan, L.C.*, Cheng, H., Li, D., Orozbaev, R., Li, Y.Z., Xu, H., Edwards, R.L., Song, Y,G., Ma, L., Lin, F.Y., Sinha, A., An, Z.S.*, Hydroclimatic changes on multiple timescales since 7800 y BP in the winter precipitation–dominated Central Asia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(4)(2024), e2321645121;

Sha, L.J.*, Dang, H.W*, Wang, Y., Wassenburg, J.A., Baker, J.L., Li, H.Y., Sinha, A., Ait Brahim, Y., Wu, N.P., Lu, Z.Y., Yang, C., Dong, X.Y., Lu, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Mahata, S., Cai, Y.J., Jian, Z.M., Cheng, H.*, Triple oxygen isotope reveals insolation-forced tropical moisture cycles, Science Advances, 10(37) (2024), eadp7855;

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;

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, Germany；2014.10, 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 (two); 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, US (two). Workshop of Abrupt Climate and Ecosystem Transitions in Paleoclimate, 2020.10, Copenhagen. 2021.11, 2020 Northeast Asian Symposium Program, online; 2022.05, 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. 2023.12, AGU23 Meeting, San Francisco. 2024.10, Kick-off meeting ERC Synergy project LAST NEANDERTHALS, Ravenna. 2024.11, Milanković’s Theory of Climate Changes – Hundred Years Afterwards, Belgrade, and many others.

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