Deep Time Global Change, PKU
Mingsong Li, PI
I am a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Space Sciences at Peking University. Peking University Boya Young Fellow.
My research interests span a wide range of topics in Earth history, which I pursue through data collection, analysis, and modeling. Three interrelated fundamental problems are most attractive to me:
(1) the cause of rapid and large fluctuations in sea-level during greenhouse times when there were no ice sheets on Earth;
(2) the development of geologic time scales from the record of paleoclimate change; and
(3) global climate sensitivity to forcing mechanisms in greenhouse versus icehouse times.
I have developed a novel sedimentary noise model for tracking sea-level change in marine stratigraphy, leading to evidence that groundwater has had a major impact on global sea-level change. I am involved in improving the geologic time scale with astronomically forced cyclostratigraphy. Some of my results for the Triassic time scale were adopted as global references in the Concise Geologic Time Scale 2020. Most recently, my work on data assimilation combines paleoclimate proxies with Earth system models for dynamically linked space-time reconstructions of the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum.
My teaching interests are focused on stratigraphy, paleoclimatology and quantitative time series methods to help students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills to understand the Earth system. For this purpose, I recently developed Acycle, a time series analysis package for paleoclimate research and education.
Homepage: http://faculty.pku.edu.cn/li
Meng Wang
Boya Postdoc
Meng is currently a Boya postdoctoral researcher at Peking University.
He finished his Ph.D. at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).
His research encompasses the areas of hydrocarbon accumulation, methane seep, as well as the paleolake-level reconstruction and paleoclimate change.
He is interested in the reconstruction of lake levels and astronomical forcing by using a recently proposed sedimentary noise model and the mechanism of past lake-level and sea-level change.
Email: mwang@pku.edu.cn
Kaixuan Ji
Kaixuan is a Postdoctoral Scholar of the School of Earth and Space Sciences at Peking University. Her research interests involve Permian—Triassic mass extinction, sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, palaeoclimate change, sea-level change, hyperthermal events, storm, palaeosol, earth surface processes and sedimentary modelling, astrochronology & sedimentary noise, Cretaceous Solar System Chaos, etc.
Education background:
2019.09-2022.01
Joint Ph.D. at School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, major in terrestrial sedimentology, stratigraphy, palaeosol, hyperthermal events, and palaeoclimate change
Supervisor：Prof. Paul B. Wignall
2016.09-2022.06
M.D-Ph.D. at School of Earth Science, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), major in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy.
Ph.D. Thesis: Late Permian to Early Triassic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology of North China
Supervisor：Prof. Jinnan Tong
2012.09-2016.06
B.Sc. at School of Earth Science, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), major in Geology (National Science Base Class)
Outstanding Bachelor Degree of Hubei Province: Early Triassic Tempestite of the Liujiagou Formation, Yiyang, Henan Province
Supervisor: Prof. Jinnan Tong
First-author publications:
Ji, K., Wignall, P.B., Tong, J., Yu, Y., Guo, W., Shu, W. and Chu, D., 2022. Sedimentology of the latest Permian to Early Triassic in the terrestrial settings of the North China Basin: Low-latitude climate change during a warming-driven crisis. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36260.1
Ji, K., Wignall, P.B., Peakall, J., Tong, J., Chu, D. and Pruss, S.B., 2021. Unusual intraclast conglomerates in a stormy, hot-house lake: The Early Triassic North China Basin. Sedimentology, 68(7), pp.3385-3404. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12903
Email：jikaixuan_cug@163.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6708-3010
Yujing Wu
PhD student, co-advisor
Home: Xingtai city, Hebei province
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Crustal evolution, Earth’s rhythms, time series analysis, Bayesian statistics
EDUCATION
Sept 2019 – present, Doctor of Philosophy, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major: Structural Geology
Sept 2016 – Jun 2019, Bachelor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major: Economics
Sept 2015 – Jun 2019, Bachelor of Science, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major: Geochemistry
PUBLICATIONS
Fang, X.J., Wu, Y.J., Liao, S.S., et al., (2018). Preliminary analysis of the Chinese sublibrary of the Chinese crust single-grain zircon U-Pb geochronology database. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 34(11), 3252–3265 (in Chinese).
Wu, Y.J., Fang, X.J., Liao, S.S., et al., (2019). Zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Chinese continental crust: a preliminary analysis of the Elsevier science database. Big Earth Data, 3(1): 26-44. DOI: 10.1080/20964471.2019.1576261.
Wu, Y.J., Fang, X.J., Liao, S.S., et al., (2020): Crustal evolution events in the Chinese continent: evidence from a zircon U-Pb database, International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2020.1739152.
Fang, X.J., Wu, Y.J., Liao, S.S., et al., (2020). Division of crustal units in china using grid-based clustering and a zircon U–Pb geochronology database. Computers & Geosciences, DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104570
Wu, Y., Fang, X., Jiang, L., Song, B., Han, B., Li, M., & Ji, J. (2022). Very long-term periodicity of episodic zircon production and Earth system evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 233, 104164. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104164
Haotian Zhang
PhD student
Haotian Zhang was born in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, graduated from the College of Earth Sciences at Jilin University, majoring in geology with a bachelor's degree.
She was honored as outstanding graduate of Jilin University and excellent graduation thesis of Jilin University.
Now she is a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Space Science at Peking University.
Research interests are lower Triassic cyclostratigraphy, geological time calibration, and paleoclimate change.
Xiaoyu Zhang
PhD student
Xiaoyu Zhang was born in Sichuan, graduated from the College of Earth Sciences at China University of Petroleum (Beijing), majoring in Resource Exploration Engineering with a bachelor’s degree.
Now she is a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Space Science at Peking University, majoring in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy.
Research interests are Mesoproterozoic cyclostratigraphy and deep solar system evolution.
Email: xyz_@stu.pku.edu.cn
Haoxun Zhang
Master student
Hometown: Nanchong City, Sichuan Province
Major: Paleontology and Stratigraphy
Research interest:
paleoclimate data assimilation，which combines proxies data with models.
Education:
2016.9-2020.6, Bachelor of Science, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major: Geology
2021.9-present, Master, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major: Paleontology and Stratigraphy
E-mail: 15501278088@163.com
Hanyu Zhu
Undergraduate
Education:
2019.9- pres. Paleontology, Yuanpei College, Peking University
Zhixin Wang
Undergraduate
Education:
2020.9-pres., School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major: Geochemistry
2021.9-pres., National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major: Economics
Hometown: Chongqing
Zhidan Xiang
Undergraduate
Education:
2021.9-pres., School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. Major: Geochemistry
Xinwen Zhang
Undergraduate
Education:
2021.9-pres.,School of Earth and Space Sciences,Peking University,Beijing,China.
Major:Geochemistry
E-mail: zhangxw@stu.pku.edu.cn
Ciro Clímaco Rodrigues
Master student, co-advisor
Ciro Clímaco was an undergraduate student in Geophysics at Federal University of Pará (Finished in 2009).
He is a reservoir geophysicist in PETROBRAS and works with Rock Physics and time-lapse seismic interpretation.
He has 12 years of experience in the oil industry and pursuits a master's degree in geophysics with a study of cyclostratigraphy in the Campos basin at the National Observatory in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - with professor Dr. Daniel Ribeiro as an advisor.
Mariana Aragao Fernandes
Master student, co-advisor
Mariana is B.Sc in Physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
During the B.Sc course, she worked on Nanomagnetism and Stellar Astrophysics. Currently, she is M.Sc. (Candidate) in Geophysics at National Observatory of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), working on cyclostratigraphy studies of Miocene period data from the Albacora field, located at the Campos Basin, a marginal Brazilian basin which is one of the most important offshore oil reserves in Brazil.
CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7482966807758713
Group Members (Sept. 10, 2021)
