Dr. Aifeng Zhou

Center for Arid Environment and Paleoclimate Research (CAEP)

MOE Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System

College of Earth and Environment Sciences

Lanzhou University

Lanzhou, Gansu

P.R. China 730000

Email: zhouaf02@yahoo.com, zhouaf@lzu.edu.cn

Phone: +869318912329 (O) 

Fax:   +869318912330 (O)

Website: http://environment.lzu.edu.cn/staff/zhouaifeng.htm

POSITION

l         Supervisor of Mass Spectrometer MAT-253, Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China

l         Lectuer in College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

l         High resolution Holocene climate change research by using lake sediment records in margin of Asian monsoon, China.

l         Use of stable isotope skill as indicators in climatic and environmental change research.

l         Application of Radiocarbon dating in arid lake sediment.

EDUCATION:

l         September, 2002---June, 2007    Lanzhou University (LZU)

School of earth and environment science

Majored in Physical Geography,  

Ph.D Issued on June, 2007 

l         September, 1996---June, 2000    Lanzhou University (LZU)

Majored in Polymer Chemistry,

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

B.S.  Issued on June 28, 2000

 RESEARCH PROJECTS

l         Participated in NSFC innovation team project of Western China Environmental Change (2008-2010, 40721061) led by Prof Fahu Chen.

l         Project manager in Multidisciplinary Cross Areas for Young Scholar Foundation of Lanzhou University Research Program (2004-2006, LZU200309) “The Organic Matter Analysis in Lake Sediment and its Interpretion of Environmental Significance”    

l         Participated in NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) Research Program (2004-2006, 40301051) “Dust storm History during the Holocene recorded by lake sediments from Lake Sugan on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau”

l         Participated in NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) Research Program (2004-2006, 40301050) “Sedimentary Record of Laminated Deposits from Lake Sugan and the Paleoclimate Changes during Holocene on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau”

PUBLICATIONS:

1.       Aifeng Zhou, Fahu Chen, Radiocarbon reservoir effect in dating lake sediment: based on Varve chronology of Sugan Lake, 2008, Radiocarbon and Archaeology 5th International Symposium, Zurich, Switzerland(abstract)

2.       Aifeng Zhou, Fahu Chen, Mingrui Qiang, Meilin Yang, Jiawu Zhang, The discovery of annual lamination in Inner Arid region Sugan lake of China and its significance, 2006, Science in China(series D), 2007, 50(7):1211-1217

3.       Mingrui Qiang, Fahu Chena, Aifeng Zhou, Shun Xiao, Jiawu Zhang and Zhenting Wang, Impacts of wind velocity on sand and dust deposition during dust storm as inferred from a series of observations in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China, Powder Technology, 2007, 175(2): 82-89  

4.       Mingrui Qiang, Fahu Chen, Aifeng Zhou, Shun Xiao, Jiawu Zhang, Ming Jin, Preliminary study on dust storm events documented by grain size component of lake Sugan sediments, north Qaidam basin, Quaternary Sciences(In Chinese), 2006, 26(6): 56-74

5.       Aifeng Zhou, The discovery of annual lamination in Inner Arid region Sugan lake of China and its significance, 2006, 10^th international paleolimnology symposium Duluth, MN, USA(abstract)

6.       Mingrui Qiang, Fahu Chen, Jiawu Zhang, Ruiping Zu, Ming Jin, Aifeng Zhou，Shun Xiao, Grain size in sediments from Lake Sugan: a possible linkage to dust storm events at the northern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, environmental geology, 2006, DOI 10.1007/s00254-006-0416-9

7.       Qiang Mingrui, Chen Fahu, Zhang Jiawu, Gao Shangyu, Zhou Aifeng, Climatic changes documented by stable isotopes of sedimentary carbonate in Lake Sugan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau of China, since 2 ka BP, Chinese Science Bulletin 2005, 50(17): 1930-1939

8.       Chen Yimeng, Rao Zhiguo, Zhang Jiawu, Chen Xingsheng, Zhou aifeng, Stratum division and age dating of the mid to late Malan loess in Yuanbao Setion, Linxia of Gansu province. Journa of desert research(in Chinese), 2004, (24) 5: 539-543