Zhengtang Guo
Zhengtang Guo ( Chinese 郭 正 堂 ; * 1964 in Shanxi ) is a Chinese geologist and paleoclimatologist . He is a professor at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences .
Life
Guo completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Peking in 1983 , a master's degree at the University of Bordeaux I in 1985 and a doctoral degree at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in 1990 . From 2002 to 2006, he was the general director of the Earth Environment Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Act
Guo's research includes Cenozoic geology , paleopedology, and paleoclimatology . He thus deals with climate change on a historical scale. A particular achievement of Guo and his colleagues is the expansion of the Chinese loess database from 8 to 22 million years. He was involved in research on finds of the Stone Age Acheuléen culture in the sites Bogu and Gaolingpo in the Bose Basin .
Publications (selection)
- Zhengtang Guo, Tungsheng Liu , Nicolas Fedoroff , Lanying Wei , Zhongli Ding , Naiqin Wu , Huoyuan Lu , Wenying Jiang and Zhisheng An : Climate extremes in loess of China coupled with the strength of deep-water formation in the North Atlantic. In: Global and Planetary Change. Volume 18, No. 3-4, 1998, pp. 113-128, doi: 10.1016 / S0921-8181 (98) 00010-1 .
- Zhengtang Guo, William F. Ruddiman , Qingzhen Hao, H. Wu, Yansong Qiao, R. Zhu, Shuzhen Peng, J. Wei, B. Yuan and Tungsheng Liu: Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China . In: Nature . Volume 416, No. 6877, 2002, p. 159, doi: 10.1038 / 416159a .
- Zhengtang Guo, Shuzhen Peng , Qingzhen Hao , Pierre E. Biscaye , Zhisheng An and Tungsheng Liu : Late Miocene – Pliocene development of Asian aridification as recorded in the Red-Earth Formation in northern China. In: Global and Planetary Change. Volume 41, No. 3-4, 2004, pp. 135-145, doi: 10.1016 / j.gloplacha.2004.01.002 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d http://english.ucas.ac.cn/index.php/about-ucas/administration/2164-guo-zhengtang
- ↑ http://www.ieexa.cas.cn/jggk/lrld/
- ↑ Guo et al. (2002)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guo, Zhengtang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 郭 正 堂 (Chinese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese geologist and paleoclimatologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanxi |