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NAME
Junqing YU
EDUCATION
PhD
POSITION
Principal Investigator
TITLE
Research Professor
ZIP CODE
810008
DISCIPLINE
Geochemistry & Limnogeology
ADDRESS
Xinning Street 18, Xining 810008, Qinghai Province, China
EMAIL
junqyu@isl.ac.cn

RESUME
Ph.D: Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD), Germany M.S (equivl.): Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Z), Zurich B.S (equivl.): Nanjing University 1998.2-present: Research professor, Institute of Salt Lake Studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 2002.5-present: Professor, the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2003.10-2006.2: Visiting professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. 1998.3-2001.3: Guest professor, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, CAS. 1996.9 –1996.12: Visiting associate professor, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Sciences and Technology (EAWAG, Dübendorf) 1995.12-1998.2: Associate research professor, Institute of Salt Lake Studies, CAS 1991.11-1995.6: Research Fellow, Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota 1987.6 –1991.10: Research assistant, Geologisches Institut, ETH-Z, Zurich, Switzerland 1985.9 –1987.6: Visiting scholar, Swiss Federal Institute of Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG) 1975.9 –1985.9: Research assistant/Assistant professor, Institute of Salt Lake Studies, CAS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Geochemistry, Limnogeology, Paleoclimatology
HONORS & AWARDS
PUBLICATION
YU Junqing and ZHANG Lisa. 2008. LAKE QINGHAI: Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate. Beijing: Science Press, 161 pp. Zhan D P, Yu J Q*, Gao C N, Zhang L S. 2008. Origin of lithium brines in the salt lakes of Yiliping, Xitaijinaier, Dongtaijinaier and Bieletan in Qaidam Basin. Geochemistry, (in review). Wang C N, Yu J Q, Chen L, Zhang L S. 2007. A review on the exploration of global potash resources with an emphasis on the past and present status of China and a methodological perspective. Journal of Salt Lake Research, 15 (3): 56–72 (in Chinese with English abstract). Zhang L S, Yu J Q, Liu Z T, Chen L, Wang C N. 2007. Lake Huangqihai, Inner Mongolia: a paleoenvironmental proxy record from loss-on-ignition analyses for a post-glacial sediment core. Journal of Salt Lake Research, 15 (1): 12–15 (in Chinese with English abstract). Yu J Q, Zeng C, Zhang L S, Liu Z T. 2004. Evaluation of oxygen stable-isotopic fractionation among different carbonate minerals in the sediments of Lake Qinghai. Journal of Lake Sciences, 16(3):223–226 (in Chinese with English abstract). Yu J Q and Kelts K. 2002. Abrupt changes in climatic conditions across the late-glacial/Holocene transition on the N. E. Tibet-Qinghai Plateau: evidence from Lake Qinghai, China. Journal of Paleolimnology, 28: 195–206. Li J and Yu J Q. 2002. Lake Huangqihai, Inner Mongolia: a palaeoenvironmental record deduced from Ostracoda and stable isotope composition of ostracode shells. Journal of Salt Lake Research, 10(4):13–18 (in Chinese with English abstract). Yu J Q, Kelts K, Chen K Z, Zhang P X, An Z S. 2000. An arid event at the Younger Dryas time window in the N. E. Tibet-Qinghai Plateau. Geolines 11: 36–39. Yu J Q, Wang X Y, Li J, An Z S. 2000. Paleoenvironmental interpretations on organic carbon isotopic records from lake sediments: a critique. Journal of Lake Sciences, 13(1):72–78. Lister G, Kelts K, Chen K Z, Yu J Q, Niessen F. 1991. Lake Qinghai, China: closed-basin lake levels and the oxygen isotope record for ostracoda since the latest Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 84: 141–162. Kelts K, Chen K Z, Lister G, Yu J Q, Gao Z H, Niessen F, Bonani G. 1989. Geological fingerprints of climate history: a cooperative study of Qinghai Lake, China. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 82: 167–182. Huang Q, Cai B Q, Yu J Q. 1981. The 14C age and cycle sedimentation of some saline lakes on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 26 (1): 66–70.
PUBLIC SERVICE
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
1. 1999.1-2000.12. CAS grant (KZ951-A1-402): Past climatic change along the transect from Qinghai Lake to Dali Lake, Inner Mongolia (PI: Junqing YU). 2. 2000.1-2002.12. NSFC grant No. 49971074: Ecological and climatic evolution of Lake Huangqihai, Inner Mongolia, in the past 15,000 years: a comparison with Lake Qinghai (PI: Junqing YU). 3. 1999.10-2002.9: CAS grant (KZCX1-Y-05): Decoding paleoclimate signals stored in the sediment cores of Lake Huangqihai, Inner Mongolia (PIs: Junqing YU & Zhisheng AN). 4. 2003.1-2005.1: CAS grant (CX2003-03): Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate reconstructions based on evaluating sediment records from lakes in Northwest China (PI: Junqing YU). 5. 2006.1-2008.12: NSFC grant No. 40571173: A paleolimnological and geomorphologic investigation on a catastrophic increase of lake-level in Lake Fuxian, China. (PI: Junqing YU). 6. 2009.1-2011.12: NSFC grant No. 40871008: Reconstruction of a millennial hydro-climate history with annual resolution from the sedimentary record of Tuosu Lake in Qaidam Basin, northwestern China (PI: Junqing YU).