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Name   Xiaomin Fang Home Page     
Highest Education      Ph.D. Office      Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101P.R. China
Phone      Zip Code      100101
Fax      010-8409 7079 Email      fangxm@itpcas.ac.cn

Education and Appointments：
Education 
Ph.D. in Physical Geography, jointly in University of Leicester (U.K.) and Lanzhou University, China, 1992
M.S. in Physical Geography, Lanzhou University, China, 1987
B.S. in Geology, Department of Geology and Geography, Lanzhou University, China, 1983
Appointments 
2005.01-present Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
1995.12-2004.12 Professor, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, China
2000-2004 Joint Professor and Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi’an, China
1993.11-1995.11 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, China
1988.01-1993.02 Lecturer, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, China
1983.07-1987.07 Research Assistant, Department of Geology and Geography, Lanzhou University, China

Research Interest：

Research Interests: Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy and basin analysis; Mountain building and Asian monsoon-aridification

Research Fields: Uplift of Tibetan Plateau and environmental change
Public Services：
2017-present  Director, Committee of Land Surface Processes, China Society on Tibetan Plateau
2017.01-present, Director, Committee of Climate and Tectonic Interactions, Chinese Association for Quaternary Research 
2016-present  Committee member, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, CAS
2015-present  Director of Committee for Key Laboratory of Western China’s Mineral Resources of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University
2011-present Committee member and Deputy director, Committee of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology, Geographical Society of China
2010-2019  Deputy Director, CAS Key Laboratory of Continental Collision and Plateau Uplift, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2009-present  Council Member, China Society on Tibetan Plateau 
2008-present  Editorial Board member, Chinese Journal of Geology
2005-Present  Editorial Board member, Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology
1999- present  Council Member, Chinese Association for Research (CAQR);  
2008-present  Invited assessing member for National Prizes of Sciences and Technology of China
2006-present  Invited member, formal member (2006-2010; 2020-) of NSFC to assess NSFC programs (application, mid-term evaluation, final examining and acceptance)
2005-present  Committee member, MOE (Ministry of Education of China) Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environment, Lanzhou University. 
2011-2018  Associate Editor in Chief, Journal of Mountain Science
2010-2016  Associate Editor-in-Chief, Geoscience Frontiers (English version)

Honors：
  1. 1995 Selected by Chinese Government as leadership for the 21st century science.
  2. 1996 Granted Visiting Fellows of Institute for Rock Magnetism, Univ. of Minnesota.
  3. 1996 Granted JSPS Visiting Professor Scholarship.
  4. 1996 Awarded “Outstanding Young Scientist Prize for Studying the Tibetan Plateau”, by China Society for Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
  5. 1999 Awarded “Excellent Young Researcher Fund of China” by the NSFC 
  6. 1997 Researches on “Paleosols in the NE Tibetan Plateau and Climatic Change” was awarded with the 3rd Class of Prize for Sci-Tech. Progress of Gansu Province.
  7. 1997-2000 Guest Professor of National Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, CAS, Xi’an.
  8. 1998 Researches on “Uplift Process of the Tibet Plateau and Formation of Natural Environment of China” was awarded with the 3rd Class of Prize for Sci-Tech. Progress of Ministry of Education of China.
  9. 2000 Researches on “High Resolution Loess and Monsoon Climatic Evolution in the Eastern Tibet Plateau and its Adjacent Areas” was awarded with the 1st Class of Prize for Sci-Tech. Progress of Ministry of Education of China. Program executive chief members: Xiaomin Fang, Baotian Pan and Jijin Li.
  10. 2001 Awarded “Excellent Teacher Prize” by Baogang Education Foundation.
  11. 2004 Researches on “Uplift Process of the Tibetan Plateau and Formation of Mega-Geomorphology in Gansu Province, China” was awarded with the 2nd Class of Prize for Sci-Tech. Progress of Gansu Province”.
  12. 2007 Researches on “Late Quaternary Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Monsoonal Fringe of NW China” was awarded with the 2nd Class of Prize for National Natural Science of China.
Selected Publications：
Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020) (* corresponding author)
Part 1: 5 representative publications 
1.Fang, X.M.*, G. Dupont-Nivet, Wang, C.S., Song, C.H., Meng, Q.Q., Zhang, W.L., Nie, J.S., Zhang, T., Chen, Y., 2019. Low central Tibet before the Early Miocene. Science Advance,6, eaba7298. 
2. Fang, X.M.*, An, Z.S.*, Zan, J.B., S.C. Clemens, Yang, S.L., Han, W.X., 2020. The 3.6-Ma aridity and westerlies history over midlatitude Asia linked with global climatic cooling. PNAS, 117 (40), 24,729-24,734.
3. Fang, X.M.*, G. Dupont-Nivet, Wang, C.S., Song, C.H., Meng, Q.Q., Zhang, W.L., Nie, J.S., Zhang, T., Chen, Y., 2020. Revised chronology of central Tibetan uplift (Lunpola Basin). Science Advance, 6: eaba7298, 1-10. 
4. Fang, X.M.*, An, Z.S.*, S.C. Clemens, Zan, J.B., Shi, Z., Yang, S.L., Han, W.X., 2020. The 3.6 Ma aridity and Westerlies history over mid-latitude Asia linked with global climatic cooling. Proc. Nat. Am. Soc., 117(40), 24,729-24,734. 
5. Fang, X.M.*, Fang, Y.H., Zan, J.B., Zhang, W.L., Song, C.H., Appel, E., Meng, Q.Q., Miao, Y.F., Dai, S., Lu, Y. and Zhang, T. 2019. Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and its constraints on paleontological, sedimentological and tectonomorphological evolution. Earth Science Review, 190, 460-485.
6. Fang, X.M.*, Galy, A., Yang, Y.B., Zhang, W.L., Ye, C.C., Song, C.H., 2019. Temperature forcing Paleogene chemical weathering intensity in the northern Tibet Plateau. Geology, 47, 992-996.
7. Fang, X.M.*, Wang, J.Y., Zhang, W.L., Zan, J.B., Song, C.H., Yan, M.D., Appel, E.,. Zhang, T., Wu, F.L., Yang, Y.B. and Lu, Y., 2016. Tectonosedimentary evolution model of an intracontinental flexural (foreland) basin for paleoclimatic research. Global and Planetary Change, 145, 78–97. 
Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1)
1. Xie, Y. L., Wu, F.L.*, Fang, X.M.* 2020. A major environmental shift by the middle Eocene in southern China: Evidence from palynological records. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 278, 104226. 
2. Xie, Y.L., Wu, F.L.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, D.W., Zhang, W.L. 2020. Early Eocene southern China dominated by desert: Evidence from a palynological record of the Hengyang Basin, Hunan Province. Global and Planetary Change, 195, 103320. 
3. Ye, C.C., Yang, Y.B.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zan, J. B., Tan, M. Q., & Yang, R. S. 2020. Chlorite weathering linked to magnetic enhancement in Red Clay on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 538, 109446. 
4. Ye, C.C., Yang, Y.B.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Song, C.H., Yang, R.S. 2020. Paleolake salinity evolution in the Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) between ~42 and 29？Ma: Links to global cooling and Paratethys sea incursions. Sedimentary Geology, 409, 105778.
5. Mao, Z.Q., Meng, Q.Q.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, T., Wu, F.L., Yang, Y.B., Zhang, W.L., Zan, J.B. and Tan, M.Q., 2019. Recognition of tuffs in the middle-upper Dingqinghu Fm., Lunpola Basin, central Tibetan Plateau: Constraints on stratigraphic age and implications for paleoclimate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 525, 44–56.
6. Ruan, X.B., Yang, Y.B.*, Galy, A., Fang, X.M.*, Jin, Z.D., Zhang, F., Yang, R.S., Deng, L., Meng, Q.Q., Ye, C.C., Zhang, W.L., 2019. Evidence for early (≥ 12.7 Ma) eolian dust impact on river chemistry in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 515, 79–89. 
7. Teng, X.H., Fang, X.M.*, Kaufman, A.J., Liu, C.L., Wang, J.Y., Zan, J.B. and Yang, Y.B., 2019. Sedimentological and mineralogical records of the deep drilling core SKD1 from the Jianghan Basin, central China and their indicated Late Cretaceous-Eocene sedimentary environmental evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 182, 103936.
8. Xie, Y.L., Wu, F.L.*, Fang, X.M.*, 2019. Middle Eocene East Asian monsoon prevalence over southern China: Evidence from palynological records. Global and Planetary Change, 175, 13-26. 
9. Yang, R.S., Yang, Y.B., Fang, X.M.*, Ruan, X.B., Galy, A., Ye, C.C., Meng, Q.Q and Han, W.X., 2019. Late Miocene intensified tectonic uplift and climatic aridification on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from clay mineralogical and geochemical records in the Xining Basin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10.1029/2018GC007917.
10. Ye, C., Yang, Y.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zan, J., Tan, M., Yang, R., 2019. Chlorite weathering linked to magnetic enhancement in red clay on the Chinese Loess Plateau, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109446.
11. Zan, J.B., Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Yan, M.D. and Zhang, D.W. 2018. A new record of late Pliocene-early Pleistocene aeolian loess-red clay deposits from the western Chinese Loess Plateau and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Quaternary Science Reviews, 186, 17-26.
12. Lu, Y., Fang, X.M.*, Friedrich, O., Song, C.H., 2018. Characteristic grain-size component - A useful process-related parameter for grain-size analysis of lacustrine clastics? Quaternary International, 479, 90-99.
13. Yang, R.S., Fang, X.M.*, Meng, Q.Q., Zan, J.B., Zhang, W.L., Deng, T., Ruan, X.B., Yang, L.Y. and Yang, Y.B., 2017. High-resolution paleomagnetic constraints on the newly found uppermost mammal-bearing sequence of the continuous Cenozoic stratigraphy in the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and the geologic implications. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DIO:10.1002/2017GC006945. 
14. Wu, F.L., Fang, X.M.*, Meng, Q.Q., Zhao, Y., Tang, F.J., Zhang, T., Zhang, W.L. and Zan, J.B., 2017. Magneto- and litho-stratigraphic records of the Oligocene-Early Miocene climatic changes from deep drilling in the Linxia Basin, Northeast Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 158, 36–46.
15. Ye, C., Yang, Y., Fang, X.M.*, Hong, H., Wang, C., Yang, R., Zhang, W., 2018. Chlorite chemical composition change in response to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.03.014.
16. Ye, C., Yang, Y., Fang, X.M.*, Hong, H., Zhang, W., Yang, R., Zhang, W.L. 2018. Mineralogical and geochemical discrimination of the occurrence and genesis of palygorskite in Eocene sediments on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 567–581.
17. Zhang, Z.G., Nie, J.S. and Fang, X.M.*, 2017. Provenance analysis reveals mountain uplift in the midsection of the Altyn Tagh Fault during the Middle Miocene. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54(3), 278-289.
18. Fang,X.M.*, Li, M.H.*, Wang, Z.R., Wang, J.Y., Li, J., Liu, X.M. and Zan, J.B., 2016. Oscillation of mineral compositions in Core SG-1b, western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038.
19. Fang,X.M.*, Song, C., Yan, M., Zan, J., Liu, C., Sha, J., Zhang, W., Zeng, Y., Wu, S. and Zhang, D., 2016. Mesozoic litho- and magneto-stratigraphic evidence from the central Tibetan Plateau for megamonsoon evolution and potential evaporites. Gondwana Research, 37, 110–129.
20. Miao, Y.*, Fang, X.M.*, Song, C., Yan, X., Zhang, P., Meng, Q., Li, F., Wu, F., Yang, S., Kang, S., & Wang, Y. 2016. Late Cenozoic fire enhancement response to aridification in mid-latitude Asia: Evidence from microcharcoal records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 139, 53-66.
21. Zan,J.B., Fang,X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Yan, M.D. and Zhang, T., 2016. Palaeoenvironmental and chronological constraints on the Early Pleistocene mammal fauna from loess deposits in the Linxia Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 148, 234-242.
22. Zhang, T., Han, W.X., Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Song, C.H. and Yan, M.D., 2016. Intensi？ed tectonic deformation and uplift of the Altyn Tagh range recorded by rock magnetism and growth strata studies of the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 137, 54–68.

Supported Projects：
1. 2020-2023 (Ongoing), “Early Eocene paleoclimatic and ecologic environment changes in the Xining Basin, NW China”, Grant no. 41972195, General Program, NSFC, ￥680, 000, PI.
2. 2019-2022 (Ongoing), “Weathering and erosion history of Plateau and its climatic and environmental effects”, Grant no. 2019QZKK0707, Sub-Project of Project 7, “Plateau Growth and Evolution”, The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research, Ministry of Science and Technology of China,￥25,000, 000, PI.
3. 2018-2023 (Ongoing), “Paleogeographic reconstruction and paleoenvironmental evolution in monsoon region”,  Sub-Project 1 of Project 7, “Geological Evolution and Its Effects on Environments and Resource”, The Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant no. XDA20070201, ￥11,650, 000, PI. 
4. 2017-2021 (Ongoing), “Comparison of late Cenozoic paleoclimate records between the northern and southern Tibetan Plateau, and evolution of Indian monsoon and inland drought coupling system”, Grant no. 41620104002, Key Program of International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program, NSFC, ￥2,500, 000, PI.
5. 2016-2018, “The inner Asia aridification records from the deep drill cores in the Qaidam Basin”, Grant no. 131C11KYSB20160072, External Cooperation Program, CAS, ￥1,000, 000, PI.