Grants

Mechanisms of marine carbon storage and coupled carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles in response to global change

funded by Ministry of Science and Technology

2016-2021

PI: XIE Shucheng

The project aims to decipher the mechanisms of marine carbon storage, biogeochemical processes in response to climate change and anthropogenic activities, and their impacts on ecosystems. The goal of the project is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the responses of marine carbon pool to global climate change on multiple spatiotemporal scales, and to identify the naturally or anthropogenically-driven ocean acidification processes, key processes of carbon storage, and their impact on marine ecosystems.

Geolipid records indicative of the evolution of Asian monsoon-driven hydroclimate and temperature in Eastern China since late Miocene

key program funded by NSF of China

2019-2023

PI: XIE Shucheng

This is a key program funded by NSF of China, concerning the field of Earth environment and life evolution. It is a tough work to independently reconstruct the paleotemperature and paleohydrological conditions for a specific site on the basis of the sedimentary archives, which results in the less knowledge on the spatiotemporal change of the association of heat with humidity at the East Asian regions in Earth history. This project thus focuses on the investigations of the evolutional history of hydrology and temperature on the tectonic scales since late Miocene in Chinese monsoonal regions, in particular in East China, a site where the less investigation was conducted due to the unavailability of outcrop samples. By focusing on the lipid records in fluvial sediments, the program aims to decipher the driving mechanisms of some extreme hydrological events including the drought and flooding occurring in ancient times, to understand the origin, development and future trend of these hydrological events, and in particular to explore the relationship between temperature and hydrology in Chinese monsoonal regions.

Innovation Team work of geobiology

funded by NSF of China

2019-2024

PI: XIE Shucheng

The program is awarded to the innovative team who made significant achievements in a particular field in past years. This award is thus the national academic recognition of the group in the field of geobiology. The project aims to understand the interaction and co-evolution of life and environment in Earth history by disciplinary investigations on three critical periods including the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic, across Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition, and Neogene. In particular, the biotic roles in remedying the Earth climate, altering oceanic conditions and inducing precipitation of minerals are paid great attention to.