An Zhisheng
Professor, Director
The Institute of Earth Environment,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
10 Fenghui South Road,
Xi＊an High-Tech Zone
Xi＊an 710075
China
Telephone:+86-29-8323363
Fax:+86-29-8320456
Email:anzs@loess.llqg.ac.cn
Place and date of birth: Anhui Province, China, 25th February 1941
Education:
Undergraduate: Nanjing University until 1962
Postgraduate: Institute of Geology, CAS. 1962-1966
Employment:
1966每1984 Assistant professor, Institute of Geochemistry, CAS.
1985每1988 Associate Professor, Vice Director, Xi＊an Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, CAS.
1988每1991 Professor, Vice Director, Xi＊an Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, CAS.
1991每1999 Professor, Director, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1999每present Professor, Director, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS.
Other Positions:
1991 - present Guest Professor, Nanjing University
1994 - present Guest Professor, Northwest University
1995 - present Guest Professor, Shaanxi Normal University
1995 - present Guest Professor, University of Science and Technology, China
2000 每 2003 Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia
Research Interests:
Loess and the Environment, Stratigraphy, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeopedology, Magnetostratigraphy and Micromorphology,
Palaeomonsoon Variations and Past Global Climatic Changes,
Protection of Loess Environments, Uplift of Tibetan Plateau and Climatic Effect
Research Areas:
1962 - present The Chinese Loess Plateau and Desert;
1978 - 1979 The northern plains of China
1981 - 1982 Salt lakes in Qinghai Province, China and in Australia.
1984, 1987, 1991 Central Europe
1987-1989,1994-1995. Loess and Quaternary sediments in the United States
1993 Russia
Editorial Work:
Member, Editorial Committee of ※Geochemistry§
Member, Editorial Committee of ※Chinese Quaternary Research§
Member, Editorial Committee of ※Development of Natural Science in China§
Chief Editor of ※Loess, Quaternary, and Global Change§
Member, Editorial Committee of ※Science in China§
Member, Editorial Committee of ※ Quaternary Science Reviews§
Committee, Boards and Administrative Appointments:
1987 - 1991 President of Chinese Subcommittee of the INQUA Loess Commission
1991 每1999 President of the INQUA Loess Commission
1989 - present Member, joint USA/PRC Committee on Global Change
1993 - present Vice President, the Quaternary Research Association of China
1999 - present Vice President, the INQUA
2001 - present Member, Scientific Committee of IGBP
2003 - present Vice Chair, IGBP
Prizes, Awards, and Honors:
1980 Scientific Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1989 Natural Scientific Award, First Class, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1991 Natural Scientific Awards of China, Second Class
1993 Scientific and Technologic Award, First Class, Shaanxi Provincial Government
1999 Scientific and Technologic Award, First Class, Shaanxi Provincial Government
2000 Natural Scientific Awards of China, Second Class
2001 Loczy Medal, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1990 Excellent Supervisor for PhD Student
1981-1982 Visiting Fellow, Australia National University
1985 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Geography, Hungary
1987-1988 Visiting Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University
1991 Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
1992 Guest Professor of Nagoya University, Japan
1993 Guest Professor of Osaka University, Japan
1994 Visiting Professor of University of Washington, USA
1995 Visiting Professor of University of Liverpool, UK
2001 Visiting Professor of Free University, The Netherlands
Professional Affiliations:
Geological Society of China
Geochemical Society of China
The Quaternary Research Association of China
Invited Lecture:
1979 Conference, China Quaternary Research Association; International Palaeoclimatic Symposium, Beijing;
1982 Research School of Pacific Studies, Australia National University;
1985 Institute of Geography, Hungary;
1987 XII INQUA Conference, Canada; Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington; Palaeoclimatology Center, Wisconsin University; University of Rhode Island;
1988 Annual Meeting of ICSU, Beijing
1989 28th International Geological Congress, Washington DC; Circum 每 Pacific Prehistory Conference, Seattle
1990 Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University; Institute of Geography, Hungary; University of Illinois, Urbana 每 Champaign
1991 13th INQUA Congress, Beijing
1992 29th International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Japan
1993 Taipei, Taiwan ※High Resolution Records of Past Climate from Monsoon Asia: the Last 2000 years and Beyond§
1994 Nagoya University, Japan, ※Chinese loess and Palaeomonsoon§
1995 University of Washington, Wisconsin University, ※Loess and global change§
1995 SAC IV meeting, Beijing, ※Palaeoclimatic change of monsoon al China linked to global change§
1995 PEP-II workshop, Nagoya
1996 XXX IGC, Beijing, ※Red-clay sequence and its palaeoclimatic implication§
1998 1st IGBP PAGES Open Science Meeting, University of London, UK
1998 ※The Symposium on Geo-Environmental Changes and Biodiversity in North-East Asian Countries§ Seoul, Korea
1999 ※LoessFest＊99: Loess-Characterization, Stratigrahy, Climate and Societal Significance§, Bonn&Heidelberg, Germany
2000 ※Terminal Millennial Synthesis of Decadal-to-Millennial-Scale Climate Records of the Last 80 ky§ Trins, Austria
2000 International Conference on※ Water, Earth and Humans§, Okayama, Japan
Selected Publications:
(In English)
1. An Zhisheng, John E. Kutzbach, Warren Prell, Stephen C. Porter, (2001) Evolution of Asian monsoons and phased uplift of theHimalaya-Tibetan plateau since Late Miocene times. Nature, 411: 62-66
2. An Zhisheng (2000), The history and variability of East Asian monsoon climate, Quaternary Science Reviews ,19:171-187
3. An Zhisheng, Stephen C. Porter, John E. Kutzbach, Wu Xihao, Wang Suming, Liu Xiaodong, Li Xiaoqiang, Zhou Weijian, (2000) Asynchronous Holocene optimum of the East Asian monsoon. Quaternary Science Reviews ,19:743-762
4. An Zhisheng and Thompson L.G. (1998). Paleoclimatic change of monsoonal China linked to global change. In: Galloway, J. N. and Melillo J.M. (eds.) Asian Change in the Context of Global Climate Change. pp 18-41. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
5. An Zhisheng, Stephen C. Porter (1997), Millennial-scale climatic oscillations during the last interglaciation in central China, Geology, 25(7): 603~606.
6. An Zhisheng, Zhou Weijian (Editor, 1997), Quaternary Geology, Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress, 21: 1~171, VSP. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
7. An Zhisheng and Zhou Wejian (1993). Palaeomonsoon in north China during the last 20,000 yrs. Proceedings of international symposium on global change (edited by Japan National Committee for IGBP), Waseda University, pp: 624-635.
8. An Z.S., S.C. Porter, Weijian Zhou, 1993, Episode of strengthened summer monsoon climate of Younger Dryas age on the Loess Plateau of Central China, Quaternary Research, 39: 45~54.
9. An Z.S., Wu X.H., Wang P.X., Wang S.M., Dong G.R., Sun X.J., Zhang D.R., Lu Y.C., 1991, Paleomonsoons of China over the past 130,000 years, Science in China (Series B), 34(8): 1007~1024.
10. An Zhisheng, Wu Xihao, Lu Yanchou, S.C. Porter, G. Kukla, Sun Shu, Zheng Hongbo, Zhou Weijian (1991). Asian monsoon: a link between the loess-red clay formation in Central China and the uplift of the Tibet Plateau, XIII INQUA Abstracts, 8. Beijing.
11. An Z.S., G. Kukla, S.C. Porter and Xiao J.L. 1991, Magnetic susceptibility evidence of monsoon variation on the Loess Plateau of central China during the last 130,000 years, Quaternary Research, 36: 29~36.
12. An Zhisheng, G. Kukla, S. C. Porter and Xiao Jule,1991, Late Quaternary dust flow on the Chinese Loess Plateau, Catena, 18(2): 125~132.
13. Z.S. An, Liu T.S., Lu Y.C., S.C. Porter, G. Kukla, Wu X.H. and Hua Y.M., 1990, The long-term palaeomonsoon variation recorded by the loess-palaeosol sequence in central China, Quaternary International, 7/8: 91~95.
14. An Zhisheng and Ho Chuan Kun, 1989, New magnetostratigraphic dates of Lantian Homo erectus, Quaternary Research, 32:213~221.
15. An Zhisheng, Liu Tungsheng, Zhu Yizhi, 1987, The paleosol complex S5 in the China Loess Plateau-a record of climatic optimum during the last 1.2 Ma, Geojournal, 15(2): 141~143.
16. An Zhisheng, J.M. Bowler, N.D.Opdyke et al.,1986, Paleomagnetic stratigraphy of Lake Bungunnia: Plio-Pleistocene precursor of aridity in the Murray basin, southeastern Australia, Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 54:219~239.
17. An Zhisheng (1984). A study on the low boundary of Quaternary in North China: Startigraphic significance of Matuyama/Gauss Boundary. Academia Sinica, ※Developments in Geoscience, Contribution to 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow,§ 149-156, Science Press, Beijing, China.
18. An Zhisheng, Lu Yanchou & Wei Lanying (1982). A preliminary study of soil stratigraphy in the Luochan Loess Section. In: Quaternary Dust Mantles of China (T.J. Wasson ed.), New Zealand and Australia, Proceedings of a workshop, 31-44, ANU Press, Canberra.
19. An Zhisheng, 1980, The Quaternary geology of charganlimenol (salt lake) in Inner Mongolia, China. (A report to the Conference of Australia Geological Association, 1980.)
20. Gao Y.R., R. Arimoto, R.A. Duce, X.Y. Zhang, G.Y. Zhang, Z.S. An, L.Q. Chen, M.Y. Zhou, D.Y. Gu (1997), Temporal and spatial distributions of mineral aerosol and its total deposition over continental China and China sea, Tellus, 49B:172~189.
21. Jef. Vandenberghe, An Zhisheng, Govert Nugteren, Lu Huayu, Ko Van Huissteden (1997), New absolute time scale for the Quaternary climate in the Chinese loess region by grain-size analysis, Geology, 25(1): 35~38.
22. Jule Xiao, Yoshio Inouchi, Hisao Kumai, Shusaku Yoshikawa, Yoichi Kondo, Tungsheng Liu, Zhisheng An (1997), Biogenic Silica Record in Lake Biwa of Central Japan over the Past 145,000 years, Quaternary Research, 47: 277~283.
23. Jule Xiao, Yoshio Inouchi, Hisao Kumai, Shusaku Yoshikawa, Yoichi Kondo, Tungsheng Liu, Zhisheng An (1997), Eolian Quartz Flux to Lake Biwa, Central Japan, over the Past 145,000 years, Quaternary Research, 48: 48~57.
24. J. L. Xiao, Z. S. An, T. S. Liu, Y. Inouchi , H. kumai, S. Yoshikawa, Y. Kondo (1998), East Asian monsoon variation during the last 130,000 years: Evidence from the loess plateau of central China and lake Biwa of Japan, Quaternary Science Reviews, 17 (in press)
25. Kukla, G., Z. S. An, 1989, Loess stratigraphy in central China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 72:203~225.
26. Kukla, G., Z.S. An, J. L. Melice Gavin J., and Xiao J.L., 1990, Magnetic susceptibility record of Chinese loess, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Earth Science, 81(4): 262~288.
27. Levitt, S. W., Y. Liu, M. K. Hughes, Liu Rongmo, An Zhisheng, Gutierrez G.M., Danzer S.R., Shao Xuemei,1995, A single year (13C chronology from pines tabulaeformis) (Chinese pine) tree rings at Huangling, China, Radiocarbon, 37(2): 605-610.
28. Liu Tungsheng, Wen Qizhong, An Zhisheng, and Zheng Hongbo, 1980, Loess deposits and the palaeoclimatic evolution since the Pleistocene in China, International Geology Congress, Paris.
29. Liu Tungsheng, Gu Xiongfei, An Zhisheng and Fan Yongxiang, (1981), The dust fall in Beijing, China on April 18, 1980. The Geological Society of America. Special Paper 186: 149-157.
30. Liu Tungsheng, An Zhisheng, and Yuan Baoying, 1982, Aeolian processes and dust mantles(loess) in China, Quaternary dust mantles of China, New Zealand and Australia, Proceedings of a workshop, A.N.U. Press, Canberra.
31. Liu Tungsheng, Dong Guangrong and An Zhisheng, 1984, Desert and loess environment in China since the Quaternary. In: Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology, 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow, Proceedings Vol 3: 185-193.
32. Liu Tungsheng, An Zhisheng, Yuan Baoyin, Han Jiamao, 1985, The loess-paleosol sequence in China and climatic history, Episodes, 8(1):21~28.
33. Liu Yu, An Zhisheng, Ma limin (1998), Drought records from tree-rings in Northern China, Abstract for interdisciplinary conference of ※Dust aerosols, Loess & Global change§ , Seattle, U.S.A.
34. Liu Xiuming, An Zhisheng, Tim Rolph, Qiang Xiaoke, Paul Hesse, Lu Huayu, Zhou Jie, Cai Yanjun, Magnetic properties of the Tertiary red clay from Gansu Province, China and its paleoclimatic significance. Science In China, (Series D), 44(7): 635-651.
35. Lu Huayu, An Zhisheng, J. Vandenberghe, G. Nugteren (1997), Evidence for paleoclimatic significance of grain size composite of loess deposit in central Chinese loess plateau, Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress, Vol 21, Quaternary Geology ( edited by An Zhisheng, Zhou Weijian) pp: 5-10.
36. Porter, S. C., Z.S. An, H.B. Zheng,1992, Cyclic Quaternary alluviation and Teracing in a nonglaciated drainage basin on the north flank of the Qinling Shan, Central China, Quaternary Research, 38:157~169.
37. S.C. Porter, An Z.S, 1995, Correlation between climate events in the North Atlantic and Chia during the last Glaciation, Nature, 375:305~308.
38. Rolph, T. C., J. Shaw, E. Debyshire, An Zhisheng, 1994, Determining paleosol topography using seismic refraction, Quaternary Research, 42:350~353.
39. Shakleton, N. J., Z.S. An, A. E. Dadonov et al.,1996, A model for the varying accumulation of loess in Tadjikistan and China, relation to global ice volume cycles, Geojournal, 28:
40. Sun Donghuai, J. Shaw, Zhisheng An, Tim Poph, 1993, Matuyama/Brunhess (M/B) transition resorded in Chinese loess, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 45:319~330.
41. Sun Donghuai, Liu Tungsheng, Chen Mingyang, An Zhisheng, John Shaw (1997), Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoclimate of Red Clay sequences from Chinese Loess Plateau, Science in China (Series D ), 40(4): 337~343.
42. Sun Donghuai, John Shaw, An Zhisheng, Chen Mingyang, Yue Leping (1998), Magnetostratigraphy and paleoclimatic interpretation of a continuous 7.2Ma Late Cenozoic eolian sediments from the Chinese Loess Plateau, Geophysical Research Letters, 25(1): 85~88.
43. Wu Xihao, An Zhisheng, 1996, Loess-paleosol sequence on Loess Plateau and uplift of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Science in China ( sereis D), 39(2): 121~133.
