Department of Geochemistry and Environment Sciences
School of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
Tel: 86-551-3606051
E-mail: ycx@ustc.edu.cn
Postdoctoral, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) (2006)
Ph.D., USTC (2003); M.S.,
Hefei University of Technology (HUT) (2000);
B.S., HUT (1997).
Research Interests：Environmental Geochemistry，Biogeochemical Cycle of Elements，Global Change，Soil Contamination
Personal Profile
Xiaodong Liu, male, Han nationality, the professor of School of Earth and Space Sciences (SESS), University of Science and Technology of China, a supervisor of Ph. D student. He has long been engaged in the research and teaching of global ecological environment change, biogeochemistry of elements, and environmental pollution. He received his PhD from the School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China in 2003, and worked as a visiting scholar at Brown University from 2013 to 2014. He has participated in four Antarctic expeditions, one Arctic expedition, and four field scientific expeditions of Xisha Islands, including one to the Spanish base and two to the McMurdo Station of United States to carry out international cooperative Antarctic expeditions. He has hosted or participated in several scientific research projects. In 2006, he was awarded as the Outstanding Doctoral dissertation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (a total of 50 papers). In 2007, he was selected into the “New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program”. In 2006 and 2017, he served as the class adviser twice in SESS. He was awarded the Outstanding Postgraduate Tutor Award of Anhui Province in 2008, Wang Kuancheng Education Award in 2016, Huawei Scholarship Fund in 2019, and USTC-Industrial Securities Education Award in 2020. He has been the Guest Editor of “Quaternary International” in 2017. He has published more than 100 research papers on ecology and environment in academic journals, including more than 50 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author. In addition, co-authored monographs include “Ecological Geology in Antarctic Ice-free areas” and “Ecological Geology of Islands in the South China Sea”. As a collaborator, he also translated and published the book “Dealing with Contaminated Sites - From Theory towards Practical Application”.
Major research projects：
1. The Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Marginal sea and island records since the last glacial Age, XDB40010205, 2020.1-2024.12, Project Participant.
2. National Key Research and Development Program Global Change and Response, Release, migration and transformation of environmental pollutants in Arctic, 2020YFA0608503, 2021.1-2025.12, Project Participant.
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Nitrogen cycling in the ecological environment evolution of Xisha coral islands, 41976191, 2020.01-2023.12, PI.
4. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Reconstruction of past 3000-year climate change and its effect on the evolution of penguin paleoecology at Inexpressible Island, Victoria Land of East Antarctica, 41776188, 2018.01-2021.12, PI.
5. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Effect of penguin bio-transportation on the eco-environmental changes of lakes and ponds in East Antarctica, 41576183, 2016.01-2019.12, PI.
6. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Stable isotope study on the paleoecological changes of seabirds in Yongle Islands, Xisha, South China Sea, 41376124, 2014.01-2017.12, PI.
Selected papers in the last five years：
1. Zhangqin Zheng, Yaguang Nie, Xin Chen, Jing Jin, Xiaodong Liu. Historical population dynamics of the Adélie penguin in response to atmospheric-ocean circulation patterns at Beaufort Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change, 2022, 216: 103892.
2. Yaguang Nie, Zhangqin Zheng, Yilin Lu, Yutong Wei, Lijun Wu, Xiaodong Liu. Ornithogenic soils in the lake margin reveal the most recent Ad´elie penguin recolonization in Cape Royds, Antarctica. Catena, 2022, 212: 106069.
3. Zhangqin Zheng, Xueying Wang, Jing Jin, Jihua Hao, Yaguang Nie, Xin Chen, Jinhua Mou, Steven D. Emslie, Xiaodong Liu. Fraction distribution and dynamic cycling of phosphorus in lacustrine sediment at Inexpressible Island, Antarctica. Environment International, 2022, 164: 107228.
4. Xin Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Hongzeng Jia, Jing Jin, Weidong Kong, Yongsong Huang. Inverse hydrogen isotope fractionation indicates heterotrophic microbial production of long-chain n-alkyl lipids in desolate Antarctic ponds. Geobiology, 2021, 9:394–404.
5. Wang Xueying, Liu Xiaodong, Fang Yunting, Jin Jing, Wu Libin, Fu Pingqing, Huang Huihui, Zhang Huijun and Steven D. Emslie. Application of δ15N to trace the impact of penguin guano on terrestrial and aquatic nitrogen cycles in Victoria Land, Ross Sea region, Antarctica. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 709: 134496.
6. Chen Xin, Wei Yangyang, Nie Yaguang, Wang Jianjun, Steven D. Emslie, Liu Xiaodong. Carbon isotopes of n-alkanoic acids in Antarctic ornithogenic sediments as indicators of sedimentary lipid sources and paleocological change. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 709: 135926.
7. Huang Huihui, Wang Jin, Yao Ruining, Bostick BC., Prommer H, Liu Xiaodong, Sun Jing. Effects of divalent heavy metal cations on the synthesis and characteristics of magnetite. Chemical Geology, 2020, 547: 119669.
8. Chen, X., Liu, X., Wei, Y., Huang, Y. Production of long-chain n-alkyl lipids by heterotrophic microbes: New evidence from Antarctic lakes. Org. Geochem., 2019, 138: 103909.
9. Wu LB, Liu XD, Fang YT, Hou SJ, Xu LQ, Wang XY, Fu PQ. Nitrogen cycling in the soil–plant system along a series of coral islands affected by seabirds in the South China Sea. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 627: 166–175.
10. Wu LB, Liu XD, Xu LQ, Fu PQ, Wang XY, Jin J, Rao ZX, Zhou YL, Li YL. Paleoecology of seabirds at Nandao, Xisha Islands, South China Sea: sub-fossil evidence for Ashmole`s Halo during the Little Ice Age. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2018, 505: 33–41.