Mingrui Qiang
Field: Environmental changes; Eolian deposits; Mineral dust variability
mrqiang@scnu.edu.cn

Education

Dec. 2002, Ph.D. of Physical Geography, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
Sep. 1999, M.S. of Physical Geography, Institute of Desert Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou
Sep. 1996, B.S. of Geography Education, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen

Experience

July 2018 to present, Professor of Physical geography, School of Geography, South China Normal University
May 2008 to July 2018, Professor of Physical geography, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University

Sep. 2008 to Sep. 2009, Visiting Scholar at GFZ German Research Center for Geoscience, Potsdam, Germany
Oct. 2005 to May 2008, Associate Professor, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
Jul. 2003 to Sep. 2005, Post-doctoral Researcher, College of Resources Science & Technology, Beijing Normal University
Dec. 2002 to July 2003, Research Assistant, Sino-German Center of Arid Environments & Palaeoclimate Research, Lanzhou University

Teaching

Physical Geography

Academics

Qiang M.R.*, Liu Y.Y., 2025. Late Holocene eolian dust activity recorded by a peat sequence in North Xinjiang, northwestern China. Global and Planetary Change 252, 104877.
Chen J., Qiang M.R.*, Wang X.W., Xie J.M., 2025. Late Quaternary aeolian deposits in the southeastern Mu Us Sandy Land: Insights into the provenance of Asian dust and interpretation of dust records. Quaternary Science Reviews 350, 109168.
Qiang M.R.*, Lang W.Z., He Z.H., Jin M., Zhou A.F., Zhang J.W., 2022. A 1600-year record of eolian activity from Jili Lake in northern Xinjiang. Quaternary International 631, 93-104.
Qiang M.R.*, Stevens T., Li G.Q., Hu L., Wang X.W., Lang W.Z., Chen J., 2021. Late Quaternary dust, loess and desert dynamics in upwind areas of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 661874, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.661874.
Li Y., Qiang M.R.*, Huang X.Z., Zhao Y.T., Leppänen J.J., Weckström J., Väliranta M., 2021. Lateglacial and Holocene climate change in the NE Tibetan Plateau: Reconciling divergent proxies of Asian summer monsoon variability. Catena 199, 105089.
Qiang M.R.*, Song L., Jin Y.X., Li Y., Liu L., Zhang J.W., Zhao Y., Chen F.H., 2017. A 16-ka oxygen-isotope record from Genggahai Lake on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Hydroclimatic evolution and changes in atmospheric circulation. Quaternary Science Reviews 162, 72-87.
Qiang M.R.*, Jin Y.X., Liu, X.X., Song L., Li H., Li F.S., Chen F.H., 2016. Late Pleistocene and Holocene aeolian sedimentation in Gonghe Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Variability, processes, and climatic implications. Quaternary Science Reviews 132, 57-73.
Qiang M.R.*, Liu Y.Y., Jin Y.X., Song L., Huang X.T., Chen F.H., 2014. Holocene record of eolian activity from Genggahai Lake, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Geophysical Research Letters 41, 589-595.
Qiang M.R.*, Chen F.H., Song L., Liu X.X., Li M.Z., Wang Q., 2013. Late Quaternary aeolian activity in Gonghe Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Quaternary Research 79, 403-412.
Qiang M.R.*, Song L., Chen F.H., Li M.Z., Liu X.X., Wang Q., 2013. A 16-ka lake-level record inferred from macrofossils in a sediment core from Genggahai Lake, northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (China). Journal of Paleolimnology 49, 575-590.
Chen F.H., Qiang M.R., Zhou A.F., Xiao S., Chen J.H., Sun D.H., 2013. A 2000-year dust storm record from Lake Sugan in the dust source area of arid China. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) 118, 2149-2160.
Qiang M.R.*, Chen F.H., Wang Z.T., Niu G.M., Song L., 2010. Aeolian deposits at the southeastern margin of the Tengger Desert (China): Implications for surface wind strength in the Asian dust source area over the past 20,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 286, 66-80.
Qiang M.*, Lang L., Wang Z., 2010. Do fine-grained components of loess indicate westerlies: Insights from observations of dust storm deposits at Lenghu (Qaidam Basin, China). Journal of Arid Environments 74, 1232-1239.
Qiang M.R.*, Chen F.H., Zhang J.W., Zu R.P., Jin M., Zhou A.F., Xiao S., 2007. Grain size in sediments from Lake Sugan: a possible linkage to dust storm events at the northern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Geology 51(7), 1229-1238.
Qiang M.R.*, Chen F.H., Zhou A.F., Xiao S., Zhang J.W., Wang Z.T., 2007. Impacts of wind velocity on sand and dust deposition during dust storm as inferred from a series of observations in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China. Powder Technology 175, 82-89.

Honor

Affiliations

Misc

Outstanding Youth Scientist in New Century, awarded by Ministry of Education, China (2007)
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