Liang Xiao Doctoral tutor

• Department: School of Earth Science and Resources
• Gender: male
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• Career: Doctoral tutor
• Degree: PhD
• Academic Credentials: PhD Student
• Graduate School: Lanzhou University
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• Email: zyxiaol@chd.edu.cn
• Address School: #126 Yanta Road, Xi‘an City, Shaanxi Province
• PostCode School: 710054
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• Office Location: Yanta Campus, Chang’an University
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  Education Experience from undergraduate:

    2005.09-2009.06  Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, PhD, Lanzhou University

    2008.01-2009.01  Joint PhD candidate, Bryant University, USA

    2003.09-2005.07  Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Master, Lanzhou University

    1999.09-2003.06  Biological Sciences, Undergraduate, Nanjing Agricultural University

  
  

Liang Xiao, ancestral home is Jiangyan city, Jiangsu Province. My research focus on palaeobotany, palaeoenvironment and molecular fossils. The projects are supported by 8 funds including National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China, and so on. More than 30 papers are published in the geological journals, such as “Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology”, “Historical Biology”, “Science China: Earth Sciences”, “Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)”. I have been invited as formal reviewer of the SCI journals including “Historical Biology” and “Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)”. I have obtained many honors of teaching competition, distinguished faculty award, outstanding faculty adviser award for bachelor thesis, and so on.

I am doing the research on the field of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy. My research direction is plant and environmental evolution during geological time. In recent years, I were doing the researches on reconstructing palaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental evolution based on the fossils collected from Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Northern Shaanxi, as well as geological survey in Sandaoling region, Xinjiang.

Teaching theoretical and practical curricula related to “Geology” and “Palaeontology and Stratigraphy” for undergraduate and graduate students.

1. The theoretical curricula for undergraduate students: “Palaeontology”, “Historical Geology”, “Introduction to Stratigraphy and Palaeontology”, “Introduction to Geology”, “Palaeoecology”.

2. The theoretical curricula for graduate students: “Special Topic on Palaeontology”, “Geobiology and Environment”.

3. Practical curricula: “Geological Cognition Practice”, “Geological Field Practice in Chaohu, Anhui Province”, “Geological Field Practice in Liangshan, Hanzhong City”, “Geological Production Practice”, “Graduation Thesis”.

1.  The research projects as PI

(1) Paleo-atmospheric CO₂ estimates based on stomatal characters and corresponding carbon isotopes of fossil leaves (No. 41872017), National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), 2019.01-2022.12, ￥660,000.

(2) Biomolecular characteristics of the Miocene fossil plants from Tiantai county, Zhejiang Province and its Preservational Mechanism (No. 41202009), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Science Program), 2013.01-2015.12, ￥250,000.

(3) The cuticular characteristics of fossil plants and environmental evolvement in Mesozoic Northern Shaanxi Province, China (No. 2011JQ5012), Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China, 2011.06-2013.12, ￥40,000.

(4) Stable isotopic compositions of Neogene fossil plants in Zhuozi, Inner Mongolia (No. 183125)，Open-ended Fund of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS), 2018.06-2021.06, ￥80,000.

(5) The cuticular characteristics of fossil plants from Middle Jurassic Hami, Xinjiang and their palaeoenvironmental significance (No. 123112), Open-ended Fund of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS), 2011.06-2014.06, ￥80,000.

(6) Fossil flora and palaeoenvironment in Neogene Zhuozi, Inner Mongolia (No. 300102278205), Special Fund forBasic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University (Project for cultivating advanced technology), 2018.01-2019.12, ￥150,000.

(7) The Middle Jurassic palaeoflora and palaeoenvironment in Turpan-Hami Basin, Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University (Project of Basic Research), 2013.07-2015.07, ￥50,000.

(8) The Neogene fossil plants and their palaeoenvironment in eastern Zhejiang (No.CHD2009JC020), Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’anUniversity (Project of Basic Research), 2010.01-2011.12, ￥30,000.

2.  The research projects as Co-PI

(1) Plant zonal migrations over Eurasia and its environmental background during the Paleogene (No.41820104002), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Key Program of International Cooperation and Exchanges), 2019.01-2023.12, ￥2,290,000.

(2) Cultivation of fruit trees in the Weihe River valley and their adaptation to environments during the Holocene (No.41672156), National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), 2017.01-2020.12, ￥730,000.

(3) The study on biodiversity and taphonomy of the early cambrian Yanjiahe biota (No. 41472015), National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), 2015.01-2018.12, ￥980,000.

(4) Fossil embryos and algae in the early of Early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota from South Shaanxi province (No. 41072012), National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), 2011.01-2013.12, ￥480,000.

(5) The Miocene plant fossils from Zeku, Qianghai province: Implications for paleoclimate (No. 41202008), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Science Program), 2013.01-2015.12, ￥250,000.

(6) 1:250,000 regional geological survey for the map of Sandaoling, Xinjiang (No. 1212011120470), Non-profit foundation of China Geological Survey, 2010.01-2012.12, ￥3,700,000.

(7) Fossil fruits and seeds in the Miocene Xinchang, Zhejiang province and their paleoclimatic significance, Open-ended Fund of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS), 2015.06-2018.06, ￥110,000.

(8) The Neogene fossil flora and tectonic uplift of eastern Tibet Plateau (No. 310827172005), Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University (Project for cultivating advanced technology), 2017.01-2018.12, ￥150,000.

(9) Paleotological and paleoenvironmental evolution during geological time (No. 2014G3272013), Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University (Project for innovative team), 2014.01-2016.12, ￥300,000.

(10) Research on fossil anatomy and taphonomy of Yanjiahe biota (No. CHD2011TD005), Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University (Project for innovative team), 2011.07-2014.07, ￥300,000.

1. Xiao Liang, Wang Xing, Li Xuemei, Li Xiangchuan, Jia Hui, Sun Nan, Liang Jiaqi, Wang Qin, Li Jiangxiao, Yong Yuanyuan. Numerical taxonomy of Miocene Trapa L. fossil fruits from eastern Zhejiang, China. 2020, 27(4): 110-123.

2. XIAO Liang, YANG Hong, HE Yuli, HE Wenlong, LI Xiangchuan, GUO Junfeng, HUI Kaixuan. Biomolecular preservation of Miocene fossil Liquidambar from Tiantai, China and Clarkia, USA: Implications for palaeoenvironmental study. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2015, 89(4): 1076-1087.

3. Liang Xiao, Hong Yang, Bainian Sun, Xiangchuan Li, Junfeng Guo. Stable isotope composition of recent and fossil sun/shade leaves and implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2013, 190: 75-84.

4. XIAO Liang, SUN BaiNian and LI XiangChuan REN Wenxiu and JIA Hui. Anatomical variations of living and fossil Liquidambar leaves: a proxy for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Science China: Earth Sciences, 2011, 54(4): 493-508.

5. Liang Xiao, Hong Yang and Bainian Sun. Stable isotope compositions of fossil sun/shade leaves and potential for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts, 2010, A1153.

6. Liang Xiao, Xing Wang, Jing Wang, Jiankuo Lv, Xiangchuan Li, Zhiguo Yang, Guobo Liang, Yi Xia, Tianlong Qi. Reconstruction of Early Miocene palaeotemperature and palaeoflora in central Inner Mongolia. In: Qun Yang, Joachim Reitner, Yongdong Wang, Mike Reich (Ed.), Critical intervals in earth history: palaeobiological innovations. University of Science and Technology of China Press, 2017, 404-406.

7. Jing Wang, Liang Xiao, Xiangchuan Li, Yu Zhang, Jiankuo Lv, Zhenjie Geng. Numerical classification of fossil Trapa from the Miocene in Tiantai, eastern Zhejiang, China. In: Qun Yang, Joachim Reitner, Yongdong Wang, Mike Reich (Ed.), Critical intervals in earth history: palaeobiological innovations. University of Science and Technology of China Press, 2017, 342-345. （通讯作者）

8. Liang Xiao, Xiangchuan Li, Yong Li, Junfeng Guo, Wenlong He. Stable carbon isotopes of Middle Jurassic leaves from the Turpan-Hami basin, Northwestern China. 4th International Paleontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, 2014, 438.

9. Xiangchuan Li, Fujun Ma, Liang Xiao, Wenlong He, Bainian Sun, Cheng Quan, Yunzhi Yao, Dong Ren, Xing Wang, Qin Wang, Sanping Xie. New records of Podocarpium A. Braun ex Stizenberger (Fabaeae) from the Oligocene to Miocene of China: Reappraisal of the phylogeographical history of the genus. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2019, 260: 38-50.

10. Zhengchuang Hui, Xiangchuan Li, Zhenhua Ma, Liang Xiao, Jun Zhang, Jing Chang. Miocene pollen assemblages from the Zeku Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, and their palaeoeological and palaeoaltimetric implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2018, 511: 419-432.

11. Wenlong He, Liang Xiao, Xiangchuan Li, Shuangxing Guo. An ancient example of Platycladus (Cupressceae) from the early Miocene of northern. Historical Biology, 2018, 30(8)：1123-1131.

12. Li, Xiangchuan, Xiao, Liang, Lin, Zhicheng, He, Wenlong, Yang, Qiang, Yao, Yunzhi, Ren, Dong, Guo, Junfeng, Guo, Shuangxing. Fossil fruits of Koelreuteria (Sapindaceae) from the Miocene of northeastern Tibetan Plateau and their palaeoenvironmental, phytogeographic and phylogenetic implications, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 2016, 234: 125-135.

13. LI Xiangchuan, WANG Haofei, LENG Qin, XIAO Liang, GUO Junfeng, HE Wenlong. Paliurus (Paliureae, Rhamnaceae) from the Miocene of East China and its Macrofossil-based Phylogenetic and Phytogeographical History , Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 2014, 88(5): 1364-1377.

14. HE Yuli, LI Na, WANG Zixi, WANG Haofei, YANG Guolin, XIAO Liang, WU Jingyu. Quercus yangyiensis sp.nov.from the Late Pliocene of Baoshan, Yunnan and Its Paleoclimatic Significance. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition),2014, 88(3): 738-747.

1. Distinguished Faculty Award of School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, 2016, 2017, 2018.

2. Outstanding faculty adviser award for bachelor thesis, Chang’an University, 2017.

3. Chang’an University outstanding faculty, 2014.

4. Honors of teaching competition for Chang’an university youthful faculty, 2012.

2020.01-    Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor for International student, Geological Department,  Chang’an University

2017.11-2019.12  Associate Professor, Master Supervisor, Geological Department, Chang’an University

2009.07-2017.10  Assistant Professor, Geological Department, Chang’an University

2015.01-2016.01  Visiting Scholar, Terrestrial Environmental Lab, Bryant University, USA