| Expert Name | Prof. Xunming Wang |
| Title | Dr. |
| Division | Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold & Arid Regions Environmental & Engineering Research Institute |
| Institution | |
| City | Lanzhou |
| Country | Chinese |
| Telephone | 86 931 4967491 |
| Email | xunming(at)lzb.ac.cn |
| Work Experience | 2003 – Present Senior scientist at Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research interests include: desertification in arid and semiarid regions; wind blown sediments and wind environmental change; quaternary environmental changes in dry lands; and arid geomorphology. |
| Qualifications | PhD/Geography/Chinese Academy of Sciences/2001 |
| Number of Publications | 70 |
| Awards | 1. The first winner of Gansu award for natural sciences
2. The sixth winner of Gansu award for natural science and technology progress |
| Other Activities | 1. Editor member of ‘Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions’ |
| Publications | 1. Xunming Wang, Fahu Chen, Zhibao Dong, 2006. The relative role of climatic and human factors in desertification in semi-arid China. Global Environmental Change, 16, 48-57.
2. Xunming Wang, Dunsheng Xia, Tao Wang, Xuan Xie, Jinchang, Li, 2008. Dust sources in arid and semiarid China and southern Mongolia: impacts of geomorphologic setting and surface materials. Geomorphology, 97, 583-600.
3. Xunming Wang, Fahu Chen, Eerdun Hasi, Jinchang Li, 2008. Desertification in China: an assessment. Earth-Science Reviews, 88, 188-206.
4 Xunming Wang, Yi Yang, Zhibao Dong, 2009. Responses of desertification to twenty-first century global warming in China. Global and Planetary Change, 67, 167-185.
5. Xunming Wang, Caixia Zhang, Jiawu Zhang, Ting Hua, Lili Lang, Xiaoyou Zhang, Li Wang, 2010. Nebkha formation: Implications for reconstructing environmental changes over the past several centuries in the Ala Shan Plateau, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297, 697–706. |
| Discipline | Geography |
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