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Independent experts nominated by country party
Xunming Wang
Title
Prof.
First name
Xunming
Last name
Wang
Gender
M
Nominating Country
Date of Nomination
Discipline of Expertise
Geography
Geology
Other Disciplines
Ecology/Ecosystems
Agricultural Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
UN languages spoken
English
Geographical Focus
China
Job function
Dr.
Division
Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold & Arid Regions Environmental & Engineering Research Institute
Email
xunming@lzb.ac.cn
Telephone number
86 931 4967491
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.
Highest Academic achievement and qualification
PhD/Geography/Chinese Academy of Sciences/2001
Number of Publications
70
Publication titles
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. _x000D_
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._x000D_
3. Xunming Wang, Fahu Chen, Eerdun Hasi, Jinchang Li, 2008. Desertification in China: an assessment. Earth-Science Reviews, 88, 188-206._x000D_
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._x000D_
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.
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._x000D_
3. Xunming Wang, Fahu Chen, Eerdun Hasi, Jinchang Li, 2008. Desertification in China: an assessment. Earth-Science Reviews, 88, 188-206._x000D_
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._x000D_
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.
Other activities
1. Editor member of ‘Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions’
Awards
1. The first winner of Gansu award for natural sciences_x000D_
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2. The sixth winner of Gansu award for natural science and technology progress
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2. The sixth winner of Gansu award for natural science and technology progress
Organisation name
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Organisation city
Lanzhou
Organisation country
China