程海

Hai Cheng’s career spans 20 yrs in the development and application of U-series dating techniques to address fundamental questions in paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, and global climate change researches. His most widely recognized technical achievement is the development of U-series dating techniques (both TIMS and MC-ICP-MS), including re-determination of the Th and U half-lives that have been widely accepted and used by the U-series community.He is also one of world-leading experts on paleoclimate studies of speleothems. Recently, he has become deeply involved in the reconstruction of the climate history on different timescales in numerous climate domains, including establishing the Asian monsoon variability over the past 650 ka and its correlations to global climate change on orbital-decadal timescales; the climate history over the past 500 ka along the trajectory in the Westerlies region from Morocco to central Asia; and the climate variability over the Amazon Basin during the past 250 ka. The related works have produced the absolute chronologies that are critical to correlate regional climate variations in ice core, marine and speleothem records to understand the history of global climate change. The broad international significance of his contributions in the field is attested by about 280 publications in visible international journals, including 12 in Science and 7 in Nature, and 12 in Nature-Series Journals (H-factor 55). He is also one of the Highly Cited Researches (2014), and the only winner of the “Thomson Reuters China International Citation Impact Award (2014) from the field of geosciences. He wasgranted the "SANQIN FRIENDSHIP AWARD" in 2014, thisprize isthe highest honorbestowedupon the foreign expert by the Shanxi provincial goverment. Hewasawarded the "Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society (GS) and the European Association of Geochemistry" (EAG) in 2015.