Dongfeng gave a talk in the ‘Landscapes Live Online Webinar Series’

Dongfeng gave a talk entitled ‘Modern climate change-driven landscape processes in cryospheric basins’, at the EGU Landscapes Live Online Webinar Series. The recorded video is available (here). Cryospheric basins are now experiencing amplified climate change, glacier melt, and permafrost thaw. The accelerating glacier retreat and permafrost degradation are associated with frequent hazards including glacier collapses, Read More…

New paper out in WRR!

Our new paper ‘Google Earth Engine-based estimation of the spatio-temporal distribution of suspended sediment concentrations in a multi-channel river system of the Yangtze River Basin’ is out in Water Resources Research. Using Google Earth Engine and in situ observed hydrological data, we created a multiple linear regression model to map SSC in the multi-channel system Read More…

New paper out in Science Advances!

Our new paper ‘Shifted sediment-transport regimes by climate change and amplified hydrological variability in cryosphere-fed rivers’ is out in Science Advances. This is the first open access paper from our group and hope it will reach a wider community beyond the fields of climate change and sediment transport! We demonstrate the seasonal regime shifts in Read More…

New paper out in Geomorphology!

Our new paper ‘Fluvial sediment load sensitivity to climate change in cold basins on the Tibetan Plateau: An elasticity approach and the spatial scale effect’ is out in Geomorphology.  Check it out here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hh2H,3sl3xFA%7E The Tibetan Plateau contains the earth’s largest reservoir of glacier-snow-permafrost outside the two polar regions and is sensitive to climate change, Read More…

Job opportunities!!! I am now hiring PhD, postdocs and research assistants

Dongfeng has now joined Peking University as an Assistant Professor. I’m hiring a PhD student, 1-2 postdocs, and 2 research assistants, to work on 1) large-scale river water/sediment/carbon fluxes and channel change; 2) cryosphere change and related societal impacts. Please email me for details (dongfeng.li@pku.edu.cn). Postdoc advertising: https://cese.pku.edu.cn/rczp/bsh/149997.htm

We are the recipients of the Grove Karl Gilbert Award in 2023!

I and my co-authors are the recipients of the 2023 Grove Karl Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research from the Geomorphology Specialty Group (GSG) of the American Association of Geographers! The G.K. Gilbert Award acknowledges the author(s) of a single significant contribution to the published research literature in geomorphology during the past three years. Read More…

Our study was cited in Nature to help explain the Italy glacier collapse

Our recent Nature Geoscience paper on climate-driven mountain landscape instability was cited by Nature to support potentially increasing glacier collapses in a rapidly changing climate. See details below and online: Glacier collapse: devise reliable warning systems “In July, 200,000 cubic metres of ice fell from Italy’s Marmolada glacier, causing 11 deaths. Glaciers and nearby slopes Read More…