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…
Dongfeng gave an invited talk at Earth Observatory Singapore, NTU
Invited by Dr. Edward Park, Dongfeng gave a talk entitled ‘Climate change impacts on mountain landscapes and infrastructure: the case of High Mountain Asia’, at the Earth Observatory Singapore, Nanyang Technological University. The recorded video is available (here). The talk was mainly based to two recent publications: Li et al., 2021, Science; Li et al., Read More…
New paper out in Nature Geoscience!
Our new paper ‘High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability’ is out in Nature Geoscience. Stories behind the paper can be found here.
Dongfeng won the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in the Natural Sciences
I am deeply humbled and honored to have been awarded the prestigious Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize (Best Ph.D. thesis in the Natural Sciences) for my thesis titled “Response of riverine sediment fluxes to climate change in High Mountain Asia and its margins“. The Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize is a university-level award given to Read More…
New paper out in Hydrological Processes!
Our new paper “Response of runoff components to climate change in the source-region of the Yellow River on the Tibetan Plateau” has been published in Hydrological Processes! It uses a fully distributed cryosphere-hydrological model and multi-decadal runoff observations to investigate the impacts of climate change on four runoff components (rainfall flow, snowmelt flow, glacier flow, Read More…
Dongfeng gave an invited talk at EGU2022
During the EGU 2022, Dongfeng gave an invited talk entitled “Substantial increases in riverine sediment loads in a warmer and wetter Third Pole” in the Third Pole session of HS 6.10. The slides are available here:
Our research articles are cited in the IPCC AR6 report
The IPCC released its AR6 report from the Working Group II, entitled “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”. Three of our papers were cited in the report to support the evidence of climate change on soil erosion and sediment loads. (Chapter 4 on Water and Cross chapter 5 on mountains). Below are the examples: Read More…
Dongfeng gave a talk at Oxford Geography this Friday
Invited by Dr. Sihan Li from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Dongfeng gave an online talk entitled “Reading the story of climate change from fluvial sediment loads: the case of High Mountain Asia”. It was exciting to see UK geographers are also keen on sediment dynamics in High Mountain Asia. Read More…
Dongfeng recently talked at the 2021 AGU, SusTech University, and IAG Denuchange
Dongfeng recently talked at the 2021 AGU fall meeting. The recorded video can be found here. Dongfeng also gave an invited talk at the SusTech University. Thanks Prof. Zhenzhong Zeng for the invitation. Dongfeng also gave an invited talk at the IAG Denuchange working group’s monthly workshop. Thanks Prof. Achim Beylich for the invitation.
New paper out in Science: Rising fluvial sediment in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia
Our paper “Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia“ has been published in Science magazine! https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abi9649 Stories behind the paper can be found in some news outlets: NUS news; CU Boulder news; Scientific American; Science Daily; PhysOrg……