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…
New paper out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment!
Our new paper ‘Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions’ is out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Stories behind the paper can be found here. Also, please check out our Storymap.
Dongfeng gave a talk in the ‘Source-to-Sink Online Webinar Series’
Dongfeng gave a talk entitled ‘Impact of modern climate change on fluvial sediment delivery High Mountain Asia’, at the 2022 World Large River and Delta Systems Source-to-Sink Online Webinar Series. The recorded video is available (here).
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…
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…