Education background

• 2011/6 - 2014/6, Nanjing University, School of Earth Science and Engineering, Geochemistry, Ph.D. Supervisor: Zheng Hongbo
• 2008/6 - 2011/6, Tongji University, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Quaternary Geology, Master, Supervisor: Zheng Hongbo
• 2004/6 - 2008/6, Chengdu University of Technology, School of Earth Sciences, Geology, Bachelor

Research experience

• 2012.09-2013.09: Louisiana State University, USA, major in geochemistry, joint training doctoral student, supervisor: Peter Clift

Main research direction

• Sedimentology
• Quaternary Geology
• Geochemistry

Major Social Part-time

 

• Young editors of "Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology" and "Frontiers of Marine Geology".

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangsu Province in September 2015 

Recently published papers (*corresponding author)

• (1) Mengying He, Hongbo Zheng, Peter D. Clift, Zixuan Bian, Qing Yang, Bihui Zhang, Lei Xia, 2021. Paleogene Sedimentary Records of the Paleo-Jinshajiang (Upper Yangtze) in the Jianchuan Basin, Yunnan, SW China, China. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009500.
• (2) Xiaoyu Zhang, Mengying He*, Bin Wang, Peter D. Clift, Daniel Rits, Yan Zheng, Hongbo Zheng, 2019. Provenance evolution of the northern Weihe Basin as an indicator of environmental changes during the Quaternary, Geological Magazine, 156 (11): 1915-1923.
• (3) Mengying He, Hongbo Zheng, Peter D. Clift, Ryuji Tada, Weihua Wu and Chao Luo. 2015. Geochemistry of fine-grained sediments in the Yangtze River and the implications for provenance and chemical weathering in East Asia. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 2:32.
• (4) Mengying He, Hongbo Zheng, Bodo Bookhagen, Peter D. Clift. 2014. Controls on erosion intensity in the Yangtze River basin tracked by detrital U-Pb zircon dating.Earth-Science reviews.136: 121-140.
• (5) Mengying He, Hongbo Zheng, Peter D. Clift. 2013. Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope data from the Yangtze River sands: Implications for major magmatic events and crustal evolution in Central China. Chemical Geology. 360-361: 186-203.
• (6) Mengying He, Hongbo Zheng, Xiangtong Huang, Juntao Jia and Ling Li. 2013. Yangtze River sediments from source to sink traced with clay mineralogy. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 69: 60-69.
• (7) Ma Rong, Zhang Wanying, He Mengying*. 2019. Spatial Provenance Difference Analysis of Loess Plateau Based on Detrital Zircon U-Pb Age. Frontiers in Marine Geology. 35(1): 24-31.
• (8) He Mengying*, Mei Mei, Zhang Xunhua, Liu Jian, Guo Xingwei, Zheng Hongbo. 2019. Provenance identification of detrital zircon U-Pb age in sediments from the CSDP-1 hole in the South Yellow Sea shelf. Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition) ). 49(1): 1-11.
• (9) Zhang Xiaoyu, He Mengying*, Wang Bin, Daniel Rits, Zheng Hongbo. 2018. Provenance tracing of detrital zircon U-Pb age in sediments of Weihe River Basin. Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology. 38(1): 202 -211.
• (10) He Mengying, Finance Zhe, Yang Qing, Cheng Yue, Ling Guangjiu, Zheng Hongbo. 2018. Tracing of Holocene sediment provenance in the Gangxi section of Jianhu and its indication for water system adjustment in the North Jiangsu Basin. Frontiers in Marine Geology. 34(1): 1-6.
• (11) He Mengying, Zheng Hongbo, Jia Juntao. 2013. U-Pb age, Hf isotopic composition and provenance tracing of detrital zircon in modern sediments of the Yangtze River. Quaternary Research. 33(4): 1-15.
• (12) He Mengying, Zheng Hongbo, Huang Xiangtong, Jia Juntao, Li Ling. 2011. Assemblages of clay minerals in sediments of the Yangtze River Basin and their provenance indication. Chinese Journal of Sedimentology. 29(3): 83-91.

Major scientific research projects undertaken (participated in)

• 1. Open project of Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Earth System Science "Study on Provenance Tracing of Paleogene Sedimentary Detrital Zircon in Gongjue Basin", 2021/9-2022/9, 10,000 yuan, presided over.
• 2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (general project) "Research on the response mechanism of organic carbon deposition rate to lake eutrophication", approval number 41773097, 2018/01-2021/12, 690,000, participated.
• 3. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Science Foundation Project) "Tracking of Cenozoic Detrital Zircon Provenance in Jianchuan Basin and Its Indication to the Evolution of the Ancient Jinsha River", Grant No. 41602180, 2017/01-2019/12, 20 million, host.
• 4. Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province-Youth Fund Project, BK20150974, Provenance identification of Cenozoic stratigraphic sediments in Jianchuan Basin and its instruction on the evolution of Jinsha River, 2015/07-2018/06, 200,000 yuan, presided over.
• 5. National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Project) "Pursuing the Southern Flow of the Ancient Jinsha River - Sedimentary Records of the Paleogene Basin in the Southeast Margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", 41572154, 2015/01-2019/12, 870,400 yuan, participated.
• 6. Jiangsu Basic Research Program (Natural Science Foundation Project) "Sea level change in East China and the origin of rice farming since the last glacial period", BK20150065, 2015/07-2018/06, 1 million yuan, participated.
• 7. National Natural Science Foundation of China key project, 40830107, Cenozoic sediment source tracing in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and its environmental evolution significance, 2009/01-2012/12, 1.65 million yuan, participated. 

Contact

• Email: 09393@njnu.edu.cn
• Office Address: Room 332, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University
• Mailing address: School of Geographical Sciences, No. 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing Normal University