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Room 105, School of Geography, Old North District, Xianlin Campus, Nanjing Normal University. Email: tigerwp@njnu.edu.cn

Education and experience

• 2024.7-Present Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographic Sciences-Professor
• 2013.5-2024.7 Nanjing Normal University, School of Geosciences - Associate Professor
• 2024.1-2025.1 Visiting Scholar, School of Geosciences, Australian National University (ANU), USA
• 2016.9-2017.9 Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, USA - Visiting Scholar
• 2010.9-2013.2 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Earth Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China
• 2004.9-2010.7 School of Earth Science and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) - Ph.
• 2000.9-2004.7 School of Earth Science and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) - Bachelor's degree

Field of research

Sedimentology and Tectonic Geomorphology, Deep Time Digital Earth

Academic positions

Member, Committee on Tectonic Geomorphology, Seismological Society of China (2021-2026)

Laboratory

Laser Ablation Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) Laboratory

Course Offered

• Sedimentary Processes and Environments (required, 2015-present, fall semester)
• Scientific Computing Language (Required for Year 2 Majors (Combined), 2025–Present, Fall Semester)
• General Geology (required (combined), 2018-present, fall semester)

Achievements in teaching and learning

• [10] 2021-2023, School-level teaching reform project, research on practical teaching of “deposition process and environment” based on big data, presided over.
• [9] 2020, “Teaching Top Ten” in the Teaching Competition for Young Teachers of Nanjing Normal University.
• [8] 2020, School-level key textbook, field practice tutorial of natural geography in Northwest China, hosted.
• [7] 2020, Jiangsu Province College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Project (Instructor)
• [6] 2019, Third Prize of China University Geoscience Display Competition (Instructor)
• [5] 2019, Second Prize of Undergraduate Excellent Teaching, Nanjing Normal University, 2018 Undergraduate
• [4] 2019-2021, School-level teaching reform project, preliminary exploration of geoscience curriculum reform driven by big data--taking “general geology” course of geography as an example, presided over.
• [3] 2018, First Prize of the Third “Xingyuan Cup” Microcourse Competition, School of Geosciences.
• [2] 2017-2018, “Outstanding Teacher Award”, Nanjing Normal University, China
• [1] 2015, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Supervision Award, Nanjing Normal University

Funded projects

• [7] 2023-2025, Participation, Quantifying Deformable Plate models of Tethyan Domain with Big-Data, IUGS Big Science Program (Deep-time Digital Earth) Seed Grant Fund (IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) Big Science Program Seed Grant Fund). Earth) Seed Grant Fund (IUGS Big Science Program (Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE)) Seed Project)
• [6] 2023-2026, Chair, Reliability verification of quantitative source analysis of detrital zircon U-Pb chronology and factors affecting the source analysis - A case study of modern fluvial sands in a typical watershed in South China, NSFC Top-level Project, 580,000, 42272114
• [5] 2021-2022, Chaired, Research on high resolution elemental imaging technology of LA-ICP-MS, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Large Scientific Instrumentation, Open Subjects
• [4] 2021-2024, Chair, Reconstruction of Paleoproterozoic paleohydrological systems in the Sichuan Basin and temporal constraints on east-west geopotential inversion in China, Jiangsu Provincial Nature Fund, 100,000, BK20211270
• [3] 2016--2019, Chair, Tracing the southward flow of the Paleo-Jinsha River--Sedimentary record of the Paleoproterozoic Basin on the southeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau, NSFC Upper--face Program, 730,000, 41572154
• [2] 2015--2017, Chair, Indication of Cenozoic stratigraphic source tracing on the Yangtze River penetration at the western margin of the Jianghan Basin, Upper--face project of Natural Science Research in Jiangsu Universities, 50,000, 15KJB170005
• [1] 2012-2014, Chair, Chronostratigraphy and source tracing of gravel layers in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Fund Program, 250,000, 41102104

Corresponding author's paper

• [28] Chen Lei, Wang Ping, Cao Xilin, Zhang Huai. Numerical simulation of landform and hydrological evolution in the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau since 50 Ma. Quaternary Research, 2025, 45(5): Forthcoming
• [27] Xie Hongsen, Wang Ping, Chen Xiyun, Wei Xiaochun, Luo Xingyu, Li Shanying. Stratigraphic Dating Using Maximum Depositional Age of Clastic Zircon: Principles, Methods, and Applications. Journal of Stratigraphy, 2025, 49(1): 103-122
• [26] LIAO Xia, WANG Ping, JIANG Ren, YIN Yong, HU Zhujun, ZHANG Zhiping, ZHU Longchen. Progress of research on Quaternary sedimentary stratigraphy and environmental evolution in the southern Yellow Huaihai Sea. Journal of Earth Environment, 2024, 15(2): 173-191.
• [25] Menghao Li, Zhenbo Hu, Ping Wang, Baotian Pan, David Bridgland, Qinhong Mo, Xiaohua Li, Zijuan Dong, Meiling Zhong, Renzhe Pan, Ningyi Li. Plio- Pleistocene drainage reorganization in the middle Yellow River of China, revealed by provenance and paleocurrent analysis of fluvial sediments. Geomorphology, 2024, 454, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109177
• [24] Wang P, Zhao ZJ, Kong XG, Zhang MH, Wang YJ. From skill cultivation to comprehensive education: an example of northwest field internship in natural geography and resource environment. Journal of Nanjing Normal University (Natural Science Edition).2023. 46(S1): 95-101.
• [22] Dai M.Y., Wang P., Li A.B., Dai T.G., Zhang H.P., Liu S.F.. Current status and prospect of low-temperature thermochronology database construction. Earthquake Geology, 2023, 45(6):1432-1451.
• [21] Luo XY, Wang P, Luo CY, Lv M, Li SY, Wei XC. Terrestrial record of the Paleocene-Eocene Extreme Thermal Event (PETM): current status and outlook. Geological Reviews, 2023, 69(5):1899-1918.
• [20] Xiyun Chen, Ping Wang, Hongsen Xie, Longchen Zhu, Xia Liao,Xinggong Kong. Detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotope analyses of modern and Quaternary sediments in China: A new dataset with preliminary analysis. Geoscience Data Journal, 2023, doi: 10.1002/gdj3.193
• [19] Qiyuan Ma, Anbo Li, Ping Wang. Automatic detection of river capture based on planform pattern and χ-plot of the stream network. Geomorphology, 2023, 425: 108587, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108587.
• [18] Sun Xinyao, Wang Ping, Zhang Hong, Guo Yujie, Guo Fei. Current status and prospect of UAV application in sedimentology. Geoscience Bulletin, 2023, 42(1): 407-419.
  [17] Wang P, Chen X orn, Zhu L C, Xie H S, Lu K L, Wei X Chun. Fundamentals and influencing factors of quantitative source analysis for detrital zircon U-Pb chronology - An example from modern fluvial sands. Journal of Sedimentology, 2022, 40(6): 1599-1614.
• [16] Chen X orn, Lv Kailai, Wang Ping, Huang Xiangtong, Kong Xinggong. Advances in large-node U-Pb dating of detrital zircons. Rock and Mineral Testing, 2022, 41(6): 920-934.
• [15] Chen Lei, Wang Ping, Zhang Huai. Evolution of a large river system under the control of dynamic topography. Journal of Sedimentation, 2022,40(4), 894-911.
• [14] Ping Wang, Hongbo Zheng, Yongdong Wang, Xiaochun Wei, Lingyu Tang, Fred Jourdan, Jun Chen and Xiangtong Huang. Sedimentology, geochronology and provenance of the Late Cenozoic “Yangtze Gravel”: Implications for Lower Yangtze River reorganization and tectonic evolution in southeast China. GSA Bulletin, 2022, 134(1-2): 463-486. doi: 10.1130/B35851.1
• [13] Zhang, L., P. Wang, X. Chen, Y. Yin. Acquisition, analysis and comparison of detrital zircon U-Pb chronology data. Progress in Earth Sciences, 2020, 35(4): 414-430 doi:10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2020.030 
• [12] Ping Wang, Shaofeng Liu. Geological Database for Plate Tectonic Reconstruction: A Conceptual Model. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 2019,93 (z1) :66-69
• [11] Ping Wang, Hongbo Zheng, Shaofeng Liu, Gregory Hoke. Late Cretaceous drainage reorganization of the Middle Yangtze River. Lithosphere, 2018, 10(3): 392–405, doi: 10.1130/L695.1.
• [10] Ping Wang, Hongbo Zheng, Lin Chen,Jun Chen, Yingfeng Xu, Xiaochun Wei, Xinya Yao. Exhumation of the Huangling anticline in the Three Gorges region: Cenozoic sedimentary record from the western Jianghan Basin, China. Basin Research, 2014, 26(4): 505-522, doi: 10.1111/bre.12047.
• [9] Ping Wang, Hongbo Zheng, Shaofeng Liu. Geomorphic constraints on Middle Yangtze River reversal in eastern Sichuan basin, China. Journal of Asian Earth Science, 2013, 69: 70-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.09.018.
• [8] Wang P, Liu S, Zheng HB, Wang K, Gao S, Pan F, Li WP, Jiang CX. Arc tectonics and basin evolution during the late orogenic stage of the northern margin of Yangzi. Journal of Paleogeography, 2013, 15(6): 819-838.
• [7] Wang P, Zheng HB, Liu SF. Reversal processes in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River - tectonic and geomorphologic indications from the eastern Sichuan Basin. Quaternary Research, 2013, 33(4), 631-644.
• [6] WANG Ping, LIU Shaofeng, WANG Kai, GAO Tangxian. AFT record of three-dimensional tectonic extension in the eastern Sichuan arc belt. Geophysical Journal, 2012, 55(5), 1662-1673.
• [5] P. Wang, S. Liu, H. Zheng, K. Wang, X. Yang. Topographic and hydrological development controlled by arc tectonics in the eastern Sichuan Basin. Quaternary Research, 2013, 33(3): 461-470.
• [4] Wang P, Liu SH, Wang K, Gao TANG Xian.  Characteristics of tectonic deformation and genesis of the West Eurasian Arc Zone. Geological Sciences, 2012, 47(1), 22-36.
• [3] Wang P, Wu QX, Liu SF, Wang T. Surface subsidence mechanism of the old air-mining area in Wangfeng coal mine, Jiaozuo City, China, revealed by D-InSAR measurements and high-density resistivity profiles. Advances in Geophysics, 2011, 26(6): 2196-2203.
• [2] Wang Ping, Liu Shaofeng. Dynamic analysis of soil erosion in Lingnan rare earth mining area. China Soil and Water Conservation, 2008(1): 44-46.
• [1] Wang Ping, Liu Shaofeng. Monitoring changes in rare earth mine development based on multi-temporal satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Land Resources, 2007(2): 65-67.

Co-author paper

• [41] Mingxuan Tan, Lianpu Sun, Mianpei Chen, Jiawang Ge, Ping Wang, Peigang Ren. A source-to-sink multiproxy analysis of late eocene regional drainage evolution in the Beibuwan Basin of the South China Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113081
• [40] Xiangtong Huang, Yulong Guo, Ping Wang, SV Hohl, XL Zhao, YL Li, Shouye Yang。 Quantitative provenance analysis of the Yangtze and Yellow River sediments through detrital zircon U‐Pb geochronology using an XGBoost machine learning algorithm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JH000763
• [39] Xiaochun Wei, Hanlin Chen, Eduardo Garzanti, Hongbo Zheng, Ping Wang, Fred Jourdan, Xuhua Shi, Kongyang Zhu. Isochronous Miocene volcaniclastic horizon in the SW Tarim Basin: Composition, ages, origins, and implications for tephrochronology. GSA Bulletin, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1130/B37521.1
• [38] Xiaochun Wei, Hanlin Chen, Rong Yang, Ping Wang, Shanying Li, Xuhua Shi, Jin Ge. Timing and Kinematics of late Cenozoic Strike-slip Faults in the Western Tibetan Plateau: New Constraints from Provenance Analysis and Detrital Thermochronology. Tectonophysics, 2024, 882, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230353
• [37] Tao Deng, Anlin Ma, David Chew, Xiumian Hu, Ping Wang, Youzhe Jibu. Revisiting the stratigraphical, sedimentological and provenance evolution of Lingshan Island, offshore of east China: Implications for the destruction of the north China craton, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2024, 161, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106701 
• [36] Xiaochun Wei, Hanlin Chen, Eduardo Garzanti, A. Alexander G. Webb, N. Ryan McKenzie, Ping Wang. Limitations of provenance diagnoses and maximum depositional-age constraints based on detrital-zircon geochronology: the fertility bias. Terra Nova, 2024,  doi: 10.1111/ter.12720
• [35] Xudong Zhao, Huiping Zhang, Richard O Lease, Ying Wang, Jianzhang Pang, Yifei Li, Ping Wang, Jiawei Zhang, Hao Xie, Yizhou Wang, Yaling Tao, Zifa Ma, Jianguo Xiong, Peizhen Zhang. Early Cenozoic drainage evolution and surface uplift of the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the Ninglang Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50(19), e2023GL105499
• [34] Jianghai Yang, Ping Wang, Hu Huang, Xiumian Hu. A brief introduction to the detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic datasets for mainland China and adjacent regions. Geoscience Data Journal, 2023, doi: 10.1002/gdj3.229
• [33] Menghao Li, Zhenbo Hu, Ping Wang, Baotian Pan, Qinhong Mo, Zijuan Dong, Xiaohua Li, Meiling Zhong, Renzhe Pan, Eduardo Garzanti. Provenance Analysis of Yellow River Terraces Highlights Causes of Siltation and Natural Hazards in the North China Plain. JGR Earth Surface, 2023, 128(11), e2023JF007246, doi:10.1029/2023JF007246
• [32] Anlin Ma, Xiumian Hu, Eduardo Garzanti, Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel, Weiwei Xue, Zhong Han, and Ping Wang. Paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of Mesozoic Qiangtang basins (Tibet). Tectonophysics, 2023, 862: 229957, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229957.
• [31] Shi Yifan, Li Chao, Wang Ping, Liu Xiaobo, Rao Wenbo. Factors controlling the positional changes of river gravel-sand transition zones and their indicative significance. Journal of Earth Science and Environment, 2023, 45(1): 54-67. 
• [30] Xing Jian, Ling Fu, Ping Wang, Ping Guan, Wei Zhang, Hanjing Fu, Haowei Mei. Sediment provenance of the Lulehe Formation in the Qaidam basin: Insight to initial Cenozoic deposition. Sediment provenance of the Lulehe Formation in the Qaidam basin: Insight to initial Cenozoic deposition and deformation in northern Tibetan plateau. Basin Research, 2023, 35(1): 271-294. doi: 10.1111/bre.12712
• [29] Yao R-S, Jiang K-D, Yin Y, Wang P. The land surface of the Southern Yellow Sea since the Late Pleistocene. Sediment source analysis of the South Yellow Sea shelf since the Late Pleistocene. Marine Bulletin, 2022, 41(2), 179-188.
• [28] Kai Wang, Wenjiao Xiao, Brian Windley, Mao Qigui, Wenhua Ji, Miao Sang, Peng Huang, Ping Wang. The Dashui subduction complex in the Eastern Tianshan‐Beishan Orogen (NW China): Long‐lasting subduction‐accretion terminated by unique mid‐Triassic strike‐slip juxtaposition of arcs in the southern Altaids. Tectonics, 2022, 41(6): TC007190 doi: 10.1029/2021TC007190
• [27] Jin Liu, Ping Wang, Xingqiang Chen, Wei Shi, Lijun Song and Jianmin Hu. The changes in drainage systems of Weihe Basin and Sanmenxia Basin since Late Pliocene give new insights into the evolution of the Yellow River. Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.820674
• [26] Xudong Zhao, Huiping Zhang, Ralf Hetzel, Eric Kirby, Alison R. Duvall, Kelin X. Whipple, Jianguo Xiong, Yifei Li, Jianzhang Pang, Ying Wang, Ping Wang, Kang Liu, Pengfei Ma, Bo Zhang, Xuemei Li, Jiawei Zhang & Peizhen Zhang. Existence of a continental-scale river system in eastern Tibet during the late Cretaceous–early Palaeogene. Nature Communications, 2021, 12: 7231, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27587-9.
• [25] Shuo Zhang, Xing Jian, James T.Liu, Ping Wang, Yuan-Pin Chang, Wei Zhang, Climate-driven drainage reorganization of small mountainous rivers in Taiwan (East Asia) since the last glaciation: The Zhuoshui River example. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2022,586:110759, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110759
• [24] Yifei Zhao, Min Xu, Qing Liu, Qiang Shu, Ping Wang, Centennial-scale environmental changes in the elemental geochemical record of sediments from the shoreline of a radiating sandbar in northern Suzhou. Journal of Oceanography, 2021, 43(8), 66-80.
• [23] Xu, Miaomiao, Wei, Xiaochun, Yang, Rong, Wang, Ping, and Cheng, Xiaodang, Advances in source tracing methods for heavy mineral analysis. Advances in Earth Sciences. Earth Sci. 2021, 36(2), 154-171.
• [22] Xiaochun Wei, Hanlin Chen, Hongbo Zheng, Ping Wang, Richard E. Hanson, Xuhua Shi, Xiubin Lin and Xiaogan Cheng. Miocene Long-Runout Debris- Avalanche Deposits in the Eastern Pamir Foreland Basin Record Cataclasis and Fragmentation Mechanisms. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2020, 407:1:1. Research, 2020, 407:107105. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107105.
• [21] Liu J, Chen XQ, Wang P, Li TD. Sedimentary filling characteristics, source areas and tectonic significance of the Sanmen Formation in the Weihe-Sanmenxia Basin. Earth Sciences, 2020, 45(7): 2673-2683. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2020.112
• [20] Huang Xianrong, Zheng Hongbo, Hu Zhujun, Yang Qing, Sun Guoping, Ling Guangjiu, Zhou Yousheng, Cheng Yue, Cao Yeting, Wang Ping. Changes in the hydrological environment recorded by profiles from the Tianloushan site, Zhejiang, China. Science Bulletin, 2019, 9:963-976.
• [19] Meng-Ya Li, Ping Wang, Jue-Yang Wang, Xiao-Qiang Chen, Di Zhao, Dai-Xia Yin, Jun Luo, Albert L. Juhasz, Hong-Bo Li and Lena Q. Ma. 2019. Arsenic Concentrations, Speciation, and Localization in 141 Cultivated Market Mushrooms: Implications for Arsenic Exposure to Humans. Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, 53(1):503–511. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05206.
• [18] Xiaochun Wei, Hongbo Zheng, Ping Wang, Ruji Tada, Peter Clift, Fred Jourdan, Chao Luo, and Hanlin Chen, Miocene Volcaniclastic Sequence Within the Xiyu Formation from Source to Sink: Implications for Drainage Development and Tectonic Evolution in Eastern Pamir, NW Tibetan Plateau: Tectonics, 2018, 37(9):3261–3284, doi:10.1029/2018TC005008.
• [17] Zheng Hongbo, Wei Xiaochun, Wang Ping, He Mengying, Luo Chao, Yang Qing. 2017. The past and present life of the Yangtze River. Science China: Earth Sciences, 47: 385-393, doi: 10.1360/N072017-00003
• [16] Hongbo Zheng, Xiaochun Wei, Ryuji Tada, Peter D. Clift, Bin Wang, Fred Jourdan, Ping Wang and Mengying He. Reply to Sun et al.: Confirming the evidence for Late Oligocene? Early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert . 2015, 112(41): E5558–E5559, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1517735112
• [15] Hongbo Zheng, Xiaochun Wei, Ryuji Tada, Peter D. Clift, Bin Wang, Fred Jourdan, Ping Wang and Mengying He. Late Oligocene–early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert. 2015, 112(25): 7662-7667. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1424487112
• [14] Bin Wang, Hongbo Zheng, Zhong He, Ping Wang, Anu Kaakinen, Xinying Zhou. Middle Miocene eolian sediments on the southern Chinese Loess Plateau dated by magnetostratigraphy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2014, 411: 257-266. 
• [13] B. Wang, H. Zheng, Z. He, P. Wang. Study of the Bahe Formation in the Weihe Basin based on magnetic stratigraphy. Journal of College Geology, 2014, 20(3): 415-424
• [12] WANG Kai, LIU Shaofeng, JIANG Chengxin, WANG Ping, ZHANG Yan, MENG Yong. Deformation characteristics and superposition relationship of multi-phase folded tectonics in the middle section of the northern margin of the Yangzi Plate. Geotectonics and Metallogeny, 2015, 39(2): 231-240
• [11] WANG Bin, ZHENG Hongbo, WANG Ping, HE Zhong. Cenozoic stratigraphy and sedimentary evolution of the Weihe Basin: current status and problems. 2013, 28(10): 126-135
• [10] Hongbo Zheng, Peter Clift, Ping Wang, Ryuji Tada, Juntao Jia, Mengying He, Fred Jourdan. Pre-Miocene birth of the Yangtze River. PNAS. 2013, 110(19) PNAS. 2013, 110(19) , doi:10.1073/pnas.1216241110.
• [9] Shaofeng Liu, Guowei Zhang, Feng Pan, Huiping Zhang, Ping Wang, Kai Wang, and Yan Wang. Timing of Xunhua and Guide basin development and growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Basin Research, 2013, 25: 74-96. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2012.00548.x
• [8] Zheng Hongbo, Wang Ping, He Mengying, Luo Chao, Huang Xiangtong, Jia Juntao. Timeframe for the establishment of the east-flowing Yangtze River system and its tectonic-geomorphologic significance. Quaternary Research, 2013, 33(4): 621-630.
• [7] Huang Xiangtong, Zheng Hongbo, John Chappell, Wang Ping. Cosmogenic nuclide 10Be characterization and erosion rate estimation of river sediments in the Yangtze River Basin. Quaternary Research, 2013, 33(4): 671-683.
• [6] Luo Chao, Zheng Yan, Zheng Hongbo, Wang Ping, He Mengying, Wu Weihua. Magnetic characteristics of suspended solids in the Yangtze River Basin and their source significance. Quaternary Research, 2013, 33(4): 684-696.
• [5] Wang Kai, Liu Shaofeng, Wang Ping, Jiang Chengxin, Gao Detailed Jun. Characteristics and significance of tectonic deformation in the middle foreland zone of the northern margin of Yangzi. Geoscience, 2013, 48(3), 609-625
• [4] Luo Chao, Zheng Hongbo, Wu Weihua, Wang Ping, Chen Yuliang, Wei Xiaochun. Depth-dependent Sr-Nd isotopes in river suspended sediments: A case study at Datong Station of Yangtze River, Science Bulletin, 2012, 57(21): 2022-2030.
• [3] Hongbo Zheng, Dong Jia, Jun Chen, and Ping Wang. Did incision of the Three Gorges begin in the Eocene? : Comment. Geology, 2011, doi:10.1130/G31944C.1
• [2] Liu Shaofeng, Wang Ping, Hu Mingqing, Gao Tangxian, Wang Kai. Evolution and dynamics of basin-mountain systems in the northern Central and Upper Yangzi. Geological Frontiers, 2010(5): 14-26.
• [1] Wang Tao, Liu Yanhong, Wang Ping, Liu Shaofeng. Application of multi-source and multi-temporal remote sensing classification technology in monitoring environmental changes in Ganzhou rare earth mining area. China Mining Industry, 2009(11).

Academic conference

• [25] Sedimentary response to abrupt global warming during the PETM in western Jianghan Basin, Central China, International Workshop on Mesozoic-Palaeogene Hyperthermal Events & Fifth IGCP 739 Workshop, 2025,8, Nanjing [Oral]
• [24] Development of a Tectonic-Thermal-Chronological Database for the Digital Earth in Deep Time, Academic Forum on Structural Geology and Geodynamics, April 2025, Chengdu [Oral Presentation]
• [23] New Advances in Large-n Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Its Implications for Source Tracing, Academic Forum on Structural Geology and Geodynamics 2025, April, Chengdu [Oral Presentation]
• [22] Did the ancient Jinsha River flow southward in the Jianchuan Basin? --Evidence from stratigraphy, sedimentology and landscape evolution simulation, National Symposium on Geomorphology and Quaternary, 2023.8, Taiyuan, China [Oral presentation]. 
• [21] From Tibet to the Pacific: a synthesis of geomorphology and geological constraints on Yangtze River evolution, International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, 2023.6, Riva del Garda, Italy [Oral]
• [20] Controls on U-Pb age spectra of detrital zircons: source area, erosion intensity or hydrodynamics? 7th National Congress of Sedimentology, 2023.4, Chengdu [Invited Oral Presentation]
• [19] Automatic identification of river assaults based on hydrological styles and χ-maps, Academic Annual Meeting of the Committee of Tectonic Geomorphology, China Seismological Society, 2023.1. [Oral Presentation]
• [18] Integration of geodynamic concepts in geomorphology teaching, Seminar on Development of Geomorphology and Quaternary Disciplines and Teaching Construction in China, 2022, Jinhua. [Oral Presentation]
• [17] Wood fossil records of Miocene paleoenvironments in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Eighth Annual Meeting of the Paleoecology Committee of the Chinese Paleontological Society, 2020, Yuxi. [Oral presentation]
• [16] Lower Yangtze drainage reorganization response to western Pacific Subduction, EGU online meeting, 2020, [Oral].
• [15] Eocene intra-land extrusion on the southeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: sedimentary record from the Jianchuan Basin, western Yunnan, China Geoscience Union Academic Annual Meeting, 2019, Chongqing [Oral]
• [14] Sedimentology, chronology and source tracing of the Yangtze River gravel layer--Indications for Late Cenozoic tectonic, climatic and fluvial evolution in eastern China, Chinese Geoscience Union Annual Conference, Beijing, 2019 [Invited oral presentation].
• [13] Forum on Tectonic Geomorphology, Xiangshan Science Conference, Beijing, 2019.1 [Delegate Presentation]
• [12] Reversal history of the East Tethys large-scale water system--Sedimentary Record and Tectonic Indications, Chinese Geoscience Union Annual Conference, 2018, Beijing. [Oral Presentation].
• [11] Sedimentology, geochronology and provenance of the Yangtze Gravel: linking the Lower Yangtze River to Late Cenozoic tectonic and climate in Southeast China, 9th International Conference on Asian Marine Geology, 2018.10, Shanghai [Oral]
• [10] Late Cretaceous sedimentary record of the reversed middle Yangtze River system, 1st Youth Forum on Tectonic Geology and Geodynamics, 2018, Kunming. [Oral].
• [9] How many detrital zircons are needed? --Insights from source studies of Yangtze River sediments, The 15th National Academic Conference on Paleogeography and Sedimentology, 2018, Chengdu. [Oral Presentation].
• [8] Sedimentology, geochronology and provenance of the “Yangtze Gravels”. 35th International Geological Congress, 2016.8, CapeTown, South Africa.[Oral].
• [7] Geomorphic constraints on Middle Yangtze River reversal in eastern Sichuan basin, China. 34th International Geological Congress, 2012.8, Brisbane, Australia. [Oral] [7] Geomorphic constraints on Middle Yangtze River reversal in eastern Sichuan basin, China.
• [6] Cretaceous - Cenozoic exhumation of the Huangling anticline in Three Gorges region: Sedimentary record from the western Jianghan Basin, China. 3rd Annual Symposium of IGCP, Beijing, China. Annual Symposium of IGCP-581 “Evolution of Asian River Systems: Tectonics and Climates”, 2012.11, Hydalabad, India [Oral]
• [5] Arc tectonically controlled topography and water system development - An example from the eastern Sichuan Basin. The 5th Symposium on Tectonic Geology and Geodynamics, Wuhan, China, 2012 [Oral]
• [4] Geomorphic  characteristics of  the  eastern  Sichuan basinImplications for the reversal of middle Yangtze river .  2nd Annual Symposium of IGCP-581 “Evolution of Asian River Systems: Tectonics and Climates”, 2011.6, Sapporo, Japan [Oral]
• [3] Ping Wang, Zhangsheng Gao, Shaofeng Liu.  Validation of DEMs for Two-pass SAR Differential Interferometry - A case study in Wangfeng coal mine, Jiaozuo city.  International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2011, 3752-3755 [paper]
• [2] Bedrock fluvial geomorphic evolution modeling - theory, methods and applications. The 10th National Quaternary Conference. 2010, Lanzhou [oral presentation].
• [1] Bedrock river erosion and landscape evolution in eastern Sichuan basin — Implication for the capture and reversal of Middle Yangtze river. Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, 2010.6, Taipei, Taiwan. [Oral]

Guide graduate students

• [8] Liao Xia, Late Quaternary Drillhole Chronological Framework and Paleoenvironmental Indicators in the North Jiangsu Plain: A Case Study of the Sihong-Suqian Region, 2022–2025
• [7] Xi-Eun Chen, Quantitative source analysis of detrital zircon U-Pb chronology: experimental methods and case studies, 2021-2024
• [6] Xingyu Luo, Sedimentary record and environmental response of the Paleocene-Eocene Extreme Thermal Event (PETM) in the western margin of the Jianghan Basin, 2021-2024
• [5] Lei Chen, Sediment source analysis and large-scale geomorphic evolution simulation in the Jianchuan Basin, southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau - Indications for the evolution of the Paleo-Jinsha River, 2020-2023
• [4] Cailong Luo, Magnetic stratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Jianchuan Basin, southeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau, 2018-2021
• [3] Y. J. Huang, Wood fossil records of Miocene paleoenvironments in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River--an example from Nanjing and Wuhan, 2017-2020 
• [2] Xianrong Huang, Middle and Late Holocene hydrologic environmental changes recorded by profiles from Tianloushan site, Zhejiang, 2016-2019 
• [1] Cheng Yue, Early-Middle Holocene sea-land changes in the North Jiangsu Plain revealed by Jianhu profile, 2016-2019 

Students majoring in geography, geology, computer science, and other related fields are welcome to apply for graduate school!