Global environmental change

1. Member, Academic Committee of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR, CAS); Professional Committee of Historical Geography, GSC
2. Director, Department of Structure and Change of Land Surface System, IGSNRR, CAS
3. Vice Director, Center for Research and Plan on Tourism, IGSNRR, CAS
4. Secretary-General, Chinese National Committee for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (CNC-IHDP)
5. Standing Deputy Secretary-General, Chinese National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Progrmme (CNC-IGBP)
6. Vice President, Chinese Cultural Relics Academic Society
7. Director, Center for Plan and Research on Cultural Relics Tourism, Chinese Cultural Relics Academic Society
9. Vice Director, Professional Committee of Climate, GSC
10 Committee Member, Geographical Society of China (GSC),Chinese Meteorological Society (CMS) and Beijing Meteorological Society (BMS)
11.Editor, Geographical Research, Progress in Geography, and Journal of Paleogeography

1. Synthetical Research on Chinese Environmental Change in Last 2000 Years, Oriented Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences,

2. Research on Detecting and Analyzing Techniques of Human Dimensions in Global Environmental Change, Subject of Key Project for National Tech Supporting Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology,
3. Research on Global Climate Change and Human Health, Key International Co-operative Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology,
4. National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Natural Science Foundation of China,
5. Illustration and Simulation of Advance and Retreat of Rain Belt in Monsoon Region of Eastern China in Last 300 Years, Key Project of Great Science Plan of National Natural Science Foundation of China,

6. Risk Assessment of Disasters in China, Ministry of Civil Affairs,
7. Development Plan of Tourism in Central China, China National Tourism Administration

Ge has received a number of honors and awards, including the Chinese Outstanding Young Scholars awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Ge has published more than 150 papers and 20 books,

1. Ge Q S, Zheng J Y, Hao Z X, et al., Temperature variation through 2000 years inChina: An uncertainty analysis of reconstruction and regional difference,Geophysical Research Letters, 37(3) (2010), doi:10.1029/2009GL041281;

2. Ge Q S, Liu H L, Zheng J Y, et al., Reconstructing temperature change in CentralEast China during 601-920 AD, Chinese Science Bulletin, 55(34) (2010),3944-3949;

3. Ge Q S, Zheng J Y, Tian Y Y et al., Coherence of climatic reconstruction fromhistorical documents in China by different studies, International Journal ofClimatology, 28(8) (2008), 1007-1024;

4. Ge Q S, Wang S B, Zheng J Y, Reconstruction of temperature series in China forthe last 5000 years, Progress in Natural Science, 16(8) (2006), 838-845;

5. Ge Q S, Zheng J Y, Man Z M, et al., Key points on temperature change of the past2000 years in China, Progress in natural Sciences, 14(8) (2004), 730-737;

6. Ge Q S, Zheng J Y, Fang X Q et al., Winter half-year temperature reconstructionfor the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, China,during the past 2000 years, The Holocene, 13(6) (2003), 933-940;

7. Ge Q S, Fang X Q, Zheng J Y, Quasi-periodicity of Temperature changes on theMillennial Scale, Progress in Natural Sciences, 13(8) (2003), 601-606;

8. Ge Q S, Hao ZX, Tian Y Y, et al., The rainy season in the Northwestern part ofthe East Asian Summer Monsoon in the 18th and 19th centuries, QuaternaryInternational, 229 (2011), 16-23;

9. Ge Q S, Guo X F, Zheng J Y, et al., Meiyu in the middle and lower reaches of theYangtze River since 1736, Chinese Science Bulletin, 53(1) (2008), 107-114;

10. Ge Q S, Zheng J Y, Hao Z X, Zhang P Y, Wang W. C, Reconstruction of historicalclimate in China: High-resolution precipitation data from Qing ynasty archives,Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society (BAMS), 86 (5) (2005),671-679;

11. Ge Q S, Wang S W, Wen XY, et al., Temperature and Precipitation Changes inChina During the Holocene, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 24(6) (2007),1024-1036;

12. Ge Q S, Dai J H, He F N, et al., Land use changes and their relations with carboncycles over the past 300 a in China, Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences,51(6) (2008), 871-884;

13. Ge Q S and Dai J H, Farming and forestry land use changes in China and theirdriving forces from 1900 to 1980. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences,48(10) (2005), 1747-1757;

14. Ge Q S, Dai J H, He F N, et al., Spatiotemporal dynamics of reclamation andcultivation and its driving factors in parts of China during the last three centuries,Progress in Natural Science, 14(7) (2004), 605-613

Global environmental change, Reconstruction of past climate, Mitigation and adaptation of climate change