General
 
Tangfu XIAO
Ph.D. & Professor in Environmental Geochemistry
Vice director of State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry
Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
99 Lincheng Road West, Guiyang, 550081
Guizhou Province, P. R. China
Tel: +86-851-85895318, 13398515088;
Fax: +86-851-85891609
E-mail: xiaotangfu@vip.gyig.ac.cn
website: http://people.ucas.ac.cn/~xiaotangfu

Research Areas

(1) Biogeochemical cycling of toxic elements and human health
(2) Heavy metal pollution process and eco-remediation

Education

Ph.D., Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, 1997-2001
M.S., Department of Geochemistry, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 1992-1995
B.S., Department of Mineral Resources, Chengdu Institute of Geology, 1988-1992

Experience

My research fields are in metal environmental geochemistry, isotope geochemistry and metal pollution remediation. I was a visiting professor at the Imperial Colleague London in 2008, and currently is the vice-director (in charge of research and international affairs) of the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry. I am the associate editors of Frontiers in Soil Processes (International journal) and Earth and Environment (Chinese journal), editorial boarding member of American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, and Vice-president of China-Ireland Concord of International Medical Geology Association.

The main funded projects include, (1) Geochemical processes of toxic elements and human health safety regulations in the epithermal metallogenic orefileds (MOST, 2009CB426307), (2) Biogeochemical processes of toxic metals associated with epithermal metallogenesis and human health risk (Chinese Academy of Sciences, KZCX2-YW-135), (3) Eco-remediation on abandoned metal minging sites (MOST, 2006BACB04); (4) Thallium pollution and risk managment for Pb/Zn mining (Ministry of Environmental Protection, 201509051); (5) Metal pollution and remediation in Pearl River (Ministry of Water Resources, 201501011); (6) four NSFC projects: Supergene hyper-enrichment and environmental impact of thallium in the thallium mineralized bel t(40203010), Hyperaccumulation of thallium in green cabbage (40773072), Biogeochemical process of Cd in Three Gorges region (40973082), Thallium isotope fractionation and process tracing (41173028), and Speciation of isotope compositions of thallium in river sediment (41473124).

Publications

1.  Wang J, Liu J, Li HC, Chen YH, Xiao TF, Song G, Chen SY, Wang CL. Uranium and thorium leachability in contaminated stream sediments from a uranium mine. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 2016; doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2016.01.008.

2.  Liu J, Wang J, Chen YH, Lippold H, Xiao TF, Li HS, Shen CC, Xie LH, Xie XF, Yang HL. Geochemical transfer and preliminary health risk assessment of thallium in a riverine system in the Pearl River Basin, South China. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 2016;doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2016.01.011.

3.  Sun WM, Xiao EZ, Dong YR, Tang S, Krumins V, Ning ZP, Sun M, Zhao YL, Wu SL, Xiao TF*. Profiling microbial community in a watershed heavily contaminated by an active antimony (Sb) mine in Southwest China. Science of Total Environment 2016;50: 297–308.

4. Ning ZP, Xiao TF*, Xiao EZ. Antimony in the soil-plant system in an Sb mining/smelting area of southwest China. International Journal of Phytoremediation 2015;17: 1081–1089.

5. 
Ning ZP, He LB, Xiao TF*, Marton L. High Accumulation and Subcellular Distribution of Thallium in Green Cabbage (Brassica Oleracea L. Var. Capitata L.). International Journal of Phytoremediation 2015;17: 1097–1104.


6.  Sun W, Xiao TF*, Sun M, Dong Y, Ning Z, Xiao E, Tang S, Li J. Diversity of the sediment microbial community in the Aha watershed (southwest China) in response to acid mine drainage pollution gradients. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2015;81: 4874–4884.

7. Sun JL, Zou X, Xiao TF*, Jia YL, Ning ZP, Sun M, Liu YZ, Jiang T. Biosorption and bioaccumulation of thallium by thallium-tolerant fungal isolates. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2015;22: 16742–16748.

8. Lin WJ, Xiao TF*, Zhou WC, Ning ZP. Pb, Zn, and Cd distribution and migration at a historical zinc smelting site. Polish Journal of Environmental Study 2015;24(2): 575–583.

9.
Liu YZ, Xiao TF*, Philippe CB, Zhu JM, Ning ZP, Li HJ. Potential health risk in areas with high naturally-occurring cadmium background in southwestern China. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2015;112: 122–131.


10.  S
un M, Xiao TF*, Ning ZP, Xiao EZ, Sun WM. Microbial community analysis in rice paddy soils irrigated by acid mine drainage contaminated water. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2015;99: 2911–2922.


11. Kersten M, Xiao TF, Kreissig K, Brett A, Coles BJ, Rehkamper M. Tracing Anthropogenic Thallium in Soil Using Stable Isotope Compositions. Environmental Science and Technology 2014;48: 9030–9036.

12.  Liu YZ, Xiao TF*, Ning ZP, Li HJ, Tang J, Zhou GZ. High cadmium in soil in the Three Gorges region: Geogenic source and bioavailability. Applied Geochemistry 2013;37: 149–156.

13. Jia YL, Xiao TF*, Zhou GZ, Ning ZP. Thallium at the interface of soil and green cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L.): Soil–plant transfer and influencing factors. Science of Total Environment 2013;450-451: 140–147.

14. Wang J, Liu J, Li HC, Song G, Chen YH, Xiao TF, Qi JY, Zhu L. Surface water contamination by uranium mining/milling activities in Northern Guangdong Province, China. Clean – Soil, Air, Water 2012;40: 1357–1363.

15. Wang J, Liu J, Zu L, Qi JY, Chen YH, Xiao TF, Fu SM, Wang CL, Li JW. Uranium and thorium leached from uranium mill tailing of Guangdong Province, China and its implication for radiological risk. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2012;152: 215–219.

16. Sun JL, Zou X, Ning ZP, Sun M, Peng JQ, Xiao TF*. Culturable microbial groups and thallium-tolerant fungi in soils with high thallium contamination. Science of The Total Environment 2012;441: 258–264.

17. Xiao TF*, Yang F, Li SH, Zheng BS, Ning ZP. Thallium pollution in China: a geo-environmental perspective. The Science of the Total Environment 2012;421-422: 51–58.

18.  
Li SH, Xiao TF*, Zheng BS*. Medical geology of arsenic, selenium and thallium in China. The Science of the Total Environment 2012;421-422: 31–40.


19. Lin WJ, Xiao TF*, Wu YY, Ao ZQ, Ning ZP. Hyperaccumulation of zinc by Corydalis davidii in Zn-polluted soil1s. Chemosphere 2012;86: 837–842.

20. Sun JL, Zou X, Liu AY, Xiao TF. Elevated yield of Monacolin K in Monascus purpureus by fungal elicitor and mutagenesis of UV and LiCl. Biological Research 2011;44: 377–382.

21. Ning ZP, Xiao TF, Jia YL, Yang F. Antimony accumulation in wild plants around a large Sb deposit area. Proceeding of 19th International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium 2011;2: 893–898.

22. Xiao TF, Rehkamper M, Yang F. Thallium isotope fractionation in the soil-plant interface. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2010; 74 (12), Suppl. 1: A1155–A1155.

23. Li H, Xiao TF, Li DH, Zhu Z, Ning ZP.  Geochemistry and
environmental impact of cadmium in cadmium-rich Pb-Zn mine wastes
of Southwest China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2010; 74 (12), Suppl. 1: A589-A589.


24. Tang J, Xiao TF*, Wang SJ, Lei JL Zhang MZ, Gong YY, Li HJ, Ning ZP, He LB. High cadmium concentrations in areas with endemic fluorosis: A serious hidden toxin? Chemosphere 2009, 76: 300–305.

25.  X
iao TF*, Tang J, Lei JL, Yang F. Health risk of Cadmium: A hidden health killer in areas of coal combustion related fluorosis? Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2008, 72(12, Suppl. 1): A1042–A1042.


26. Chen JA, Wang FS, Wan GJ, Tang DG, Zhang DD, Hunag RG, Li J, Xiao TF. δ13C-δ18O covariance: an effective indicator of hydrological closure for lakes? Acta Geologica Sinica 2008, 82(5, Suppl. 4): 975-981.

27. Li H, Li DH, Xiao TF*, He LB, Ning ZP, Sun JL, Zhu CS, Shuang Y. Geochemistry and environmental effect of cadmium in the super-large Jinding Pb-Zn deposit, Yunnan Province, China. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry 2008, 27(1): 21–27.

28. 
Liu S., Hu RZ, Gao S, Feng CX, Qi L, Zhong H, Xiao TF, Qi YQ, Wang T, Coulson IM. Zircon U–Pb geochronology and major, trace elemental and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic geochemistry of mafic dykes in western Shandong Province, east China: Constrains on their petrogenesis and geodynamic significance. Chemical Geology 2008, 255: 329–345.

29. Xiao TF*, Guha J, Liu CQ, Zheng BS, Wilson G, Ning ZP, He LB. Potential health risk in areas of high natural concentrations of thallium and importance of urine screening. Applied Geochemistry 2007, 22: 919929.

30. He LB, Xiao TF*, Li H, Sun WQ. Hydrogeochemical processes of thallium in a rural area of Southwest Guizhou, China. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry 2007, 26(1): 52–57.

31. Qiu GL, Feng XB, Wang SF, Xiao TF. Mercury contaminations from historic mining to water, soil and vegetation in Lanmuchang, Guizhou, southwestern China. The Science of the Total Environment 2006, 368: 56–68.

32. 
Xiao TF*, He LB, Guha J, Li J, Chen JA. Environmental exposure of thallium and potential health risk in areas of high natural concentrations of thallium: southwest Guizhou, China. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 2005, 84: 16–25.


33.
Wang SF, Feng XB, Qiu GL, Wei ZQ, Xiao TF. Mercury emission to atmosphere from Lanmuchang Hg–Tl mining area, Southwestern Guizhou, China. Atmospheric Environment 2005, 39: 7459–7473.


34. Chen JA, Wan GJ, Zhang DD, Chen ZL, Xu JY, Xiao TF, Huang RG. The 'Little Ice Age' recorded by sediment chemistry in Lake Erhai, southwest China. Holocene 2005, 15: 925–931.

35. Xiao TF*, Guha J, Boyle D. High thallium content in rocks associated with Au–As–Hg–Tl and coal mineralization and its adverse environmental potential in SW Guizhou, China. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 2004, 4(3): 243–252.

36. Xiao TF*, Guha J, Boyle D, Liu CQ, Chen JA. Environmental concerns related to high Tl levels in soils and Tl uptake by plants in southwest Guizhou, China. The Science of the Total Environment 2004, 318: 223–244.

37. Xiao TF*, Guha J, Boyle D, Liu CQ, Zheng BS, Wilson GC, Rouleau A, Chen JA. Naturally occurring thallium: a hidden geo-environmental health-hazard?. Environment International 2004, 30: 501–507.

38. Chen JA, Zhang DD, Wang SJ, Xiao TF, Huang RG. Factors controlling tufa deposition in natural waters at waterfall sites. Sedimentary Geology 2004, 166: 353–366.

39. Chen JA, Zhang DD, Wang SJ, Xiao TF. Water self-softening processes at waterfall sites. Acta Geologica Sinica 2004, 78: 1154–1161.

40. Xiao TF*, Boyle D, Guha J, Rouleau A, Hong YT, Zheng BS. Groundwater related thallium transfer processes and their impacts on the ecosystem: southwest Guizhou Province, China. Applied Geochemistry 2003, 18: 675–691.

41. Liu CQ, Zhao ZH, Xiao TF, Guha J. Strategic Management of Environmental and Socio-economic Issues: a handbook. Guiyang: Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House, 2003, 145 pp. 42.  Xiao TF, Guha J, Boyle D, Liu CQ, Chen JA. Health killer: thallium in the food chain. Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Biogeochemistry of Trace Element (Volume I) (Gobran, G.R. and Lepp, N., eds), Uppsala, Sweden, June 15-19, 2003: 248–249.

45. Xiao TF, Boyle D, Guha J, Rouleau A, Hong YT, Zheng BS. Groundwater related thallium transfer processes and ecosystem, Southwest Guizhou Province, China. In: Piggot, A. (eds.), Proceeding of the First Joint IAH-CNC and CGS Groundwater Speciality Conference, Montreal, Canada. Montreal: Groupe Geotechnique de Montreal, 15-18 October 2000: 25–31.

46. Xiao TF*, Boyle D, Guha J, Hong YT, Zheng BS. Hydrogeochemistry of toxic metals in a Au-As-Hg-Tl mineralized area in Southwest Guizhou Province, China. Chinese Sciences Bulletin 1999, 44(suppl. 2): 171–172

Students

I have supervised 13 Ph.D. students, 3 Master students, and 3 post-doctors.