1) The biology and ecology of modern micropaleontology;

2) The paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of micropaleontology;

3) The sedimentological characters of micropaleontology and its controlling factors.

2006.03--2009.01, Doctor of Philosophy in Marine Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology,CAS, China

2002.09--2005.07, Master of Science in Marine Geology,  South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS, China

1998.09--2002.07,  Bachelor of Science in Biological Science, Qufu Normal University, China

2015.09--2016.09, a visiting scholar in Tohoku University, Japan

2011.01-- Present， Associate Researcher in South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS, China 

2007.10--2010.12, Assistant Researcher in South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS, China 

2005.07--2007.09, Research assistant in South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS, China 

One cooperative monograph; more than 40 papers in core publications (including 13 SCI papers)

1)     Zhang Lanlan Zhang*, Suzuki Noritoshi, Nakamura Yasuhide and Tuji Akihiro, 2018. Modern shallow water radiolarians with photosynthetic microbiota in the western North Pacific. Marine Micropaleontology, 139：1-27.

2)     Lanlan Zhang*, and Suzuki, Noritoshi. 2017. Taxonomy and species diversity of Holocene pylonioid radiolarians from surface sediments of the northeastern Indian Ocean. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.3.48A: 1-68. alaeo-electronica.org/content/2017/1989-taxonomy-of-holocene-pylonioid

3)     Ling Liu, Qiang Zhang, Muhong Chen, Lanlan Zhang, Rong Xiang, 2017. Radiolarian biogeography in surface sediments of the Northwest Pacific marginal seas. SCIENCE CHINA: Earth Sciences, 60 (3): 517-530.

4)     Noritoshi Suzuki, and Lanlan Zhang, 2016. Protistian Rhizaria (radiolarians and phaeodarians) found in the 2016-04-B3 Cruise of Toyoshio-Maru. Cruise Report of TR/V Toyoshio-Maru, no. 2016-04 (2016).

5)     Zhang Qiang, Chen Muhong, Zhang Lanlan, Su Xiang, Xiang Rong, 2016. Changes and influencing factors in biogenic opal export productivity in the Bering Sea over the last 4.3 Ma: Evidence from the records at IODP Site U1340. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121: 5789-5804.

6)     Lanlan Zhang, Rujian Wang, Muhong Chen et al., 2015. Biogenic silica in surface sediments of the South China Sea: controlling factors and paleoenvironmental implications. Deep Sea Research II (accepted, in press)

7)     Weifen Hu, Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen et al., 2015. Distribution of living radiolarians in spring in the South China Sea and its responses to environmental factors. Science China- Earth Sciences, 58(2):270-285. (Corresponding author)

8)     Weifen Hu, Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen et al., 2014. Spatial distribution of dead radiolarian in upper waters in spring of the typical section South China Sea, and its comparison with the surface sediment record. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 31(3): 213-227. (Corresponding author)

9)     Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen, Weifen Hu et al., 2013. Vertical distribution of living radiolarians and its environmental implication. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 32(6): 101-107 (in Chinese with English abstract)

10)  Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen, Rong Xiang et al., 2012. Radiolarians in upper waters of Nansha sea area before and after the summer monsoon onset. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 32(4): 25-32 (in Chinese with English abstract)

11)  Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen, Zhong Chen et al., 2010. Distribution of calcium carbonate and its controlling factors in surface sediments of the South China Sea. Earth Science—Journal of China University of Geosciences, 35(6): 891-898 (in Chinese with English abstract)

12)  Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen, Rong Xiang et al., 2009. Distribution of polycystine radiolarians in the northern South China Sea in Septermber 2005. Marine Micropaleontology, 70: 20-38

13)  Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen, Rong Xiang et al., 2009. Distribution of biogenic silica content in surface sediments from the southern South China Sea and its environmental significance. Marine Science Bulletin, 11(1): 43-52.

14)  Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen, Rong Xiang et al., 2006. Progress and prospect in research on living radiolarian ecology: a basic study of paleoenvironmental and paleoeanographic reconstructions. Advances in Earth Science, 21(5): 474-481 (in Chinese with English abstract)

15)  Lanlan Zhang*, Muhong Chen, Jun Lu et al., 2005. Living polycystine radiolarian fauna in upper water column of southern South China Sea and its distribution. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 24(3): 55-64 (in Chinese with English abstract)

16)  Muhong Chen, Lanlan Zhang, Lili Zhang et al., 2008. Preservation of radiolarian diversity and abundance in surface sediments of the South China Sea and their environmental implications. Journal of China University of Geosciences, 9(3): 217-229

17)  Muhong Chen, Quanyu Li, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2008. Systematic biotic responses to paleoenvironmental change in the late Pleistocene southern South China Sea: a preliminary study. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(8): 803-815.

18)  Muhong Chen, Qiang Zhang, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2014. Stratigraphic distribution of the radiolarian Spongodiscus biconcavus Haeckel at IODP Site U1340 in the Bering Sea and its paleoceanographic significance. Palaeoworld, 23: 90-104.

19)  Qiang Zhang, Muhong Chen, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2014. Variations in the radiolarian assemblages in the Bering Sea since Pliocene and their implications for paleoceanography. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 410, 337-350.

20)  Qiang Zhang, MuHong Chen, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2014. Radiolarian Biostratigraphy in the Southern Bering Sea since Pliocene. Science China-Earth Sciences. 57(4): 682-692

21)  Lili Zhang, Muhong Chen, Lanlan Zhang et al. Late Neogene radiolarian absence event in the southern South China Sea and its paleoceanographic implication. Progress in Natural Science, 2008, 18(3): 281-287.

22)  Lili Zhang, Muhong Chen, Rong Xiang, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2009. Productivity and continental denudation history from the South China Sea since the late Miocene. Marine Micropaleontology, 72: 76-85.

23)  Fang Liu, Rong Xiang, Lanlan Zhang, Muhong Chen, 2012. Influences of typhoon on planktonic foraminiferal fauna in the northern South China Sea. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 31(4): 90-95. (in Chinese with English abstract)

24)  Rong Xiang, Muhong Chen, Xinrong Cheng, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2009. A preliminary study of oxygen and carbon isotopic changes of planktonic foraminifera from surface sediments and plankton tow samples in southern South China Sea. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 28(3): 59-66. (in Chinese with English abstract)

25)  Rong Xiang, Fang Li, Zhong Chen, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2012. Carbon isotope of benthic foraminifera and its implications for cold seepage in the southwestern area off Dongsha islands, South China Sea. Marine Geology&Quaternary Geology, 32(4): 17-24.

26)  Rong Xiang, Muhong Chen, Qianyu Li, Jianguo Liu, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2009. Planktonic foraminiferal records of East Asia monsoon changes in the southern South China Sea during the last 40,000 years. Marine Micropaleontology, 73: 1-13.

27)  Jianguo Liu, Rong Xiang, Zhong Chen, Muhong Chen, Wen Yan, Lanlan Zhang et al., 2013. Sources, transport and deposition of surface sediments from the South China Sea. Deep Sea Research I, 171: 92-102.

 

Muhong Chen, Qiang Zhang, Lanlan Zhang, and Ling Liu (eds.), 2017. Radiolaria in the sediments from the Northwest Pacific and its marginal seas. Science Press, Beijing, 1-279.

The recent research interests are mainly involved: 

1) The temporal and spatial distributions and regional changes of modern micropaleotology and their relationship with environments; 

2) The process and distribution of biogenic sediments and their controlling factors; 

3) The applied research of marine micropaleotology on the paleoceanological and paleoenvironmental study. 

Two co-cultivated graduate students as a status of executive supervisor