Research interests include: High-resolution climate proxies in speleothems and tufas; Historical climate changes; Holocene climate change, Impacts and human adaption; Cave microclimate.

2003.9-2009.3, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Ph. D & M.S. Specialty: Quaternary Geology

1999.9-2003.7, Lanzhou University, Bachelor. Specialty: Physical Geography

2017.2-until now, Full Prof. of Institute of Earth Environment, CAS

2019.9-until now, Adjunct Prof. of Xi’an Jiaotong University

2016.4-2017.3, Research Fellow, Center for Water Research, University of Texas at San Antonio

2013.2-2017.1, Associate Prof. of Institute of Earth Environment, CAS

2012.4-2012.6; 2013.9-2013.10, Post-doctoral Fellow of National Taiwan University

2010.7-2010.10; 2011.4-2011.6, Visiting scholar of University of Minnesota

2009.4-2013.1, Assistant Prof. of Institute of Earth Environment, CAS

(*as corresponding author)

2022：

1. Tianli Wang, Dong Li, Xing Cheng, Jianghu Lan, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Xingxing Liu, Gang Xue, Hai Xu, Le Ma, Jingjie Zang, Yaqin Wang, Yongli Gao, Ashish Sinha, Liangcheng Tan*. Hydroclimatic changes in south-central China during the 4.2 ka event and their potential impacts on the development of Neolithic culture. Quaternary Research, 2022, 109: 39-52. doi: 10.1017/qua.2022.11.

2. Jingyao Zhao^#, Liangcheng Tan^#, Dong Li, Carlos PrezMejas, Xiyu Dong, Jian Wang, Haiwei Zhang, Hai Cheng. The Seasonally Altered Atmosphere Moisture Circulations With Rainfall and Rainfall Isotopes in Southwest China. Frontiers in Earth Science. 2022, 10. (#co first author). doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.79585.

3. Gayatri Kathayat, Ashish Sinha, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Liangcheng Tan, Christoph Spötl, Hanying Li, Xiyu Dong, Haiwei Zhang, Youfeng Ning, Robert J. Allan, Vinita Damodaran, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng. Protracted Indian monsoon droughts of the past millennium and their societal impacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119, e2207487119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.220748711.

2021：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Hai Xu*. Editorial: Holocene climate changes in the Asia-Pacific region. Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021, 8:622792. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.622792.

2. Liangcheng Tan*, Guanghui Dong, Zhisheng An, R. Lawrence Edwards, Haiming Li, Dong Li, Robert Spengler, Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng, Jianghu Lan, Rustam Orozbaev, Ruiliang Liu, Jianhui Chen, Hai Xu, Fahu Chen. Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-Silk Road. Science Bulletin, 2021, 66(6): 603-611. doi:10.1016/j.scib.2020.10.011.

3. Fangyuan Lin, Liangcheng Tan*, Gang Xue, Xing Cheng, Jianghu Lan, Haiwei Zhang, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Tianli Wang, Dong Li, Yongli Gao, Hai Xu, Zhisheng An. Seasonality of precipitation recorded in a modern (1907-2008) annually laminated stalagmite from central China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2021, 576C: 110489.  doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110489.

4. Jingyao Zhao, Liangcheng Tan*, Yan Yang, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Yassine Ait Brahim, Jianghu Lan, Jian Wang, Hanying Li, Tianli Wang, Haiwei Zhang, Hai Cheng*. New insights towards an integrated understanding of NE Asian monsoon during mid to late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021, 254: 106793. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106793. 

2020：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanzhen Li, Xiqian Wang, Yanjun Cai, Fangyuan Lin, Hai Cheng, Le Ma, Ashish Sinha, R. Lawrence Edwards. Holocene monsoon change and abrupt events on the western Chinese Loess Plateau as revealed by accurately-dated stalagmites. Geophysical Research Letters, 2020, 47(21), e2020GL090273. doi:10.1029/2020GL090273.

2. Liangcheng Tan*, Wen Liu, Tianli Wang, Peng Cheng, Jingjie Zang, Xiqian Wang, Le Ma, Dong Li, Jianghu Lan, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Hai Xu, Li Ai, Yongli Gao, Yanjun Cai. A multiple-proxy stalagmite record reveals historical deforestation in central Shandong, northern China. Science China Earth Sciences, 2020, 63(10): 1622-1632. doi: 10.1007/s11430-019-9649-1.

3. Liangcheng Tan*, Jingyao Zhao, Dong Li, Yongli Gao. Cave air CO2 monitoring in Shenqi Cave, southwest China, 16th Sinkhole Conference NCKRI Symposium, 2020, 8: 48-52. （Conference Papers）

4. Jianghu Lan, Hai Xu*, Yunchao Lang, Keke Yu, Peng Zhou, Shugang Kang, Kangen Zhou, Xulong Wang, Tianli Wang, Peng Cheng, Dongna Yan, Shiyong Yu, Ping Che, Yuanda Ye, Liangcheng Tan*. Dramatic weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon in northern China during the transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age. Geology, 2020,48 (4): 307–312. doi: 10.1130/G46811.1.

2019：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Chuan-Chou Shen*, Ludvig Löwemark, Sakonvan Chawchai, R. Lawrence Edwards, Yanjun Cai, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Hai Cheng, Yu-Chen Chou, Helmut Duerrast, Judson W. Partin,Wenju Cai, Akkaneewut Chabangborn, Yongli Gao, Ola Kwiecien, Chung-Che Wu, Zhengguo Shi, Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Barbara Wohlfarth. Rainfall variations in central Indo-Pacific over the past 2700 yr. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116 (35): 17201-17206. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1903167116.

2. Tianli Wang, Liangcheng Tan*, Hai Xu*, Jingjie Zang, Dong Li, Jianghu Lan, Yongming Han, Li Li. The selection of a primary marker for the Anthropocene. Science Bulletin, 2019, 64: 1643–1645. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2019.09.019.

3. Dong Li, Liangcheng Tan*, Fei Guo, Yanjun Cai, Youbin Sun, Gang Xue, Xing Cheng, Hong Yan, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Yongli Gao, Jessica Kelley. 2019. Application of Avaatech X-ray fluorescence core-scanning in Sr/Ca analysis of speleothems. Science China Earth Sciences, 2019, 62(6): 964-973. doi: 10.1007/s11430-018-9344-2.

4. Dong Li, Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Xiuyang Jiang, Le Ma, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Haiwei Zhang, Yongli Gao, Zhisheng An. Is Chinese stalagmite δ18O solely controlled by the Indian summer monsoon? Climate Dynamics, 2019, 53(5-6): 2969–2983. doi: 10.1007/s00382-019-04671-x.

2018：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng, Lawrence R. Edwards, Jianghu Lan, Haiwei Zhang, Dong Li, Le Ma, Peipei Zhao, Yongli Gao. High resolution monsoon precipitation changes on southeastern Tibetan Plateau over the past 2300 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018, 195: 122-‌132. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.021.

2. Liangcheng Tan*, Chuan-Chou Shen, Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards. Great Flood in the middle-lower Yellow River reaches at 4000 a BP inferred from accurately-dated stalagmite records. Science Bulletin, 2018, 63(4): 206–208. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2018.01.023.

3.  Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng, Lawrence R. Edwards, Yongli Gao, Hai Xu, Haiwei Zhang, Zhisheng An. Centennial- to decadal- scale monsoon precipitation variations in the upper Hanjiang River region, China over the past 6650 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018, 482: 580-590. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.044.

4. Peipei Zhao, Liangcheng Tan *, Pu Zhang*, Shengjie Wang, Buli Cui, Dong Li, Gang Xue, Xing Cheng. Stable isotopic characteristics and influencing factors in precipitation in the monsoon marginal region of northern China. Atmosphere, 2018, 9(3), 97. doi: 10.3390/atmos9030097.

2017：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Zhisheng An, Hai Cheng, Chuan-Chou Shen, Yongli Gao, R. Lawrence Edwards. Decreasing monsoon precipitation in southwest China during the last 240 years associated with the warming of tropical sea surface temperature. Climate Dynamics, 2017, 48(5-6), 1769-1778. doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3171-y. 

2016：

1. Liangcheng Tan *, Yougui Song, Yanjun Cai, Zhisheng An, Orozbaev Rustam, Mamadjanov Yunus, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Dong Li, Yue Li. Preliminary studies of speleothem in central Asia. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2016, 90(6): 2279-2280. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00244. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.13045.

2015：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Zhisheng An, Hai Cheng, Chuan-Chou Shen, Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach, R. Lawrence Edwards, Haiwei Zhang, Yajuan Du. A Chinese cave links climate change, social impacts, and human adaptation over the last 500 years. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 12284. doi: 10.1038/srep12284.

2. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Chuan-Chou Shen, Yongli Gao, Zhisheng An. Climate significance of speleothem δ18O from central China on decadal timescale. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015, 106: 150-155. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.03.008.

3. Yucheng Wu#, Liangcheng Tan#, WuXing Liu, BaoZhan Wang, Yanjun Cai, Xiangui Lin. Profiling bacterial diversity in a limestone cave of the western Loess Plateau of China. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015, 6: 244. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00244 (#co first author). doi:  10.3389/fmicb.2015.00244. 

2014：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Zhisheng An, Chih-An Huh, Yanjun Cai, Chuan-Chou Shen, Liang-Jian Shiau, Libin Yan, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards. Cyclic precipitation variation on the western Loess Plateau of China during the past four centuries. Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, 6381. doi:10.1038/srep06381.

2. Liangcheng Tan*, Ian J. Orland, Hai Cheng. Annually laminated speleothems in paleoclimate studies. Past Global Changes Magazine, 2014, 22(1): 22-23. doi: 10.22498/pages.22.1.22.

3. Liangcheng Tan*, Chuan-Chou Shen, Yanjun Cai, Li Lo, Hai Cheng, Zhisheng An. Trace element variations in an annually layered stalagmite as recorders of climatic changes and anthropogenic pollution in Central China. Quaternary Research, 2014, 81: 181-188. doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.12.001.

2013之前：

1. Liangcheng Tan*, Liang Yi, Yanjun Cai, Chuan-Chou Shen, Hai Cheng, Zhisheng An. Quantitative temperature reconstruction based on growth rate of annually-layered stalagmite: A case study from central China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013, 72: 137-145. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.04.022.

2. Liangcheng Tan*, Haiwei Zhang, Shijiang Qin, Zhisheng An. Climatic and anthropogenic impacts on δ13C variations in a stalagmite from central China. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2013, 24(3): 333-343. doi:10.3319/TAO.2012.12.27.01.

3. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Zhisheng An, Liang Yi, Haiwei, Zhang, Shijiang Qin. Climate patterns in north central China during the last 1800 yr and their possible driving force. Climate of the Past, 2011, 7: 685-692. doi: 10.5194/cp-7-685-2011.

4. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Zhisheng An, R. Lawrence Edwards; Hai Cheng, Chuan-Chou Shen, Haiwei Zhang. Centennial- to decadal-scale monsoon precipitation variability in the semihumid region, northern China during the last 1860 years: records from stalagmites in Huangye Cave. The Holocene, 2011, 21: 287-296. doi: 10.1177/0959683610378880.

5. Liangcheng Tan, Yanjun Cai*, Hai Cheng, Zhisheng An, R. Lawrence Edwards. Summer monsoon precipitation variations in central China over the past 750 years derived from a high-resolution absolute-dated stalagmite. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2009, 280: 432-439. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.030.

6. Liangcheng Tan*, Yanjun Cai, Liang Yi, Zhisheng An, Li Ai. Precipitation variations of Longxi, northeast margin of Tibetan Plateau since AD 960 and their relationship with solar activity. Climate of the Past, 2008, 4: 19-28. https://www.clim-past.net/4/19/2008/.

Postgraduate Students

TianliWang     PhD student       Environmental Science  （2017-2022）

Xiqian Wang   PhD student      Quaternary Geology       （2018-2023）

Fangyuan Lin  PhD student      Quaternary Geology       （2018-2023）

Huiru Tang      PhD student       Geochemistry                 （2019-2024） 

Lvfan Chen     Master student   Environmental Science  （2020-2023）

Xu Lin             Master student  Quaternary Geology       （2021-2024）

Haoyang Wu   Master student   Quaternary Geology       （2022-2025）

Lu Zhang        Master student    Quaternary Geology      （2022-2025）

Graduate Students

Dong Li           PhD student       Environmental Science  （2013-2019）

Jointly Educates Students

Peipei Zhao    Master student （2015-2018）

Yanzhen Li     PhD student     （2019-2023）

1.  Young Scientist Award, Shaanxi Province, 2015

2.  Distinguish Fellow of The Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016

3.  Shaanxi Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2018

4.  Liu Tungsheng Prize for Outstanding Young Scientists, Chinese Association for Quaternary Research, 2019

5.  Special Contribution Award of Youth Geoscience Forum, 2019

6.  First prize of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Academy of Sciences, 2020 (rank the first)

7.  Second Prize of Shaanxi Natural Science, 2021 (rank the third)

8.  "Young Scholars" of Qinling ecological and environmental protection, 2021

9.  Most beautiful science and technology workers in Shaanxi, 2022

Liangcheng Tan, Ruixue Mao, Yanjun Cai. The utility model relates to a geological core cutting machine with low loss and low pollution. China: CN204382510U, 2015.06.10.