• Coral biomineralization and adaptation to climate change
• Holocene marine climate reconstruction
• Advanced clumped isotope methods for paleoclimate reconstruction

• Bachelor of Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Sep 1998 – Jun 2002)
• Doctor of Philosophy of Geochemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Sep 2002 – Jun 2007)

• Recipient of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2017)
• Hou Defeng Young Scientist Award in Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (2018)
• Wiley China High-Contribution Author Award (2024)

1.      

Xuefei

Chen, Wenfeng Deng*, Zhibing Wang, Yangrui Guo, Jie Li, Xiaolei

Yu, Hui Huang, Gangjian Wei (2026) Symbiont-mediated molybdenum cycling shapes

coral skeletal Mo isotopes. Geophysical

Research Letters 53, e2026GL123572.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GL123572

2.      

Guangchao Deng, Huimin Guo, Xuefei Chen, Jian-xin

Zhao, Gangjian Wei, Wenfeng Deng*  (2026) Coral δ¹³C reveals Little

Ice Age dimming of tropical surface shortwave radiation not captured by climate

models. Geophysical Research Letters 53, e2026GL121885. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GL121885

3.      

Guangchao Deng, Xuefei Chen, Huiling Kang, Gangjian

Wei, Wenfeng Deng* (2026) Monthly resolved

coral Ba/Ca evidence for a post‑Little Ice Age decline in East Asian

dust delivery to the western Pacific. Journal

of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

131, e2025JD045088. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD045088

4.      

Kai Kong, Yangrui

Guo*, He Tang, Fei Tang, Yiwei Chen, Gangjian Wei, Wenfeng Deng* (2025) Quantifying elevation effects on δ¹³C,

δ¹⁸O, and clumped isotope (Δ₄₇) in modern terrestrial

carbonates from the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for

paleoelevation reconstruction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth

Surface 130, e2025JF008315. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JF008315

5.      

Huimin Guo,

Xuefei Chen, Yangrui Guo, Jian-xin Zhao, Gangjian Wei, Wenfeng Deng* (2025) Coral-derived seasonal seawater δ¹⁸O

records from the Northern South China Sea: Hydroclimatic insights into the

Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age. Global and Planetary Change

246, 104718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104718

6.      

Wenfeng Deng* (2024) Ocean

warming and warning. Nature Climate Change 14(2),

118-119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01921-z (Invited

commentary)

7.      

Xuefei Chen, Wenfeng Deng*, Jian-xin Zhao, Gangjian

Wei (2024) Interhemispheric synchrony of Mid-Late Holocene SST in the

Indo-Pacific warm pool linked to upper water column dynamics. Quaternary

Science Reviews 346, 109064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109064

8.      

Yuxuan Wei, Wenfeng Deng*, Xuefei Chen, Gangjian

Wei (2024) A comprehensive evaluation of machine learning on coral trace

element paleothermometers for sea surface temperature reconstruction. Paleoceanography

and Paleoclimatology 39, e2024PA004885,

https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004885

9.       Xuefei Chen, Wenfeng Deng*, Hangfang Xiao, Yangrui

Guo, Gangjian Wei (2024) A perspective on probing coral resilience to climate

and environmental changes using stable isotopes of bio-utilized metal elements.

Journal

of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129,

e2023JG007656,

https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007656 (invited article for the 20th Anniversary Commemorative Issue)

10.   

Huimin Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, Xuefei Chen, Jian-xin

Zhao, Gangjian Wei (2024) Reevaluating the Little Ice Age: Novel insights from

oceanic and terrestrial records on unexpected warm winters. Quaternary

Science Reviews 327, 108527.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108527

11.   

Hongwei Ping*, Wenfeng Deng*, Honghan Chen,

Yangrui Guo, Kai Kong, Xin Yang, Jianzhang Liu (2024) Fluid inclusion

calibration of clumped-isotope solid-state reordering in dolomite: Implication

for thermal history reconstruction in deeply buried reservoirs. Marine

and Petroleum Geology 163, 106773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106773

12.   

Xuefei Chen, Wenfeng Deng*,

Hangfang Xiao, Huimin Guo, Ti Zeng, Jian-xin Zhao, Gangjian Wei (2023) Coral

paleoclimate perspectives support the role of low-latitude forcing on the 4.2

ka BP event. Geophysical Research Letters 50, e2023GL104010.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104010

13.   

Huimin Guo, Wenfeng Deng*,

Xuefei Chen, Xi Liu, Ti Zeng, Jian-xin Zhao, Gangjian Wei (2023) Coral

Sr/Ca-derived seasonal sea surface temperature variations in the Qiongdong

upwelling area of the northern South China Sea during the Medieval Climate

Anomaly. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 612, 111374.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111374

14.   

Hao Cui, Wenfeng Deng*, Xi Liu, Huiling Kang, Xuefei Chen, Ti Zeng, Guanqiang

Cai, Jian-xin Zhao, Gangjian Wei (2022) Possible link between decadal

variability in precipitation in the South China Sea and the North Atlantic

Oscillation during the 20th century: A perspective from coral geochemical

records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 601, 111118.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111118

15.   

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, Gangjian Wei (2022) Experimental constraints on

clumped isotope fractionation during BaCO₃ precipitation. Geochemistry,

Geophysics, Geosystems 23, e2021GC010249.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010249

16.   

Yuxuan Wei, Wenfeng Deng*, Jinlong Ma, Xuefei Chen, Ti Zeng, Gangjian Wei

(2022) Evaluation of coral skeletal δ⁸⁸Sr as a paleoclimate proxy in

the northern South China Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,

Palaeoecology 592, 110906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110906

17.   

Kai Kong, Wenfeng Deng*, Yangrui Guo, Chunsheng Jin, Qingsong Liu, Gangjian

Wei (2021) Thermal alteration history of the Fenghuoshan Group, Hoh Xil Basin,

northern Tibetan Plateau: Insights from clumped isotope thermometry. Journal

of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126, e2021JB022009.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022009

18.   

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, Xi Liu, Kai Kong, Wen Yan, Gangjian Wei (2021)

Clumped isotope geochemistry of island carbonates in the South China Sea:

Implications for early diagenesis and dolomitization. Marine Geology 437,

106513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106513

19.     

Xi Liu, Wenfeng

Deng*, Hao Cui, Xuefei Chen, Guanqiang Cai, Ti Zeng, Gangjian Wei (2021)

Change of coral carbon isotopic response to anthropogenic Suess effect since

around 2000s. Marine Environmental Research 168, 105328.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105328

20.   

Xi Liu, Wenfeng

Deng*, Yangrui Guo, Gangjian Wei (2021) Improved apparatus for phosphoric

acid digestion of carbonates to determine the carbon, oxygen and clumped

isotope compositions. Analytical Letters, 54(18), 2908-2920.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00032719.2021.1904252

21.     

Jieqiong Zou, Wenfeng Deng*, Xuefei Chen, Xi Liu, Yangrui Guo, Guanqiang Cai,

Xiaoping Xia, Qing Yang, Yanqiang Zhang, Ti Zeng, Gangjian Wei (2021)

Temperature control on high-resolution SIMS oxygen isotopic compositions in

Porites coral skeletons. Solid Earth Sciences 6 (2), 129-141

22.     

Hangfang Xiao, Wenfeng Deng*, Xi Liu, Xuefei Chen, Yangrui Guo, Jian-xin Zhao, Ti

Zeng, Gangjian Wei (2021) A rapid cooling event over the western Pacific region

during the Middle Bronze Age. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 126,

e2020JC016964. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016964

23.     

Hangfang Xiao, Wenfeng Deng*, Gangjian Wei, Jiubin Chen, Xinqing Zheng, Tuo Shi,

Xuefei Chen, Chenying Wang, Xi Liu, Ti Zeng (2020) A pilot study on zinc

isotopic compositions in shallow-water coral skeletons. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

21, e2020GC009430. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009430

24.   

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, GangjianWei, Xuefei Chen, Xi Liu, Xijie Wang, Li Lo,

Guanqiang Cai, Ti Zeng (2020) Exploring the temperature dependence of clumped

isotopes in modern Porites corals. Journal

of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125, e2019JG005402,

https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005402

25.     

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, GangjianWei, Hangfang Xiao, Xuefei Chen (2020) Metabolic significance of temperature-dependent changes in

annual resolution coral δ¹³C from the South China Sea during the

mid-Holocene. Regional Studies in Marine Science 33, 100950.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2019.100950

26.   

Wenfeng Deng*, Gangjian Wei, Jian-xin Zhao,

Ti Zeng (2019) Anthropogenic effects on tropical oceanic climate change and

variability: An insight from the South China Sea over the past 2000 years. Quaternary

Science Reviews 206, 56-64

27.    Xi Liu, Wenfeng Deng*,

Gangjian Wei (2019) Carbon and oxygen isotopic analyses of calcite in

calcite–dolomite mixtures: optimization of selective acid extraction. Rapid

Communications in Mass Spectrometry 33: 411-418. (Cover Article)

28.   

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, Gangjian Wei (2019)

Kinetic effects during the experimental transition of aragonite to calcite in

aqueous solution: Insights from clumped and oxygen isotope signatures. Geochimica

et Cosmochimica Acta 248, 210-230.

29.   

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, GangjianWei, Li Lo, Ning

Wang (2019) Clumped isotopic signatures in land-snail shells revisited:

Possible palaeoenvironmental implications. Chemical Geology 519, 83-94.

30.   

Xijie Wang, Wenfeng Deng*, Xi Liu, Gangjian Wei, Xuefei Chen, Jian-xin Zhao,

Guanqiang Cai, Ti Zeng (2018) Super instrumental El Niño events recorded by a

Porites coral from the South China Sea. Coral Reefs 37, 295-308.

31.    Wenfeng Deng*, Xuefei Chen, Gangjian Wei, Ti Zeng, Jian-xin Zhao (2017) Decoupling

of coral skeletal δ¹³C and solar irradiance over the past millennium

caused by the oceanic Suess effect. Paleoceanography 32, 161–171, doi:10.1002/2016PA003049.

(Cover Article)

32.   

Wenfeng Deng*, Xi Liu, Xuefei Chen, Gangjian

Wei, Ti Zeng, Luhua Xie, Jian-xin Zhao (2017) A comparison of the climates of

the Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age, and Current Warm Period

reconstructed using coral records from the northern South China Sea. Journal

of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121, 264-275, doi:10.1002/2016JC0124584.

33.   

Hangfang Xiao, Wenfeng Deng*, Xuefei Chen, Gangjian

Wei, Ti Zeng, Jian-xin Zhao (2017) Wet and cold climate conditions recorded by

coral geochemical proxies during the beginning of the first millennium CE in

the northern South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 135:

25-34.

34.   

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng Deng*, Xuefei Chen, Gangjian

Wei, Kefu Yu, Jian-xin Zhao (2016) Saltier sea surface water conditions

recorded by multiple mid-Holocene corals in the northern South China Sea. Journal

of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121, 6323-6330, doi:10.1002/2016JC012034.

35.   

Xuefei Chen, Wenfeng Deng*, Hongli Zhu, Zhaofeng

Zhang, Gangjian Wei*, Malcolm

McCulloch (2016) Assessment of coral δ^44/40Ca as a paleoclimate

proxy in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Chemical Geology 435, 71-78.

36.   

Wenfeng Deng*, Gangjian Wei (2015) Decoupling

of seasonal temperature and precipitation over the western Pacific during the

early mid-Holocene. International Journal of Climatology 35, 794-800.

37.    Wenfeng Deng, Gangjian Wei*, Kefu

Yu, Jian-Xin Zhao (2014) Variations in the timing of the rainy

season in the northern South China Sea during the middle to late Holocene. Paleoceanography

29, 115-125, doi: 10.1002/2012PA002417. (Cover Article)

38.   

Wenfeng

Deng*, Gangjian Wei, Malcolm McCulloch, Luhua Xie, Ying Liu, Ti Zeng (2014)

Evaluation of annual resolution coral geochemical records as climate proxies in

the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Coral Reefs 33, 965-977.

39.   

Wenfeng

Deng*, Gangjian Wei (2014) Local origins of interdecadal Pacific

variability in the tropical and North Pacific Ocean: evidence from a

comparative study of coral oxygen isotope records. Geo-Marine Letters 34,

345-352.

40.   

Wenfeng

Deng*, Gangjian Wei*, Luhua

Xie, Kefu Yu (2013) Environmental controls on coral skeletal δ¹³C in

the northern South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

118, 1359-1368, doi: 10.1002/jgrg.20116.

41.   

Wenfeng

Deng, Gangjian Wei*, Luhua

Xie, Ting Ke, Zhibing Wang, Ti Zeng, Ying Liu (2013) Variations in the Pacific

Decadal Oscillation since 1853 in a coral record from the northern South China

Sea. Journal

of Geophysical Research: Oceans 118, 2358-2366, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20180.

42.   

Wenfeng

Deng, Ying Liu, Gangjian Wei*,

Xianhua Li, Xianglin Tu, Luhua Xie, Hong Zhang, Weidong Sun* (2010) High-precision analysis of Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios in

corals by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma optical emission

spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 25(1), 84-87.

43.   

Wen-feng

Deng, Gang-jian Wei*, Xian-hua

Li, Ke-fu Yu, Jian-xin Zhao, Wei-dong Sun, Ying Liu (2009) Paleoprecipitation

record from coral Sr/Ca and δ¹⁸O during the mid Holocene in the

northern South China Sea. The Holocene 19(6), 811-821.

44.   

Wenfeng

Deng*, Yangrui Guo,

Gangjian Wei (2020) The research progress of

clumped isotope geochemistry during the past decade in China. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and

Geochemistry 39(5), 912-926.

45.   

Wenfeng

Deng*, Gangjian Wei, Xuefei Chen, Yangrui Guo (2019) Holocene climate

and environmental change in the South China Sea recorded by coral geochemical

proxies. Bulletin of Mineralogy,

Petrology and Geochemistry 38 (6), 1057-1072.

46.   

Yangrui Guo, Wenfeng

Deng*, Gangjian Wei (2019) A review of recent advances

on coral carbonate clumped isotope signatures. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry 38 (4), 855-866.

47.   

Xi Liu, Wenfeng

Deng*, Jingxian Wei, Gangjian Wei (2016) Analysis of the triple oxygen isotopic

compositions of silicate minerals by using laser fluorination system. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and

Geochemistry 35 (3), 448-453.

48.   

Wenfeng

Deng,

Gangjian Wei*, Kefu Yu (2012) Variations of

mid-late Holocene rainy season reconstructed from coral geochemical proxies in

the Leizhou Peninsula, northern coast of South China Sea. Journal of Earth Environment 3 (2), 826-834.

49.   

Wenfeng

Deng*, Gangjian Wei, Xianhua Li (2005) Online analysis

of carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of impure carbonate. Geochimica 34 (5), 495-500.

50.   

Wenfeng

Deng*, Gangjian Wei, Xianhua Li (2005) High-precision

analysis of foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios by ICP-AES. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology 25 (2), 147-151.

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