Title: Holocene Dust Dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau and Adjacent Regions: Mechanisms of Natural and Human Influences

Time: 9:00, September 15, 2025 (Monday)

Venue: Meeting Room 502, Qilian Hall, Chengguan Campus, Lanzhou University

Reporter Profile:

Yang Junhuai is currently a "Cuiying Postdoctoral Fellow" at Lanzhou University, primarily engaged in research on Holocene climate change and human impacts in the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions. He obtained his Ph.D. in Geography from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, in June 2023. His doctoral dissertation was recognized as an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Gansu Province. In September 2023, he joined the Geography Postdoctoral Research Station at Lanzhou University to continue his research.

To date, Dr. Yang has published 37 academic papers, including 10 SCI papers and 4 Chinese-language papers as first or corresponding author in journals such as Earth-Science Reviews, Global and Planetary Change, Quaternary Science Reviews, Catena, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Advances in Earth Science, and Earth Science Frontiers. He is also co-editor of one academic monograph. Dr. Yang has presided over several research projects, including Young Scientists Fund (Category C) of the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Category C) of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF), both general and special funding from CPSF, the Gansu Provincial Youth Science and Technology Fund Program, and the Postdoctoral Innovation Program supported bythe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. He serves as an inaugural youth editorial board member for Geosciences and Continent and Life Evolution, and is a reviewer for several leading journals, including Geophysical Research Letters, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Quaternary Sciences.

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University

September 23, 2025