Brief CV of Dr. Zhonghui Liu (柳中暉)
Present Position and Address
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
The University of Hong Kong
James Lee Science Building
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
E‐mail:zhliu@hku.hk; Tel: (852) 2859 2831; Fax: (852) 2517 6912
Education
PhD – 2004 Brown University, USA
B Sc – 1996 University of Science and Technology, China (USTC)
Teaching
EASC0136 Introduction to Climatology
EASC2127 Global Change: Anthropogenic Impact
EASC2005 Meteorology
Fields of Research Interests
Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Organic Geochemistry
Selected Publications
1. Herbert, T.D., Peterson, L.C., Lawrence, K.T. & Liu, Z. (2010) Tropical ocean temperatures over the past 3.5 Myr.Science.328,1530‐1534.
2. Pagani, M., Liu, Z., LaRiviere, J., & Ravelo, A.C. (2010) High Earth‐system climate sensitivity determined from Pliocene carbon dioxide concentrations.Nature Geoscience.3, 27‐30.
3. Liu, Z., Pagani, M., Zinniker, D., DeConto, R., Huber, M., Brinkhuis, H., Shah, S.R., Leckie, R.M. & Pearson, A. (2009) Global cooling during the Eocene‐Oligocene climate transition.Science.323, 1187‐1190.
4. Brierley, C.M., Fedorov, A.V., Liu, Z., Herbert, T.D., Lawrence, K.T. & LaRivere, J.P. (2009) Greatly expanded tropical warm pool and weakened Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene.Science.323, 1714‐1718.
5. Liu, Z., Altabet, M.A. & Herbert T.D. (2008) Plio‐Pleistocene denitrification in the eastern tropical North Pacific: Intensification at 2.1 Ma.Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.9, doi:10.1029/2008GC002044.
6. Liu, Z., Cleaveland, L.C. & Herbert T.D. (2008) Early onset and origin of 100‐kyr cycles in tropical SST Pleistocene records.Earth and Planetary Science Letters.265, 703‐715.
7. Liu, Z. & Huang, Y. (2008) Hydrogen isotopic compositions of plant leaf lipids are unaffected by a two‐fold pCO2changes in growth chambers.Organic Geochemistry.39, 478‐482.
8. Liu, Z., Henderson, A.C.G. & Huang, Y. (2008) Regional moisture source changes inferred from late Holocene stable isotopic records.Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.25, 1‐8.
9. Liu, W., Liu, Z., Fu, M. & An, Z. (2008) Distribution of the C37 tetra‐unsaturated alkenone in Lake Qinghai, China: A potential lake salinity indicator.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.72, 988‐997.
10. D’Andrea, W.J., Liu, Z., Da Rosa Alexandre, M., Wattley, S., Herbert, T.D. & Huang, Y. (2007) An efficient method for isolating individual long‐chain alkenones for compound‐specific hydrogen isotope analysis.Analytical Chemistry.79, 3430‐3435.
11. Lawrence, K.T., Liu, Z. & Herbert, T.D. (2006) Evolution of the eastern equatorial Pacific through Plio‐Pleistocene glaciation.Science.312, 79‐83.
12. Liu, Z., Henderson, A.C.G. & Huang, Y. (2006) Alkenone‐based reconstruction of late‐Holocene surface temperature and salinity changes in Lake Qinghai, China.Geophysical Research Letters.33, doi: 10.1029/2006GL026151.
13. Liu, Z., Altabet, M.A. & Herbert T.D. (2005) Glacial‐interglacial modulation of Eastern Tropical North Pacific denitrification over the last 1.8‐Myr,Geophysical Research Letters.32, L23607, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024439.
14. Liu, Z. & Herbert, T.D. (2004) High‐latitude influence on the eastern equatorial Pacific climate in the early Pleistocene epoch.Nature.427, 720‐723.
