Job description
Coastal wetlands and lagoons in southern China serve as critical archives of environmental change, preserving high-resolution records of ecosystem responses to climate variability, sea-level fluctuations, and intensifying anthropogenic pressures. This project aims to understand better how coastal ecosystem response to environmental pressures such as typhoon events, sea level rise and recent anthropogenic disturbance. We will use physicalchemical and biological approches (diatoms, foraminifera, ostracod etc) to:
- Identify key pressures on coastal wetlands and lagoons in southern China through a water-sediment-ecological perspective;
- Reconstruct centennial-scale relative sea-level changes using transfer function models calibrated with modern bio-indicator datasets;
- Quantify the ecological impacts of typhoon activity and sea-level rise on coastal wetland in the past centuries or since the Holocene.
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Some examples of studies from our group as follow:
1) Xian, Hanbiao; Dong, Xuhui*; Li, Yan; et al; High-resolution reconstrruction of typhoon events since ~1850 CE based on multi-proxy sediment records in a coastal lagoon, South China, Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 803
2) Wang, Yajing; Dong,, Xuhui*; Xian, Hanbiao; et al; Emerging environmental risks to the largest coastal lagoon (Pinqing Lagoon) on the Chinese mainland: Assessment through a water-sediment-ecological perspective, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024, 212
3) Xian, Hanbiao; Dong,, Xuhui*; Wang, Yu; et al; Geochemical baseline establishment and pollution assessment of heavy metals in the largest coastal lagoon (Pinging Lagoon) in China mainland, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022, 177.
Desired skills and experience
- PhD in Marine Geology, Paleoclimatology, Environmental Science, or related field (awarded within the past 3 years)
- Background in micropaleontology, sedimentology, or coastal geomorphology
- Demonstrated publication record in international journals (minimum 1 first-author papers)
About the employer
We offer a competitive salary (>320,000 CNY per year before tax, depending on the performance) and standard social benefit and insurance. Conditions of employment follow the rules of Guangzhou University and the Chinese Postdoc Administrative Committee.
Two positions are designed for 2 years each.
We invite you to discuss your case with Prof. Xuhui Dong (xhdong@gzhu.edu.cn) by sending your full curriculum vitae, before you make a formal application.
Additional information regarding the formal appliction can be found on: https://rsc.gzhu.edu.cn/info/1053/2230.htm.
Areas of Research
- Environmental Science
- Earth Geosciences
- Oceanography
