Current Affiliation: Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS, China

Email: zbdong@lzb.ac.cn OR zbdong@snnu.edu.cn

Employment

Professor, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Research Professor, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS, China

Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Education

Ph.D., Institute of Desert Research, CAS (1995)

MSc., Institute of Desert Research, CAS (1991)

BSc., Shaanxi Normal University (1988)

Three Key Research Projects

The responses to global change of aeolian desertification in the Tibetan Plateau (￥25,000,000, funded by National Key Research Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of China）

PI: A study of the Martial analogues of terrestrial aeolian landforms in desert of the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas (￥2,950,000, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China)

PI: Processes and environments for the development of linear dunes around the Qarham Salt Lakes (￥850,000; the National Natural Science Foundation of China)

Five Key Publications

Dong, Z.B., Lv,P. (2014) Recent advances in research on the aeolian geomorphology of China's Kumtagh Sand Sea. Advance in Geosciences 37: 41-46

Dong, Z.B., Qian, G.Q., Lv, P., Hu, G.Y. (2013) Investigation of the sand sea with the tallest dunes on Earth: China's Badain Jaran Sand Sea. Earth-Science Reviews 120: 20-39

Dong, Z.B., Zhang, Z.C., Qian, G.Q., Luo, W.Y., Lu, J.F. (2013) Geomorphology of star dunes in the southern Kumtagh Desert, China: control factors and formation. Environmental Earth Sciences 69: 267-277

Dong, Z.B.,Lv, P., Lu, J.F., Qian, G.Q.,Zhang, Z.C., Luo, W.Y. (2012) Geomorphology and origin of Yardangs in the Kumtagh Desert, Northwest China. Geomorphology 139-140: 145-154

Luo, W.Y., Dong, Z.B.,Qian, G.Q.,Lu, J.F. (2012) Wind tunnel simulation of the three-dimensional airflow patterns behind cuboid obstacles at different angles of wind incidence, and their significance for the formation of sand shadows. Geomorphology 139-140: 258-270

Updated on September 15, 2016