· 学习经历

中国地质大学（武汉），地理科学（第四纪方向）学士学位，中国武汉，2012.06
中国科学院大学（中科院地球环境研究所），第四纪地质学博士学位，中国北京、西安，2018.01

· 工作简历

2018.07-2022.02，中国海洋大学，海洋科学博士后流动站博士后，中国青岛
2022.03-至今，中国海洋大学，海底科学与探测技术教育部重点实验室副教授，中国青岛

· 获奖情况

2017年博士研究生国家奖学金
2018年北京市优秀毕业生
2018年黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室主任奖学金-特等奖

· 主持的科研项目

（1）国家自然科学基金青年科学基金，末次冰消期以来澳大利亚季风前缘区水文气候变化特征与机制（42103027），2022-2024
（2）青岛市博士后应用项目，长江中下游地区末次冰消期典型冷期东亚夏季风的演化特征及机制，2019-2022
（3）黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室开放基金，末次冰消期大九湖盆地降水变化特征（SKLLQG1843），2019-2020

· 学科方向

第四纪地质学、海洋地质学、古海洋学

· 研究方向

以湖泊、泥炭、海洋沉积物等为载体，利用地球化学、物理、生物等多种方法，探究多时空尺度古气候与古环境变化特征及机制

[1] Wenchao Zhang*, John Dodson, Maoxiang Chang, Guangxue Li. Hydrological changes related to ENSO-like states during the last deglaciation in central eastern China. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2021, 36(10): e2021PA004279.
[2] Wenchao Zhang*, Maoxiang Chang, Hong Yan, John Dodson, Guangxue Li*. Synchronous changes in the East Asian-Australian summer monsoons around 7.2 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2021, 567: 110303.
[3] Wenchao Zhang, Hong Yan*, John Dodson, Peng Cheng, Chengcheng Liu, Jianyong Li, Fengyan Lu, Weijian Zhou, Zhisheng An. The 9.2 ka event in Asian summer monsoon area: the strongest millennial scale collapse of the monsoon during the Holocene. Climate Dynamics, 2018, 50(7-8): 2767-2782.
[4] Wenchao Zhang, Hong Yan*, Chengcheng Liu, Peng Cheng, Jianyong Li, Fengyan Lu, Xiaolin Ma, John Dodson, Henk Heijnis, Weijian Zhou, Zhisheng An. Hydrological changes in Shuangchi Lake, Hainan Island, tropical China, during the Little Ice Age. Quaternary International, 2018, 487: 54-60.
[5] Wenchao Zhang, Hong Yan*, Peng Cheng, Fengyan Lu, Ming Li, John Dodson, Weijian Zhou, Zhisheng An. Peatland development and climate changes in the Dajiuhu basin, central China, over the last 14,100 years. Quaternary International, 2016, 425: 273-281.
[6] Ge Shi, Hong Yan*, Wenchao Zhang, John Dodson, Henk Heijnis, Mark Burrows. Rapid warming has resulted in more wildfires in northeastern Australia. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 771: 144888.
[7] Ge Shi, Hong Yan*, Wenchao Zhang, John Dodson, Henk Heijnis. The impacts of volcanic eruptions and climate changes on the development of Hani peatland in northeastern China during the Holocene. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2021, 210: 104691.
[8] Liyan Wang, Guangxue Li*, Linmiao Wang, Wenchao Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yong Liu, Xiangdong Wang, Haoyin Wang. In-phase and out-of-phase behavior of the East Asian summer and winter monsoons recorded in the South Yellow Sea sediment over the past 9.5 ka. Quaternary Research, 2021, 99: 96-113.
[9] Fengyan Lu, John Dodson*, Wenchao Zhang, Hong Yan. Mid to late Holocene environmental change and human impact: A view from Central China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019, 223: 105953.
[10] John Dodson*, Jianyong Li*, Fengyan Lu, Wenchao Zhang, Hong Yan*, Shuan Cao. A Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and environmental record from Shuangchi Maar, Hainan Province, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 523: 89-96.
[11] Chengcheng Liu, Hong Yan*, Haobai Fei, Xiaolin Ma, Wenchao Zhang, Ge Shi, Willie Soon, John Dodson, Zhisheng An. Temperature seasonality and ENSO variability in the northern South China Sea during the Medieval Climate Anomaly interval derived from the Sr/Ca ratios of Tridacna shell. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2019, 180: 103880.
[12] Hong Yan*, Chengcheng Liu, Wenchao Zhang, Ming Li, Xufeng Zheng, Gangjian Wei, Louhua Xie, Wenfeng Deng, Liguang Sun. ENSO variability around 2000 years ago recorded by Tridacna gigas δ18O from the South China Sea. Quaternary International, 2017, 452:148-154.