研究兴趣
1.南海及周边环境演变，尤其是陆地植被环境及海-陆协同变化过程，包括台湾、马来西亚及印度尼西亚玩新生代的演化历史；
2.新疆罗布泊在第四纪的环境与气候变迁；
3.热带区域（热带亚洲、南美亚马逊及安第斯山）植被与植物地理的形成于演变过程及比较；
4.孢子与花粉检索数据库

科研项目
1.长时间尺度看过去几个冰期-间冰期旋回中南海北部周边陆地植被生态系统自然动态与全新世人类活动的深刻影响（41877429），2019.1-2022.12(时间)，61万（金额），国家自然科学基金面上项目，负责人；
2.巽他陆架古环境演变，海洋地质国家重点实验室自主课题，2017.1-2019.12，200万元，主要参与人。

研究成果(论文)
Cheng, ZJ, Weng, CY*, Stephan Steinke and Mahyar Mohtadi. 2018.Anthropogenic modification of vegetated landscapes in southern China from 6,000 years ago.Nature Geoscience 11: 939-943.
Connor Nolan, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Judy R. M. Allen, Patricia M. Anderson, Julio L. Betancourt, Heather A. Binney, Simon Brewer, Mark B. Bush, Brian M. Chase, Rachid Cheddadi, Morteza Djamali, John Dodson, Mary E. Edwards, William D. Gosling, Simon Haberle, Sara C. Hotchkiss, Brian Huntley, Sarah J. Ivory, A. Peter Kershaw, Soo-Hyun Kim, Claudio Latorre, Michelle Leydet, Anne-Marie Lézine, Kam-Biu Liu, Yao Liu, A. V. Lozhkin, Matt S. McGlone, Robert A. Marchant, Arata Momohara, Patricio I. Moreno, Stefanie Müller, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Caiming Shen, Janelle Stevenson, Hikaru Takahara, Pavel E. Tarasov, John Tipton, Annie Vincens, Chengyu Weng, Qinghai Xu, Zhuo Zheng, Stephen T. Jackson*. 2018. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. SCIENCE 361(6405) : 920-923.
Cheng, ZJ , Weng, CY*, Guo, JQ, Dai, L, and Zhou, ZZ. 2018. Vegetation responses to late Quaternary climate change in a biodiversity hotspot, the Three Parallel Rivers region in southwestern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 491: 10-20.
翁成郁, 2017. 巽他区域地质气候环境演变与陆地生物多样性形成与变化. 地球科学进展 32: 1163~1173
Hao Xiu-dong，Weng Chengyu*，Huang Chi-yue，Ouyang Xu-hong. 2017. Mid-late Miocene vegetation and environments in Southeast China: insights from a marine palynological record in northwestern Taiwan，Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 138：306-316
Dai Lu，Weng Chengyu * . 2015. Marine palynological record for tropical climate variations since the late last glacial maximum in the northern South China Sea，Deep-Sea Research II 122：153-162
Lu Dai，Chengyu Weng *，Limi Mao，2015. Patterns of vegetation and climate change in the northern South China Sea during the last glaciation inferred from marine palynological records，Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology，440：249-258
郝秀东，翁成郁*，2015. 粪生真菌孢子在古生态学研究中的指示意义，海洋地质与第四纪地质 35（1）：178-184
Lu Dai，Chengyu Weng*，Jun Lu，Limi Mao，2014. Pollen quantitative distribution in marine and fluvial surface sediments from the northern South China Sea: New insights into pollen transportation and deposition mechanisms. Quaternary International，325：136~149
戴璐，翁成郁，陆钧，刘元兵，2012。南海北部表层沉积物的孢粉分布及其传播机制，海洋地质与第四纪地质，32：93-108
Dai Lu，WENG Chengyu，2011. A survey on pollen dispersal in the western Pacific Ocean and its paleoclimatological significance as a proxy for variation of the Asian winter monsoon，SCIENCE CHINA-Earth Sciences，54（2）：249-258.
戴璐，翁成郁. 2010. 西太平洋海域冬季花粉传播观测及其在东亚季风研究中的意义. 中国科学: 地球科学第 40 卷第 7 期: 893 ~ 902.
Weng, CY; Hooghiemstra, H; Duivenvoorden, JF 2007. Response of pollen diversity to the climate-driven altitudinal shift of vegetation in the, Colombian Andes PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICALSCIENCES 362(1478): 253~262
Weng, CY; Hooghiemstra, H; Duivenvoorden, JF 2006. Challenges in estimating past plant diversity from fossil pollen data: statistical assessment, problems, and possible solutions DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS 12(3): 310~318 12(3)
Jackson, ST; Weng, CY. 1999. Late quaternary extinction of a tree species in eastern North America. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (PNAS) 1999.11.23 96(24) : 13847~13852.
边叶萍, 翁成郁. 2009. 孢粉稳定碳同位素研究进展.海洋地质与第四纪地质 29(3):141-148.
Bush, M.B. and Weng. CY. 2007. Introducing a new (freeware) tool for palynology. Journal of Biogeography 34: 377-380.
Weng, Chengyu; Bush, Mark B.; Curtis, Jason H. 2006. Deglaciation and Holocene climate change in the western Peruvian Andes . Quaternary Research 66: 87-96.
Weng, CY; Bush, MB; Chepstow-Lusty, AJ. 2004. Holocene changes of Andean alder (Alnus acuminata) in highland Ecuador and Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science 19: 685-691.
Weng, CY; Bush, MB; Silman, MR. 2004. An analysis of modern pollen rain on an elevational gradient in southern Peru. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 113-124
Weng, CY; Bush, MB; Athens, JS 2002. Holocene climate change and hydrarch succession in lowland Amazonian Ecuador. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 120: 73-90.
Weng, CY; Jackson, ST. 2000. Species differentiation of North American spruce (Picea) based on morphological and anatomical characteristics of needles. Canadian Journal of Botany 78: 1367-1383
Weng, CY; Jackson, ST 1999. Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation history and paleoclimate of the Kaibab Plateau, Arizona. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 153: 179-201.

教学情况
主讲课程：
《旅游地质学》(本科生)
《海洋生物学》(本科生)
《第四纪环境学导论》(硕士研究生)
《古植物生态》
《第四纪环境学》(博士研究生)

指导研究生
在读研究生：
博士：程仲景、欧阳绪红
已毕业研究生：
硕士：程仲景、李盛辉、郭胜、李梦驰
博士：戴璐、郝秀东