Welcome to the School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University

TIAN Jun

  TIAN Jun


  Professor


  Email  tianjun@tongji.edu.cn


  Tel    021-65980356


  Room  313, Ocean building


  Homepage Link   http://ocean.tongji.edu.cn/space/tianjun/


Education

  • 2006.08-2008.02: MARUM-Research Centre Ocean Margins, Bremen University, Germany, Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship

  • 2003.11-2003.12: Institute for Geosciences, Olshausenstr, Kiel University, Germany, Visiting Scientist

  • 2002.02-2002.03: Université catholique de Louvain Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique G. Lemaître Chemin du Cyclotron 2, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Visting student

  • 1999.3-2003.3: Tongji University, Marine Geology, Ph.D.

  • 1999-2002: Tongji University, Ph.D

  • 1996-1999: China University of Geosciences(Wuhan), M.S.

  • 1992-1996: China University of Geosciences(Wuhan), B.A.

Employment

  • 2009.12-: Tongji University, Professor

  • 2005.06-2009.11: Tongji University, Associate Professor

  • 2003.04-2005.05: Tongji University, Assistant Professor

Research Interests

  • Marine Geology

  • Paleoceanography

  • Paleoclimate

  • Quaternary Sciences

  • Elemental and isotopic geochemistry

  • Paleoclimate modelling

Projects

  • The Neogene global ice volume, carbon reservoir and ocean circulation in Pacific Ocean.

  • A single age model for all equatorial Pacific ocean drilling sites.

Publications


  • Ma, X.L.*, Tian, J.*, Ma, W.T., Li, K., and Yu, J.M., 2018. Changes of deep Pacific overturning circulation and carbonate chemistry during middle Miocene East Antarctic ice sheet expansion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 484:253–263.

  • Tian, J.*, Ma, X.L., Zhou, J.H., and Wang, W.J., 2017. Subsidence of the northern South China Sea and formation of the Bashi Strait in the latest Miocene: paleoceanographic evidences from 9-Myr high resolution benthic foraminiferal d18O and d13C records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466: 382–391, PALAEO8076.

  • Huang, Enqing, Tian, J., Qiao, P.J., Wan, S., Xie, X., and Yang, W.G., 2015. Early interglacial carbonate-dilution events in the South China Sea: Implication for strengthened typhoon activities over subtropical East Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews,125:61-77.

  • Huang, Enqing, Tian, J., and Liu, JingJing, 2015. Dynamics of the Australian–Indonesian monsoon across Termination II: Implications of molecular-biomarker reconstructions from the Timor Sea. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 423:32–43.

  • Tian, J.*, Wentao Ma, Mitchell Lyle, Julia Shackford, 2014. Synchronous mid-Miocene upper and deep oceanic d13C changes in the east equatorial Pacific linked to ocean cooling and ice sheet expansion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 406:72-80.

  • Ma,W.T., Chai, F., Xiu, P., Xue, H.J., and Tian, J., 2014. Simulation of export production and biological pump structure in the South China Sea. Geo-Marine Letters, DOI 10.1007/s00367-014-0384-0.

  • Ma, W.T., and Tian, J., 2014. Modeling the contribution of dissolved organic carbon to carbon sequestration during the last glacial maximum. Geo-Mar Lett, 34:471-482.

  • Ma, W.T., Fei Chai, Peng Xiu, Huijie Xue, and Jun Tian, 2013.Modeling the long-term variability of phytoplankton functional groups and primary productivity in the South China Sea. Journal of Oceanography, 69:527-544.

  • Tian, J.*, 2013. Coherent variations of the obliquity components in global ice volume and ocean carbon reservoir over the past 5 Ma. Science China Earth Sciences, 56(12):2160-2172.

  • Tian, J.*, M. Yang, M. W. Lyle, R. Wilkens, and J. K. Shackford, 2013. Obliquity and long eccentricity pacing of the Middle Miocene climate transition, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 14, 1740–1755, doi:10.1002/ggge.20108.

  • Huang Enqing* and Tian Jun*, 2012. Sea-level rises at Heinrich stadials of early Marine Isotope Stage 3: Evidence of terrigenous n-alkane input in the southern South China Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 94-95:1-12.

  • Tian, J.*, X. Xie, W. Ma, H. Jin, and P. Wang, 2011. X-ray fluorescence core scanning records of chemical weathering and monsoon evolution over the past 5 Myr in the southern South China Sea, Paleoceanography, 26, PA4202, doi:10.1029/2010PA002045.

  • Ma Wentao, Tian Jun, Li Qianyu and Wang Pinxian, 2011. Simulation of long eccentricity (400‐kyr) cycle in ocean carbon reservoir during Miocene Climate Optimum: Weathering and nutrient response to orbital change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10701, doi:10.1029/2011GL047680.

  • Huang Enqing*, Tian Jun*, Steinke S., 2011. Millennial-scale dynamics of the winter cold tongue in the southern South China Sea over the past 26 ka and the East Asian winter monsoon. Quat. Res., 75:196–204.

  • Tian C.C., and Tian Jun*, 2010. Warming magnitude of Indonesian Throughflow during the penultimate deglaciation (Termination II) and its relationship with climate change in high-latitude regions. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55 (32): 3709-3717.

  • Tian J.*, Enqing Huang, Dorothy K.Pak, 2010. East Asian winter monsoon variability over the last glacial cycle: Insights from a latitudinal sea-surface temperature gradient across the South China Sea. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 292:319–324.

  • Wang P., Tian J., Lourens L. (2010): Obscuring of long eccentricity cyclicity in Pleistocene oceanic carbon isotope records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290:319-330.

  • Ma W.*, Tian J.*, and Li Q., 2010. Astronomically modulated late Pliocene equatorial Pacific climate transition and Northern Hemisphere ice sheet expansion. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55(2):212-220.

  • Tian J.*, Amelia Shevenell , Pinxian Wang, Quanhong Zhao, Qianyu Li, Xinrong Cheng, 2009. Reorganization of Pacific Deep Waters linked to middle Miocene Antarctic cryosphere expansion: A perspective from the South China. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 284:375-382.

  • Tian J.*, Quanhong Zhao, Pinxian Wang, Qianyu Li, Xinrong Cheng, 2008. Astronomically modulated Neogene sediment records from the South China Sea, Paleoceanography, 23, PA3210, doi:10.1029/2007PA001552.

  • Huang E.*, Tian J.*, 2008. Melt-Water-Pulse (MWP) events and abrupt climate change of the last deglaciation. Chinese Science Bulletin. 53(18), 2867-2878.

  • Tian J.*, Dorothy K. Pak., P.X. Wang, David Lea, Xinrong Cheng, Quanhong, Zhao (2006): Late Pliocene Monsoon Linkage in the Tropical South China Sea, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 252, 72-81.

  • Tian J.*, P. Wang, R. Chen, and X. Cheng, 2005. Quaternary upper ocean thermal gradient variations in the South China Sea: Implications for east Asian monsoon climate. Paleoceanography, 20, PA4007, doi:10.1029/2004PA001115.

  • Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, Wang Rujian, Sun Xiangjun, 2005. Forcing mechanism of the Pleistocene east Asian monsoon variations in a phase perspective. Science in China (D), 48(10), 1708-1717.

  • Wehausen R., Tian J., Hans-Jürgen Brumsack et al., 2005. Geochemistry of Pliocene sediments from ODP Site 1143 (southern South China Sea). Proc. ODP, Sci. Results 184: College Station, TX. (Ocean Drillin Program).

  • Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, 2004. Responses of foraminiferal isotopic variations at ODP Site 1143 in the southern South China Sea to orbital forcing. Science in China (D) 47(10), 943-953.

  • Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, 2004. Pleistocene Precession forcing of the upper ocean structure variations in the southern South China Sea. Progress in Natural Science 14(11), 1004-1009.

  • Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, 2004. Time-frequency variations of the Plio-Pleistocene foraminiferal isotopes: A case study from the southern South China Sea. Earth Sciences-Journal of China University of Geosciences 15(3), 283-289.

  • Wang P., Tian, J., Xinrong Cheng, Chuanlian Liu, and Jian Xu, 2004. Major Pleistocene stages in a carbon perspective: The South China Sea record and its global comparison. Paleoceanography 19, doi:10.1029/2003PA000991, PA4005 1-16.

  • Tian J.*, Wang P.X., Cheng X.R., 2004. Development of the East Asian monsoon and Northern Hemisphere glaciation: oxygen isotope records from the South China Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23:2007-2016.

  • Wang P., Tian J., Cheng X., Liu C., Xu J., 2003. Carbon reservoir changes preceded major ice-sheets expansion at the mid-Brunhes event. Geology, 31: 239-242.

  • Wang P., Tian J., Cheng X., Liu C., Xu J., 2003. Exploring cyclic changes of the ocean carbon reservoir. Chinese Science Bulletin 48(23): 2536-2548.

  • Tian J.*, Wang P.X., Cheng X.R., Li Q.Y., 2002. Astronomically tuned Plio-Pleistocene benthic d18O records from South China Sea and Atlantic-Pacific comparison. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 203: 1015-1029.

  • Wang P., Tian J., Cheng X., 2001. Transition of Quaternary glacial cyclicity in deep-sea records at Nansha, South China Sea. Science in China (Ser. D) 44, 926-933.

Teaching

  • 《Physical Geology》(undergraduate course)

  • 《Earth System Sciences》(postgraduate and doctoral course)