Distinguished Professor of Sedimentary Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry
Director of International Center for Sedimentary Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry Research
Director of Institute of Science and Technology Development
Chengdu University of Technology
Mail Address: No.1 East Third Road, Erxianqiao Street, Chenghua District, Chengdu, Sichuan 610059, P.R. China
Email: chaoli@cdut.edu.cn or ucrchaoli@gmail.com
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RESEARCH INTEREST AND ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY
My research focus on the reconstruction of evolution of early atmospheric-oceanic environments and its effects on life evolution, mineral and energic resources using highly-effective and novel sedimentary geochemical proxies (Sedimentary Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry). I published 150 research articles, book chapters including 69 first/corresponding author papers in Nature (2), Science, PNAS, NG, NC (2), Geology (2), EPSL (4) and GCA (8), which received >8700 citations (Google Scholar) with 8 highly-cited papers (Web of Science). I was recognized as World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford and Elsevier since 2023) and in the list of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier since 2023) with a h-index of 47 (Google Scholar). I delivered >30 invited, planetary, keynote talks in various meetings/institutes, including many in Goldschmidt and for general publics and convened >20 meeting/sessions for the community in past 10 years. I have editorially served 10 journals as AE or Vice Chief-Editor and edited 4 Special Issues in journals. I have cultivated 5 postdocs, 19 PhD, 13 M.S. and 32 BSc students in past 15 years (See more details in following).
As the leader of my research group, my major findings and contributions to the field of Sedimentary Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry in past >20 years, include but not limited to:
(1) Found the strong spatial heterogeneity and dynamic nature of the early oceanic chemistry (>510 Ma), and proposed the highly redox-stratified model of “Euxinic Wedge” and its oxidant controlling mechanism for Ediacaran-early Cambrian and Mesoproterozoic oceans (key papers: Li Chao* et al., 2010 Science; Shi (my PhD student), Li Chao* et al., 2018 Geology). The “Euxinic Wedge” model has been considered as a default oceanic chemistry model by the Precambrian community, explaining conflicting redox records and providing a fundamental palaeoceanographic framework for multiple-discipline studies such as paleontology, paleoecology and sedimentology etc.
(2) Found the dynamic expansion of surface oxic waters in ocean shelves and its coupling with early animal radiations, and proposed the hypothesis that early animal radiations were triggered by shelf oceanic oxygenation rather than global oceanic oxygenation suggested previously (key papers: Li Chao* et al., 2017 Geology; 2018 Emerging Topics in Life Sciences). Our finding and hypothesis help reconcile the frequent conflictions among redox and fossil records from different places.
(3) Found the highly spatial heterogeneity of key elemental biogeochemical cycling, and proposed new C-cycling model and Mo-cycling model for the early redox-stratified oceans, implying their substantial difference from modern ocean (key paper: Li Chao* et al., 2017 Geobiology; Cheng (my PhD student), Li Chao* et al., 2016 GCA). Our finding and models help reconcile the frequent conflictions among sedimentary element-isotope records from different sedimentary facies.
(4) Developed the dolomite clumped-isotope geothermometer for deep-time dolomite strata, and firstly found massive formation of early diagenetic dolomite in the Ediacaran ocean and proposed a dissolved organic matter mediation mechanism for the dolomite precipitation in early oceans [key paper: Chang (my PhD student), Li Chao* et al., 2020 PNAS]. We further proposed an early diagenesis mechanism for the dolomite formation in early Earth history, providing new insights for the enigmatic “dolomite problem”.
(5) Developed a new proxy “Carbonate Associated Phosphate” (CAP) for more directly tracking the phosphate levels in ancient oceans and firstly reconstruct the P variations through the largest δ13C negative excursion (i.e., the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion) in Earth history and found the decoupling of P-O cycling in the Ediacaran ocean [key papers: Dodd (my postdoc), Zhang (my student) and Li Chao* et al., 2021 GCA; Dodd, Shi (my student) and Li Chao* et al., 2023 Nature]. The novel “CAP” proxy provides us a direct tool to study the P cycling in ancient ocean and its interaction with overall evolution of the Earth; the finding of the decoupling of P-O2 cycling in the Ediacaran ocean informs us why the majority of the Precambrian oceans could remain in a largely anoxic state for long term and an external stimuli such as sulfate weathering inputs might be a must for early-ocean oxygenation. In turn, this transition may explain the prolonged oxygenation and metazoan habitation of the Phanerozoic oceans.
(6) Developed 17O of “Carbonate Associated Sulfate” (CAS-17O) as a new tool to directly and continuously track and reconstruct atmospheric oxygen levels in Earth history, found a two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface with stepwise rises in atmospheric pO2 consistently preceding oceanic oxygenation, and a positive coupling between atmospheric and oceanic oxygenation on billion-year timescales, but a negative coupling on shorter, million-year timescales. [key papers Wang (my student), Li Chao* et al., 2025 Nature; Wang (my student), Peng*, Li Chao* et al., 2023 Nature Communications]. These findings redefine the atmospheric pO2-evolution curve, greatly improve our understanding of the coevolution of the Earth’s surface environments and complex life, providing a coherent explanation for the anomalous Neoproterozoic carbon cycles and the protracted, episodic rise of complex life.
EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION
l 2022–present, Distinguished Professor of Sedimentary Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry, Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT), China
l 2018–2022, Distinguished Professor of Sedimentary Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry, China University of Geosciences-Wuhan (CUG-Wuhan), China
l 2011–2018, Professor of Sedimentary Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry, China University of Geosciences-Wuhan (CUG-Wuhan), China
l 2009–2011, Associate Research Specialist, University of California-Riverside (UCR), USA. Mentors: Profs. Timothy Lyons and Gordon Love
l 2007–2009, Assistant Research Specialist, University of California-Riverside (UCR), USA. Mentors: Profs. Gordon Love and Timothy Lyons
l 2004–2007, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geobiology, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. Mentor: Prof. Alex Sessions
l 2004–2006, Associate Research Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
l 2002–2004, Assistant Research Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
l 1996-2001, PhD, Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou, China; Thesis title: The molecular organic geochemical study of Paleo- to Neoproterozoic (1.8-0.85Ga) sediments from Jixian Section, North China. Supervisor: Prof. Ping’an Peng
l 1992-1996, BSc, Geochemistry, China University of Geosciences-Wuhan, China
COURSE TEACHING
l Undergraduate students’ courses: (1) Fundamentals of Earth Surface Geochemistry; (2) Introductions to Geology Majors; (3) Geochemistry; (4) New Theories and New Technologies in Biogeology and Environmental Geology; (5) Geological Major Events
l Graduate students’ courses: (1) Biogeology; (2) Frontiers and Methodology in Modern Geosciences; (3) Frontiers Introduction of Significant Projects.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
l Editorial services for 10 academic journals: (1) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (AE; 2019-present), (2) Geobiology (Editorial Advisory Board Member; 2022-present), (3) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Editorial Advisory Board Member; 2018-2022), (4) Science Bulletin (AE: 2021-2023), (5) Science China: Earth Sciences (AE, 2013-present), (6) Acta Geologica Sinica (AE, 2018-present), (7) Journal of Earth Science (AE, 2012-2023), (8) Geochimica (AE, 2018-present), (9) Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science & Technology Edition) (Vice Chief-Editor, 2024-present), (10) Acta Sedimentologica Sinica (AE, 2024-present)
l Guest Editorial service for 4 academic journals: (1) Global and Planetary Change (2023-2024): Special Issue “Life and environments in transition: The Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic world”. (2) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2019-2020): Special Issue “From Snowball Earth to Cambrian Explosion: Co-evolution of life and environments in South China”; (3) Journal of Earth Science (2015-2016): Special Issue “Atmospheric and Oceanic Oxygenation and Evolution of Early Life on Earth”; (4) Acta Sedimentologica Sinica (2024-2025): Special Issue “Nodal discipline: From basic sedimentology to applied sedimentology”.
l Member service for 6 academic commissions: (1) Communication Member for Edicarara Division of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS-ED); (2) Voted Member for Isotope Geology Commission of Geological Society of China (GSC-IGC); (3-6) Executive members for Sedimentology Commission of Geological Society of China (GSC-SC), Microbial Oceanology Commission of Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology (CSOL-MOC), Ocean Chemistry Commission of Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology (CSOL-OCC), Biosedimentology Commission of Paleontological Society of China (PSC-BC).
l Memberships of 4 academic organizations: (1) Registered memberships for Geochemical Society (GS); (2) Lifetime memberships for International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), Geological Society of China (GSC), and Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (CSMPG)
l Peer review service for large number of projects and papers: (1) Peer review for >200 research project proposals from governments and academic institutes in past 10 years including ERC, NSFC etc.; (2) Peer review for >100 academic papers mostly in sedimentary geochemistry and biogeochemistry for international academic journals in past 10 years.
l Convenors or organizers service for many workshops or conferences: for >10 academic conferences, sessions or workshops in past 10 years (cf. Section “Workshops, Conferences or Sessions” below).
POSTDOC AND STUDENTS MENTORED
l Five postdocs: (1) Matthew S. Dodd (2019-2021; now a research fellow at Western Australia University); (2) Liangxuan Jiao (2022-2024; now a lecturer at Chengdu University if Technology-CDUT); (3) Zhiguang Xia (2023-2025; now an assistant professor at CDUT); (4) Yuyue Han (2023-2025; now a lecturer at Chengdu University if Technology-CDUT); (5) Wei Wang (2025-present)
l Eleven Ph.D students graduated: (1) Haodong Gu (2021-2025; now working for industry); (2) Wei Wang (2019-2024; now a postdoc at CDUT); (3) Jun Hu (2016-2021; Winner of Excellent PhD Graduate Nomination Award of CUG; now a lab technician at CDUT), (4) Biao Chang (2013-2020; Winner of Excellent PhD Graduate Award of CUG; now an associate professor at China University of Geosciences-Wuhan), (5) Haiyang Wang (2017-2020; now a research professor at CDUT), (6) Na Li (2017-2020; Winner of Excellent PhD Graduate Award of CUG; now a lab technician at Nanjing University), (7) Wei Shi (2014-2020; Winner of Excellent PhD Graduate Award of CUG and of Chinese National PhD Prize; now a research professor at CDUT), (8) Zihu Zhang (2012-2018; now an engineer at CDUT), (9) Lidan Lei (2012-2017; now an engineer at Southwest University), (10) Chengsheng Jin (2011-2017; Winner of Excellent PhD Graduate Award of CUG; now a professor at Hubei University of Arts and Science), (11) Meng Cheng (2013-2016; Winner of Excellent PhD Graduate Award of CUG; now a research professor at CDUT)
l Eight PhD students supervising: (1) Hao Gou (2025- ), (2) Jinglin Xie (2025- ), (3) Dasheng Zhao (2025- ), (4) Yonghan Fan (2022- ), (5) Ying Wang (2023- ), (6) Tengxiao Ma (2023- ), (7) Hui Song (2024- ), (8) Hong Liu (2024- )
l Thirteen M.S. students graduated: (1) Haiyang Zhang (2021-2024; now working for industry), (2) Lei Zheng (2021-2024; now working for industry), (3) Kaiqi Huang (2020-2023; Winner of Excellent M.S. Graduate Award of CUG; now a PhD student in Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS), (4) Jie Fang (2020-2023; now working for industry), (5) Siyuan Sun (2019-2022; now working for industry), (6) Wei Wang (2017-2019; now a postdoc at CDUT), (7) Haiyang Wang (2014-2017; Winner of Excellent M.S. Graduate Award of CUG and Chinese National M.S. Prize; now a research professor at CDUT), (8) Na Li (2015-2017; now a lab technician at Nanjing University), (9) Shida Tang (2013-2016; now working for government), (10) Wei Shi (2014-2016; now a research professor at CDUT), (11) Hao Cui (2011-2014; now working for industry), (12) Chengsheng Jin (2011-2014; Winner of Excellent PhD Graduate Award of Hubei Province; now a professor at Hubei University of Arts and Science), (13) Zihu Zhang (2012-2014; now an engineer at Chengdu University of technology).
l Thirty-two BSc students for sedimentary geochemistry and biogeochemistry surfing education: (1) Jinglin Xie (2024-2025), (2) Dasheng Zhao (2024-2025), (3) Yangsen Wei (2024-2025), (4) Junru Ling (2022-2023), (5) Lixun Li (2022-2023), (6) Ze Ren (2022-2023), (7) Chengrong Pan (2022-2025), (8) Bowen Deng (2022-2024), (9) Ruyu Shen (2022-2024), (10) Yuming Lu (2022-2024), (11) Jiaruo Zhou (2022-2024), (12) Hao Xiong (2020-2022), (13) Zong’ao Wang (2020-2022), (14) Ben Wang (2020-2022), (15) Haiyang Zhang (2019-2021), (16) Bao Li (2018-2021), (17) Yuetong Sun (2018-2020), (18) Kaiqi Huang (2018-2020), (19) Jie Fang (2018-2020), (20) Tianyi Wang (2018-2020), (21) Pei Wang (2018-2020), (22) Wei Wang (2015-2017), (23) Ming Liang (2015-2017), (24) Yongjie Li (2015-2017), (25) Liangpang Xu (2014-2016), (26) Zhengbing Li (2014-2016), (27) Yujie Shi (2014-2016), (28) Wenbing Zhao (2014-2016), (29) Na Li (2013-2015), (30) Wei Shi (2012-2014), (31) Haiyang Wang (2012-2014), (32) Zhihu Zhang (2011-2012)
RESEARCH PROJECTS
l 2024-2028. Dissolved Organic Carbon in Ancient Oceans (Second-Stage Support Program for Distinguished Young Scholars of National Science Foundation of China), PI, CNY 8M.
l 2022-2027. Detailed Processes and Mechanisms of the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event and Extreme Climatic Events (the National Key Research and Development Program of China), PI, CNY 4.5M.
l 2022-2026. Processes, Mechanism and Geobiological Effects of Ediacaran P-cycling Reorganization (Key Program of National Science Foundation of China), PI, CNY 3M.
l 2022-2024. Evolution of Earth’s surface system in transitional periods (Creative Team Program of Chengdu University of Technology), PI, CNY 3M.
l 2019-2023. Geobiology (Program for Distinguished Young Scholars of National Science Foundation of China), PI, CNY 4M.
l 2019-2024. Geobiology (Program for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China) Co-PI, CNY 2M.
l 2017-2020. Perturbation of the Earth System at the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition and the resilience of the biosphere (National Natural Science Foundation of China–Research Councils UK–Natural Environment Research Council Program), Co-PI, CNY 700K.
l 2013-2017. Biogeochemical Processes and Mechanisms of Microbial Carbon Pump (MCP) in Ancient Oceans and Quantitative MCP Modeling (973 program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China), PI, CNY 5.69M.
l 2011-2016. Biogeochemistry (Talent Program from National Natural Science Foundation of China), PI, CNY 2M.
l 2012-2015. The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Ocean Chemistry in South China in Early Cambrian and Its Interactions with Early Animals” (General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China), PI, CNY 850K.
l 2012-2014. The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Ocean Chemistry in Yanshan Basin (North China) in Late Paleoproterozoic, and Its Influence on the Evolution of Eukaryotic life” (New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Program of the Ministry of Education of China), PI, CNY 500K.
l 2009-2011. Stoichiometry of Life – Task 3a – Ancient Geologic Records (NASA Astrobiology Institute Program, PI Ariel Anbar), key participant, USD 180K.
l 2007-2010. Collaborative Research: Biogeochemistry of Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth and its Aftermath in South China (National Science Foundation of USA Program, PI Gordon Love), key participant, USD 254.6K.
l 2004-2006. Collaborative research: Biogeochemistry of Snowball Earth (National Science Foundation of USA Program, PI Alex Sessions), key participant, USD 74.3K.
l 2003-2006. Collaborative research: Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry of anoxic environments–Field and laboratory studies (Young Program of National Science Foundation of USA Program, PI Alex Sessions), key participant, USD 299.743K.
l 2003-2005. A molecular organic geochemical study of Meso- to Neoproterozoic sediments (National Natural Science Foundation of China Program), PI, CNY 250K.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
l 08/24-25/2025, Guangzhou (China), “Oxygenation of Earth’s Ocean”, Conference of Marine Elemental Cycling, Resource Effects and Environmental Evolution. Invited talk.
l 04/25/2025, Beijing (China), “Oxygenation of Earth’s Ocean”, 8th Chinese National Conference of Sedimentology. Plenary talk.
l 10/25-27/2024, Qingdao (China), “Oceanic Oxygenation and Earth System Perturbations during Neoproterozoic and Cambrian”, 10th Chinese National Bio- and Organic Geochemistry. Plenary talk.
l 08/18-25/2024, Chicago (USA), “Uncovering the Largest Negative Carbon Isotope Excursion in Earth History”, Goldschmidt 2024. Invited talk.
l 07/04/2024, Nanjing (China), “Dissolved Organic Carbon Reservoir in Ancient Oceans”. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Nanjing University. Invited talks.
l 06/25-27/2024, Aberdeen (United Kingdom), “Neoproterozoic Dissolved Organic Carbon Reservoir”, 37th Annual Meeting of Sedimentologists, International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS). Invited keynote talk (Johannes Walther Medal Talk, IAS).
l 11/29/2023, Xi’an (China), “Neoproterozoic Dissolved Organic Carbon Reservoir”, Innovation Forum of Chinese Northwest University. Invited talk.
l 10/10-12/2023, Beijing (China), “Uncovering the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion”, 2023 International Symposium on Continental Crust Evolution and Early Plate Tectonics (CCE-EPT 2023). Keynote talk.
l 09/22-25/2023, Changsha (China), “Neoproterozoic Dissolved Organic Carbon Reservoir”, National Conference of Organic Geochemistry. Plenary talk.
l 07/22/2023, Lanzhou (China), “Early Oceanic Redox Structure (>510 Ma), and Its Formation Mechanism and Effects”, International Symposium for New Advances in Geological Events Deposition. Invited talk.
l 06/18/2023, Nanjing (China), “Early Ocean Redox Structure (>510 Ma) and its Formation Mechanisms and Effects”, Sixth Geoscience Frontiers Symposium (Chinese Academy of Science). Invited talk.
l 05/08/2023, Shenzhen (China), “Paleo-oceanic Chemistry and “Dolomite Problem””, “Modern Geobiology Talk” Series of Southern University of Science and Technology, Invited virtual talk.
l 04/28/2023, Chengdu (China)，“Paleo-oceanic Chemistry and “Dolomite Problem””, Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Invited talk.
l 2022/11/18，Riverside (California, USA), “Development of Two Emerging Carbonate Proxies and Their Applications in Precambrian Biogeochemistry”, Virtual Seminars in Precambrian Geology hosted by University of California-Riverside. Invited talk.
l 11/14/2022, Xi’an (China), “Black Shale Deposits and Earth System Purturbations during the Late Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian: Implications from South China”, Frontiers and National Demand Symposium of Black Shales” (Northwest University of China). Invited talk.
l 10/25/2022, Nanjing (China), “Exploring Anoxic vs. Oxic Iron Oxidation in Early Oceans”, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Invited talk.
l 09/05/2022, Lanzhou (China), “Development of emerging carbonate proxies and their applications in Precambrian Biogeochemistry”, High-end Conference on Dolomite by Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry. Plenary talk.
l 11/18/2021, Nanjing (China), “Ediacaran to early Cambrian Oceanic Oxygenation”, International Conference on Palaeobiology, High Resolution Stratigraphy and Fossil Energy. Invited talk.
l 12/17/2020, Weihai (China)“Probing A Large Dissolved Organic Carbon Pool in Neoproterozoic Oceans，”International Conference on Ocean Negative Carbon Emission. Invited virtual talk.
l 05/17/2020，Chengdu (China). “Oceanic Oxygenation and Early Animal Radiation”. Invited talk. Geochemistry Series Talks organized by Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry. Invited virtual talk.
l 11/11-15/2019, Chengjiang (China), “Redox Structure of Ediacaran and Early Cambrian Oceans and Its Possible Formation Mechanism”, International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion (ICCE-2019). Invited keynote talk.
l 08/18-23/2019, Barcelona (Spain), “Spatiotemporal Coevolution of Oxygen Levels and Early Animals”, Goldschmidt 2019. Invited talk.
l 11/2-3/2018, Yichang (China), “An Emerging Picture: Spatially Heterogeneous Oceanic Redox, Dynamic Shelf Oxygenations and Coupled Early Animal Evolution”, 2018 IGCP 648 Field Symposium in South China. Invited keynote talk
l 08/15/2018, Xi’an (China), “Spatial heterogeneity of oceanic redox, dynamic shelf oxygenation and coupled early animal evolution”, International Conference on Ediacaran and Cambrian Sciences. Invited keynote talk.
l 11/25/2017, Shenzhen (China), “Marine Shelf Oxygenation in Ediacaran and Early Cambrian”, The 2nd Shenzhen Forum on Ocean Sciences for Young Scientists. Invited talk.
l 11/11/2017, Wuhan (China), “Marine Shelf Oxygenation and Coupled Metazoan Diversification in Ediacaran and Early Cambrian”, The 3rd Forum on Paleontology for Young Scholars. Invited talk.
l 10/30/2017，Nanjing (China), “Precambrian sedimentology in China: Critical scientific questions, the role of Chinese scholars, advantages, opportunities and challenges in Precambrian sedimentology of China”, The Sixth Chinese National Conference of Sedimentology. Invited talk on Roadmap of Sedimentology in China to 2030.
l 10/11/2017，Yichang (China), “Marine Shelf Oxygenation and Coupled Metazoan Diversification in Ediacaran and Early Cambrian”, The 2nd China-Germany Joint Conference on Palaeontology. Invited talk.
l 09/26-28/2016，Beijing (China), “Coevolution of life and environment during “Boring Billion” and late Neoproterozoic-early Cambrian: Advances and perspectives”, International workshop on the future of sedimentary geology in China. Invited talk.
l 06/26-07/01/2016, Yokohama (Japan), “A highly redox-heterogeneous ocean in south china during the early Cambrian (~529-514 ma): implications for biota-environment co-evolution”, Goldschmidt 2016. Oral Presentation.
l 12/14-18/2015, San Francisco (USA), “A euxinic-wedge model for Mo cycling in the early Cambrian oceans”, AGU Fall Meeting. Oral Presentation.
l 10/11-14/2015, Beijing (China), “Spurious thermoluminescence characteristics of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551 Ma) — Direct evidence for dissolved organic carbon reservoir in Ediacaran ocean?”, CGU Annual Meeting. Oral Presentation.
l 10/23-29/2015, Wuhan (China), “Recent advances in oceanic redox structure research for early oceans (>520Ma) and its implications for underlying mechanisms”, The fifth Chinese National Conference of Sedimentology. Invited talk.
l 08/10-14/2015, Shenyang (China), “Probing the coevolution of oceanic chemistry and animal radiation in early Cambrian”, 28th Annual Meeting of Palaeotological Society of China. Oral Presentation.
l 06/23-29/2015, Changchu (China), “Probing the coevolution of oceanic chemistry and animal radiation in early Cambrian”, 15th Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry. Oral Presentation.
CONVENERS OF RECENT WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR CONFERENCE SESSIONS (SELECTED)
l The 8th Conference of Earth Systems, Shanghai (China), June 2-5, 2025; Session: Proterozoic Transition of Earth-life Systems.
l The 5th International Conference of Geobiology, Wuhan (China), June 10-12, 2025; Session: Evolution of the Earth-Life System During the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Transition.
l Goldschmidt 2024，Chicago (USA), 08/18-23/2024; Session: Session: Causes and Consequences of Planetary Habitability: Co-evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere across Major Precambrian Transitions and Beyond.
l The 7th Chinese National Conference of Sedimentology, Chengdu (China), 04/2-5/2023; Vice general Secretary of the Conference, and the convener of Session: Environmental-life coevolution during the Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic transition.
l 21st International Sedimentological Conference (ISC2022), Beijing (China), 08/22-26/2022; Session: Environmental-life coevolution during the Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic transition.
l 2020 Chinese Geoscience Union, Chongqing (China), 10/18-21/2020; Session: Supercontinental evolution and its biological and environmental effects.
l Goldschmidt 2020, Hawaii (UAS), 06/21-26/2020; Session: Sulfur in Energy and Mineral Resource Formation, Production, and the Environment.
l 2018 IGCP 648 Annual Meeting, Yichang (China), 11/01-11/09/2018.
l 2018 Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union, Beijing (China), 10/20-10/24/2018; Session: Supercontinent Evolution and its Biological and Environmental Effects.
l The 11th Chinese National Conference of Isotope Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry. Hefei (China), 11/16-11/19/2017; Session: Sedimentology and Marine Isotope Geochemistry.
l The 6th Chinese National Conference of Sedimentology, Nanjing (China), 10/28-10/30/2017; Session: Abnormal Changes of Earth Surface Environment in Deep Time: Biological Responses and Resource Effects.
l 2017 International Modeling Workshop, Wuhan (China), 07/10/2017.
l 2017 Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union, Beijing (China), 10/15-10/18/2017; Session: Supercontinent Evolution and its Biological and Environmental Effects.
l The 4th International Geobiology Conference, Wuhan (China), 06/24-06/26/2017; Session: Precambrian Geobiology.
l 2016 Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union, Beijing (China), 10/15-10/18/2016; Session: Supercontinent Evolution and its Biological and Environmental Effects.
l Gordon Research Conference “Frontiers of Science: Ocean Biogeochemistry”, HongKong (China), 06/12-06/17/2016; Session: Methane and Sulfur: Roles in Carbon Pumps.
l The 4th Conference of Earth Systems, Shanghai (China), 07/04-07/06/2016; Session: Responses and Feedback of Oceanic CO2 Sinks to Global Climatic Changes.
l The 4th National Conference of Biogeochemistry and Organic Geochemistry, 10/21-22/2016; Session: Deep Time Biogeochemistry and Organic Geochemistry.
l Goldschmidt 2016, Yokohama (Japan), 06/26-07/01/2016; Session: Alternative Earths: Biotic and geochemical co-evolution from the Neoproterozoic through the Mesozoic.
l The 3rd National Conference of Biogeochemistry and Organic Geochemistry, 03/17-18/2015; Session: Deep Time Biogeochemistry and Organic Geochemistry.
l Goldschmidt 2014, Sacramento (USA), 06/8-13/2014; Session: Dynamics and Stability of Earth's Oxygenated Biosphere.
l The 3rd International Conference of Geobiology, Wuhan (China), 06/16-18/2014; Session: Precambrian Geobiology.
l The 3rd Conference of Earth Systems, Shanghai (China), 07/02-04/2014; Session: Oxygenation of Atmosphere and Ocean and its coevolution with life.
MAJOR COLLABORATORS
l Thomas Algeo, University of Cincinnati
l Timothy Lyons, University of California-Riverside
l Simon W. Poulton, Benjamin J.W. Mills, University of Leeds
l Ariel Anbar, Arizona State University
l Adrian Immenhauser, Ruhr University Bochum
l Noah Planavsky, Yale University
l Brian Kendall, University of Waterloo
l Erik Sperling, Stanford University
l Graham Shields-Zhou, University College London
l Aradhna Tripati, University of California-Los Angeles
l Xuelei Chu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS
l Chengshan Wang, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
l Maoyan Zhu, Chuanming Zhou, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, CAS
l Junxuan Fan, Nanjing University
l Bing Sheng, Peking University
l Xianguang Hou, Changshi Qi, Peiyun Cong, Yunnan University
l Pingan Peng, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS
l Shucheng Xie, Lian Zhou, Jinnan Tong, Junhua Huang, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
PUBLICATIONS (* CORRESPONDING AUTHOR)
1. Haiyang Wang, Chao Li*, Yongbo Peng*, Junpeng Zhang, Meng Cheng, Xiaobin Cao, Wenkun Qie, Zihu Zhang, Matthew S. Dodd, Mingcai Hou, Malcolm Wallace, Ashleigh v.S. Hood, Timothy W. Lyons, Huiming Bao. Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface. Nature, 2025, 645:665-671. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09471-4.
2. Matthew S. Dodd*#, Chao Li*#, Haodong Gu, Zihu Zhang, Mingcai Hou, Aleksey Sadekov, Carlos Alberto Rosière, Franco Pirajno, Lewis Alcott, Frantz Ossa Ossa, Benjamin J. W. Mills, Andrey Bekker. Marine phosphorus and atmospheric oxygen were coupled during the great oxidation event. Nature Communications, 2025, 16:9151. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64194-4.
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16. Wenhan Chen*, David B. Kemp, Hugh C. Jenkyns, Stuart A. Robinson, Shouyi Jiang, Chengrong Pan, Chao Li*. Widespread upper-ocean deoxygenation in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Global and Planetary Change, 2024, 243: 104631. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104631.
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19. Meng Cheng, Wei Wei, Xinyang Chen, Haiyang Wang, Lianjun Feng, Zhenbing She, Yong Fu, Thomas J. Algeo, Fang Huang*, Chao Li*. Active methane release from the early Cambrian seafloor? Clues from Ba isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024, 653: 112399. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112399.
20. Fanxing Kong, Xiting Liu*, Anchun Li, Jiang Dong, Houjie Wang, Guangchao Zhuang, Zihu Zhang, Chao Li. Depositional control on the fate of reactive iron in shelf sediments since the last deglaciation: A case study of the East China Sea. Marine Geology, 2024, 475: 107358. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107358.
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30. Liangxuan Jiao, Zhenbing She*, Dominic Papineau, Chao Zhang, Thomas J. Algeo, Matthew S. Dodd, Genming Luo, Kenan Cao, Chao Li. Evidence for high-frequency oxygenation of Ediacaran shelf seafloor during early evolution of complex life. Communications Earth & Environment, 2023, 4:429, DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-01080-1.
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70. Jun Hu, Chao Li*, Jinnan Tong*, Qin Ye, Li Tian, Zhihui An, Matthew S. Dodd, Thomas J. Algeo. Glacial origin of the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation in eastern Shennongjia area (South China): implications for macroalgal survival. Precambrian Research, 2020, 351:105969. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105969.
71. Chao Li*, Wei Shi, Meng Cheng, Chengsheng Jin, Thomas J. Algeo. The redox structure of Ediacaran and early Cambrian oceans and its controls. Science Bulletin, 2020, 65(24):2141-2149, DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2020.09.023.
72. Majed Algabri, Zhenbing She, Liangxuan Jiao, Dominic Papineau, Guoqing Wang, Chao Zhang, Dongjie Tang, Guang Ouyang, Yaguan Zhang, Guoyong Chen, Chao Li. Apatite-glaucony association in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China and implications for marine redox conditions. Precambrian Research, 2020, 347:105842.
73. Biao Chang, Chao Li*, Deng Liu, Ian Foster, Aradhna Tripati, Max K. Lloyd, Ingrid Maradiaga, Genming Luo, Zhihui An, Zhenbing She, Shucheng Xie, Jinnan Tong, Junhua Huang*, Thomas J. Algeo, Timothy W. Lyons, Adrian Immenhauser. Massive formation of early diagenetic dolomite in the Ediacaran ocean: Constraints on the “dolomite problem.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 2020, 117(25): 14005-14014, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916673117.
74. Yu Liu, Chao Li, Junxuan Fan, Ping'an Peng, Thomas J. Algeo. Elevated marine productivity triggered nitrogen limitation on the Yangtze Platform (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020, 554:109833, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109833.
75. Chao Li*, Zihu Zhang, Chengsheng Jin, Meng Cheng, Haiyang Wang, Junhua Huang, Thomas J. Algeo. Spatiotemporal evolution and causes of marine euxinia in the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin (South China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020, 546: 109676, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109676.
76. Thomas J. Algeo, Chao Li. Redox classification and calibration of redox thresholds in sedimentary systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020, 287:8-26. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.01.055. (Highly cited SCI paper and hot paper: 2021/03-present)
77. Chengsheng Jin, Chao Li*, Thomas J. Algeo, Shiyong Wu, Meng Cheng, Zihu Zhang, Wei Shi. Controls on organic matter accumulation on the early-Cambrian western Yangtze Platform, South China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020, 111:75-87. (Highly cited SCI paper；2021/03-2022）
78. Meng Cheng, Chao Li*, Chengsheng Jin, Haiyang Wang, Thomas J. Algeo, Timothy W. Lyons, Feifei Zhang, Ariel Anbar. Evidence for high organic carbon export to the early Cambrian seafloor. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020, 287:125-140. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.01.050.
79. Haiyang Wang, Zihu Zhang, Chao Li*, Thomas J. Algeo, Meng Cheng, Wei Wang. Spatiotemporal redox heterogeneity and transient marine shelf oxygenation in the Mesoproterozoic ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020, 270: 201-217. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.11.028.
80. Biao Chang, William F. Defliese, Chao Li*, Junhua Huang*, Aradhna Tripati, Thomas J. Algeo. Effects of different constants and standards on the reproducibility of carbonate clumped isotope (Δ47) measurements: Insights from a long-term dataset. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2020, 34(8): e8678. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8678.
81. Guang Ouyang, Zhenbing She*, Dominic Papineau*, Xiangfa Wang, Genming Luo, Chao Li. Dynamic carbon and sulfur cycling in the aftermath of the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event: Evidence from the Paleoproterozoic Hutuo Supergroup, North China Craton. Precambrian Research, 2020, 337:105549. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105549.
82. Na Li, Chao Li*, Junxuan Fan, Thomas J. Algeo, Detian Yan, Guangyou Zhu, Shiyong Wu, Shida Tang, Meng Cheng, Chengsheng Jin. Sulfate-controlled marine euxinia in the semi-restricted inner Yangtze Sea (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 534: 109281, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109281.
83. Feifei Zhang, Shuhai Xiao, Stephen J. Romaniello, Dalton Hardisty, Chao Li, Victor Melezhik, Boris Pokrovsky, Meng Cheng, Wei Shi, Timothy M. Lenton, Ariel D. Anbar. Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara Biota. Geobiology, 2019, 17(6):594-610. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12359
84. Zhengyi Lyu, Lei Zhang, Thomas J. Algeo, Laishi Zhao, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Chao Li, Biao Ma, Feihong Ye. Global-ocean circulation changes during the Smithian–Spathian transition inferred from carbon-sulfur cycle records. Earth-Science Reviews, 2019, 195: 114-132.
85. Wei Shi, Chao Li*, Genming Luo, Junhua Huang, Thomas J. Algeo, Chengsheng Jin, Zihu Zhang, and Meng Cheng. Sulfur isotope evidence for transient marine-shelf oxidation during the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion. Geology, 2018, 46(3):267-270.
86. Chao Li*, Meng Cheng, Maoyan Zhu and Timothy W. Lyons. Heterogeneous and dynamic marine shelf oxygenation and coupled early animal evolution. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2018, 2(2):279-288.
87. Zihu Zhang, Chao Li*, Meng Cheng, Thomas J. Algeo, Chengsheng Jin, Feng Tang, Junhua Huang. Evidence for highly complex redox conditions and strong water-column stratification in an early Cambrian continental-margin sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2018, 19: 2397–2410.
88. Changshi Qi*, Chao Li*, Sarah E. Gabbott, Xiaoya Ma, Luhua Xie, Wenfeng Deng, Chengsheng Jin, Xian-Guang Hou. Influence of redox conditions on animal distribution and soft-bodied fossil preservation of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Biota. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2018, 507: 180-187.
89. Meng Cheng, Chao Li*, Xi Chen, Lian Zhou, Thomas J. Algeo, Hong-Fei Ling, Lian-Jun Feng, Cheng-Sheng Jin. Delayed Neoproterozoic oceanic oxygenation: Evidence from Mo isotopes of the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation. Precambrian Research, 2018, 319:187-197, DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2017.12.007.
90. Jin Chengsheng, Chao Li*, Thomas J. Algeo, Brennan O'Connell, Meng Cheng, Wei Shi, Jun Shen, Noah J. Planavsky. Highly heterogeneous “poikiloredox” conditions in the early Ediacaran Yangtze Sea. Precambrian Research, 2018, 31:157-166.
91. Nianzhi Jiao*, Yantao Liang, Yongyu Zhang, Jihua Liu, Yao Zhang, Rui Zhang, Meixun Zhao, Minhan Dai, Weidong Zhai, Kunshan Gao, Jinming Song, Dongliang Yuan, Chao Li, Guanghui Lin, Xiaoping Huang, Hongqiang Yan, Limin Hu, Zenghu Zhang, Long Wang, Chunjie Cao, Yawei Luo, Tingwei Luo, Nannan Wang, Hongyue Dang, Dongxiao Wang, Si Zhang. Carbon pools and fluxes in the China Seas and adjacent oceans. Science China Earth Science, 2018, 61(11): 1535-1563, DOI: 10.1007/s11430-018-9190-x.
92. Nianzhi Jiao Ruanhong Cai, Qiang Zheng, Kai Tang, Jihua Liu, Fanglue Jiao, Douglas Wallace, Feng Chen, Chao Li, Rudolf Amann, Ronald Benner and Farooq Azam. Unveiling the enigma of refractory carbon in the ocean. National Science Review, 2018, 5(4): 459-463. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwy020.
93. Wei Wang, Haiyang Wang, Chao Li. The origin of modern O2-rich oceans. Science (Kexue), 2018, 70(2): 43-46 (in Chinese).
94. Wei Shi, Chao Li*, Thomas J. Algeo. Quantitative model evaluation of dissolved organic carbon oxidation hypotheses for the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotopic negative excursion event. Science China Earth Science, 2017, 60:2118-2127, DOI: 10.1007/s11430-017-9137-1.
95. Chao Li*, Chengsheng Jin, Noah J. Planavsky, Thomas J. Algeo, Meng Cheng, Xinglian Yang, Yuanlong Zhao, Shucheng Xie. Coupled oceanic oxygenation and metazoan diversification during the early–middle Cambrian? Geology, 2017, 45: 743-746. DOI:10.1130/G39208.1.
96. Meng Cheng, Chao Li*, Lian Zhou, LianJun Feng, Thomas J. Algeo, FeiFei Zhang, Stephen Romaniello, ChengSheng Jin, HongFei Ling, ShaoYong Jiang. Transient deep-water oxygenation in the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin, South China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017, 210: 42-58. （56次）
97. Xinze Lu*, Brian Kendall*, Holly J. Stein, Chao Li*, Judith L. Hannah, Gwyneth W. Gordon, Jan Ove R. Ebbestad. Marine redox conditions during deposition of Late Ordovician and Early Silurian organic-rich mudrocks in the Siljan ring district, central Sweden. Chemical Geology, 2017, 457:75-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.03.015.
98. Li-Dan Lei, Jun Shen, Chao Li*, Thomas J. Algeoa, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Qing-Lai Feng, Meng Cheng, Cheng-Sheng Jin, Jun-Hua Huang*. Controls on regional marine redox evolution during Permian-Triassic transition in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2017, 486: 17-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.02.010.
99. Chao Li*, Dalton Hardisty, Genming Luo, Junhua Huang, Thomas Algeo, Meng Cheng, Wei Shi, Zhihui An, Jinnan Tong, Shucheng Xie, Nianzhi Jiao, Timothy W. Lyons. Uncovering the spatial heterogeneity of Ediacaran carbon cycling. Geobiology, 2017, 15：211-224. (Highly cited SCI paper: 2018-2019)
100. Chengsheng Jin, Chao Li*, Thomas Algeo, Meng Cheng, Lidan Lei, Zihu Zhang, Wei Shi. Evidence for marine redox control on spatial colonization of early animals during Cambrian Age 3 (c. 521–514 Ma) in South China. Geological Magazine, 2017, 154(6): 1360-1370. DOI :10.1017/S0016756816001138.
101. Chao Li*, Maoyan Zhu, Xuelei Chu. Atmospheric and Oceanic Oxygenation and evolution of early life on Earth: New contributions from China. Journal of Earth Science, 2016, 27(2): 167-169.
102. Meng Cheng, Chao Li*, Lian Zhou, Thomas J. Algeo, Feifei Zhang, Stephen Romaniello, Cheng-Sheng Jin, Li-Dan Lei, Lian-Jun Feng, Shao-Yong Jiang. Marine Mo biogeochemistry in the context of dynamically euxinic mid-depth waters: A case study of the lower Cambrian Niutitang shales, South China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016, 183:79-93.
103. Chengsheng Jin, Chao Li*, Thomas J. Algeo, Noah J. Planavsky, Hao Cui, Xinglian Yang, Yuanlong Zhao, Xingliang Zhang, Shucheng Xie. A highly redox-heterogeneous ocean in South China during the early Cambrian (~529-514 Ma): Implications for biota-environment co-evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016, 441:38-51. (Highly cited SCI paper: 2016-2019, 2020-present)
104. Yu Liu, Chao Li*, Thomas J. Algeo, Junxuan Fan, Ping'an Peng. Global and regional controls on marine redox changes across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2016, 463:180-191.
105. Jun Shen*, Qinglai Feng, Thomas J. Algeo∗, Chao Li, Noah J. Planavsky, Lian Zhou, Mingliang Zhang. Two pulses of oceanic environmental disturbance during the Permian–Triassic boundary crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016, 443: 139-152.
106. Zhen-Bing She, Yan-Tao Zhang, Wei Liu, Jingjing Song, Yaguan Zhang, Chao Li, Paul Strother, Dominic Papineau. New observations of Ambient Inclusion Trails (AITs) and pyrite framboids in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2016, 461: 374-388.
107. Zhenbing She*, Fanyan Yang, Wei Liu, Luhua Xie, Yusheng Wan, Chao Li, Dominic Papineau. The Termination and Aftermath of the Lomagundi-Jatuli Carbon Isotope Excursions in the Paleoproterozoic Hutuo Group, North China. Journal of Earth Science, 2016, 27(2): 297-316.
108. Nianzhi Jiao, Chao Li, Xiaoxue Wang. Response and Feedback of Marine Carbon Sink to Climate Change. Advances in Earth Science, 2016, 31(7): 668-681 (in Chinese).
109. Chao Li*, Jiasheng Wang, Genming Luo. Chapter 10: Chemostratigraphy. In Basics and Frontiers in stratigraphy. 2016, p218-245. Edited by Yiming Gong and Kexing Zhang, China University of Geosciences Press, Wuhan (in Chinese).
110. Chao Li*, Noah J. Planavsky, Wei Shi, Zihu Zhang, Chuanming Zhou, Meng Cheng, Lidya G. Tarhan, Genming Luo, Shucheng Xie. Ediacaran Marine Redox Heterogeneity and Early Animal Ecosystems. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, Article number: 17097, doi:10.1038/srep17097.
111. Chao Li*, Noah J. Planavsky, Gordon D. Love, Christopher T. Reinhard Dalton Hardisty, Lianjun Feng, Steven M. Bate, Jing Huang, Qirui Zhang, Xuelei Chu, Timothy W. Lyons. Marine redox conditions in the middle Proterozoic ocean and isotopic constraints on authigenic carbonate formation: Insights from the Chuanlinggou Formation, Yanshan Basin, North China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015, 150: 90-105.
112. Chao Li*, Meng Cheng, Thomas J. Algeo, Shucheng Xie. A theoretical prediction of chemical zonation in early oceans (>520 Ma). Science China Earth Sciences, 2015, 58(11): 1901-1909. (Hot paper (2017) and Best paper (2020) for Science China Earth Sciences)
113. Meng Cheng, Chao Li*, Lian Zhou, Shucheng Xie. Mo marine geochemistry and reconstruction of ancient ocean redox states. Science China Earth Sciences, 2015, 58(12): 2123-2133.
114. Haiyang Wang, Chao Li*, Chaoyong Hu, Shucheng Xie. Spurious thermoluminescence characteristics of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551 Ma) and its implications for marine dissolved organic carbon reservoir. Journal of Earth Science, 2015, 26(6): 883−892.
115. Jiao, N., L. Legendre, C. Robinson, H. Thomas, Y.-W. Luo, H. Dang, J. Liu, R. Zhang, K. Tang, T. Luo, Chao Li, X. Wang, and C. Zhang, Comment on “Dilution limits dissolved organic carbon utilization in the deep ocean”, Science, 2015, 350(6267): 1483.
116. Genming Luo, Shuhei Ono, Junhua Huang, Thomas J. Algeo, Chao Li, Lian Zhou, Andrew Robinson, Timothy W. Lyons, Shucheng Xie. Decline in oceanic sulfate levels during the early Mesoproterozoic. Precambrian Research, 2015, 258:36-47.
117. Chao Li *, Chengsheng Jin. Atmosphere-ocean oxygen levels and biotic explosion in the early Cambrian. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, 2015, 34(3): 501-508 (in Chinese).
118. Lianjun Feng#, Chao Li*#, Jing Huang, Huajin Chang, Xuelei Chu. A sulfate control on marine mid-depth euxinia on the early Cambrian (ca. 529-521 Ma) Yangtze platform, South China. Precambrian Research, 2014, 246: 123-133.
119. Chengsheng Jin, Chao Li*, Xingfang Peng, Hao Cui, Wei Shi, Zihu Zhang, Genming Luo, Shucheng, Xie. Spatiotemporal variability of ocean chemistry in the early Cambrian, South China. Science China: Earth Sciences, 2014, 57(4): 579-591.
120. Jiasong Fang, Chao Li, Li Zhang, Tara Davis, Chiaki Kato, Douglas H. Bartlett. Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation in Lipid Biosynthesis by Piezophilic Bacterium Moritella japonica DSK1. Chemical Geology, 2014, 367:34-38.
121. N. Jiao, C. Robinson, F. Azam, H. Thomas, F. Baltar, H. Dang, N. J. Hardman-Mountford, M. Johnson, D. L. Kirchman, B. P. Koch, L. Legendre, C. Li, J. Liu, T. Luo, Y.-W. Luo, A. Mitra, A. Romanou, K. Tang, X. Wang, C. Zhang, R. Zhang. Mechanisms of microbial carbon sequestration in the ocean – future research directions. Biogeosciences, 2014, 11:5285–5306, doi:10.5194/bg-11-5285-2014.
122. Genming Luo, Christopher K. Junium, Lee R. Kump, Junhua Huang, Chao Li, Qinglai Feng, Xiaoying Shi, Xiao Bai, Shucheng Xie. Shallow stratification prevailed for ∼1700 to ∼1300Ma ocean: Evidence from organic carbon isotopes in the North China Craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014, 400: 219-232.
123. Anthony Chappaz, Timothy W. Lyons, Daniel D. Gregory, Christopher T. Reinhard, Benjamin C. Gill, Chao Li, Ross R. Large. Does pyrite act as an important host for molybdenum in modern and ancient euxinic sediments? Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014, 126: 112-122.
124. Qi Lin, Jia-sheng Wang, Qing-tao Bu, Chao Li, Rong-xiao Lin, Fei Sun, Wei-kun Zhang. Method comparison of authigenic pyrite analysis between the handpicking under binocular microscope and the CRS in shallow cored marine sediments: An example from the Site 4B, northern continental slope of the South China Sea. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 2014, 32(6):1052-1059 (in Chinese).
125. Camille A. Partin, Andrey Bekker, Noah J. Planavsky, Clinton T. Scott, Benjamin C. Gill, Chao Li, Victor Podkovyrov, Andrey V. Maslov, Kurt O. Konhauser, Stefan V. Lalonde, Gordon D. Love, Simon W. Poulton, Timothy W. Lyons. Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013, 369-370: 284-293. (Highly cited paper: 2013-present)
126. Hao Cui, Lian Zhou, Chao Li*, Peng Xingfang, Jin Chengsheng, Shi Wei, Zhang Zihu. Iron-Molybdenum isotopes and the chemical evolution of ancient oceans. Advances in Earth Science, 2013, 9(28):1049-1056 (in Chinese).
127. Nianzhi Jiao, Chuanlun Zhang, Chao Li, Xiaoxue Wang, Hongyue Dang, Qinglu Zeng, Rui Zhang, Yao Zhang, Kai Tang, Zilian Zhang, Dapeng Xu. Controlling mechanisms and climate effects of microbial carbon pump in the ocean. Scientia Sinica Terrae, 2013, 43: 1-18 (in Chinese).
128. Chao Li*, Gordon D. Love, Timothy W. Lyons, Clinton T. Scott, Lianjun Feng, Jing Huang, Huajing Chang, Qirui Zhang, Xuelei Chu. Evidence for a redox stratified Cryogenian marine basin, Datangpo Formation, South China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012. 331, 246-256.
129. Shucheng Xie, Gengming Luo, Jinming Song, Chao Li, Xianyu Huang, Huan Yang, Yiliang Li, Junhua Huang, Chaoyong Hu. An overview on Biogeochemistry during the decade of 2001 to 2010. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, 2012, 31(5): 447-469 (in Chinese).
130. Chao Li*, Alex L. Sessions, David L. Valentine, Nivedita Thiagarajan. D/H ratios of terrestrial lipids from Santa Barbara Basin over the past 1400 years: A preliminary assessment of paleoclimatic relevance. Organic Geochemistry, 2011, 42:15-24.
131. Noah J. Planavsky, Peter McGoldrick, Clinton T. Scott, Chao Li, Christopher T. Reinhard, Amy Kelly, Xuelei Chu, Andrey Bekker, Gordon D. Love, Timothy W. Lyons. Widespread iron-Rich conditions in the Mid-Proterozoic ocean. Nature, 2011, 477：448-451. (Highly cited SCI paper: 2011-present)
132. Chao Li*, Gordon D. Love, Timothy W. Lyons, David A. Fike, Alex L. Sessions, Xuelei Chu. A stratified redox model for the Ediacaran ocean. Science, 2010, 328: 80-83. (Highly cited SCI paper: 2010-present)
133. Chao Li, Alex L. Sessions, Frank S. Kinnaman, David L. Valentine. Hydrogen-isotopic variability in lipids from Santa Barbara Basin sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009, 73: 4803-4823.
134. Brian J. Campbell, Chao Li, Alex L. Sessions, David L. Valentine. Hydrogen isotopic fractionation in lipid biosynthesis by H2-consuming Desulfobacterium autotrophicum. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009, 73 (10): 2744-2757.
135. Chunxia Yang, Yongheng Chen, Ping’an Peng, Chao Li, Xiangyang Chang, Yingjuan Wu. Trace element partitioning and transformations during the roasting of pyrite ores in sulfuric acid industry. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2009, 167(1-3):835-845.
136. Ashley A. Jones, Alex L. Sessions, Brain J. Campbell, Chao Li, David L. Valentine. D/H ratios of fatty acids from marine particulate organic matter in the California Borderland Basins. Organic Geochemistry, 2008, 39(5): 485-500.
137. Hong Lu, Chao Li, Yongge Sun, Ping’an Peng, Zhongyao Xiao. Hydrogen isotopic compositions, distributions and source signals of individual n-alkanes for some typical crude oils in Lunnan Oilfield, Tarim Basin, NW China. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences (English version), 2005, 48(8): 1220-1226.
138. Xinhui Bi, Guoying Sheng, Xiaohong Liu, Chao Li and Jiamo Fu. Molecular and carbon and hydrogen isotopic composition of n-alkanes in plant leaf waxes. Organic Geochemistry, 2005, 36(10): 1405-1417.
139. Chunxia Yang, Yongheng Chen, Ping’an Peng, Chao Li, Xiangyang Chang, Changshen Xie. Distribution of natural and anthropogenic thallium in the soils in an industrial pyrite slag disposing area. Science of the Total Environment, 2005, 341 (1-3): 159-172.
140. Chunxia Yang, Yongheng Chen, Ping’an Peng, Chao Li, Xiangyang Chang, Changsheng Xie. Modified sequential extraction procedure of thallium in soils, Journal of Instrumental Analysis, 2005, 24 (2):1-6 (in Chinese).
141. Chunxia Yang, Yongheng Chen, Ping’an Peng, Chao Li, Xiangyang Chang, Changsheng Xie. The migration and releasing behaviors of thallium in the sulfuric acid slag in the process of natural leaching, Research of Environmental Sciences, 2005, 18(2): 99-102 (in Chinese).
142. Chao Li, Ping’an Peng*, Guoying Sheng, Jiamo Fu. A study of a 1.2 Ga kerogen using Ru ion-catalyzed oxidation and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: structural feature and possible source. Organic Geochemistry, 2004, 35: 531-541.
143. Yongqiang Xiong, Ansong Geng, Yuhong Liao, Changchun Pan, Deyong Liu, Chao Li, Ping’an Peng. Carbon isotopic composition of alkylnaphthalenes and alylphenanthrenes in crude oil. Xinjiang Petroleum Geology, 2004, 25(4): 355-357 (in Chinese).
144. Yongqiang Xiong, Ansong Geng, Changchun Pan, Deyong Liu, Chao Li, Ping’an Peng. Hydrogen isotopic characteristics of individual hydrocarbons from terrestrial organic matter. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2004, 31(1): 60-63 (in Chinese).
145. Chao Li*, Ping’an Peng, Guoying Sheng, Jiamo Fu, Yuzhong Yan. A molecular and isotopic geochemical study of Meso- to Neoproterozoic (1.73-0.85 Ga) sediments from the Jixian section, Yanshan Basin, North China. Precambrian Research, 2003, 125: 337-356.
146. Chao Li, Ping’an Peng. Preliminary structural study of the Hongshuizhuang kerogen from Jixian strata section. Progress in Natural Science, 2003, 13(1): 57-63 (in Chinese).
147. Baocai Li, Yulian Dong, Chao Li, Jianyuan Zhou, Kewei Wen, Guoying Sheng, Jiamo Fu. Distribution and compound specific carbon isotope of individual long chain alkanes from leaves of Kandella candel and Ficus microcarpa and their photosynthesis. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2003, 22(1): 62-69 (in Chinese).
148. Chao Li, Ping’an Peng, Guoying Sheng, Jiamo Fu, Yuzhong Yan. Carbon isotopic compositions of Proterozoic sediments from Jixian strata section. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2002, 76(4): 433-440 (in Chinese).
149. Chao Li, Ping’an Peng, Guoying Sheng, Jiamo Fu, Yuzhong Yan. Proterozoic biomarkers from Jixian strata section. Earth Science Frontiers, 2001, 8(4): 453-462 (in Chinese).
Chao Li, Ping’an Peng*, Guoying Sheng, Jiamo Fu. Precambrian organic matter. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2000, 45(4): 295-304.
