Xianglei Li (PhD)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests
Xianglei Li is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota (USA). He completed his PhD at Xi’an Jiaotong University (China), where he specialized in uranium-series dating techniques. His research focuses on high-precision, high sensitivity measurement of uranium-series isotopes by MC-ICP-MS and the dating of cave deposits. He is currently working in collaboration with the GeoTraces project to construct Th and Pa profiles of dissolved and particulate samples from the world’s oceans.
Publications
Li, X., Cheng, H., Tan, L., Ban, F., Sinha, A., Duan, W., Li, H., Zhang, H., Ning, Y., Kathayat, G. and Edwards, R.L., 2017. The East Asian summer monsoon variability over the last 145 years inferred from the Shihua Cave record, North China. Scientific Reports, 7(1): 7078.
Li, X., Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y., Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C. and Edwards, R.L., 2021. Novel method for determining 234U–238U ages of Devils Hole 2 cave calcite (Nevada). Geochronology, 3(1): 49-58.
Liu, G., Li, X., Chiang, H.W., Cheng, H., Yuan, S., Chawchai, S., He, S., Lu, Y., Aung, L.T., Maung, P.M., Tun, W.N., Oo, K.M. and Wang, X., 2020. On the glacial-interglacial variability of the Asian monsoon in speleothem δ<sup>18</sup>O records. Science Advances, 6(7): eaay8189.
Duan, W., Cheng, H., Tan, M., Li, X. and Lawrence Edwards, R., 2019. Timing and structure of Termination II in north China constrained by a precisely dated stalagmite record. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 512: 1-7.
Ban, F., Baker, A., Marjo, C.E., Duan, W., Li, X., Han, J., Coleborn, K., Akter, R., Tan, M. and Nagra, G., 2018. An optimized chronology for a stalagmite using seasonal trace element cycles from Shihua Cave, Beijing, North China. Scientific Reports, 8(1): 4551.
Batchelor, C.J., Orland, I.J., Marcott, S.A., Slaughter, R., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, P., Li, X. and Cheng, H., 2019. Distinct Permafrost Conditions Across the Last Two Glacial Periods in Midlatitude North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(22): 13318-13326.
Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Sinha, A., Spotl, C., Yi, L., Chen, S., Kelly, M., Kathayat, G., Wang, X., Li, X., Kong, X., Wang, Y., Ning, Y. and Zhang, H., 2016. The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations. Nature, 534(7609): 640-6.
Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Southon, J., Matsumoto, K., Feinberg, J.M., Sinha, A., Zhou, W., Li, H., Li, X., Xu, Y., Chen, S., Tan, M., Wang, Q., Wang, Y. and Ning, Y., 2018. Atmospheric 14C/12C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave. Science, 362(6420): 1293-1297.
Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Sinha, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Li, X., Yi, L., Peng, Y., Lv, Y., Zhang, P., Votintseva, A., Loginov, V., Ning, Y., Kathayat, G. and Edwards, R.L., 2016. Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales. Scientific Reports, 6(1): 36975.
Cheng, H., Springer, G.S., Sinha, A., Hardt, B.F., Yi, L., Li, H., Tian, Y., Li, X., Rowe, H.D., Kathayat, G., Ning, Y. and Edwards, R.L., 2019. Eastern North American climate in phase with fall insolation throughout the last three glacial-interglacial cycles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522: 125-134.
Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, H., Li, X., Yi, L., Ning, Y., Cai, Y., Lui, W.L. and Breitenbach, S.F.M., 2016. Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales. Scientific Reports, 6(1): 24374.
Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Yi, L., Li, X., Zhang, H., Li, H., Ning, Y. and Edwards, R.L., 2017. The Indian monsoon variability and civilization changes in the Indian subcontinent. Science Advances, 3(12): e1701296.
Li, H., Sinha, A., Anquetil André, A., Spötl, C., Vonhof, H.B., Meunier, A., Kathayat, G., Duan, P., Voarintsoa, N.R.G., Ning, Y., Biswas, J., Hu, P., Li, X., Sha, L., Zhao, J., Edwards, R.L. and Cheng, H., 2020. A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. Science Advances, 6(42): eabb2459.
Novello, V.F., Cruz, F.W., Vuille, M., Stríkis, N.M., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Emerick, S., de Paula, M.S., Li, X., Barreto, E.d.S., Karmann, I. and Santos, R.V., 2017. A high-resolution history of the South American Monsoon from Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. Scientific Reports, 7(1): 44267.
Voarintsoa, N.R.G., Matero, I.S.O., Railsback, L.B., Gregoire, L.J., Tindall, J., Sime, L., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Brook, G.A., Kathayat, G., Li, X., Michel Rakotondrazafy, A.F. and Madison Razanatseheno, M.O., 2019. Investigating the 8.2 ka event in northwestern Madagascar: Insight from data–model comparisons. Quaternary Science Reviews, 204: 172-186.
Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Cai, Y., Sinha, A., Tan, L., Yi, L., Yan, H., Kathayat, G., Ning, Y., Li, X., Zhang, F., Zhao, J. and Edwards, R.L., 2018. A 200-year annually laminated stalagmite record of precipitation seasonality in southeastern China and its linkages to ENSO and PDO. Scientific Reports, 8(1): 12344.
Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Zhang, X., Cruz, F.W., Sinha, A., Auler, A.S., Stríkis, N.M., Wang, X., Kathayat, G., Li, X., Li, H., Pérez-Mejías, C., Cai, Y., Ning, Y. and Edwards, R.L., 2021. Gradual South-North Climate Transition in the Atlantic Realm Within the Younger Dryas. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(8): e2021GL092620.
Zhao, J., Cheng, H., Yang, Y., Tan, L., Spötl, C., Ning, Y., Zhang, H., Cheng, X., Sun, Z., Li, X., Li, H., Liu, W. and Edwards, R.L., 2019. Reconstructing the western boundary variability of the Western Pacific Subtropical High over the past 200 years via Chinese cave oxygen isotope records. Climate Dynamics, 52(5): 3741-3757.
Dylan Parmenter (M.S.)
PhD Student
Research Interests
Dylan Parmenter graduated with a Masters in Geology from the University of South Florida in 2018. His M.S. thesis centered on using stables isotopes from ice and guano in New Mexico lava tubes to create late Holocene rainfall and vegetation records. His PhD dissertation focuses on using stalagmites to reconstruct tropical rainfall for the last 70,000 years. Using stable isotope and trace-metal analyses on samples from the Amazon Basin, Peruvian Andes, and eastern Brazil, he plans to show how climate change caused long term perturbations in South American rainfall and vegetation distribution throughout the last glacial period.
Awards and Fellowships
- Allan and Eleanor Martini Fellowship (2021)
- Zoltai Graduate Fellowship (2021)
- Richard Clarence Dennis Graduate Research Fellowship (2020)
- Kerry R. Kelts Memorial Award (2019)
Publications/Abstracts
Onac, B. P., Baumann, S. M., Parmenter, D. S., Weaver, E., & Sava, T. B. (2020). Late Holocene droughts and cave ice harvesting by Ancestral Puebloans. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 20131. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76988-1
Parmenter, D. S., Cruz F. W., Cheng, H., Wang X. F., Auler A. S., & Edwards R. L. (2020). Amazon Hydroclimate Response to Millennial and Orbital Scale Forcing. AGU Fall 2020 Meeting (Abstract and Oral Presentation).
Parmenter, D. S., Cruz F. W., Cheng, H., Wang X. F., Auler A. S., & Edwards R. L (2019). Vegetation and Hydroclimate in the Amazon Basin Over the Last Glacial Interval. The Summer School on Speleothem Science (S4), (Poster Presentation). Cluj, Romania.
Parmenter, D.S., (2018). Ice and Guano Deposits in El Malpais Lava Tubes: Potential Paleoclimate Archives for the Southwest United States. (M.S. Thesis). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Parmenter, D.S., Onac, B. P., Baumann, S. M., Weaver, E., & Sava, T. B. (2018). El Malpais Lave Tube Ice and Guano Project: A potential paleoclimate archive for the Southwest. Best of Karst Event, (Poster Presentation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.