Yajun Xu is a geologist and an associate professor at China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. His current research focuses mainly on the location of the South China Craton in Gondwana Supercontinent and Early Paleozoic Orogenesis in South China.
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Fieldwork on the Roof of the World with Owen Weller
Owen completed a PhD from Oxford in July 2014, he is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Nagoya University, Japan as part of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and will be starting as a visiting fellow at the Geologic Survey of Canada in January 2015.
Dunes and Yardangs of Western China by Jani Radebaugh
Jani Radebaugh is a planetary scientist and an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. Her research focuses primarily on three planetary satellites: Saturn’s moon Titan, Jupiter’s moon Io, and our own Moon. In conjunction with her extraterrestrial work, she uses terrestrial analogues to help us better understand other planetary processes. She visited western China in […]
Headwaters of the Yellow River with Anna Bird
This follows on from an earlier post, which documents the first half of a trip to China, myself and an undergraduate student from Royal Holloway made in 2012. In this part of the trip we were travelling from Lanzhou in the Gansu Province up the source of the Yellow River in Qinghai Province through Sichuan […]
For all the dust in China… by Anna Bird
Anna Bird is a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway University of London. Read more about her research here. Thanks to Anna for the great post. In 2012 Abigail Alderson and I headed off to China to collect samples as part of a NERC funded project titled “Dust storms and Chinese loess sources over the last […]