Research interests

·     Living coccolithophore ecology and environments; coccolithophore/coccolith responses to ocean acidification; coccolithophore calcification, productivity and ocean carbon cycle; coccolith geochemistry; paleoceanography and paleoclimate reconstructions; coccolithophore co-evolution with Earth’s climate 

Funding

·     Influences of biological pumps on CO2 sink and source since the Last Glacial Maximum in the northern South China Sea, 2022.1-202512, RMB 590k, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), host 

·     Using coccolithophore physiology to calibrate b value for alkenone pCO2-barometer, 2019.01-2021.12, RMB 220k, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), host;

·     Reconstruct atmospheric pCO2 using the marine sediments in the South China Sea, 2020.01-2024.12, RMB 3.04m, NSFC, participant.

Cruise experiences

·     2022-6: R/V JOIDES Resolution, IODP Expedition 390/393, nannofossil biostratigraphy

·     2020-8: R/V Xiangyanghong 18: 2020 NSFC summer cruise in the northeastern South China Sea (SCS) and the Luzon Strait

·     2018-6: R/V Tan Kah Kee: 2018 NSFC summer cruise in the northeastern SCS and the Luzon Strait

·     2014-6: R/V Dongfanghong 2: 2014 NSFC summer cruise in the northern SCS

·     2011-10: R/V Kexue 1: 2011 NSFC autumn cruise in the East China and Yellow Seas

·     2011-6: R/V Dongfanghong2: 2011 “973” summer cruise in the East China and Yellow Seas  

Professional skills

·     Certificate for diamond 4C grading

·     Certificate for jewelry appraising

Publications

·     Xiaobo Jin, Xingxing Wang, Xinquan Zhou, Xiaoying Jiang, Peijun Qiao, Chuanlian Liu*. 2024. Precessional forcing of biogeochemical and nutrient cycling in the tropical western Pacific during the late Pleistocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 638, 118759.

·     Xiaobo Jin, & Chuanlian Liu*. 2023. Estimating Coccolithophore PIC:POC Based on Coccosphere and Coccolith Geometry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2022JG007355.

·     Xiaobo Jin, Wentao Ma*, Chuanlian Liu*. 2022. Origin of the long-term increase in coccolith size and its implication for carbon cycle and climate over the past 2 Myr. Quaternary Science Reviews, 290, 107642.

·     Xiaobo Jin*, Chuanlian Liu*, Juan Xu, & Xianghui Guo. 2022. Coccolithophore abundance, degree of calcification, and their contribution to particulate inorganic carbon in the South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006657.

·     Xiaobo Jin, Juan Xu, Hui Li, Yanli Li, Peijun Qiao, Li Wu, Cheng Ling, Baohua Li*, & Chuanlian Liu*. 2020. Origin of the rhythmic reddish-brown and greenish-green sediments in the abyssal South China Sea: Implications for oceanic circulation in the Late Miocene. Marine Geology, 430(2020)106378.

·     Xiaobo Jin, Chuanlian Liu*, Hongrui Zhang🚣‍♀️，2019. Coccolith morphological and assemblage responses to dissolution in the recent sediments of the East China Sea. Marine Micropaleontology, 152(2019)101709.

·     Xiaobo Jin, Chuanlian Liu*, Yulong Zhao, Yanwei Zhang, Ke Wen, Shun Lin, Jianru Li, Zhifei Liu, 2019. Two production stages of coccolithophores in winter as revealed by sediment traps in the northern South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 124，2335-2350.

·     Xiaobo Jin, Chuanlian Liu*, Hongrui Zhang，Chao Zhou, Xiaoying Jiang, Zhouyang Wu, Juan Xu, 2018. Evolutionary driven of Gephyrocapsa coccolith isotopic vital effects over the past 400 ka. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 503🧓🏼：236-247

·     Xiaobo Jin, Chuanlian Liu*，2017. Ecological and taphonomical influences on coccoliths in surface sediments in the shelf of the Yellow and East China Seas. Continental Shelf Research, 140🚤：27-36.

·     Xiaobo Jin, Chuanlian Liu*, Alex J. Poulton, Minhan Dai, and Xianghui Guo, 2016. Coccolithophore responses to environmental variability in the South China Sea: species composition and calcite content. Biogeosciences, 13, 4843-4861.

·     Xiao, W.*, Polyak, L., Wang, R., Löwemark, L., Mei, J., You, D., Wang, W., Wu, L., Jin, X., 2020. Middle to Late Pleistocene Arctic paleoceanographic changes based on sedimentary records from Mendeleev Ridge and Makarov Basin. Quaternary Science Reviews, 228, 106105.

·     Ruigang Ma, Chuanlian Liu*, Qianyu Li, Xiaobo Jin, 2019. Calcareous nannofossil changes in response to the spreading of the South China Sea Basin during Eocene-Oligocene, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.

·     Xinquan Zhou, Xuan Lü，Chuanlian Liu*, Zhifei Liu, Qianyu Li, Xiaobo Jin, Hongrui Zhang, Kelsie Dadd, 2019. Depositional mechanisms for upper Miocene sediments in the South China Sea central basin: evidence from calcareous nannofossils. Marine Micropaleontology. 151 (2019)-101768.

·     Hongrui Zhang, Heather Stoll, Clara Bolton, Xiaobo Jin, and Chuanlian Liu*, 2018. Technical note: A refinement of coccolith separation methods: measuring the sinking characteristics of coccoliths. Biogeosciences, 15: 4759-4775.

·     Hongrui Zhang, Chuanlian Liu*, Xiaobo Jin, Jiangnan Shi, Shaohua Zhao, Zhimin Jian, 2016. Dynamics of primary productivity in the northern South China Sea over the past 24,000 years. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17：4878-4891.