Teaching

Courses：

·   Marine Geochemistry (undergraduate course)

Research Interests

·   Cenozoic seawater chemical cycle and climate change

·   Marine redox condition in the earth's history

·   The development and application of carbonate-bound proxies

Projects

·   Global impact of the changes in hydrographic properties and ocean circulation in the deep Pacific during the middle Miocene, 2021.01-2023.12, ￥240,000, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI.

·   Reconstructing late Cenozoic seawater chemistry in the southwest Pacific by foraminiferal trace elements – with implications for meridional gradients, 2018.02-2020.01, $15,000, U.S. Science Support Program (USSSP), PI.

·   Foraminiferal Na/Ca: a new proxy for reconstructing Cenozoic seawater composition, 2016.09-2019.08, National Science Foundation, Participant.

·  Using Iodine-Calcium Ratios in Carbonates to Measure Oxygen in Ancient Atmospheres during the Development of Early Life, 2014.08-2018.07, National Science Foundation, Participant.

·  Iodine in foraminifera as a proxy for ocean deoxygenation during the Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum, 2012.09-2016.08, National Science Foundation, Participant.

Publications

2021

·   Stirpe C. R., K. A. Allen, E. L. Sikes, X. Zhou, Y. Rosenthal, A. M. Cruz-Uribe, and H. L. Brooks, 2021, The Mg/Ca proxy for temperature: A Uvigerina Core-Top Study in the Southwest Pacific, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, proofread.

·   Zhou, X., Y. Rosenthal, L. Haynes, S. Woodard, K. A. Allen, W. Si, D. Evans, S. Sosdian, C. H. Lear, B. Hönisch, and J. Ere, 2021, Planktic foraminiferal Na/Ca: a potential proxy for seawater calcium concentration, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 305, 306-322.

·   Yang, C., H. Dang, X. Zhou, H. Zhang, X. Wang, Y. Wang, P. Qiao, X. Jiang, and Z. Jian, 2021, Upper ocean hydrographic changes in response to the evolution of the East Asian monsoon in the northern South China Sea during the middle to late Miocene, Global and Planetary Change, 201, 103478.

2020

·   Lu, W., R. E. M. Rickaby, B. A. A. Hoogakker, A. E. Rathburn, A. M. Burkett, A. J. Dickson, G. Martínez-Méndez, C. Hillenbrand, X. Zhou, E. Thomas, and Z. Lu, 2020, I/Ca in epifaunal benthic foraminifera: a semi-quantitative proxy for bottom water oxygen in a multi-proxy compilation for glacial ocean deoxygenation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 533, 116055, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.116055.

·   Sutherland, R., G.R. Dickens, P. Blum, C. Agnini, L. Alegret, G. Asatryan, J. Bhattacharya, A.Bordenave, L. Chang, J. Collot, M.J. Cramwinckel, E. Dallanave, M.K. Drake, S.J.G. Etienne, M.Giorgioni, M. Gurnis, D.T. Harper, H.-H.M. Huang, A.L. Keller, A.R. Lam, H. Li, H. Matsui, H.E.G.Morgans, C. Newsam, Y.-H. Park, K.M. Pascher, S.F. Pekar, D.E. Penman, S. Saito, W.R. Stratford, T. Westerhold, and X. Zhou, 2020, Continental scale geographic change across Zealandia during subduction zone initiation, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G47008.1.

2018

·   Hoogakker, B. A. A., Z. Lu, N. Umling, L. Jones, X. Zhou, R. E. M. Rickaby, R. Thunell, O. Cartapanis, and E. Galbraith, Glacial expansion of oxygen-depleted seawater in the eastern tropical Pacific, 2018, Nature, 562, 410-413, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0589-x.

·   Lu, W., A. Ridgwell, E. Thomas, D. S. Hardisty, G. Luo, T. J. Algeo, M. R. Saltzman, B. C. Gill, Y. Shen, H-F, Ling, C. T. Edwards, M. T. Whalen, X. Zhou, K. M. Gutchess, L. Jin, R. E. M. Rickaby, H. C. Jenkyns, T. W. Lyons, T. M. Lenton, L. R. Kump, and Z. Lu, 2018, Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aar5372.

· Sutherland, R., Dickens, G.R., Blum, P., and the Expedition 371 Scientists, 2018. Expedition 371 Preliminary Report: Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.371.2018.

2017

·   Lu, W., S. Wörndle, G. P. Halverson, X. Zhou, A. Bekker, R. H. Rainbird, D. S. Hardisty, T. W. Lyons, and Z. Lu, 2017, Iodine proxy evidence for increased ocean oxygenation during the Bitter Springs Anomaly, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 5, 53-57, doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.1746.

·   Levy, Z., C. T. Mills, Z. Lu, M. B. Goldhaber, D. O. Rosenberry, D. M. Mushet, L. K. Lautz, X. Zhou, and D. I. Siegel, 2017, Using halogens (Cl, Br, I) to understand the hydrogeochemical evolution of drought-derived saline porewater beneath a prairie wetland, Chemical Geology, 476, 191-207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.11.017.

·   Grunert, P., Y. Rosenthal, F. Jorissen, A. Holbourn, X. Zhou, and W. E. Piller, 2017, Mg/Ca-temperature calibration for costate Bulimina species (B. costata, B. inflata, B. mexicana): A paleothermometer for hypoxic environments, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 220, 36-54, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2017.09.021.

·   Zhou, X., H. C. Jenkyns, W. Lu, D. S. Hardisty, J. D. Owens, T. W. Lyons, and Z. Lu, 2017, Organically bound iodine as a bottom-water redox proxy: Preliminary validation and application, Chemical Geology, 457, 95-106, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.03.016.

·   Hardisty, D. S., Z. Lu, A. Bekker, C. W. Diamond, B. C. Gill, G. Jiang, L. C. Kah, A. H. Knoll, S. J. Loyd, M. R. Osburn, N. J. Planavsky, C. Wang, X. Zhou, and T. W. Lyons, 2017, Perspectives on Proterozoic surface ocean redox from iodine contents in ancient and recent carbonate, EPSL, 463, 159-170, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.032.

2016

·   Zhou, X., E. Thomas, A. M. E. Winguth, A. Ridgewell, H. Scher, B. A. A. Hoogakker, R. E. M. Rickaby, and Z. Lu, 2016, Expanded oxygen minimum zones during the late Paleocene-early Eocene: Hints from multiproxy comparison and ocean modeling, Paleoceanography, 31, 1532-1546, doi:10.1002/2016PA003020.

·   Gutchess, K. M., L. Jin, L. Lautz, S. B. Shaw, X. Zhou, and Z. Lu, 2016, Chloride sources in urban and rural headwater catchments, central New York, Science of the Total Environment, 565, 462-472, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.181.

·   Lu, Z., B. A. A. Hoogakker, C. Hillenbrand, X. Zhou, E. Thomas, K. M. Gutchess, W. Lu, L. Jones, and R. E. M. Rickaby, 2016, Oxygen depletion recorded in upper waters of the glacial Southern Ocean, Nature Communications, 7, doi:10.1038/ncomms11146.

2015

·   Lu, Z., S. T. Hummel, L. K. Lautz, G. D. Hoke, X. Zhou, J. Leone and D. I. Siegel, 2015, Iodine as a sensitive tracer for detecting influence of organic-rich shale in shallow groundwater, Applied Geochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.10.019.

·  Zhou, X., Z. Lu, R. E. M. Rickaby, E. W. Domack, J. S. Wellner, and H. A. Kennedy, 2015, Ikaite abundance controlled by porewater phosphorus level: potential links to dust and productivity, Journal of Geology, 123, 269-281, DOI:10.1086/681918.

·   Zhou, X., H. C. Jenkyns, J. D. Owens, C. K. Junium, X. Zheng, B. B. Sageman, D. S. Hardisty, T. W. Lyons, A. Ridgewell, and Z. Lu, 2015, Upper ocean oxygenation dynamics from I/Ca ratios during the Cenomanian–Turonian OAE 2, Paleoceanography, 30, 510-526,doi:10.1002/2014PA002741.

2014

·   Zhou, X., E. Thomas, R. E. M. Rickaby, A. M. E. Winguth, and Z. Lu, 2014, I/Ca evidence for upper ocean deoxygenation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), Paleoceanography, 29, 964-975, DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002702.

·   Hardisty, D. S., Z. Lu, N. J. Planavsky, A. Bekker, X. Zhou, P. Philippot, and T. W. Lyons, 2014, An iodine record of Paleoproterozoic surface ocean oxygenation, Geology, 42, 619-622, doi: 10.1130/G35439.1.