Personal profile

1. Research Interest

We aim to advance the knowledge of dynamics in human-environment systems with a focus on understanding the interactions of impact of climate change, land use, and human livelihoods in livestock systems across the Asian grassland biomes. While my core education has been in natural sciences, I also pursued intensive training programmes in social sciences, such as anthropology and human geography.

2. Education

1) 2011.09-2016.06, Ph.D. in Global Environmental Change, Beijing Normal University, China.

2) 2007.09-2011.07, B.Sc. in Physical Geography, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China.

3. Professional Experience

1) 2018.08, Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China.

2) 2018.04, Senior Researcher, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Germany.

3) 2017.03-2018.03, Senior Researcher, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Department of Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Germany.

4) 2017.09-2017.10, Visiting Scholar, Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland.

5) 2016.07-2017.02, Lecturer, Department of Geography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China.

6) 2014.09-2015.09, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK.

7) 2012.10-2012.11, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK.

4. Funding Approved

1) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, Funded by European Commission, “Cross-border analysis of grassland greenness in Asia: Climate variations, grazing pressure, and land policy change”, 01/04/2018-01/03/2020. (Project PI)

2) Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships, Funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, “Animal husbandry in Northern China – Herders’ Response and Adaptation to Climate Change”, 01/03/2017-31/03/2018. (Project PI)

3) Sakura Science Plan, Funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency，academic exchange with Tohoku university, and Chiba University, 12/2019 (Project Invloved)

5. Academic service and Memberships

1)  Reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals, e.g., Nature, Journal of Plant Ecology, Global Change Biology, Land Use Policy, Journal of Climate, Land degradation & Development, Global and Planetary Change, Natural Hazards

2)  Member of the American Geographical Union (AGU)

3)  Member of the Chinese Geographical Union (CGU)

6. Publications

Zhang J, Miao L*, 2022. Spatial agglomeration of drought-affected area detected in northern China. Environmental Earth Sciences.

Shang Y, Miao L*, 2022. A Hybrid Ultra-short-term and Short-term Wind Speed Forecasting Method based on CEEMDAN and GA-BPNN. Weather and Forecasting.

Wang G, Ma X, Hagan D. F. T, Schalie R. V. D, Kattel G, UllahW, ... Miao L & Liu Y. 2022. Towards Consistent Soil Moisture Records from China’s FengYun-3 Microwave Observations. Remote Sensing, 14(5), 1225.

Zhang H, Zhang X, Shang Y, Kattel G, Miao L*, 2021. Continuously vegetation greening over Inner Mongolia for the past three decades, Remote Sensing.

Yu Z, Jin X, Miao L, Yang X, 2021. A historical reconstruction of cropland in China from 1900 to 2016. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 1-25.

Wei X, Wang G, Feng D, Miao L et al., 2021. Deep-Learning-Based Harmonization and Super-Resolution of Near-Surface Air Temperature from CMIP6 Models (1850–2100). Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2021: 1-27.

Chen L, Wang G, Miao L, Raj G, Li S, Amankwah S, Zhan M. 2021. Future drought in CMIP6 projections and the socioeconomic impacts in China. International Journal of Climatology.

Li S, Miao L*, Jiang Z, Wang G, Kaushal R, Zhang J, Zhang H, Zhang F, 2020, Projected drought conditions in Northwest China with CMIP6 models, Advances in Climate Change Research, 11(3), 210-217.

Miao L, Sun Z, Ren Y, Schierhorn F, Daniel M*, 2020. Higher precipitation resulted in the grasslands greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity, Land Degradation and Development.

Miao L, Li S, Zhang F*, Chen T, Shan Y, Zhang Y, 2020. Future drought in the dryland Asia under 1.5℃ and 2℃warming scenario. Earth’s Future. 8(6), e2019EF001337.

Xiao H, Zhang F*, Miao L, San Liang X, Wu K, Liu R, 2020. Long-term trends in Arctic surface temperature and potential causality over the last 100 years. Climate Dynamics, 55(5), 1443-1456.

Lei Y, Zhang F*, Miao L, Yu Q, Duan M, Fraedrich K, Yu Z, 2020. Potential impacts of future reduced aerosols on internal dynamics characteristics of precipitation based on model simulations over southern China. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 545, 123808.

Xiao H, Zhang F*, He Q, Liu P, Yan F, Miao L, Yang Z, 2019. Classification of ice crystal habits observed from airborne Cloud Particle Imager by deep transfer learning. Earth and Space Science, 6(10), 1877-1886.

Miao L, Ren Y, Sun Z, Daniel M*, 2019. Are overgrazing and climate change threatening the steppes of the Mongolian Plateau, IAMO Annuals.

Liu C, Li W, Miao L*, Lei Yadong, Yang Quan, Zhang Feng, 2019. Future haze events in Beijing, China, when climate warms by 1.5 and 2.0 ℃, International Journal of Climatology. DOI:10.1002/joc.6421.

Gnyawali K, Zhang Y*, Wang G, Miao L, Pradhan A, Adhikari B, Xiao L, 2019. Mapping the susceptibility of rainfall and earthquake triggered landslides along China–Nepal highways. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment.

Zhang F, Ren H, Miao L*, Lei Y, Duan M, 2019. Simulation of daily precipitation from CMIP5 in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. SOLA.

Miao L*, Sun Z, Cui X, 2018. Wake up “boiling frogs”: a study on animal husbandry under climate change in Northern China. Environmental Earth Sciences, 77(12): 466.

Ma M*, Wang H, Jia P, Liu R, Hong Z, Labriola L, Miao L, 2018. Investigation of inducements and defenses of flash floods and urban waterlogging in Fuzhou, China, from 1950 to 2010. Natural Hazards, 91(2), 803-818.

Miao L, Mueller D, Cui X*, 2017. Changes in vegetation phenology on the Mongolian plateau and their climatic determinants, Plos One, 12(12):e0190313.

Yang W, Luan Y, Liu X, Yu X, Miao L, Cui X*, 2017. A new global anthropogenic heat estimation based on high-resolution nighttime light data. Nature Scientific Data 4: 1-11.

Miao L, Zhu F, Sun Z, Moore J, Cui X, 2016. China’s Land-Use Changes during the Past 300 Years: A Historical Perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13, 847: 1-16.

Miao L, Moore J, Zeng F, Lei J, Ding J, He B, Cui X, 2015. Footprint of research in desertification management in China, Land Degradation and Development, 26(5): 450-457.

Miao L, Ye P, He B, Chen L, Cui X, 2015. Future Climate Impact on the Desertification in the Dry Land Asia Using AVHRR GIMMS NDVI3g Data. Remote Sensing, 7(4): 3863-3877.

Miao L, Fraser F, Sun Z, Sneath D, He B, Cui X, 2015. Climate impact on vegetation and animal husbandry on the Mongolian plateau: A comparative analysis, Natural Hazards, 80(2): 727-73.

Miao L, Jiang C, Xue B, Liu Q, He B, Nath R, Cui X, 2015. Vegetation dynamics and factor analysis in arid and semi-arid Inner Mongolia. Environmental Earth Sciences, 73(5), 2343-2352.

He B, Miao L, Cui X, Wu Z, 2015. Carbon sequestration from China’s afforestation projects. Environmental Earth Sciences, 74(7), 5491-5499. (Shared first authorship).

Miao L, Liu Q, Fraser R, He B, Cui X, 2015. Shifts in vegetation growth in response to multiple impacts on the Mongolian Plateau from 1982 to 2011, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 87:50-59.

Cui X, Jin X, Zhou Y, He B, Miao L, Zhu F, Yang X, Lin Y, Han J, Wang H, Chen A, Huang L, 2015. Land-use changes in China: Historical Reconstruction over the Past 300 Years and Future Projection, World Scientific, 1-10.

Miao L, Luan Y, Luo X, Liu Q, Moore J, Nath R, He B, Zhu F, Cui X, 2013. Analysis of the Phenology in the Mongolian Plateau by Inter-Comparison of Global Vegetation Datasets. Remote Sensing, 5(10): 5193-5208. 

Miao L, Zhu Feng, He B, Ferrat M, Liu Q, Cao X, Cui X, 2013. Synthesis of China’s land use in the past 300 years. Global and Planetary Change, 100: 224-233.

7. Contact Information

Email: miaolijuan1111@gmail.com