Tianjin Key Laboratory of Earth’s Critical Zone Science and Sustainable Development in Bohai Rim was established on April 25, 2019 by Institute of Surface-Earth System Science (ISESS), Tianjin University. Prof. Liu Cong-qiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is the director of the scientific committee of the key laboratory. Profs Xia Jun, Fu Bojie, and Yu Guirui, who are also academicians of the CAS, are the members of the scientific committee. Prof. Chen Xi is the director of the key laboratory.
Based on the system science theory of earth critical zone sciences, the laboratory focuses on the ecological and environmental problems faced by the coastal area in the Bohai Rim region to provide scientific and technological supports for the sustainable development. The key research directions of the laboratory include: the biogeochemical cycle of aerosol and its impact on ecological environments; the process and mechanism of the evolution of the ecohydrological systems in the transitional zone between sea and land; the geochemical cycle in the transitional zone between sea and land; the sustainable utilization of water and soil resources and the improvement of ecological functions in the Bohai Rim region.
In recent years, the laboratory has made a number of original studies, such as the analysis of the source and transport process of air pollutants between the land-air interface, the complexity of climate systems and interactions among atmospheric, soil, and hydrological processes in the Bohai Rim region, the biogeochemical cycle and key processes in the coastal area around the Bohai Sea, and the restoration of the ecological environment and the improvement of its environmental and ecological functions in the Bohai Rim region. Those achievements with broad international impacts have been published in top-notch scientific journals, including Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), and Geophysical Research Letters.
