Jiawei Da 达佳伟

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The University of Texas at Austin

About me

Hello there! Welcome to my personal webpage! I am Jiawei Da, a postdoctoral research fellow working at the University of Texas at Austin, under the Phanerzoic CO₂PIP project. My passion lies in exploring the fascinating fields of soil science, the global carbon cycle, and paleoclimate. My current research focuses on the reconstruction of late Cenozoic climate reconstructions based on paleosols from the Chinese Loess Plateau, using a variety of geochemical tools and modeling approaches. When I am not doing research, I enjoy working out and playing basketball to keep a healthy balance in life. I have a deep appreciation for travel, and visiting all the US national parks is a lifelong goal of mine.

Interests

Soil science
Stable isotopes
Paleoclimate
Carbon cycle

Education

PhD in Geology (Transition from MD to PhD in 2015), 2013 - 2020
Nanjing University
BSc in Geology, 2008 - 2012
Jilin University

Experience

CO2PIP postdoctoral research fellow

The university of Texas at Austin

Aug 2022 – Present Austin, TX

Responsibilities include:

Coordination within the paleosol-CO2 community
Compilation and Modernization of published paleosol-CO2 records
Developing a proxy system model of the paleosol system

postdoctoral research fellow

Nanjing University

Sep 2020 – Jul 2022 Nanjing, China

Research assistant

Key laboratory of Surfical Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University

Sep 2017 – Jul 2022 Nanjing, China

Responsibilities include:

Maintaining the optical spectrum devices
Sample pretreatment and analyses

Gallery

Jurassic sandstone from the Antelope Canyon

Bear Lake at the Rocky Mountain National Park

Grand Canyon - 1 billion and 500 million-year-old wall painting made by the Colorado River

Another masterpiece by the Colorado River

Lake Estes with the Rocky Mountain at the back

Overlooking the Texas Colorado river from Mount Bonnell

Pedernales Falls State Park during the fall

Projects

Recent Publications

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Jiawei Da 达佳伟, Gen Li, Junfeng Ji (2022). Overestimate of C4 Plant Abundance Caused by Soil Degradation-Induced Carbon Isotope Fractionation. Geophysical Research Letters, 48.24 (2021): e2021GL093407.

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Jiawei Da 达佳伟, Yi Ge Zhang, Gen Li, Junfeng Ji (2022). Aridity-driven decoupling of δ13C between pedogenic carbonate and soil organic matter. Geology, 48.10 (2020): 981-985..

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Jiawei Da 达佳伟, Yi Ge Zhang, Hongtao Wang, William Balsam, Junfeng Ji (2022). An Early Pleistocene atmospheric CO2 record based on pedogenic carbonate from the Chinese loess deposits. *Earth and Planetary Science Letters 426 (2015): 69-75.

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Jiawei Da 达佳伟, Yi Ge Zhang, Gen Li, Xianqiang Meng, Junfeng Ji (2019). Low CO2 levels of the entire Pleistocene epoch. *Nature Communications, 10 *(4342).

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